Posted on 04/25/2008 4:21:36 PM PDT by EveningStar
When I was very young, I felt that anyone who wasn’t a cynic was a naïve bumpkin. The young, after all, tend to be impatient with their elders, and I was certainly no exception. To the young, it’s a terrible failing to be gullible, and what they inevitably strive to be, or at least appear to be, is sophisticated...
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Just because it's the hallmark of our era doesn't mean youthful rebellion is axiomatic.
I’m not cynical. I’m bitter.
Clingy, too...
I’m gonna go hug my gun.
I hug my gun while reading the Bible.
But I’m bitter while I do it.
What makes a cynic a cynic? IMO, he refuses to let good things be possible. If he comes into contact with something that seems “good,” it must be a public relations ploy, or it must be “Donna Reed” or “June Cleaver” (either name spoken with zingy pejoration in lieu of an explanation), or somebody must have done it for the money, or “let us not forget, it’s also history’s foremost cause of wars and burnings at the stake”, or it’s something to endure until we can “get back to reality.”
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