If you consider yourself a cynic, perhaps it's because you have no taste for the currently fashionable doctrines (which, to use the language of Elizabeth Newman -- see link that unspun put up) are universalist and hegemonic. I have no use for them either, thank you. No, thank you fair lady. Uhoh. I'm starting to learn something about myself here in regards to time and truth. Me a cynic? Could I be so bold as to offer you a hug also?