>>218596What is really the difference between cynicism and pessimism? They can both close you off to seeing alternatives. Cynicism is a looping concious habit a few houses down from 'survival/fear mode' in the exact same way pessimism is.
Usually evertime i talked to a self declared realist, it was usually a diehard capitalist moid, who eventually ratted himself out, defending the natural order of screwing everything and everyone over for the sake of his bottom line. They never tell you this to your face they always pretend to feed you this "social commentary" that ends up being some ruthless moid philosophy, for moids, by moids, "take heart, be comforted by the fact everything will burn down."
But in the end you can always tell they were total sadists sometimes and they authored the chaos from the start.
Realism can be good for certain periods of life though, i CAN agree with that. But "realists" can also shield themselves from risk too much. Life requires healthy amounts of risk and positive expectations, from previous success, which motivate you to take on more, and not get mired in "sunken details"
To be perfectly honest realists can just as easily get everyone sucked into a dead end holes with them, if they lead with a certain aversion to good expectations, in bad faith, or flat out 'survivalist mode' expectations. Which my god who doesn't fqll into that dead wnd expectation nowadays? Someone who doesn't is exceedingly rare and valuable.
..that 'survivalist' quality of life fucking sucks though. Holy f its awful. Its always living for scraps, because you dont know how to build calculated momentum around something you already know how to do, or something you've worked on for ages. It's not hard to reach momentum if you build something long enough, it's just inevitable.
And not knowing how to get in someone's brain, while they're building something doesnt mean you understand that activities worth lmao. A lot of people get caught up in themselves, their "realism". They will get stuck in survival/fear mode at having to try something alien, witness someone do something that rattles them. You see outsider perpective cynicism/ realism far more often nowadays. America has really gone south in that respect
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