>>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
But why would you trust someone ruled by fear over someone whose been doing a thing forever and who ISNT ruled by either cynicism, fear or uncalculated optimism? Sometimes there is no normalcy with which to build on and you have to start from the ground up. There is no normal to speak of. There is literally no other way because dogshit, dug you into a hole so deep you have to claw yourself a way out.
Usually that scenario would drive dogshit realists to madness. That is their weakness. But it is pivotal and necessary in many realms of existence. And in so many companies that is literally all you're expected to do at your job. "Stop reinventing the fucking wheel"
I mean if you aren't basic as fuck. Because realism and cynicism are basic af.
What looks scary to you is normal to some people. There is no way to gauge cynicism most of all if its ruled by fear. Because fear is completely useless if you have to make it up as you go along. Fear and realism can't get in touch with the rhythm and intuition needed to feel things out deep inside a wild new territory. They would just crack and fall apart 5 seconds in. Naturally I'd put it on a lower tier, I just would sorry.
Cynicism, fear, "realism", can too easily be caste as basic bitch af. It is all too common. Absolutely everywhere now. In your eyes in your nose in your lungs. The country practically runs on basic bitch af now and it's a sad state of affairs.
