On Cynicism..
Saturday, September 8, 2007 5:19:39 PM
I've been told, that I should try to speak on things that I know - and let the things I do not know be. Or more succintly put, I should speak on the matters I know about, and be silent when it comes to those things one in principle cannot know of.
Which is a piece of advice that more than me would benefit from respecting. Not merely as an excercise in demonstrating superiority, but one of personal philosphical reflection.
To the matter at hand, then..
Cynicism in general takes two forms: the apathetic, and the aesthetically deliberative (i.e, like this). In this case, the demonstration is a collection of presumptuous ridiculousness that makes little sense. In other words, the only purpose of the narration is to impress upon the reader a feeling of inferior understanding, a general sense of dependency, and a non- specific sense of urgency to understand what it is that makes whatever is said sensible.
Because one knows that such a solemn explanation must be frought with wisdom and.. stuff.
The apathetic form is not so difficult to predict, of course. But no less important. And for the purpose of this dissection - whether it's false (utterly) or not - it is the only option to being dependent on those better equipped in the area of arrogant superiority.
This is cynicism, then, viewed from the personal viewpoint (apathetic), and from the impersonal and removed (aesthetic).
And in the breaking point between those two - on the point when yourself are turning from one to the other. Is there something to consider in that situation? I wonder..






