Hey, all cynics deserve a right of reply. Yes, it's me again! :-)
Firstly, farting is a natural and healthy process that indicates your bowels are functioning normally, although excessive aromas suggest that you might want to moderate the curry, beer and mushy green peas in your diet. Nb. Sly farting in combination with an innocent look is a significant social skill.
Secondly, it's well worth reviewing the work of Paul Chefurka captured here http://www.paulchefurka.ca. He went on a voyage of discovery to uncover why we collectively do the self-destructive things we do. After that voyage he became a Buddhist teacher - very apposite.
He puts it much better than me:
"I no longer see any point in singling out individual aspects of the human experience for special attention or criticism. Population growth, climate change, global corporatism, chemical pollution, resource depletion, species extinctions, ocean overfishing and acidification, global financial instability, mounting social disparities and injustices are all merely symptoms of a system that has been out of control for centuries (despite our earnest attempts to convince ourselves otherwise.) We have no choice left - or perhaps we never really had any other choice - but to ride the dragon until the human overshoot corrects itself, as overshoots always do.
The silver lining I see is that all the pressures coming from this process of correction can be useful goads toward personal self-development. "In all matters, strive to do the right thing." What does this mean to each of us? What does mindful living in the midst of the whirlwind entail, what does it require of us in terms of personal growth, in the development of wisdom and self-awareness? How might each of us resolve our alienation - from each other, from our societies, from nature, from our own place in the universe? How may we find the re-connections that are essential if we are to emerge from this tumultuous, careless human adolescence into individual and collective adulthood? These are deep questions for dark times."
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"Overshoot, what overshoot?" says Wily E. Coyote, as he runs frantically in mid-air. You're just being cynical again.
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Re: Thoughts on Cynicism
Date: 2022-11-14 07:03 am (UTC)Firstly, farting is a natural and healthy process that indicates your bowels are functioning normally, although excessive aromas suggest that you might want to moderate the curry, beer and mushy green peas in your diet. Nb. Sly farting in combination with an innocent look is a significant social skill.
Secondly, it's well worth reviewing the work of Paul Chefurka captured here http://www.paulchefurka.ca. He went on a voyage of discovery to uncover why we collectively do the self-destructive things we do. After that voyage he became a Buddhist teacher - very apposite.
He puts it much better than me:
"I no longer see any point in singling out individual aspects of the human experience for special attention or criticism. Population growth, climate change, global corporatism, chemical pollution, resource depletion, species extinctions, ocean overfishing and acidification, global financial instability, mounting social disparities and injustices are all merely symptoms of a system that has been out of control for centuries (despite our earnest attempts to convince ourselves otherwise.) We have no choice left - or perhaps we never really had any other choice - but to ride the dragon until the human overshoot corrects itself, as overshoots always do.
The silver lining I see is that all the pressures coming from this process of correction can be useful goads toward personal self-development. "In all matters, strive to do the right thing." What does this mean to each of us? What does mindful living in the midst of the whirlwind entail, what does it require of us in terms of personal growth, in the development of wisdom and self-awareness? How might each of us resolve our alienation - from each other, from our societies, from nature, from our own place in the universe? How may we find the re-connections that are essential if we are to emerge from this tumultuous, careless human adolescence into individual and collective adulthood? These are deep questions for dark times."
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"Overshoot, what overshoot?" says Wily E. Coyote, as he runs frantically in mid-air. You're just being cynical again.