What I've learned about giving in to cynicism and despair is that it has no bottom. It never reveals anything. It becomes an excuse for not helping, for ultimately narcissistic self-reference and poor-me-ism. It can be seductive & pseudo-sophisticated but we can choose to say No.

Apr 12, 2022 · 12:15 AM UTC

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So what exactly are you doing to help us unhoused people get off the streets? Are you willing to help us get budget motel rooms?
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No one gives into cynicism & despair 👀👁 cynicism & despair are the unconditional responses to conditioned circumstances. They’re reactions, one does not “give in to a reaction,” one can find or look to find solutions to the conditioned response that facilitated those reactions
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This is the Marianne I love
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Maybe if there was more cynicism and despair towards our neo-fascist government and its jingoistic supporters (looking at you Marianne) people will rise up and things could actually get better in this hellscape.
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It is a bottomless pit ... when that happens I need to remember to create some space ... and look at it from a different perspective ... a different point of view!
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But how do we engage with it without becoming cynical ourselves? I honestly cannot help but get cynical when I see tweets like this and all the #westsplaining coming from the US Left.
Aaron Maté
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25 Feb 2022
Stockholm syndrome:
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i hope you find this as informative as i do: youtube.com/wIl39KKrmmo
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2024!
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I think it’s just annoying and suspicious
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Thank you- I needed that.
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