Very stupid kind of cynicism where since reality isn’t a Disney movie where the grand heroic gesture Ends Everything there’s no point in anything, how dare you think better things are possible you fool, you child.
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In general since sincere ideology is a more a complex thing to understand than simple self interest I think cynicism about something is (all else equal, which to be clear it often isn’t), evidence of just being dumb and unable to understand other’s motivations more often than not.
Exactly this. There are good reasons to be cynical in certain conditions. But the most reflexive cynics tend to be really incurious (about politics in general, and about specific political movements and their thinking). It's an easy way to avoid feeling a responsibility to do anything.
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