Where are the cynics?

[nshanin]

Have a look at some of the responses to "Best of Answers>Special Guests (http://tinyurl.com/llmcx9)". I chose this category because there are a variety of responses and I think they reflects more or less the general mindset I've encountered in the U.S., at least IRL. When Chopra asks where your soul goes it takes half a page to find a non-superstitious answer. Everyone in DiCaprio's question seems convinced that changing their light bulbs will help prevent global warming. With a variety of issues no answerer points out that "convincing" the politicians hasn't worked for decades and that voting does little more than placate the public into feeling their opinions and actions are meaningful (a phenomenon eerily similar to that of the light bulb changers described above). With regards to poverty, nobody remarks on how humanity as a whole will never be capable of caring for those outside their "monkeysphere" (for lack of a better word). Nobody "stands up" to Trump to discuss the socially deterministic and capital-biased system of the American economy that has created this default assumption that successful entrepreneurs should be looked up to in the first place. Most shockingly of all there are no remarks discussing the need for conflict in order to maintain the current power structure or to fulfill an innate human need (take your pick).

Whether it's because the general public refuses to look at the basic assumptions of these and other critical questions or because there is such a massive evolutionary advantage to not being a cynic that we all have an inherent aversion to cynicism or for some other reason, it's clear that the public is scarcely aware of the cynical perspective and that cynics themselves are few and far-between.

So where are the fatalists? Where are the pessimists? Where are the cynics? Are they only in secluded places on the internet like zoklet? :(

[nshanin]

Yahooanswers is full of housewives and Youtube commentors, that's why.

You clearly didn't read my post. If you can't read 2 paragraphs then go back to SG.

[nshanin]

This is what I was answering. There are no cynics and whatnot on Yahoo! Answers.

I think they reflects more or less the general mindset I've encountered in the U.S., at least IRL.

Nchar

[nshanin]

Why did you choose that sentence of all things? That is one of the most inconsequential things mentioned in your OP.
Not for you apparently.

Well, whatever, lemme just start over here and go over the entire thing and respond appropriately.

Christ, fucking finally you start reading the OP.

[Lux Aeterna]

It is so easy to live within the chained darkness of the cave, watching, enjoying the shadows cast on the wall. To realise that these shadows are cast by pupeteers is hard enough in itself, let alone dealing with the intellectual consequences of such a fallacious "reality". Often, one will catch a fleeting glimpse of a pupeteer, but quickly turn their head back to the wall in denial. For those who embrace and understand the existance of the pupeteers, many end up hopeless. It is only a few who can find their way out, tattered and torn, from the confines of the cave and into the light.

[Other Side of the Pillow]

The average person is unintelligent and underwhelming. It should not be a surprise that you can't find deep conversation there. It is easier for many to buy into the bullshit than seek their own answers. For others the thought that bullshit is in fact bullshit has never occurred to them.

Do you go on youtube comment walls and wonder why they're not quoting Dostoevsky?

Pessimists, cynics, and fatalists are different from the norm and therefore are not welcome on yahoo answers.