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lil  ·  3490 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Vice: We've Been Had, and We Let It Happen

    Being young, pissing on everything is a way to make yourself feel above it all. At that stage, one might not realize that boundless negativity is not only something something that doesn't help the world, but also something that makes you feel bad about yourself. Cynicism is a shortcut to feeling like an intellectual.
This explanation of cynical negativity is bang-on! How did you get past it into another sensibility?

Edit: And I'm so bored with cynical negativity. It's a snake eating its own tail.