What do you consider being cynical?
Not being willing to engage in intelligent debate out of a desire to maintain some sort of personal or public image of not needing to explain your position whatever the fuck it is
constantly acting like a fucking retard "ironically" instead of contributing anything interesting or entertaining
engaging in excessive back biting and grudge/vendetta arrangements, at one point in my time on this forum the majority of threads where just people insulting people and people trying to "out troll" the trolls or some dumb shit
pretty much all the people who constantly act like you just shit in their dinner no matter what is it you're talking about
not that theres anything wrong with being cynical, but if you're cynical about anything and everything you just end up being a irritating prick no one wants to be around,
sometimes its nice to be genuine, passionate and kind with other human beings, although the anonymity of the internet makes everyone act a whole lot more hostile so i guess i should expect it
Most libertarians are ordinary working people, just like most people of any other ideology or religion. They are not intellectuals. They are not trained how to think or how to be objective. The more passionate their beliefs, the more they identify personally with them so that any challenge to their belief system becomes, for them, indistinguishable from an attack on their person.
It starts out as psychological liberation from their indoctrination into the cult of the statism by means of a momentary flash of objectivity and a period of intellectual hunger, but old mental habits die hard.
Newly won understanding and perspective begins to stultify into comfortable dogma to be defended with religious fever, never to be challenged or evaluated objectively, at least not until they undergo another sudden and rare inspiration.
The old dogma gets replaced by a new and better dogma, but a dogma nonetheless. Considering the education and other formative experiences that most of us have undergone, there's no reason to be surprised by this.
There's actually an optimistic angle that can be put on this sad story. We often hear laments that the public is so mendacious, closed minded and psychologically primitive that many generations will be long dead before there's any chance for the acceptance of liberty, but then...libertarians as a group, are not really much better than the public they look their noses down on as many of them think they are. If we can become libertarians, then so can almost any other group.
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