Observations About the World, Part Thirty
Photograph of the Atlas globe Cynicism | Tuesday – April 28, 2026 C ynics and cynicism all over the place! Indeed, the world is full of it and it seems quite strange, at least from a material point of view, read " The Efficacy of Ideas ". I mean, there are so many fat and addicted people all over the place, how come they are so cynical? Did people used to be this cynical in the past? First of all, yes it should be taken as an overall sign of our times that people are cynical, and of course cynicism and sentimentalism go hand in hand... But the entire assumption that only "bad" guys can win, read " Directing Films ", is very salient today. Brutality, realism, or perhaps brutalism? Why not, why not another one of those isms? Well, there are of course plenty of those around so I should think that there is no problem for me to add another one. Movies are so full of themselves, and so full of this kind of lazy and truly evil and very much offensive and dista...