Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of any system that has accountability or that they can influence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Disconnection or alienation from the past has political consequences.
Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.
The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
There's a huge dichotomy between people who grow up with alienation, which, for me, was invaluable, and people who grow up so completely privileged that it breeds this complacency and lack of desire to question or challenge or do anything significant. Those are the types of people who become partners at the corporate law firms.
Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.
This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.
Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.