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View submission: i feel totally cynical about what's happening right now
cynicism is a completely understandable thing to feel given the year we're having, but it's also a very superficial/gut-level way to process events. It's very dangerous from a psychological standpoint to a) believe you have everything figured out and b) believe that everything is bad/corrupt/going nowhere. It's harder to feel cynical when you resist the narrative that you have a 'full read' on what's going on. Make it a habit to refute your own ideas, resist polarized thinking & 'all or nothing' formulations. Otherwise all this begins to bleed into how you think about your own life, which doesn't lead anywhere positive.
Comment by [deleted] at 25/06/2020 at 22:33 UTC
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This is really well put and insightful. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how my emotions about anything and everything are basically just a displacement of my psychology onto whatever container presents itself (politics, relationships, art, whatever)