>cynicism is the most persistently correct perspective>cynicism also drains you of any desire to earn any success in this world
This world is ephemeral. All material things are ephemeral, desu.
Optimistic delusion is the best way to live. It's not morally or objectively correct, but that's the world we live in.
>>24723765I disagree. Id say optimistic pragmatism would be the most correct perspective. SInce it gives you the a priori energy to explore more productive models of adressing things, while also being frank about the apearent limitations that are in place.Cynisism is too stagnant to be correct. Something sours you on a topic and thus does not nurture a more robust nuanced understanding of that topic.
Cynicism involves being a social retard, so I can see why it would be popular on /lit/.But if you want friends, and especially if you want to get laid, you need to learn how to play the social game.Cynicism reeks of incel cope.
>>24723919I consider myself a cynical person, and I’m also a social retard. The thing is, I don’t want to be cynical, it just happens. I’m too cynical as well, I know that (I’m cynical about my cynicism lol). It makes no sense to be cynical, but I am anyways. How do you fix that?
I'm not a big thinker but from what i've seen i's just a copout for people who couldn't have been appreciated in earnest anyway and so they throw away whatever chances at kindness they might have had.
>>24723928I thought we were talking about the Cynic philosophy, not cynicism as a personality trait.At any rate, you fix it by mixing with people, and learning to appreciate them. Society has a corrective influence on our shortcomings.
>>24723817cynic/optimist is a reductive false dichotomy
>>24723765Why would cynicism be the most correct? Cynicism rejects comfort. I want to be comfy Egoism is obviously the most correct perspective I want the affirmations of my desires. Not cuck myself out of wants.
>>24723928Check your diet
>>24725412What happens if my desire is to be a cuck?
>>24723919The original cynics were old timey hippies who thought not living as bums and having public sex was the pinnacle of good living so clearly something went wrong if nowadays cynics can't even get laid.
>>24723765The whole point of cynicism is that success is easy to earn if you can be satisfied with simple things. Reread the Antisthenes section of Xenophon's Symposium. He's rich because he wants for nothing, his food is the finest because he uses hunger as a seasoning. His student Diogenes would end up taking this lifestyle to comical extremes, but Antisthenes, the original cynic, lived in a modest house and enjoyed success as a prolific writer.
>>24725412Try not being a pussy?
>>24726870As Diogenes Laertius recounts of Plato’s “responses” to Diogenes of Sinope- cynicism is a largely performative philosophy which intends to show everyone around you how ‘modest’ you are by living frugally beyond the point of it making any sense and wallowing in filth like an animal. It is entirely for performance. Plato says if Diogenes that if you want him to come in from the rain you stop giving him attention and then he wouldn’t be outside in mud getting rained on to earn social capital by shirking technology and clothing and a shelter.
>>24723919>if you want to get laid, you need to learn how to play the social game.no you simply need to be attractive. the more attractive you are the less it matters what you say or do
>>24726968Did you notice how I explicitly pointed to Antisthenes as opposed to Diogenes, or did you just see the word "cynicism" and stop reading?
>>24723765Heraclitus wasn't a cynic
