Word: cynicismã
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Perhaps earlier generations—their ingenuousness intact—were blinder to cynicism??s protective powers. In 1969, the editor-in-chief of my mother’s high school yearbook wrote: “We have chosen as the theme of this yearbook, The Adventures of Don Quixote, a novel built around a man whose life was not unlike ours. Much dissatisfied, he too dedicated himself to finding a better world of higher ideals and purer men, although he was believed a senile lunatic...
...campus protest in the 21st century must overcome a wall of cynicism??a student body who may be socially aware that often has who may given up on protest as an anachronistic way to get things done...
...Stupid, reflexive cheap cynicism??at least for a while—will go away some, which is all to the good,” he says. “What is funny is always a matter of treading around the edges of propriety. When people use irony they mean everything from Craig Kilborn to Joseph Heller. So the annoying form of excessive commenting upon oneself, the more precious breathing one’s own fumes may be the ones [forms of irony] I would be happy to see go away...