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Hope For Cynics
The Surprising Science of Human Goodness
Jamil Zaki . 2024 . 149 ZAK . Beaverton Library
Dr. Zaki is professor of psychology at Stanford University and director of the Stanford Social Neuroscience Lab
- Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the couch and clutch, feeling lucky.
- It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.
- -- Rebecca Solnit
p001 Introduction
p001 Emile Bruneau died 2020 age 47
- p001 Peace and Conflict Neuroscience Lab at U. Penn. Annenberg School for Communication (cannot find)
- p003 Emile's mother schizophrenic, but "She never let any of the darkness touch me"
- p004 Cynicism ... is a seductive worldview, dark and simple. Too simple, really to explain much of anything.
p004 General Social Survey began in 1972
- p005 In 1972, 50% agreed that "most people can be trusted", only 33% agreed in 2018.
- p005 52% trusted president in 1970s, 23% in 2022. Newspapers 39% to 18%. Public schools 58% to 28%
- p007 Media's product is cynicism.
- p008 Nietzche called hope "the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment"
- p009 Cynicism is a lack of faith in people, skepticism is a lack of faith in our assumptions.
Section I: UNLEARNING CYNICISM
p015 Chapter 1. Signs and Symptoms
- p015 Mycroft Holmes more talented, but "no ambition and no energy" and a disdain for humanity
p016 Mycroft Holmes co-founded Diogenes Club
- p018 "big-C Cynicism" opposite of misanthropy and "small-c cynicism"
p017 the real Diogenes helped people and would despise the Diogenes Cl]][[ub.
- p017 Three statement test:
- (1) No one cares much what happens to you.
- (2) Most people dislike helping others.
- (3) Most people are honest chiefly through fear of getting caught.
p018 Cook and Medley: Worse teachers agreed with these statements. They are a "cynicism detector".
- p020 adolescent cynics more likely depressed, drink and divorce in and after college
- cynics earn less, more heart disease, die sooner
- p020 Finland 58% trust, France 18% trust
- p021 High trust nations grow GDP faster
- p025 Dining out, bring Tupperware rather than single use plastic from restaurants (?)
p025 autarkeia self-sufficiency
p026 Self-Reliance 1841 essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
p026 Stanford's Geoff Cohen
- p027 people who affirm their values become more open to contradictory infomation
- p028 Zaki was jealous of others, birth of daughters overwhelmed worries about social status
p029 Chapter 2. The Surprising Wisdom of Hope
- p030 valorize: enhance value
- p030 cynics wise less often, poor at identifying liars
p031 real wisdom when people know what they don't know. Think more like a skeptical scientist, less like a accusing lawyer
p065 Chapter 4. Hell Isn't Other People
Section II: REDISCOVERING ONE ANOTHER
p097 Chapter 6. The (Social) Water is Just Fine
p130 Chapter 8. The Fault in Our Fault Lines
Section III: THE FUTURE OF HOPE
p200 Epilogue
p205 Acknowledgements
p209 Appendix A: A Practical Guide to Hopeful Skepticism
p213 Appendix B: Evaluating the Evidence
p217 Chapter Claim Ratings
p225 Notes
p263 Index
- p263 Emile Bruneau