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Hope For Cynics

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.

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 Club.
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".
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