http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/03/a-cynical-society-update-part-1/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2012/03/a-cynical-society-update-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-24872 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:28:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=12518#comment-24872 I look forward to reading your remarks on cynicism in your next post. I still think about the points that you made in “The Cynical Society.” For instance, “The actions of political (and cultural, economic, and religious) leaders, the general public, the media, and the scholarly academic community all constitute the fundamental character of the cynical society. But they do this without much reflection. Cynicism dominates the assumptions of our political and cultural life.” As a social form (in Simmel’s sense of the term), cynicism continues to survive and seems to be even more prevalent, if that is possible. Cynicism appears to be a tactic of choice. It is easier to promulgate in our media dominated society.

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