How cynical have I become?
When I hear that some racist incident or another happened on campus, I just assume it was a hoax.
When a Republican is accused of rape, sexual abuse, or jaywalking, I assume it is a hoax, except perhaps the jaywalking. They probably did that.
Tales of corruption don’t shock me anymore. I am skeptical of everything I am told by “experts.” When somebody in the media or the government tells me something is for my own good, I check my wallet and then flee in the other direction.
On the one hand, cynicism has become another word for common sense. On the other, it is disastrous that we have gotten to this point in our society.
I don’t mean sad or unfortunate, but downright disastrous.
There are a lot of reasons why Western societies have thrived over the past 300 or so years, but one of the big reasons is that social trust was…
