The Black Sheep LIVE: Escape the Invisible Epidemic of Cynicism

Salomé's livestream from January 13th, 2025

Cynicism is a major element in some of the political views you may dislike, such as leftism's insistence that everything fits an "oppressor vs oppressed" framework or conservativism's ethos that everything is worse today than in the past. But political ideologies aren't the only vectors of cynicism and our fixation with this manifestation is blinding us to how destructive and fast-growing cynicism is today.

I'm not telling you to "just be happy" though: I'm saying we need to be vastly more conscious of how cynicism spreads and develops. Think of it as reverse-engineering individual and societal decline: start with the end in mind by using cynicism as an alert system for when you're heading down the wrong path. Instead of fusing with a demonstrably dysfunctional mindset by trying to find proof that your cynicism is rational, see cynicism for what it really is: a symptom that something needs to change.

Unfortunately, our culture is at work constructing ideologies that entrench our cynicis…