JUST PHILOSOPHISING - THE CYNICISM IN US DO NONE OF US ANY GOOD? PART 1.

A state of being cynical is to approach something or someone with an haughty air. 

An air of arrogance, probably, but most certainly an air of disbelief. 

An air that says, that cannot be true, it is not authentic, why are you bothering, I have seen that so many times already. Is that all you have to show me, or us?

Our cynicism makes us lose faith and trust in people, in the gods, and in their ability to effect the changes for which we aspire. 

Cynicism speaks of our frustration with our partners, with our leaders, local, national and global. 

As we grow older and experienced repeated failures in others and ourselves to effect changes. The cynicism within our cognition grows larger. 

And our ability to 'believe and trust others and the gods to deliver us from our trials and our tribulations, from our suffering and our despair, is increasingly diminished.

We begin to hear only the 'noises' surrounding the 'message' of the latest prophets. The latest latter-day Isiah, making his/her pronouncements about how they have found 'the true way.' 

The 'elixir' which has eluded humans for hundreds, if not thousands of years.' Of how simple and straightforward it is to apply. 

Providing we do it consistently. How everybody can implement it and transformed their lives.

And yet, only a minority of us continue to hear 'the message', after awhile. 

Because it is the same message' only this time, each time and every time, it is cleverly packaged in new livery. 

Probably also with the same words, but, like the package in which the 'new message' is enclosed, are also cleverly arranged and re-arranged.

But it remains the same message, which is not realising what it has promised.

And we stop hearing the 'message' which, now becomes only an irritating echo and vibration in our ears, as the 'noise' surrounding it, washes over us.


To be continued.