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by kohtatsu 2291 days ago
It saddens me moderately that cynicism is often the default; people sometimes think I'm being (rudely) sarcastic when I'm just being straightforwardly nice.

I feel like cynicism/pessimism gets weird praise, too. The anthropologist Wade Davis considers it an indulgence and I wholeheartedly agree.

/tangent