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Jul. 14th, 2005 | 02:37 pm

Feeling very small and forgotten today. Good thing I have a dull office reception job to fill the hours, right?! The most fulfilling moment I've had has been talking with the temporary Human Resources person about movies (she saw me reading Lynch on Lynch) -- kvetching about Scorcese's upcoming remake of Infernal Affairs (which she loved), specifically. (And I must agree, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio are simply not half as cool as Andy Lau or Tony Leung.) Is that all I can talk about anymore? Movies? I've spent so much time trying to forget about being forgotten, I don't even know who I am anymore. I'm sure that sounds pathetically angsty, but I'm really just concerned for myself. Where did I go? I need to walk to the top of a mountain and, like, find myself, or something.

So, someone popular on LJ wrote about moronic cynicism (hate?) today. Cynicism alone might be compared favorably to Keats' negative capability or Dostoevsky's conscious inertia, as you well know.

Some less favorable observations on cynicism:

The moronic cynic uses cynicism as a way to prepare for the worst. The worst consequently arrives.

To be cynical is to be on the side of the worst, to think with its logic and to see with its eyes.

Moronic cynicism wonders why the phone never rings.

The moronic cynic's pleasures are always guilty pleasures.

The moronic cynic cannot stand innocence because it reminds him of himself. He pisses on it as soon as he sees it.

The moronic cynic is not attracted to things because they are beautiful, but because they are forbidden.

The moronic cynic suddenly falls in love one day with someone who isn't cynical at all.

The opposite of moronic cynicism is love.

I do not believe I am a moronic cynic (in spite of several of these being at least partially true with me). A cynic, yes, quite often, but I also have a modicum of hope, not to mention what is described in said popular individual's entry as "moronic positivity" (love!), which seems to be the binary opposite to his interpretation of stupidly negative attitudes/behavior. Personally, I like to think I'm somewhere in the middle (as always), balancing the cynical and the positive in a way that hopefully negates the moronic.

Then again, I wonder, has being in "the middle" ever gotten me anywhere?

Addendum: It's difficult to accept love as the answer when it's not there. (Kinda like God, haw haw.)
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A Bark must have a code

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from: [info]chocolatebark
date: Jul. 14th, 2005 10:12 pm (UTC)
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It depends on whether or not you define your capacity for love as what you're capable of loving, rather than what or who loves you, I suppose. (to steal a movie slogan).

I don't think I'm a moronic cynic, but I'm certainly capable of being one, and may have been one in the past, going by those criteria.

I think a lot of discussion on such issues can be affected by something as basic as where the participants stand on the notion of self.

I'd suggest that being in the middle gets you to the middle, for better or worse.

Of course, what the middle is may differ vastly from perspective to perspective.


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Patupaiarehe

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from: [info]ghostlight
date: Jul. 14th, 2005 10:42 pm (UTC)
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I'm kind of planning that being in "the middle" will end up with me getting between two women.

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cityramica

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from: [info]cityramica
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 02:31 am (UTC)
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i'm feeling a little jaded about said popular poster....i don't really like his means of inventing terminology to criticize & type people this way....i mean, most of his fan base are probably "moronic cynics" in his eyes. too much Vice or something.
with that said, i've long favored the term "cynical optimist". similar maybe, but the the noun gives it a different core i guess...

i hope your day got better.

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dust

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from: [info]antitype
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 02:40 am (UTC)
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Oxymoronic as "cynical optimist" sounds, it works pretty well for me.

Tonight's OK. Tomorrow, however, will be a GREAT day, because I get PAID.

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cityramica

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from: [info]cityramica
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 02:44 am (UTC)
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sweet.
hey we should hang out sometime.

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dust

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from: [info]antitype
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 02:50 am (UTC)
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I'd like that, yeah. Some time this weekend? Email me if you'd like, or you can call me at eight two four five three four seven.

What do you feel up to? I'm game for pretty much anything. Coffee for starters?

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dust

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from: [info]antitype
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 03:16 am (UTC)
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Actually, I have a good idea. I haven't had sushi in a while, and I'm told that We Be Sushi place on Valencia is good. What do you think?

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cityramica

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from: [info]cityramica
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 03:20 am (UTC)
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OOH! yes! let's do that! i haven't been to that one but it's quite close to me!
when would you like to go?

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dust

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from: [info]antitype
date: Jul. 16th, 2005 10:26 pm (UTC)
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How about tomorrow? (Sunday.)

Give me a call whenever, or I'll dig up your email and call you tomorrow. When's a good time for you? I imagine you must sleep in pretty late being up 'til 6am all the time...

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A Heppy Land, Fur, Fur Away

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from: [info]bad_juice
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 01:09 pm (UTC)
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I have a similar problem with talking too much about movies. And I kinda wish I had other interests that could be more easily carried over into regular everyday conversation. But I sure don't.

I wouldn't worry too much, though. As long as no one else seems to be saying and/or thinking, "You talk about movies too much." I've got that one a few times, and it makes me excruciatingly self-conscious.

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Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band

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from: [info]myglock_yrface
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 03:50 pm (UTC)
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Hah, I'm the same way, really. I just don't think people would rather hear me talk about the more creepy things I like.

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monumental carcass

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from: [info]hanginonthetele
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 02:41 pm (UTC)
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that was the first momus post i can remember actually somewhat liking in months, only he couldn't pull it off without the creepy "see, she's all, hee hee cute.. and azn!" bullshit and his daily defense of female cultural submissiveness.

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from: [info]gorguts
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 05:21 pm (UTC)
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I never got why anyone cared about anything Momus said. Maybe it's because the first time I read his journal, I saw this long-winded, masturbatory post about, uh, masturbation, where he tried to write some kind of deep philosophical treatise on his jerking off sessions.

If that whole "moronic cynic" thing above is his, then yeah, he's still a moron. But maybe I just can't relate because I'm more optimistic than I thought.

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Ze Amyzilla

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from: [info]fishwife
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 08:18 pm (UTC)
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I've been sick all week. Pooey. So I didn't go out on Wednesday like we talked and that's why I didn't call you. Try and come out on Wednesday if you can!!!

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dust

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from: [info]antitype
date: Jul. 15th, 2005 11:53 pm (UTC)
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Aw, hope you're feeling better soon. Give me a call any time you're up to going out for dinner and some drinks -- I'd like to treat you and Alex.

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