Artist: Ryan Liberty Megan & People
Album: El Songo
Album Release Date: October 1, 2023
Article Written by: Ryan Liberty Megan
I’ve always had a sense of cynicism. But it’s changed its face a lot. It’s kind of changed with me, and how I apply it, and how I use it. But I do seem to have the same general ratio of optimism versus cynicism throughout my entire life. It’s dawned on me that it really hasn’t changed that much in my life.
To be honest, I’ve always had about the same amount of optimism, but for different reasons throughout my life. Like I recalculate and readjust. But I’m not all cynical and definitely not all optimistic now.
You spend your life being a stranger in this world, or trying not to be a stranger. And at some point, when that world starts to die, you can just be like, “Oh, wow! So what?”
And that world could be, you know, a little world, or it could be a metaphor. Your job. It could be a relationship. It could be a dinner.
It’s just wonderful that it’s dying.
But that’s not nihilism; it’s passive cynicism. When you trip and you fall, you evolve into cynicism because it’s just the natural progression of life. And you go from being a skeptic to a cynic.
It’s not nihilism; you still feel something. But there’s more resentment – maybe bemused resentment.
So yeah. Also a touch of schadenfreude in there, I guess.
Enjoying the death of things is something that I hope to continue doing for the rest of my life, because death is waiting for no one. I will experience it. Death comes to everything. This is just my way to enjoy it.
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