@rozeboosje@masto.ai @vicgrinberg@mastodon.social it's a common psychological trap, and explains a lot of problems in the world. from individual relationships, all the way up to national politics some sort of suffering puts them in the state of cynicism the cynicism is a salve: it rationalizes their suffering and relieves their pain. at the expense of escaping the suffering then someone comes and says "we don't have to suffer" and the cynic attacks them because this person is a threat to their psychological salve