Cynicism Comes from Self-Disgust

September 17, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.

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A philosophical poem about how cynicism comes from a lack of balance in one’s vision of good and evil:

Cynicism comes from self-disgust,

Yearning for a world one has surrendered.

No vision is complete but in repose,

Implicit in the steady gaze within.

Come, then, to know that good and evil must

In everyone with due respect be rendered,

So delicate their dance, as much in those

Not cynical as in those steeped in sin.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Good and Evil

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