Gabe Fluhrer

He's the person who gets the angles.

Everybody's got an angle and he's going to keep himself aloof from that.

He's going to show the irony of life.

He's not going to commit to anything.

He's not going to invest himself in anything.

He's too good for that.

He sees what other people don't.

And the cynic has always has for his cursed mother.

that of optimism, naive optimism.

And when you look at what's happened with that in recent years, it's people who've been disappointed by life, and as that same author points out, the promise of secularism that has failed.

This whole notion that people are basically good, and if you leave them alone with enough time and money and education, they'll basically do the right thing.

We've been trying that since at least the Greeks.

And how's it working out for us?

More recently, beginning in Renaissance humanism in the 15th century, we've been trying money and education as the solution for mankind's ills.

And what has it left us with?

Cynicism.

A hollowed out, burned out, as C.S.

Lewis put it, chestless culture.

That's what it's given us.

Men without chests.