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@mcSlibinas @Gustodon

i think #realism can be defined as nothing more than #idealism shaped by experience

you still aim to the good goal

but now you know the road is not simple

so you continue towards the good goal, but you get there with the tools that adversity taught you, which can be called #cynicism

cynicism (as a personality, not as a tool as you say and i agree) is sitting down on the side of the road and giving up. cynicism as a personality is giving in to adversity, a failure mode

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@FrancoisPrague @mcSlibinas @Daojoan

exactly

1. #idealism is a form of failure. which is not a condemnation of idealistic people. we all start out as idealists in life

2. #cynicism, as idealism's mirror image, is also a failure. it's what naturally follows from step 1 because of inevitable adversity

3. maturity is using idealistic thoughts to guide you, but filtering it through what cynicism teaches:

#realism

the problem is people stuck on step 1/ 2

all of us should strive to reach step 3

A quotation from Robert Frost

There are two types of realist. There is the one who offers a good deal of dirt with his potato to show that it is a real one, and the one who is satisfied with the potato brushed clean. I’m inclined to be the second kind. […] To me, the thing that art does for life is to clean it, to strip it to form.

Robert Frost (1874-1963) American poet
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WIST Quotations · (Attributed) - Frost, Robert | WIST QuotationsThere are two types of realist. There is the one who offers a good deal of dirt with his potato to show that it is a real one, and the one who is satisfied with the potato brushed clean. I'm inclined to be the second kind. [...] To me, the…

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