Cross-posted from AJC.com (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Cynicism. We hear all the time. The level of public discourse has known if low, so petty, it runs off the coast of people who might otherwise to participate in the public sphere. Traveling to different cities, I am more aware than ever of negative publicity washing waves in the country.Thanks to the embrace of the Supreme Court of anonymous influence, we don't know often who is paying for the mud is being shaken, and the result is a general decline in confidence as something important and significant sphere public .Est - we should describe confidence as the growth of cynicism, or simply as a smart reaction to our contemporary context?
Cynics are some crazy, and might even call cynicism as the effort to protect themselves appear stupid. One of the characteristics of contemporary cynicism (with ancient roots) is the rejection of conventional norms.Cynics delights in rejecting the criteria of those who have the power and privilege and discharge is often mixed with mépris.Cyniques "know" that the established order is wrong, unnatural - corrupt and unfair - and their knowledge can give them a sense of superiority. We reject the established means to the world because we know better.
But cynicism about politics and the public sphere driving efforts to change the way things are. Instead of this, it led to a withdrawal of public life, a withdrawal is justified by the cynical in the superiority of their own belief. Cynics we know better and we know that participation in public life is for those who just don't understand how things really work.
Another dimension of cynicism is the belief in his cynical autosuffisance.Les did not engage in the public sphere because they have developed a way of life that requires no participation. They have nothing to gain by interacting with others who share their views, and are strengthening the other cynics who reject this type of interaction. A community based on the release strengthens contempt members of the dominant culture and their proud alienation it.They feel that they do not need to engage because their cynicism gives them a sense of autonomy self-righteous.
Cynicism may be particularly widespread among young people, and psychologists have a specific measure for adolescents cynicism, Acyn2 on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. As an educator, I find this young attitude to be particularly worrisome because first and foremost it protects students learn.Behind the fa?ade of the rejection of the status quo, behind the defence of the autonomous community, knowledge is the refusal to engage with new possibilités.Cyniques fear have already taken their minds, and people who have given their opinion believe that they have nothing to learn.
When you participate in the public sphere, you will need to open yourself up to the views of others and real commitment means be open to change.This is why political participation should be part of the education for all students.Participation is a public experience in which you'll find things on the world, yourself and the opportunities for change.Public participation is difficult because you may be surprised that people or systems on which you have already reached conclusions are more complex that you had never imagined - more complex and more important in shaping the future.
In this era of political discourse degraded and attack ads financed anonymously, it is easy to see the cynical withdrawal of life publique.Mais we must turn back the tide of cynisme.Nous must show our young jaded, removed they are not self-sufficient, and that they do not participate shape their future, someone else will do it for eux.lorsque students turn to the commitment and participation, they are cutting themselves learning .they are also deprive our public sphere of their energy and ideas it is comfort in the belonging to a community of cynical, but there is much more stimulating and enriching work can be found by engaging with others to try to make the public sphere more meaningful for us all.
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