Cynicism

You would hope not.

But looking at the sources, the initial responses from financial institutions were incredibly cynical.

Cynical is the right word.

Life insurance companies started noticing the spike in Cardi Satsu, the suicides due to overwork.

And instead of pushing for better corporate conditions, they just tweak their contracts.

Of course.

That, that is ultimately what happens, is the- Cynicism sets in with the electorate, and they do get more radicalized, and we're seeing that with young people, by the way, at Turning Point, a- all over the country, right? When they feel like the system is rigged against them, that's when you get radical politics.

But I, I wanna set this up in a bigger way here, and we talk about how Brazil, in some ways, is the...

It's, it's almost like the ghost of Christmas Future.

Rape of the mind is a social disorder.

Cynics, the apathy, one-upmanship order.

Also, I hope it's not terribly forward of me to ask you, but are you all done with that sandwich?

And I kinda like that character, you know? Uh, like, a good old tinfoil hat, uh, in metal.

It's that guy again.

Rape of the mind is a social disorder.

Cynics, the apathy, one-upmanship order.

And I, for one, welcome that guy.

Thank you for listening.

Your Sophist Filter, on CEOs, Cynics, and the Voice in Your Head.

In ancient Greece and Rome, parents took their kids to study oratory skills from teachers called Sophists.

The word sophisticated has sophist in its root.

As I talk about how people in the UK have lost faith in government, lost trust in those who are in charge, those people who run the country or organisations, the big question for you as you listen, is the same thing happening in your country? Do you feel the same? Are we losing faith in the people who are supposed to run Britain? And if so, why? That's our question today.

And it would be easy to say, well, we've all just become a bit cynical, haven't we? That word cynical, C-Y-N-I-C-A-L, and the noun cynicism, it just means the belief that people only ever act out of self-interest.

for themselves, in other words, that nobody means what they say or does what they promise.

And cynicism can be something that always colours your thinking.

Then, in all three cases, therefore, they are lying, QED.

David Shea links us to a paper from twenty eighteen called The Cynical Genius Illusion: Exploring and Debunking Lay Beliefs About Cynicism and Competence as illustrative of this style of thinking.

The galaxy brains are out in force.

This is both, people say, a cynical ploy to pump up valuations and a cynical ploy to set up excuses if valuations go down.

When I spoke to today's guest in New York during Bridal Fashion Week, she told me about the title of her Parsons thesis collection.

It was called Romance for the Cynics, and I haven't stopped thinking about that phrase since, because if there was ever a phrase that captured modern bridal culture, it might be that one.

We're a generation raised on irony, on disillusionment, economic instability, institutional distrust, and yet we're still getting married.

We're still falling in love.

Well, I want to start chatting a little bit about specific things about Atelier Ariel now that we're kind of oriented and we understand what the brand is.

And I want to start where I've wanted to start ever since we chatted in New York this past season, because you mentioned your thesis collection and you mentioned graduating from Parsons already in this episode.

But your thesis collection was called Romance for the Cynics.

Where did it come from? Where did that collection come from?