7 Beers and All Faith In Humanity Is Lost

Now that I have an easy means of recording my thoughts all the time, including when I am drunk, it turns out that I'm a pretty cynical drunk. Here are some snippets a recent diatribe in the notes section of my Palm phone:

"I've been trying to maintain that humanity as a whole is good and should be
fought for, developed, and aided in any way possible."

"The only interest I've observed is self interest. People are asking less of
"what can I do for the common good," and instead are asking "How can I screw the
other guy for my personal gain.

The comments after that were a bit more caustic and stuff I generally don't accept as being true, but it is still funny to see what was going through my head whilest drunk off my rocker.

Here is a tidbit thanks to dictionary.com:

Word History: A cynic may be pardoned for thinking that this is a dog's life. The Greek word kunikos, from which cynic comes, was originally an adjective meaning “doglike,” from kun, “dog.” The word was probably applied to the Cynic philosophers because of the nickname kun given to Diogenes of Sinope, the prototypical Cynic. He is reported to have been seen barking in public, urinating on the leg of a table, and masturbating on the street. The first use of the word recorded in English, in a work published from 1547 to 1564, is in the plural for members of this philosophical sect. In 1596 we find the first instance of cynic meaning “faultfinder,” a sense that was to develop into our modern sense. The meaning “faultfinder” came naturally from the behavior of countless Cynics who in their pursuit of virtue pointed out the flaws in others. Such faultfinding could lead quite naturally to the belief associated with cynics of today that selfishness determines human behavior.

Ahh, those were the days....able to walk through town and masturbate on the street without recourse.