A Culture of Cynics

'You know, I think it's harder to create something that's life-affirming than something that is cynical.'

I heard this quote yesterday at the end of a story on WVXU about a new play "Superior Donuts". The thought is probably not original, but struck me as not just kinda true, but deeply true and indicative of the modern era we inhabit. It kinda relates to the "ugly is more interesting" discussion we had here a few months ago.

Since our life on this earth is ultimately a tragic, unstructured, uncentered non-story, is it even a worthwhile effort to try to create human centered beauty in our everyday surroundings? When we do this, are we creating a lie?

I don't think so.