There's was a certain point in my transformation from an optimist to a pessimist where I was just so angry. I was angry at news organizations for not having the balls to fight for their readers. I was angry at all the myths and lies I was fed, from meritocracy, to religion, to honor and loyalty. I was angry at businesspeople for rigging the game, and I was angry at politicians for helping them. I was angry at myself for believing and trusting in what I was told. I was just angry at everyone. And it was at this point that many youth would've become militarized, thinking that revolution was the answer. I did too. That is until I realized that revolutionaries are no different. They're just more of the same; people telling more lies to fuck over more people so that they can drive their precious fucking Mercedes past homeless shelters and slums. I'm still angry, but now when I read the latest bit of depressing news I just seem to laugh. The NSA spied on everyone? Good luck filtering that river of shit for useful intel guys. JPMorgan bribed the daughter of the Chinese prime minister? Haha investment bankers are such whores. Finance papers are too pussy to investigate totalitarian regimes? I think a new tagline is in order: All the news that's fit to print ... money.

I call this coping strategy the John Stewart method.

I think it's because nothing really surprises me anymore. I've just reached peak cynicism. So nowadays I just try to make light of the absurd brutality that is the world that we live in, because doing otherwise just seems pointless.

All the world is a farce.

/rant

PS: I'm not a conspiracy nut or anything like that. I'm just disappointed with the local incentive driven actions that some people take at the expense of society at large some of the time.