Is cynicism the only solution to surviving in an immoral society?

wrong leneration?

Is posting on /lit/ an effective way to get your homework done for you?

sigh

>define immoral

yes, it's a meme, but if you can't properly explain yourself when using such a loaded term then you deserve it.

mainstream culture has already beat you to it. the entire realm of political discourse has been appropriated for petty cultural grumbles. pomo irony has found peaceful coexistence with an even more cynical hypersincerity.

>>7564262
Cynicism is the answer of the ruling culture to this kynikal (vulgar) subversion: it recognizes, it takes into account, the particular interest behind the ideological universality, the distance between the ideological mask and the reality, but it still finds reasons to retain the mask. This cynicism is not a direct position of immorality, it is more like morality itself put in the service of immorality – the model of cynical wisdom is to conceive probity, integrity, as a supreme form of dishonesty, and morals as a supreme form of profligacy, the truth as the most effective form of a lie. This cynicism is therefore a kind of perverted 'negation of the negation' of the official ideology: confronted with illegal enrichment, with robbery, the cynical reaction consists in saying that legal enerichment is a lot more effective and, moreover, protected by the law. Thus we can no longer subject the text ti 'symptomatic reading' to reveal its blank spots, with what is must repress to organize itself, to preserve its consistency – cynical reason takes this distance into account in advance.

>>7564304
>mor·al
>2. a person's standards of behavior or beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to do.

Immorality, then, would be the belief that any action is acceptable for someone to do.

>>7564337
Is that Zizek?

>cynicism is not a direct position of immorality, it is more like morality itself put in the service of immorality

Or it's the belief that morality, being the more difficult choice, will be whelmed by immorality.

>>7564337
Postmodernism generator alert

>>7564262
cynicism is precisely what allows a 'immoral' to be in that situation in the first place.

>>7564446
pleb

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>morals

>>7564454
>being this much of an onanist

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>>7564262
>Is cynicism the only solution to surviving in an immoral society?
that's not how you spell Islam. Islam is the solution.

>>7564469
>reverted
the irony

>>7564469
Jihad is immoral.

>>7564485
To you, maybe

>>7564485
the kkk is immoral too but you don't see me insulting christians

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>>7564262
Is it Mr "People aren't doing as I want, so I become cynical"?

Also this banner was showed. How appropriate!

>>7564469
The ears doesn't even look the same. Nice try!

>>7564485
Jihad is moral. It seems like your perceptions have been so warped by corrupt nihilist western culture you think good is evil and black is white.

>>7564505
>>7564505
>people should be allowed to do whatever they want!

grow up

>>7564483
Muslims believe that everyone is born Muslim so that may explain it

>>7564524

I never understood this tbqh. For me, the realization of how absurd it is was the very first step towards apostasy.

>>7564511
>>7564498
>>7564490
>defending Islam

Sharia Law now says that you are Muslims. You must commit jihad or you will be subject to stoning or beheading.

>>7564546
We are all Muslims, inshallah

No. The correct response is called "repentance".

Please see such works as, "The Prophet Isaiah", "The Lamentations of Jeremiah", "The Prophet Ezekiel", "The Prophet Jonah".

>[10] But the wicked shall be punished according to their own devices: who have neglected the just, and have revolted from the Lord.

>[11] For he that rejecteth wisdom, and discipline, is unhappy: and their hope is vain, and their labours without fruit, and their works unprofitable. [12] Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked. [13] Their offspring is cursed: for happy is the barren: and the undefiled, that hath not known bed in sin: she shall have fruit in the visitation of holy souls. [14] And the eunuch, that hath not wrought iniquity with his hands, nor thought wicked things against God: for the precious gift of faith shall be given to him, and a most acceptable lot in the temple of God. [15] For the fruit of good labours is glorious, and the root of wisdom never faileth.

>[16] But the children of adulterers shall not come to perfection, and the seed of the unlawful bed shall be rooted out. [17] And if they live long, they shall be nothing regarded, and their last old age shall be without honour. [18] And if they die quickly, they shall have no hope, nor speech of comfort in the day of trial. [19] For dreadful are the ends of a wicked race.

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>>7564560
I agree!

#refugeeswelcome

what are things you do in daily life that reflect your political/ideological views?

>>7564622
hide from the world and abstain from substances. hbu

>>7564430

Not enough *sniff* to be Zizek.

>>7564354
you...you're...

okay, so you are referring to the dictionary's definition - not for the word you are arguing for - but it's inverse? instead of using its own definition? like i am mindfuck as to what you were trying to accomplish by doing this. especially as to your conclusion by what you have discerned immorality to be. even at that though your definition does not hold true. immorality does not equal a neutral sense of morality for the individual

>>7564671
I don't know how to respond to this.

>>7564581
fuck off christfag

>>7564712
hey don't bully christfriends

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>>7564560

except ISIS

ISIS aren't true muslims

>>7564262
a cynical attitude towards modern immorality isn't so much a 'solution' as it is an act of complicity, ironically renouncing its failings whilst continuing to participate in the social contract which governs moral law - having your proverbial cake and eating it too, while also pulling a disgusted face as if the cake was filled with kitty litter, dicks and shame.

>>7564262
There are two Russian movies that deals with this, both are very good. "Leviathan" and "Durak"

>>7564268

kill yourself

>>7564262

I'd rather deal with jovial whores than bitter conservatives any day of the week. They have no life to them.

Yeah, it'll work.

>>7566599
They wouldn't want to deal with a degenerate troglodyte so it balances out.

>>7564262
Cynicism is a sign of two things - healthy mind and sick times

>>7564469
Nice radiator

>>7566657
>bbb-bu-but muh fun!

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>>7564262
Kind of... until all the chumps wise up and society collapses.

It seems to me that few people realize that our "free republics" were founded by Protestant merchants who were renowned for their forthright honesty and fair dealing and so who became wealthy from return customers.

It's a lot like getting away with peeing in the swimming pool. It feels nice and is all fun and games until everyone catches on and you're all swimming in piss.