From the Vault: Cynicism, Part 3
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe explore the topic of modern psychological cynicism, as well as its roots in the philosophy of the ancient Cynics. (part 3 of 4) (originally published 4/22/2025)
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| 0:41.1 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 0:42.5 | My name is Robert Lamb. It is Saturday, so we have a vault episode for you. |
| 0:45.3 | This is going to be part three of four in our cynicism series. |
| 0:50.3 | This episode originally published 422 2025. |
| 0:54.5 | Let's dive right in. |
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| 1:08.4 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. |
| 1:10.5 | My name is Robert Lamb. And I am Joe McCormick. And today we are returning with part three in our series on cynicism, the tendency to believe that other people are selfish, untrustworthy, and immoral. In part one of the series, we defined cynicism in its modern usage, along the lines |
| 1:29.2 | I just said, and we distinguished it from other concepts like pessimism and from the |
| 1:35.3 | Cynic School of Philosophy founded in ancient Greece, which was not defined by thinking about |
| 1:40.5 | other people as morally bad and undeserving of trust, but instead by the idea that |
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