Here are the 13 most salient points about them:
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| The CYNICATRON | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| TURNING YOU PEOPLE INTO CYNICS SINCE: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Robert Locke and John Derbyshire are professional pessimists, and they have put forward articles composed of established fact. Here are the 13 most salient points about them: |
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| 1) Most of us will die poor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2)Quality health-care for all is impossible | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3)Pop culture is crap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4)The environment will collapse | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5)Sceintific progress has virtually stopped | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6)Poverty and hardship are good for you, secutity and prosperity are bad for you | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7)The truth mostly makes you less happy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8)Most people never think-they just recycle a few learned truths, popular ideas and predjudices. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9)Some people are worth more than others | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10)99% of the human race would help the world (and themselve) more by never having been born | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11)Nothing can be done about most ideals and problems | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12)You will hardly ever be popular doing what's right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13)Only an infinitessimally small fraction of the universe knows you exist. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||