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Its meaning, altered by millennia of false use, eventually became distorted. Its definition, bombarded with incorrect terms, ended up condemning this philosophy to the corner of triviality. Cynicism, that scornful and vulgar adjective, has led millions to accept a wrong modus vivendi, to see life, beautiful and exciting on the one hand, as a gray and torturous mess, an unhappy play that repeats itself.

Misunderstood cynicism is a hair that cut out the daily surprise, the emotion day after day. Badly explained cynicism is an explosion of shrapnel that destroys wonder, it is a bomb that destroys desire.

This idea, poorly expressed, made trying to be like a dog considered an insult.

Cynicism, for those philosophers who adopted life from and for philosophy, This made him discover that the luxury, eccentricity and opulence that abounded in the ancient cities were only an illusion. A vile and sad idea that hides and drives away joy. They took away the hypocrisy classes that isolated themselves behind the walls of the States. Using majeutics, like Socrates with his students, they asked those who listened to them what luxury is worth, what is the use of eccentricity, what luxury is eaten with.

Diógenes de Sinope, that “dog” who lived in exile Athena begs for leftovers and laughs the rich and powerful with their public self-indulgence. That unworthy civilian, that two-legged dog, pointed out the inconsistencies that, in one way or another, prevent us from find happiness. pointed, in his very poor house, the artificial needs, the invented regulations, the non-existent criteria that surrounded him and which, for those who lived wrapped in them, made his life become unbearable and empty condemnation.

How many times have we become prisoners of sadness, how many hours have we wasted immersed in misery, how many days, months or years have we surrendered to trouble for goods or ideas that, seen from another perspective, are worthless banalities? As academics work to uncover the problems of classical authors while they have their own, engineers strive to find ways to support works and monuments, unable sometimes put up with their exhausting life, mathematicians and physicists they spend their whole lives looking for problems to answer and answers to which they find problems, but they forget that there are questions that still bother them in their daily lives. These examples, caricatured and banal, are only samples, indications of what bound and blinded that we are in everyday life.