The human civilization-long acculturated intellectual disease of modernity also known as cynicism. Why? Because it stops action before it even starts. And the solution to this problem is exactly the same as the solution to the current monetary paradigm because just as Gifting is an aspect of the natural philosophical concept of grace, so is Renewal as in process, time, being consciously/mentally in continual present time…as opposed to mistakenly thwarting change by falling for the unconscious trap of cynicism.

Let us instead embrace Antonio Gramsci’s prescription of “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”.