Where idealism and cynicism meet in theory

Cynicism and idealism are often two sides of the same coin. Both are about power; one of them makes it a means to the good, the other knows it cannot be.

Both are typical products and concomitants of bureaucratic societies in which every real relationship, of people to things and images and each other, is abstracted into a discourse that solves all problems by naming and describing them, and legitimates all actions and behaviors by making everything the object of a universal will that recognizes only what it legitimates and legitimates everything it speaks about. Cynicism and idealism are also the modern secular forms of skepticism and faith. The religion/spirituality complex is displaced onto the theory/ideology complex. Armed with faith in an idea, people can of course do anything.