Society breeding cynicism

I was going to write w hole post on how society at the moment breeds cynicism. However, I came across this article which summarises the point exceptionally well. I think some of the good main points in this article are that cynicism can be mistaken now for intelligence, or in some other ways to be cynical is to be cool, or to know a lot about what is happening in the world. But as the author points out, we are not living in an age of anxiety any longer, it is an age of cynicism.