Once again, i respect franko but i don't agree on his ideas about humans.
We're here after this disaster.
We're here after 2nd world war, we're here after lager and gulag!
We're here after fall of rome.
Barbarians were better than romans said.
To romans barbarians (strangers) were half beasts.
But the barbarians of yesterday are the german, spanish, french and all the other people of this beautiful world that made beethoven, kant, john lennon, pablo picasso, Augustine, Kierkegaard and so on!
Sometimes we think other people are cynics. Sometime this is true. But more often is our fear that speaks for us.
I think always to the tale of Androcles
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androcles) and the lion with a thorn in his foot.
I'm not saying there's no evil or egoism.
But that it's more more little than we think. If we are in our houses continuing to live our lives it's not "bad". "the show must go on". Some people can become cynics but not all people.