So a cynic is a disappointed idealist. Which ideals? Love everywhere, and end to hatred and murdering? Certainly! But I also temper this with other ideas.
1. Hermetics: Everything happens for a reason. I take as a basic existential fact that the universe works mostly according to it's own rules. Humanity has done a fine job of discovering and scientifically describing these rules, at least a portion of them. One day we may fully understand the dynamic rules completely, except for one aspect, the vectors. The Big Bang Theory amounts to God farting one day and so grew the Universe. It explains nothing about why the diversity has developed, except for a big push. Better to find the diversity in fractal expressions. The universe expanded and manifested your mind, just as it is. Why? It had to. I like that argument, because it proves itself. The universe does not make mistakes, everything that is happened because it had to.
2. Hermetics: Everything is mental: Human ideals are ideas. The Universe has manifested our minds and ideas for us. While our species took care of itself, in day to day living, we shaped sounds to represent the objects and processes we lived by. We are the earth manifesting. Language is a program for thinking, much as genetics is the language of life. In genetics, the fractal mutations provide new programming which advances and destroys organisms. Ideas manifest behavior which will advance or destroy humanity. Ideas are absorbed by cultural conditioning. Ideas and logic have a tempestuous relationship. Logic would tell us what we can know to be true, but ideas are ruled by "common sense" which blends in much much illogic, fallacy, and outright untruths.
3. Hermetics: Everything is connected, everything matters.
4. Hermetics: Everything is in motion, on three levels at least.
Everything has frequency, resonance, based on it's composition, shape, temperature, and excitement (net inflow of energy). Everything has local motion, relative to other local objects. Everything has universal motion, its path in the universe.
