Yes it's cynicism... but I don;t think it's being too cynical. Like someone else said, you're suspicious and that's smart.

But....it's hard to argue with Ironraven's logic. I believe we keep forgetting that it takes alot of gall and a lack of historical research to think we've actually advanced farther than we have. I'm guilty too: we start to think "we travel in space, have microwave ovens and cellphones, computers than can almost think on their own, etc." Why can't (we) cure cancer? This is very egotistical in my opinion.

We forget that WE (people today) didn;t do all this, we're just part of an ongoing solution that started long ago....we're just another cog.