Cynical doesn't mean "wrong". While I'm playing the reference material card: Cynical Antonyms of CYNICAL positivist, cheerful, trusting, optimistic, positiv

Cynical doesn't mean "wrong". While I'm playing the reference material card: Cynical Antonyms of CYNICAL positivist, cheerful, trusting, optimistic, positivistic, sentimental, impractical, undoubting, idealistic, naive, believing, hopeful, positive, trustful, rose-colored, romantic. The worldview you describe isn't any of those.