Misanthropy

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Until our fearless leader got on the horn and topped them all. Yes, I voted for him. Not that it made any difference. Puppetteering you can believe in.

I guess I could say I am a misanthrope. I don't trust people. They're not just complicated, they're evil. And they disgust me. They're weird. And even stupid. I mean, like with that anthrax a few years ago, well, one of my teachers had been eating a powdered doughnut at his desk a bit earlier, and someone saw the powdered sugar. They evacuated the whole building. Others thought it was cocaine, as well.

My parents said I hated Sunday school because I thought all of the kids were stupid, so I guess I come by it naturally. I don't really like people, but I do have compassion when they suffer.

I don't think we have the same leader

this is something i struggle with daily. i don't want to be the sort of person that is full of hate, or feels superior. i think those are both character flaws. yet, i find this world and the majority of the people who populate it make fighting this frame of mind exceedingly difficult at times. i just try to remind myself regularly that there ARE good people out there......even if they are the minority. sometimes that works, sometimes it just makes me depressed.

I think all you can really do about it is try not to view people as a group. There are lots of great individuals.. it's when you look at people as or in groups that it gets bad. If you don't know somebody, you just don't know if you like them or not. I try to generally reserve judgment. If I don't know about somebody, then I don't know about them, they could be good, bad, or neutral, I don't know. If we don't have anything in common or any particular reason to interact, I don't have to find out. If for some reason I end up getting to know them better, then I'll find out. Until then, it's not my place to judge anyone. I mean, it's not my place to judge anybody at all, but it's necessary to attempt to figure out who you think you can trust, who you can't, who you can understand, who you can't, who tries to help people, who has malicious intents, etc.

I am uninterested in most people to the point that I haven't developed any particular feeling toward the general population, good or bad. I guess my lack of interest could be defined as dislike. If I liked them, I would at least try to form an interest in them.

It's not dislike to just not like somebody. I don't think that you dislike somebody if you don't feel anything at all about them. It's just disinterest.. feeling that they can do whatever they like and you don't care, so long as they don't try to harm you. That's not dislike, is it?

That's the ideal. It's called "live and let live." If only everyone felt that way.

Yes I'm a misanthrope by definition, I don't trust people generally, it doesn't mean I judge everyone as bad though and don't give people chances though.

I'm not sure about the actual statistics but most people do seem to be nothing more than social-psychopaths, a pack of irresponsible, hypocritical, narcissistic liars who only care about themselves and meaningless superficial nonsense.



Being misanthropic doesn't neccesarily mean you hate or distrust 100% of people or don't give people a chance, you can just generally distrust humanity like myself and still give people a chance and like and respect many individuals.



People usually either agree with me or tell me how "wonderful" the world is and how most people are "good" and have "perfectly legitimate" reasons for being douche's.



How would you start out with the attitude, something would need to trigger it? Also people can't sense jack, the magical/psychic powers thing needs to stop.



All the same? Yeah, we're equals and we all have the same rights (or should), but there are people who are narcissistic douchers, or do you deny that Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and Bernard Madoff (and that list is small) exist or have existed? Are you of the same mindset as these a**holes of huge magnitude? I would think not, you mistake calling evil by it's name with damnation of individuals as irredeemably evil. If you see someone being mugged or raped do you just sit there and say "we're all the same" or do you actually try to help by calling the police or defending the victim?

"Evil occurs when good people do nothing"- I don't know the source of the quote.



You aren't improving yourself when you embrace a narcissistic culture where cheaters prosper and people who play by the rules are stomped on. Where the government and corporations lie and the people are encouraged to lie. Haven't you learned anything from the Civil Rights movement? You have to fight evil and speak out to instill change, blacks, women, and the GLBT community didn't take injustice sitting down and bowing, they fought back and spoke out against a corrupt and unjust system and society.



I'm not sure it's actually just five or six, it's corrupt government executives working with corrupt corporation executives so it could be alot more people than that.



Yes we could, but people would actually have to think for themselves (oh noes! THINKING! A humans worst nightmare) and actually start empathizing with each other (Killing Narcissus as I would call it), that's a hard thing to do, getting people to think and feel for others seems nigh impossible right now as people just don't seem to give a rat's ass.



That story does have a message and a very good one at that, I believe it's "Ignoring injustice just because it doesn't affect you is bad, because you may be the next victim".

Besides another good rationale for empathy and a sense of morality and justice is "You wouldn't want something bad happening to you or your friends and family, so don't wish it/do it or ignore it when it happens to others".



That or they'll just say you're a cynic who needs to "lighten up" and that "life's a game", and all kinds of assorted nonsense.



Nowadays, it's "life's a game", "live fast, leave a beautiful corpse", "look out for number one", "lie, lie, deny", pretty much anti-social narcissistic idiocy at it's finest.

The quotes you were looking for:

“All that’s required for evil to flourish is that good men do nothing.”
Incorrectly attributed to Edmund Burke (1728-1797). Popularized by John F. Kennedy.

“Being well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society is no measure of health.”
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti


(PS: Whatever happened to our little club?)

Those quotes are awesome, there's excellent wisdom in those quotes.



Everyone stopped coming and I'm doing alot of stuff (martial arts, strength training, trying to improve *get into the habit of doing more stuff* for daily living, trying to have a social life of some sorts, trying to figure out what to go back to school for *what I'd like to do for a living* ect.)

lol yeah the human race is egotistical and hostile, they always steryotpye that an animal is less important than a human, but who are they to decide that? when the human race dies animals will carry on fine. and they always engage in meanigless tribal conflicts, they have all the neccecities of a psycopath lol, some of them are alright though, id just place the majority under the psycopath catergory, and i wouldnt think this way of them just because your pissed off, otherwise your no better than a white supremacist.

I find myself living with the contradiction of being a humanist and a misanthrope at the same time.

How can you not be both? Humans are so vile.
At every level. From the playground to the local squabbles, all the way to the top of the food chain.
See video ~ One Straight Truth

Heh, I find it funny how humans assume they're superior to every other species on the planet, too, and some of the stuff they do and rationalise is disgusting IMO. Maybe that description does suit me a bit.