misanthropy

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Yup. Sometimes just the thought of having to "fake it" sucks all the air out of me and makes me want to avoid people. It helps to have someone who can make me genuinely laugh. Otherwise I find myself stuck in a daze, with my mind stuck on something else. It's hard not to have a negative feeling towards people when I see them all having this energy and it just falls flat on me.

Until they know that you believe something that is very far outside of the norm of society but is reasonable when educated on the matter. Like with prostitution or drug prohibition or abortion.

It's why I know to keep most of my views toned down or just silent in general. I understand that the vast majority of people are "good" in the sense of well-meaning but I also know that most people act on a much more base level.

i am afraid the word misanthropy describes me. people seem to have more capacity to sympathize then other animals do, but they do so conditionally.

but i am not a true misanthrope since those with no faith in other people are resigned to character deficiencies in people. therefore the real misanthopes are "theorists" such as psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, essentialists, and other pseudointellectuals.

the diverse group of thinkers that embrace "human nature" all seem to argue the following things.

1. people are naturally greedy, therefore anyone who does not trample someone else does not surrender to their basest impulses, and is therefore a sissy. people have no rights, even to life, because the "strong" must replace the weak.

2. people are social beings just like wolves therefore repression, discrimination, and mob mentality are "natural" therefore even more of these interactions should occur than already exist.

3. anyone who does not follow their "nature" is abnormal they must be forced, sometimes through questionable medical intervention, to behave "naturally".

4. people have higher brain functions, but these are "maladaptive" because they hinder "natural" processes and encourage rebellion against "natural" social establishments.

5. all people are created the same...except certain groups are innately different and therefore inferior. differences between groups are cut and dry because "nature" engineers everything down to an exact science.

do you really think that i actually meant that i was sort of being sarcastic.

i was trying to say that the real misanthropes are those who purposely make false arguements about people, such as those who try to justify sociopathic interactions, thinking that anyone who disagrees is an idealist.

a misanthrope thinks that we might as well renounce the 50,000 years of progress people have made in favor of returning to our *natural* selves.

therefore, even if i am a misanthrope, it is not because of low standards for people.