Misanthropy...

[paranoid android]

I think it is mainly your outlook on people and life in general that makes you see people this way. Sure some people are shallow, vain, petty, etc but most people are actually pretty decent or atleast thats been my experience.

I guess if you look for the worst in people you will find it more or less

 

[$ublimaze]

^ yah for real. I know so many wicked people. You just are locked in a fucking singular way at looking things, and its madd destructive too. Its better man to open up like a blossoming flower in spring time. Stop hiding away like a grumpy ol' man! We waiting for you. I'm dancing in the sunshine, and so are a whole fucking lot of us. You won't see us until you look for us though.

 

[muvolution]

I have serious problems not with thinking that people are inherently bad, just confused and unsure about themselves. It is really hard for me to talk with people because of my strenuos education - I end up giving lots of criticism, mostly constructive, but I feel like most people aren't used to hardcore constructive criticism, so I find myself in the same situation as you often. the best I can do is to keep my mouth shut and try to keep to myself or close friends.

 

[Belisarius]

Re Sublimaze:
Ditto. People are just too surprising and amazing to hate--full-bore, anyway. You can learn something valuable from every single one you meet, young or old, beautiful or ugly.

 

[paranoid android]

Re Sublimaze:
Ditto. People are just too surprising and amazing to hate--full-bore, anyway. You can learn something valuable from every single one you meet, young or old, beautiful or ugly.

I couldnt have said that better myself

Even the really ugly people you meet such as biggots and other unpleasant twats you do gain something from it. Namely that you don't want to turn out anything like that person and it kinda makes you question your own values and morals which is always a good thing.

 

[AndroidsDreamofBTC]

I would say it's all about mindset. There are probably some issues in your life that you still need to deal with. Once these issues are dealt with, you will mostly stop thinking like this.

As others have said, feelings of bitterness or cynicism largely arise from an inability to deal with yourself and your expectations from life.

 

[monoid]

^ yah for real. I know so many wicked people. You just are locked in a fucking singular way at looking things, and its madd destructive too. Its better man to open up like a blossoming flower in spring time. Stop hiding away like a grumpy ol' man! We waiting for you. I'm dancing in the sunshine, and so are a whole fucking lot of us. You won't see us until you look for us though.

Has anyone else around taken this $ubliminal comment as addresssed to him/herself?

 

[Asclepius]

I can be a pretty hardcore misanthrope...for about a half-hour at a time. Then, I realize I'm just one guy, that the world's a big place, that I can never really see from the eyes of others, and that there is a constant stream of events--some I participate in, others I merely observe--that give me new insights not only into humanity, but into my own relationship to it. I also know that however much I hate some supposed loser at a bus stop or on TV, I have far more in common with them than I do a grackle, an earthworm, a volvox, or even my cat; in a chilly universe with no proof of other intelligence (let alone benign ones), we've got nothing else to lean on but each other.

So, just for a half-hour.

Now and then.

Really like this comment