Misanthropy I

I hope you're happy in the end

(OMG I love the harmony there :D)

So if you care to find me/Look to the western sky/As someone told me lately/Everyone deserves a chance to fly/And if I'm flying solo/At least I'm flying free/To those ground me/Take a message back from me

I formatted it differently or else it'd take up the meaningful stuffs, which I forgot what I was going to write about.

So I decided to rip my meaningful-ness off an SAT essay prompt. Something about materialism.

I think that people are too materialistic, but of course who cares about what I think? Why do we feel the need to cling to tangible objects? We have our memories, we have friends (hopefully), we have trust, we have love. Somehow we need to turn those feelings and memories into photos and convince our friends and and that special someone that we love them or care about them with cheap trinkets. Is there a need for all this? All of these items are fragile, a giant fire would consume everything we acquired. Instead of spending all this time and money on materialistic items, wouldn't it be better to spend all this on making memories with those that you care about?

Misanthropy crossing choo choo!

All this talk about money brings me to another point. Why can't we have utopianism? Because humans are selfish beings. We can't give up money because we need to feel superior. We need something to rub into peoples' faces to prove we're better. "Look I have all this money so I'm better than you. I'm superior. All because I have more pieces of paper than you. So go and sulk and feel inferior while I have all this paper of no real value."

Speaking about selfishness, our goal in life is to prove our superiority over others. Community, country, species, kingdom, whatever. Humans are cruel creatures. Sometimes I think that we're the real animals that should be kept in cages. Everything we've invented serves only the purpose of placing us at the top of the food chain, and then some. Of course we can't simply stop at being at the top. We need to drive species to extinction to show off our fancy fur pelts or ivory jewelry.

Another trait I find rather irksome is laziness. We invented email because we can't bear to handwrite a letter that's ten times as more meaningful and has a hundred times more thought put into it. We're so quick to send that email that we don't even bother thinking about the tone or content we put into it. Well guess what? Chances are, you'll be understood and hurt someone. Oh now I'm digressing from laziness, sorry, I'll get back on it. An idea mentioned in Brave New World was..hold on I'll go find the quote.

"Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them...But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy."

Yeah that pretty much summarizes it.

"Misanthropy develops when without art one puts complete trust in somebody thinking the man absolutely true and sound and reliable and then a little later discovers him to be bad and unreliable...and when it happens to someone often...he ends up...hating everyone." -Socrates (or so wikipedia says)

Hi. :D

I hate the human race, but I still love the humans in my life. I will acknowledge that people are capable of being good, evil, and both at the same time. Don't worry I have more human hating reasons.

Are people born wicked?

Or do they have wicked thrust upon them?