Maybe it's just me, but it feels like country is getting darker every day. Everywhere you look there's fear, conflict, betrayal, crime, and people taking advantage of whoever they can. Inflation keeps rising, jobs are scarce, families are separated, and addiction, anger, and jealousy seem to be everywhere.

What's most depressing is how rare genuine people have become. Real love, honesty, loyalty, good neighbors, even trustworthy relatives everything feels harder to find. The more you think someone is a good person, the more likely you are to be disappointed . Many people seem dead inside while still living, putting on fake smiles and pretending everything is fine.Inflation is high, jobs are scarce, families are separated, and addiction, anger, and jealousy are everywhere. Meanwhile, it often feels like the more dishonest, manipulative, or selfish someone is, the more successful and respected they become

Either you isolate yourself or you hang out with people who rile you up. Those are pretty much the two options you have, and both are hazardous. Sure, we can find spaces where we meet like minded people and maybe share passion about something. But inevitably, things turn sour. After reading on this subreddit, I know many of you realize that people always want something from you. Be it entertainment, resources, information, something. Even "good" people have some form of motive for accepting you.

One thing I have come to accept is that even activities you perform in solitude can be some kind off social interaction. When you watch movies or read books for example, you partake in characters' lives and expose yourself to ideas or concepts. I don't know if this is maybe a good substitute for hanging out irl. But that's what I have been focusing on lately.

I do meet plenty of people, but most of the time they are professionals and I don't get too personal. So yeah, I am myself wanting something from them.

Not talking about maths or physics or anything that is normally regarded as determinant of being smart.

It's about how people behave and expect the world somehow to respond in the way they want it to be.

Most people seem to live in their ego bubble, they can only empathize with problems that they are either dealing with or dealt with. Like imagine you're DDA and it fucked your life somehow, a guy who has had same problem with deal with it seriously, meanwhile someone who never dealt with it will shrug it off and tell you to man up or something like that. It's just they can't really understand other people struggles or (which I'm pretty sure is more probable outcome) they simply don't give a fuck because it's not them. But they always expect everyone other to understand their struggles and put them on pedestal like some kind of hero, give them a medal for being SO strong, because somehow their problems are the only meaningful ones. That's some fucked up logic that is straight up childish, like some people somewhere in their teens consciously refuse to drop their superiority complex and thinking of themselves being special and carry this on till they die.

I don't understand this, people go through breakups, job firings, lot of arguments, yet they still tell you 9 of out 10 times that this was other side and only other side problem, statistically fucking impossible isn't it? Like motherfucker will bum for half a year at his job, refusing to do anything that he can have a chance to refuse, be fired, throw a fit. Then you see him in 3 months of time and he's saying shit like people treated him so badly at the previous job, but he started washing his ass and it made him so much stronger type of bullshit. No fucking consciousness involved.

This leads me to my last paragraph. Most of us are simply unpleasant to be with and deal with, especially in long term relationship where it's so much harder to fake being a nice person, so why bother creating relationships anyway? I'm not saying there is no mutual benefit to those, but why can't we do business and stuff without all of this bullshit that comes with it? Why do I have to have a wonderful dinner and sometimes get drunk with some other guy team before we sing up contract? Why do people enjoy being fake? Like you know I couldn't care for you, you couldn't care for me, we're here to fight for every penny and other people attention, why do we have to constantly make it look like we're buddies when we clearly are not? Why do I have to constantly fake smile and being nice? I know that people don't smile because they want to most of the time and it doesn't make me feel better like some bullshit people seem to spread, it makes me wanna puke when someone comes to me with their fake ass smile and asks me a favor, meanwhile they probably think of me as some kind of loser BUT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO SMILE AND BE NICE. Does anyone fucking believe it? And if they won't whats stopping them from realising, the other party doesn't believe it too, so why bother acting?

Subscription services are scams. Dating apps are scams. Half of all financial advisors are scam artists. Internet providers scam you at every corner. Even simply finding a place to rent involves sifting through dozens of scams.

Even something as essential as food is a scam. Most items are filled with shit designed to make you fat and addicted. Then companies make alternative foods seem healthy by advertising them as "reduced shit," but they just pump them full of different kinds of shit to make them even worse for you.

So you're sick from your addictive and shitty diet and you need healthcare, which is also a scam. Middleman after middleman make bank off of outrageous insurance costs, which only cover generic drugs pumped full of poisonous fillers so that the manufacturer can make a quick buck at your expense. Then you need more poisonous low-grade knockoff shit to curtail the side effects of the other low-grade knockoff shit.

So you try to save money for your shit drugs that you need for your shit health, at the bank, which is of course a scam. They'll charge you money for not having money, or sell you on investments that seem good but are exploding with shit under the surface, fully aware that they won't be held accountable for their fuckery when they crash the economy.

You lose your money and you need to new employment, which also involves wading through a shit river of scams. As if scamming customers wasn't enough, you have thinly-veiled pyramid schemes and ruthless corporations that cut every corner possible with regard to employee treatment, safety, and compensation.

So then you decide to pursue additional education to secure a job that pays enough to live somewhere other than in squalor. Guess what? Also a scam! You now owe tens of thousands of dollars to line the pockets of incompetent shitbag administrators who don't teach & fuck up at every turn, and end up paying double that amount to a dirtbag lender and his interest rate scam.

Your textbook is a scam too, as your professor wrote it himself and requires you to buy the newest addition with an online component and a few words switched around that costs $200 more and isn't even a book, but rather a bunch of loose pieces of one-ply toilet paper. As if he isn't making six figures on salary alone.

All so you can eventually learn about all the scams going on in your particular field of study and why it isn't progressing the way it should, causing you to lose your passion and hopes of making a positive difference.

Literally every human being in public space are staring at their phone all the time. Its all we do as a species now. Like we've evolved into Homo Doomscroolius. The most advanced tech (ai, google) in the world can't even be trusted to provide factual information anymore.

80% of everything on the internet has been posted already, or it just wants to make you angry or sell you something. Before the internet, cable TV didn't know what you were watching and match it your advertising ID and show you commercials for something you only thought about 10 minutes ago and didnt even mention out loud.

You are here to consume and fight and argue and die and consume and cost money and spend money because the system needs to grow you fools! How dare you ask for a bit of lumber and plumbing on a dry piece of land for being born into this world without choice.

You are only data for data centers. Ask chatgpt what to think or the economy will fail.

Post on facebook and instagram and x and bluesky and pornhub and 4chan because that is HOW YOU EAT. It is your sunlight.

Or... you can cast your phone into the sea where it belongs.

They're supposed to be transactional little one handed devices. We're all glued to a tiny tablet all day. Why do we accept a subpar experience. Go watch oppenheimer on your phone and swipe through a dating app in the hope that someone will see through the profile for who you really are, someone who didnt ask to born, food for a beast they didnt create, fodder for a war and without hope for redemption.

The coronavirus epidemic has truly exposed how hypocritical, greedy, and downright whiny humanity is. I'm not even going to touch on the panic-shopping factor, that one is too obvious. Instead, I want to discuss something that isn't talked about all that much and it's all these fuckers who complain about being holed up in their house for two weeks.

No, this isn't directed toward people who are poor, unable to get paid sick leave to pay their rent, and are on the brink of being evicted. I'm talking about middle class - upper class - RICH PEOPLE who are taking to social media to complain about how stressful their life is because they have to be quarantined inside their house for 2 weeks. They're going stir-crazy, they say. They're going to die of boredom!

And you know what I say? Fuck you.

Poor you. You're stuck in a house with warm water, TV, internet, food to eat, a bed to sleep on, and a roof over your head. For TWO WEEKS. People are actually suffering in hospitals, trying so hard to fight for their lives, yet you act like you're the one who's on the shit end of the stick because you miss going to Denny's with your friends. You don't have it hard.

Hey everyone, i think what I'm about to write might seem naive to some, but it's a fact that I really struggle with... because I truly can't understand how it's possible to be such a monster, and for me, you have to be a complete psychopath to have this kind of reaction.

In my country, we hear every year about elementary, middle, and high school students who commit suicide because of bullying. Of course, it's unfortunately like that in every country in the world, but I already have a really hard time with that. The worst part is that the bullies feel no remorse for driving a student to suicide; on the contrary, sometimes they rejoice in having killed them. One group of bullies even created a webpage to celebrate the death of their victim who had committed suicide, with comments like "I'd piss on his grave." WTF.

I know that human beings tend to have less empathy, or no empathy at all, towards someone who is too "different," "weak," or has "certain flaws," which immediately places them "outside" the group or "tribe" because they are considered a nuisance. But honestly, I find it simply "disproportionate" to drive someone to suicide over such futile and trivial things. There's also the aspect of power play and social domination exerted on the victim to maintain the existing hierarchy, and difference is a perfect pretext for this, especially when the bullies often lack self-confidence, low self-esteem, family problems, or a history of violence. This explains why they do it, even if it doesn't excuse the act. But for me, it's hard to imagine that you can't be a psychopath when you drive someone to suicide and then rejoice in their death. They never felt Not a shred of sadness or compassion for what the harassed person went through? They never once considered the victim's parents and the hundreds of people who will be grieving. Do they even see the victim as a human being with feelings?

Seriously, it's killing me. There's something seriously wrong with these people's brains. Voilà.

Yesterday I had a wild realization: even in America, which is supposed to be the best country in the world, people still have to heavily suffer. There are homeless people. There are people in poverty. There are just suffering everywhere, basically. And it made me cry. Like a lot. I have never been homeless, but I can't stop thinking about how shit your life must be as a homeless person. You dont have friends you can come to, you might not have a job/income, your safety is compromised, you don't have access to basic hygiene, etc.

And I started to think about how did we get here. How is it that throughout human history we still havent figured out how to give basic necessities to those who needs it. Everyone agrees that food and shelter are human rights, I hope. Then how did we, as a society, failed to do this? And no matter where that thought process leads, it always comes back to one single conclusion: we, as humans, are too selfish despite us being social creatures.

Many of us worries about nothing more than our own lives, and I can't blame them either. I just wish that people would realize that, if all of us, especially the elites, would sacrifice a bit of the luxury we have, many people would be able to live better lives. A billionaire could spend part of their wealth and build enough shelters so that everyone has a place to live, but what do they do? Hoard houses and land and drives prices up. They could build, or at least fund projects aimed at eradicating suffering of some kind and what did they do? Use their money towards a bunch of dumb causes/hoard wealth. Not to mention they try and exploit the masses to further open up the gap between the rich and the poor.

Even non-elites can do something - if each of us would leave behind our hatred, our puny anger, our wrath and desire to see people we hate for no reason suffers, the world would've been so much better. And it saddens me and makes me angry that this is not the case (funny how I just said that we need to leave behind anger, but im angry. Easier said than done). If each of us, people who have a home bond together and spare just $1 each month for the homeless, so many things would change for them. But nah. People would rather use it for their own good than looking out for their own communities.

I hate it here. Pretty sure this is hell. How do people live like this? Does it not hurt your soul every day, knowing at the back of your mind, someone tonight is in pain while you get to rest on a warm bed? Does it not make you wanna cry, knowing that while you have a huge turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, people are out there freezing in the cold with nothing to warm themselves? Does it not anger you, that while you sip away at your expensive bottle of wine, a person out there is so thirsty they would love to have even just sewer water?

I can't man. This world is hell, it always has been. And we are the one that makes it worse.

You dont need that $6/mo subscription. But someone out there will cry a river if they were given that much. They need it.

If you look at any individual or group that exhibits poor behavior, there's always a social or psychological fix to it, a route to reform. There is no just philosophy in my opinion that requires thinking that you are superior than another individual or that one group of individuals are superior to another group of individuals.

Hating something, assuming you have the better council over something, overlooking people because of self importance are some of the flaws that I think cause the most of my dislike of people.

Do other misanthropes want to care about others, but the tendency for ego, judgment, and hypocrisy keep you from doing so?

Even a philosopher that I idolized for his outlook on keeping an emotional distance from humanity (Schopenhauer) had some disheartening thoughts on other individuals that speaks to the superiority complex that I’m sick of.

It’s filled with edgy teens and folks who are getting over a break up and claim to hate everyone, but will be fine in a week or two.

Also filled with the animal weirdos who think animals are these perfect saints, when in reality they’re as shitty to each other as we are. These are typically the same people who screech when they see somebody eat meat, but won’t even give the homeless guy around the corner a dollar.

And don’t get me started on the people who act this way because of the aesthetic

I really need to learn how to farm and just move to an island alone

There are just so many cognitive biases & flaws that are literally hardwired into our brains which make it so that much of the stuff that comes out of our mouths is just biased, emotionally driven, status-seeking, intellectually dishonest, monkey gibberish

I hate it. I hate looking at people, people walking, stumbling in their monkey gait. Their ears and nostrils and disgusting proportions. I hate watching them eat, the whole process is horrible. They don’t even know. They all walk around thinking they’re some noble creatures, worshiping various ape gods. in reality they’re all smelly violent stupid fucking apes, they look like apes and they take advantage of one another constantly. I’m tired of living on this planet of the apes. It’s like a surreal nightmare zoo every day, and I’m one of them too. I hate looking in the mirror. I really just hate this freakish abomination of existence.

More calm version

I don’t know if it’s just me, but lately it’s hitting harder how much society expects from us—time, labor, taxes, constant grind—but gives almost nothing back in return. Not even basic respect. It’s like this unspoken agreement we’re forced to sign without reading the fine print.

Ever since middle school—sometimes even earlier—you’re fed this narrative: “Earn your place.” “Work hard and you’ll be rewarded.” Respect isn’t a right, it’s something you have to earn by jumping through endless hoops. And even when you do? You’re still made to feel like you’re not enough.

Then you get older and realize the system doesn’t even try to return the favor. It just keeps demanding more. And people wonder why so many feel disillusioned or burnt out.

We’re told there’s this life checklist: have a stable career by 30, own a house by 35, get married, have kids, look polished, have a car that doesn’t look like it came out of a junkyard—and God forbid you take the bus or try to live within your means without looking “broke.” Meanwhile, they’ll tell you to serve in the military or volunteer like it’s your moral obligation, but not even that guarantees respect anymore.

And here's the kicker—even if you do all that, society still doesn’t really have your back. Like, let's be real: where’s the gratitude? Where’s the return on that “investment”? Because all I see is people drained, stretched thin, and still being judged.

Workplaces are no better. You could be great at what you do, hit your marks, stay honest—and still get sidelined for someone who’s just more “likable” or better at small talk. It’s not about skill anymore, it’s about image. Social capital. Charisma. Sometimes even looks. But nobody tells you that growing up. They let you believe merit and hard work are the golden tickets—until you're deep enough in the game to realize you were set up.

That’s not a coincidence either. Financial literacy isn’t taught. Critical thinking gets watered down. Because if more people actually understood how the system works, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to buy into it. And yeah, I think the people in power are starting to feel the pressure—especially after 2020 shook things up and people started seeing through the BS.

I don’t have a perfect solution, but I needed to say this out loud. Society is not as reciprocal as it wants us to believe, and more of us are catching on.

Anyway, end of rant. Curious to hear if anyone else has felt this shift too—or if I’m just overthinking it.

Humans naturally take pleasure in hurting other humans. Our society rewards the most sadistic. CEOs, executives, the most successful people in our society are more likely to be psychopathic. They'll use "justice" or "tough love" as a pretext for their cruelty, but it's just a pretext. It's a mask to hide their sadistic grins.

It can therefore be followed that you're more likely to be empathetic and kind if you're a failure and oppressed by our beastly and barbaric society. But those people will never have an impact on anything because they're powerless and invisible. All surviving humans are trash. And as they continued to get stomped out of society they'll disappear for good, leaving behind only psychopaths and narcissists to populate our rotten world.

Question: Do you really think society could give really 2 shits about your struggle if there wasn't anyway to monetize it?

I mean seriously, everywhere you go there's this whole preach and choir about supposed diversity and inclusion

Yet I never seen any attention called to people who really could use it:Military veterans, childhood abuse victims, the neurodivergent and the homeless

Why? Cause most of these struggles are not the superficial vogus shit that society rallies around and these issues are much harder to monetize off of

In reality society doesn't care about your problems, in fact I think this is why people have started weaponizing the identity of being a victim rather than actually being a victim of something*

All this chirp about mental health, diversity and respecting different lifestyles is nothing more than just cheap talk and verbal masturbation society uses to sweep people's hardships and troubles under the rug

Allow me to bring up a complete scenario to illustrate the problem at hand

-Society when you got real shit to unpack

"I don't care what you been thru, get the fuck back up and keep grinding, I don't care that you almost died of a seizure, I went to war buddy what you been thru is amaetur shit in comparison (brings up an example to invalidate the other person's struggle to make it seem like they actually sound ok in the head)"

-Society when you have an issue the masses can capitalize of off

"OH MY GAWD GURL💅💅🏻💅🏽💅🏽💅🏾💅🏿 I am sorry you gotta deal with all of these percieved issues, here's my BLMLGBTUkrainePalestineGirlpower shirt to show my verbal masturbation, I mean support and alliance to you"

Is not even the psuedo-activism that bothers me, what bothers me though is the fact most of these people would not even bother with said issues if there wasn't any trendiness or moral obligation around it

I would respect society more if it at least could stop hiding behind the facade of moral posturing and just honestly say it doesn't care for the individual's struggles at all, HOW MANY PEOPLE DON'T ALREADY MAKE A DICK MEASURING CONTEST OUT OF THEIR STRUGGLES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD?

Really tired of it

It cracks me up about people, I see it all the time. Go look at r/deadbedrooms if you want a good laugh.

Our society is so fucked, people are so stupid. They get married to someone thinking it's going to last forever. Are you 12? If you win the lottery you are going to find someone you can tolerate in 40 years while you scream at each other because you are both going deaf.

I am 30, I know so many people who are in dead relationships, I've slept with girlfriends who have been married for 8 years, freshly divorced, telling me stories about how they sorta liked their husband for 3 of those years, then they were in a prison for the last 5. What the actual hell.

Now let's go to the side of it with men. Men have children, if they want out of the relationship, they have to pay child support. You never really divorce that girl financially if she has your kid. She's got you for 18 years bro. How that feel?

Now let's look at marriage, most girls want a huge wedding. Maybe some men do too, I don't know, I don't really fucking care. But for the sake of this argument, big weddings cost money. In fact, a lot of marriage costs money. You are tying yourself up with another human being, and people are fucking unpredictable. It's a good way to get yourself fucked in life. Divorces are costly.

My mother garnished my father's wages. They were married for 40 years. That's right, my Dad is going to be paying my Mom maybe even until the day he dies. You think that's a free man?

People are so fucking stupid. I hear them bitch about it constantly. "It wasn't a relationship; it was a prison."

Who got you there?

I wish people took more responsibility in life. I realize I'm a pathetic moron, but at least I don't have any children or a wife. I realized after my parents divorced and watching them act like violent children it was not the best idea. Then came the arguments of antinatalism and I realized I wanted to stop the suffering of life with me.

Anyway, my point of this post is humans are incredibly stupid. Marriage, children, are prisons. If you get married, if you want out, it costs money and time. It is not fun. If you have children, you are responsible for them financially. This is another prison. They can bring you joy in life, but boy if things don't go peachy, get ready to get fucked.

I recently dislocated my kneecap, got a fracture in it, and ripped some fibers in my knee. I was sent to the hospital, and I had to use crutches cause my left leg was fucked up. I use public transportation (trains) to commute, and as usual, all of the seats were taken. Before getting my left leg fucked up, I never minded standing up for the rest of the ride, but standing like this for one hour was rough. I expected people to be somewhat decent and let me sit my ass down, but no one did. I understand that everyone’s tired and all, but they have functioning legs don’t they? And the worst part was that in the priority seat, there were young people who seemed normal sitting down and playing games on their phone. I knew that people were shitty but I never expected them to be this bad. I kept on standing for a nice and long 30 minutes, and the person in front of me finally stood up and got off the train. Right as I was about to sit down, a kid beside me pushed me, put his bag down and sat down. Where the fuck did basic human decency go?

Existence itself is just a power struggle of the strong dominating the weak. Virtually everyone is a piece of shit in one way or another. And even those who aren't inherently pieces of shit still cause suffering by existing anyway.

There is no cosmic justice. Any justice carried out only accounts for a fraction of all the atrocities committed. People rejoice whenever justice occurs against those who commit evil but it's merely a drop in the ocean. Evil is an immortal hydra that will never be stopped. Slay one beast and another thousand will take its place.

Just because you are a monster doesn't mean you'll be punished and just because you're a kind-hearted individual doesn't mean you'll be rewarded. All that matters is how much power you have. If you have enough power, you can basically do whatever you want and make those around you miserable if it benefits you.

The vast majority of humans kill and eat animals and their secretions, needlessly, because they're selfish, anthropocentric scum that think their taste buds hold greater value than the life of a sentient being. The number of animals killed for food in a year is over 1 trillion (when including sea creatures), and for what? To be some gluttonous fuck that refuses to just eat plants.

Most people are going to reproduce. There is no good reason to do that. Why force a being into existence simply because it's what the parent wants. Are children mere trinkets to fulfil our desires? Fuck thinking about all the suffering that'll happen to the child, right? It's all about me, me, me. Parents who choose to have a child and then try to act like they're so noble for raising a child are fucking liars. Stop acting like you didn't want to have a child for your own selfish reasons. The non-existent are not sitting in limbo waiting to be born. Breeding will always be a selfish act. If you have a child, you are completely responsible for all suffering that happens to them. They get cancer, get raped, or are tortured? That's your fault that they've experienced that. It's only possible to suffer when one comes into existence.

And I'm not some idiotic nature worshipper like many misanthropists. I despise nature. There's nothing beautiful about all the animals that suffer in the wild, whether they die from starvation, disease, or being literally eaten alive.

The only way to rid the world from suffering is to eliminate all life on the planet. But no, "life is a gift". So what if hundreds of trillions of living beings suffer because there's still good things in life like netflix and pizza. We must continue breeding to keep our species alive. Why? Because "reasons" I guess.

Who fucking cares if humanity or all life on earth dies out? No one would be around to miss it. People don't realise how much they're a slave to their own biology. We are already born brainwashed due to evolution. Pro-life biases exist without reason, it's an emotional the brain gives to just keep breeding, keep surviving. Not for any particular reason. Just do it because.

What I especially don't understand is why people are forced to live when they don't want to. People act like fucking heroes for forcing people to live against their will, when they're actually pure evil. There's few things more fucked up than forcing someone to suffer when they beg for death.

People will say "well, if you don't want to live, just kill yourself." Shut the fuck up, please shut the fuck up. If assisted suicide was around it would help the issue but don't act like it's so easy for everyone to acquire a gun (we don't all live in Merica') or to get a suicide drug like cyanide. Even if you try buy it, you're running the risk of being set up in a sting operation or scammed by some asshole that just takes your money and disappears. People shouldn't be expected to walk off a 10 story building where they can survive by some "miracle" and be forced to live completely immobile or drink poison where they might live and just get permanent brain/organ damage instead and if they don't want to take that gamble, "well I guess you don't really want to kill yourself then." Also don't act like suicide is treated as a human right. Try calling the police and saying you're killing yourself so they can come collect the body. If you're not dead in time, they'll break into your home and imprison you in a psychiatric ward.

The worst thing is knowing that people probably won't change. Everyone will continue to live their ignorant lives because it's convenient. I've given up on trying to change people.

I personally have no interest in living. The world is a disgusting cesspool of meaningless suffering. I've been miserable for over a decade and had a pretty terrible childhood as well. I've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, persistent depressive disorder, avoidant personality disorder, social anxiety, insomnia, and who knows what else I'll be diagnosed with over time. I also seem to have anhedonia and avolition which make living unbearable. Naturally, ignorant retards will go on about how medication and therapy will help everyone. They haven't been doing shit for me and the medical field doesn't like acknowledging that treatments aren't entirely effective. Instead I'm expected to take some new drug over and over like some junkie, potentially fucking up my body and mind even more.

The world is too cruel and I can't cope with it. I'm naturally very empathetic and it's killing me. I know many people use drugs/alcohol for escapism but I'm just not interested in drugs or alcohol at all.

And why? There have always been much worse things in the world going on, yet society doesn't recognise them, they just focus on the ''new'' issue. It's so damn annoying to see how mass media is overreacting to coronavirus. How about the other issues? Wealth inequality, crime, pollution, terrible education systems, you name it, the list goes on and on.

During times of any minor or major catostrophe, people suddenly seem to find out resources to fix them. After the Notre Dame fire, people managed to donate a huge amount of money for repair works. When coronavirus started, China suddenly managed to build a hospital in just 10 days. My point is, people are hiding the fact that they can easily afford to fix at least a large portion of the world's problems. The resources are there. People just keep them to themselves.

If people could raise above their selfishness and work harder to contribute something to this world, perhaps I wouldn't be a misantrophe. Surely, there are some bright minds but the majority is simply a lost cause.

Edit: I can't believe I have to say this, but I'm not saying that coronavirus isn't a real issue. The main focus on this post isn't the virus, but the way people treat various issues.

Cross-post. Apparently this was too much for the mods at a certain ventilation thread so it was taken down. Thank you to the person who invited me here before it was locked. Oh, and I feel I am more of a misovlakist than a misanthrope, but close enough.

Please bear with me on a slightly disjointed ramble-rant.

I'm so fucking sick and tired of this shit. I know I'm a handful to deal with and I try to keep my problems from disturbing others. But muthafukkingodsdamnit I feel the world closing in on me.

I spent my early adult years trying to figure out what's wrong with me (I am autistic), then trying to find a way to fit in - without the benefit of full time therapy or other supports that cost money.

I'm not a bad person. I help people when they break down on the side of the road. I've rescued animals and found them homes. I donate to charity. I pick up other people's trash when I go hiking or to the beach or park. I give 100% to my job, no matter the title.

I'm tired of being gaslit by our shitty medical system and friends and family alike. Not to mention how hard it is to support just myself in this shit-stain of a country that tries to shove First World problems down the throats of its population that it is also trying to keep in a Third World state so the One Percent can keep their precious hoards of money.

Trust me, I may not say anything about whatever the situation may be, but that doesn't mean I didn't notice what was said or done. I simply don't have the energy or the will to expend energy on it. I'm not ignorant, I'm just out of Fucks to give. I'm tired, y'all.

I just want to work and pay my bills and enjoy being social when I have the energy to, and have a quiet and sacrosanct place to recharge when I need it. But I guess autonomy is too much to ask for since I was born "lower middle class" and was expected to keep my head down, marry some schlub and pop out his little dna nuggets to become the next round of slaves for the PTB to abuse.

Because when it comes down to it, IDGAF about money, fame, power... I just want a quiet, semi-hermitous life where I do my job, pay my bills and taxes, and be the best human being I can manage to be. Maybe have a little fun now and then in the company of those I care for.

I hate that I'm not good at playing the game. And I also hate that I'm still being forced to participate. I'm not allowed to appeal any of the rules or make suggestions for change. No one listens anyways. I'm always either the weirdo for wanting solitude or the bitch for going off when I don't get what I need. And when I try to explain myself I often find myself shunned or treated like a developmentally challenged child. I'm not stupid. I am indeed very well aware of my needs and differences at this point in my life. I just can't find a place where I can thrive in an understanding environment.

I know it's possible, I've made a good life for myself a few times. But every time society and the economy takes a bad turn, I find myself losing ground and having to scrabble for balance again.

Just because You want to work yourself to death to make a cool billion doesn't mean that there is anything wrong with those of us who are content to just be the best we can - as. we. ARE.

Why is the vast majority so unwilling to admit that they are just a plain ol boring human being? Not rich, not good-looking, not particularly well educated, not famous or from this or that family; but simply a good person? Why is that never enough? Why am I never enough?

This is one reason why I turned into a misanthropist.

I can’t really deal with group convos. Never could. I just get weird. I feel like everyone is competing for attention and it makes me withdraw. I’d rather go play piano or look at some porn and cry.

My point is I’ve never had a single good group conversation. What’s even better is I’ve noticed in my later years, if you just don’t talk, people shit on you constantly. It’s like they think you are challenging them. When was silence a crime?

Socializing is a disease. I have a million awful conversations then once every millennia I talk with someone to where we both listen to each other. It’s the rarest thing.

Much more common is in a group conversation or with someone who wants to just talk and talk they start belittling me because I don’t respond. Why is everyone so damn hostile?

I know I am hostile subconsciously somewhat, but who is the worse of us, the person who is quiet and just goes on his way, or the person who feels the need to bully and pass on hatred to those who are undeserving?

I've seen so many people on this sub saying things like: "humans are terrible, but nature and animals are wonderful", "I can't stand humans because they're lying, manipulative and destructive, but animals are completely different". People like this infuriate me, humans are nature/animals. We're not different from them in any way. Animals are just as cruel as we are. The reason why they're not manipulative and don't lie for personal gain is because their brains are so primitive that they simply don't understand such concepts and don't see how it would benefit them, the only thing they care about is food, survival and mating. But believe me in things that animals do care about they are even more cruel than humans, for example, when a pride of lions gets a new leader, the new leader kills all the cubs that are not his, aka from the old leader. Humans are just the products of their environment, other species would do exactly the same if they had the same e opportunities. So I don't understand why hating individual humans is frowned upon, but hating individual species is completely acceptable in this community.

I think the problem with misanthropy, is that the ideology itself is pretty vague and everyone has their own views of what it entails. I view misanthropy as an ideology that the nature itself (including humans, animals, plants and the rest of the universe) is bad and cruel, or rather indifferent and uncaring. I just can't take people, who isolate a single species and try to justify all the bad things as a product of evil doing of such species, seriously. As if if humans didn't exist the world would be wonderful and beautiful. All living beings follow the same selfish instincts: plants compete with each other, animals, humans, everyone and everything.

It's ridiculous hearing things like: "My dog is the only creature that can understand me and who actually loves me", yes it does love you and feels attachment to you, because it's a basic instinct of all mammals and other social animals, to feel attachment and protect those who you grow up with. It doesn't make your dog any less cruel or uncaring about everything else. On top of that it's such a cynical and delusional thing to say, as if there're no humans who can love you and feel emotional connection/attachment to you. I understand that we are all in this mess called life and we all have to find different coping mechanisms to get by, and deluding yourself into thinking that 1 species is responsible for all the bad and cruel things that happen in this world can make you happier, but it's simply wrong (not morally, but logically).

So yeah, sorry for this wall of text/rant, if you have any ideas please share I'm open for debate.

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EDIT: P.S. 1 scroll of the mouse wheel is enough to see a post down below with a picture of a bird and how birds are so much more beautiful and pure than humans, which is , again, ridiculous and adds nothing to the table, but has about 150 upvotes. Anyway, the reason why I'm saying this is that 90% of misanthropes have this blind hate towards the human species. They've deluded themselves and don't wanna use logic to try to understand how things are in reality and I can sort of understand why, because naturally deluding yourself with blind hate is easier, because once you start using logic and dig a bit deeper, you see that the issues of the world cannot be solved so easily by removing 1 species from it, it's very depressing that's why most people choose not to do it. Germans suffered the same fate in the 1940s thinking that eradicating 1 kind of humans will magically solve all their problems, and as it later turned out were incorrect. So naturally, as we are conscious and intelligent beings I think we can do better than filling ourselves with blind hate and delusions, but rather use logic to understand how things really are.