"Facts don't care about your feelings"

Why have people throughout history always feared and avoided the truth? Objective truth always exists, regardless of people's emotions or personal beliefs; your emotions CANNOT change objective truth.

Unfortunately, humans have a strong desire to control everything, to have everything revolve around them. This makes acknowledging that there are huge, objective truths operating without permission or regard for their feelings... it makes them feel small and powerless. To soothe themselves, they choose to distort reality or ignore what doesn't agree with them, such as "If I don't see it, it doesn't exist" 🙈, "I only see what I want to believe, the rest... well... I don't remember" (Confirmation Bias), etc.

For most people, the more factual evidence you present, instead of bravely facing the truth, the more they cling to their false beliefs and shout louder to drown out the call of reason. Worst of all, they are willing to isolate and ostracize anyone who dares to speak the truth that differs from the crowd's beliefs. Humans are social creatures; they possess advanced technology, but their thinking and deep-seated instincts remain those of hunter-gatherers. They would rather be foolish sheep, rather "make mistakes together" to belong to a "group," than be right alone. When someone dares to speak the truth, they inadvertently challenge the power and security of the entire group. Instead of civil discussion, the whole group will band together to bully, "cancel," or simply ignore the "eccentric," all to protect their shared bubble of illusion.

If only people out there could be sober enough to realize this obvious truth: People can choose to believe what they want to believe and ignore or distort what they don't want to believe, or worse, isolate and ostracize those who dare to speak out, but the very thing they don't want to believe still exists objectively (just as if you try to believe the Earth is a cube, the Earth in real life is still a sphere; Mother Nature won't reshape the Earth to fit your belief). I apologize to the majority of humanity, but if only everyone had the courage to accept this: truth doesn't need human permission to exist; only humans fear the truth. Just because you conceal or distort the truth from others (through the media, for example) doesn't mean the truth will automatically disappear. It still exists, it's higher up than shallow-minded people, as if "mocking" the ignorant crowd. Because humans crave but also fear the truth, they often delude themselves into thinking that truth can be bent to their will and needs their "permission" to exist.

So, ultimately, what is humanity proud of? We pride ourselves on being the "most intelligent" species, yet we tremble with fear before objective truth? How delusional must humans be to believe they can bend reality with their thoughts, even resorting to mob mentality and shouting to silence rational voices? Why does a species that prides itself on being the "most intelligent" possess such a flaw in its thinking? When will this "most intelligent" species truly be able to perceive things correctly, transparently, and objectively when we are always afraid and trying to conceal the truth? The most disturbing thing is not "not knowing the truth," but knowing it and choosing not to believe it or distorting it to fit your own limited and warped perspective—that is the true ignorance that most miserable people on the Earth suffer from.

(I apologize for my limited English skills; I'm not a native speaker.)

I genuinely believe that we should be allowed to say that people are stupid, without that being a moral judgment.

For example: A group of rangers was having difficulty designing trash cans that kept bears out. When asked why, they replied, “Because there is an overlap between the smartest bears (who can open the trash can) and the stupidest tourists (who cannot open the trash can).

I’ve been thinking about it, because of AI, being touted as a second Industrial Revolution. That jobs won’t be lost, we will just retrain people into more educated jobs.

I am already seeing people with advanced degrees who cannot do basic problem solving.

It’s like George Caitlin said, “I want you to think about how stupid the average person is-now realize that 50% of people are more stupid than that”.

So many people can’t read above a six grade level. I don’t think it’s possible to have the vast majority of people function on the needed level for this proposed future.

We need to acknowledge that not everyone can keep up and make sure that we don’t block people from gainful employment, if they are stupid.

What are your thoughts?

My IQ is 80 - 89, i can’t solve simple logic tasks like many other humans can. No one wants to hire me, people want me dead, not even homeless people want me since I’m weak and my body is oddly shaped for a man, id get raped in prisons too. I don’t belong anywhere, I’m weak, ugly, and stupid.

Also I hate it when people are like “my iq is 120 but I feel stupid” like that pisses me off cuz they don’t know what it’s like to actually be stupid.

I don’t think I even belong here most of u are smarter than me.

There is no club for stupid, or weak men.

It's not like I want to watch the world burn or anything I just want to see how bad things can get and how much it's going to take for people to finally wake up.

I noticed some people's misanthropy seem to be focused on grand, civilizational things, environment, treatment of animals etc. Which are very valid of course, I agree that the human species is evil on a large scale when it comes to these (although I don't really think nature or animals are some kind of symbol of innocence either, the laws of nature are also cruel and dark - still doesn't justify humanity's actions toward it). But I do think where the general evilness of humanity comes out is in everyday, ordinary life on the small scale. Like whatever we are doing to the environment and with each other's countries etc. is happening on a large, organisational level, not in the average person's life.

What I find most telling about human nature is not our lack of heroism or altruism, it's when it takes no effort to be kind to someone and we (or at least most people, I'll get back to this) still choose not to be. Like all the big things, big helpful/heroic or altruistic actions we could do are more complex and not that black and white. But in the everyday situations where it takes absolutely no effort to choose to not bully, mock or hurt other people, most still choose to do so. I think that's the most telling about human nature. At least most human's nature.

Based on my life experience, I believe most people lack empathy. Most people pretty much fit the definition of what we would call psychopaths. That is not something reflected by statistics since most people are not tested to see if they are psychopaths, there needs to be a special circumstance for that to happen. And also, psychopathy itself is a more specific thing in today's clinical understanding than what I'm talking about. But for a lack of a better term, I would call everyone a psychopath who doesn't have any empathy, doesn't matter if they have any other psychopathic traits.

I think there is a very dark reality to human nature - which is a reality of nature which we are a product of -, I think humans succeeded and evolved thanks to their capacity for evil. I saw someone mention it under another post and I really agree with this theory, homo sapiens probably killed off the other hominids, that's how we became the sole survivors or "winners".

But I think it's also important to remember that there are good people. People with empathy. But it's like 1 to 10.000 to evil/"psychopathic" (based on my broad definition) people.

There is a type of morality I believe in that I don't really see discussed anywhere (maybe it's discussed here, I am new in this community), which is pretty simple. I think we should be only good to good people and we shouldn't waste our empathy and good intentions on bad people. I don't want to say anything concrete about the big ideologies today, I am mostly an apolitical person but I just want to add this, the core of all of these ideologies' morality is kind of the same thing: "be empathic and kind to bad people" and "forgive and love bad people". I don't think this is a coincidence. I think ideologies are intentionally set up to exploit empathic, good people.

Just to clarify, that last part is not meant to judge anyone with any worldviews, I just try to express that the system we live in is designed to exploit the good and reward the bad. And this is something much more foundational behind a lot of seemingly opposing or different ideologies. At least this is my theory and belief.

Thank you if you read this, let me know what you think about this take. This is my first post, I came here because I feel pretty down and these are thoughts I can't really share anywhere else.

The first thing we will do with you is lock you up in a psychiatric hospital. You don't need it at all. How does it help a person at the end of their rope to be locked up and deprived of everything? I don't see any logic in it. I confided in someone, unfortunately the person got scared and called the police. I had to explain 300 times that everything was fine, that it was just a moment of trust, nothing to do they called the ambulances. The doctors told me "you come or we'll take you by force" and they lied to me, they told me it would be a matter of a few hours, in the end I stayed the whole weekend, fortunately on Monday morning the doctor saw that everything was fine and that it was exaggerated. Psychiatric hospitals are just horrible, seeing all those people suffering, the nurses abusing their powers... infantilising you. They're just there to give you pills, that's all. I had managed to make a connection with someone, I gave my number in case she wanted to talk, she never called me. I'm just disappointed in humanity and this world... I don't understand... (But on the one hand I know humans well. So I'm not surprised.. I’m just jaded)

I feel like humans are destroying this planet.

There are just such a great number of people who want to take and take and take from the planet until there is nothing left.

Yes, we have environmentalists and people who are about animals and recycling, but when it comes down to it, these people are out numbered by those who would take the last fish from the ocean and chop down the last tree just from profit and leave this world barren without a care in the world.

I'd love to be proven wrong.

whether evil is actually a real thing in itself, or whether it is simply a reaction to previous trauma, suffering, or harsh circumstances. Take Genghis Khan as an example. Were his conquests and massacres the result of pure evil, or were they, at least in part, a response to the violence and hardship he experienced early in life, such as the murder of his father? Or consider another example. Imagine we brutally kill a mother dog's puppies in front of her, torture her, and leave her deeply traumatized. Later, she attacks someone who approaches her. Would we call her inherently violent and evil, or would we recognize her as a victim reacting to unbearable trauma? I'm not trying to justify anyone's actions or deny personal responsibility. I'm asking a more fundamental philosophical question: Is evil an independent force that exists within a person, or is it often the end result of pain, trauma, and the conditions that shaped them?

How to identify a normie (non misanthrope):

I - Group thinking and inability to think by themselves.

II - Uses the word "cringy" for anything that isn't part of the hive mentality.

III - Gets offended or triggered by anything and tries to project their vulnerabilities onto others.

I am so disappointed in people in general that I don’t crave friendships anymore. People always put themselves first and only make themselves available when it suits them. You want to share something, they interrupt and start telling you their experience. When you are happy, they are around. Feeling down? Everyone’s busy. People say talk to friends when you are down, never seen people disappear faster as soon as I mention I am feeling down. As life is, if I died tomorrow, it will be s release from this stupid world.

Quote from the Unabomber's Manifesto - Ted Kaczynski

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I’ve been thinking about something for a while.

It feels like the world has become increasingly obsessed with mental health, yet somehow we seem to be getting worse at actually taking care of each other.

To be clear, I’m not saying mental health isn’t important. It absolutely is. People should be able to say, “I’m struggling,” “I need help,” or “I need someone to talk to” without being ashamed of it.

What bothers me is that somewhere along the way, it feels like we started talking about mental health without always talking about personal responsibility, compassion, and how our behavior affects everyone around us.

People are exhausted. People are struggling financially. People are working harder just to afford things that used to feel attainable. Social media constantly shows us what everyone else supposedly has, while we're sitting at home wondering why our own lives don't look like that.

And when people feel powerless, angry, lonely, or behind in life, that pain doesn't always stay inside them.

Sometimes it becomes anger.

Sometimes it becomes hatred.

Sometimes it becomes stealing, hurting someone else, destroying things, or treating complete strangers like they're responsible for everything wrong with their life.

And social media seems to pour gasoline on it.

Everyone has an audience now. Everyone has a platform. Everyone can find people who agree with them, reinforce their anger, and convince them that the rest of the world is the enemy.

We've created an environment where being cruel can get you attention, outrage gets engagement, and acting like the main character of everyone's life can actually be rewarded.

Meanwhile, there are people quietly falling apart who don't know how to say, “I need help.”

So they bottle everything up.

They become bitter.

They become angry.

They take it out on other people.

And the cycle continues.

I don't think the answer is to stop talking about mental health. I think we need to talk about it more honestly.

Mental health should include learning how to communicate when you're hurting instead of making everyone else hurt with you.

It should include learning that your pain is real without assuming your pain makes you entitled to mistreat people.

It should include being able to say, “I need help,” instead of pretending you're fine until you explode.

And maybe the simplest part of the solution is something we've somehow made incredibly complicated:

Be kinder to people.

You don't know what the person in front of you is dealing with.

The cashier might be struggling.

Your neighbor might be lonely.

The guy who seems angry might be fighting something you know nothing about.

And you might be struggling too.

We're all carrying something.

Maybe instead of constantly asking, “What's wrong with everyone else?” we should occasionally ask, “What can I do to make someone's day slightly less difficult?”

That doesn't solve poverty, crime, addiction, mental illness, or everything else wrong with society.

But it might stop one person from feeling completely alone.

And maybe that's where we should start.

Because if everyone is hurting and everyone responds by hurting someone else, eventually the pain just keeps getting bigger.

At some point, somebody has to decide not to pass it along.