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>The language might seem harsh to you, but you'd understand it if you'd ever lived with or near such people. I understand it perfectly well, I've lived in dens
by harrumph 8y ago
>The language might seem harsh to you, but you'd understand it if you'd ever lived with or near such people.
I understand it perfectly well, I've lived in densely populated cities my whole life. It's a naked display of something called misanthropy and it's a core tenet of an ethos of self-obsession plus empathy absence that persons in technology AND lifelong US suburbanites far, far too often are afflicted with. Zero mystery here.
- blueprint 8y agoThen what is its root cause?
- xtian 8y agoTypically our view of the outer world is a reflection of our view of the inner world, and usually that state is obscured and perpetuated by fear/clinging to an idea of security.
- harrumph 8y ago>Then what is its root cause? I can only guess. I'll be thinking about it. I will say that fear -- useful fear, wielded as a whip of control in various ways -- is central to any process of de-socialization. And I know who surely has the greatest interest in de-socialization: the persons at the top of our economy.
- blueprint 8y ago> I can only guess. Then you shouldn't say "Zero mystery here".. or you could trick yourself and become upset later.
- harrumph 8y ago>then you shouldn’t say “Zero mystery here” There’s zero mystery about OP showing misanthropy, but I can’t say where it comes from. Let me know if there’s anything else I can clear up for you as you struggle to remain current in the discussion.
- blueprint 8y agoLol typical response of someone who wants to believe they know something. You'll find out one day. Meanwhile you missed the answer implicit in my reply.
- Pica_soO 8y agoA million individuals, all thinking they are the hero of the story, all others NPCs, decoration, either criminally stupid, or worth of worshiping. I blame protestant work-ethics.
- closeparen 8y agoYeah, you’ve clearly never had bad neighbors. Be grateful for that, but it doesn’t give you the right to tell others that the real problem is their frustration.
- harrumph 8y ago>you’ve clearly never had bad neighbors No, I’ve had bad neighbors. What I haven’t done is to generalize the experience to seek to avoid neighbors as a class, which is exactly what misanthropy is, as well as exactly what white flight and suburbanism is. Also, as long as you’re prattling about “rights”, please notice how easily you assumed the right to mischaracterize and invent a convenient and false history for me.
- closeparen 8y agoNope, you clearly stated that there is no such thing as a bad neighbor, and anyone perceiving one has a defective moral character, that there is “no mystery here.” You want to complain about generalization, that’s another thing, but so far the only generalization here is yours, that the parent’s experience can’t be real.
- harrumph 8y agoMe: >I’ve had bad neighbors You: > you’ve clearly stated there’s no such thing as a bad neighbor I wish you luck managing the effects of your wild imagination in the future.