The Hater of the Month for October is Dominic Suares, who was unhappy with my post on misanthropy:
You know what? I came here to stop being a fucking misanthrope.
So you’re the guy who arrived here with the search string “how to stop being a misanthrope.” It caught my eye, to be sure, but it’s not as strange as some of the other ones that have lead people to In Mala Fide. From this past week alone:
karen decoster hot
my wife has slept with over 30 men
why do older men meow at women
why i love meghan mccain feministx
You guys are making a mockery of this.
Iconoclasty is mah middle name.
I don’t give a shit if someone is happy, and I laugh if someone died. I don’t care about the human race, and if anything, I feel scorn for it. I don’t care about sex, I find it superficial and pointless.
Damn. I didn’t know Slavoj Žižek was a fan of mine.
But on to the point. You guys bitch too much. Can’t you guys move the fuck on? I mean, you guys can’t even control your emotions. Bla bla bla he looks like a shithead for saying this and that.
Having emotions != not controlling your emotions, Aspergerboy.
Does that make you feel better? The fact you can succeed in a fucked up society?
Uhhhh, yeah.
Does it make you feel better that you are a parasite, feeding on other people’s helplessness?
I lost any loyalty I had to this society when it started conspiring to screw me over.
Being a misanthrope is a mistake. The logic is all flawed, and the feeling of being grandeur is misplaced.
Type 1 misanthrope? Yes. Type 2? Nuh-uh. I personally enjoy the fact that I can be disgusted with modern society and yet happier then a wino locked in a liquor store at the same time. The world is coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy my life.
I know none of you are going to change no matter how many people tell you.
I always love it when keyboard warriors end their blistering anonymous attacks on others with something to the effect of “it was a waste of my time writing this.” If you think it was a waste of time, why did you bother pounding it out, moron? Do you enjoy frittering away something you’ll never get back?
You aren’t different from everyone else, misanthropes. Sorry to break up your little fantasy.
We ARE different, largely because we aren’t terminally depressed, mean-minded headcases who push cripples down staircases and hate the world for not giving us what we haven’t earned.
Runner up for Hater of the Month is bob, who came all the way from MetaFilter to give me a piece of his mind:
Great, you’re some other misogynistic close-minded shithead. Good to know there’s not a shortage of you guys.
We…are legion.
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Why wouldn’t you? Is that not a vindication of the choices you’ve made? Only in the addled brain of SWPL people is outcome not predominantly determined by one’s choices; to them it is non-sensical that a tradesman who learned a valuable skill or someone with a serious technical degree has far more opportunity and security than a liberal arts major loaded with debt.
I feel vindicated every day that I pull into the office parking lot for having chosen Computer Science in college. The liberal arts and business majors who partied it up every weekend and focused more on hooking up than learning something useful are now whimpering in terror at the realization that the Mexicans outside 711 will soon have more job security and buying power than they will.
And you know what? As much as I hate illegal immigration, the illegals at least have a more level-headed understanding of economics than most of those guys…
Though that is not to say that I am happy to see them suffering. Having no pity is not at all the same thing as schadenfreude. Mercy is not even directly related to pity. In fact, I would submit that true mercy must be divorced from pity lest it become mindless sentimentalism that undermines justice by being overreaching and/or playing favorites.
“misogynistic close-minded shithead”
It’s true. I keep my mind close and my enemies closer.
You know, just for fun I am going to start commenting like this guy so I can get Hater of the Month.
I want to frame it and put it on my wall.
Some guys have all the luck . . .
It isn’t fair. The douches always get the good awards.
Damn! How can Talleyrand and I get haters like yours? We must be doing something wrong.
The liberal arts and business majors who partied it up every weekend and focused more on hooking up than learning something useful
As a failed computer science and engineering major, I’d argue that the problem is that STEM subjects are downright hard, and some students are either incapable of learning the material or just unwilling to put in the effort necessary. I’d understand your contempt at the latter group, but I was in the former, and going to class and not understanding anything was downright excruciating and lead to a depressive valley that I’ve yet to escape from.
Talleyrand:
Unfortunately, I have the best Hatedarâ„¢ in the business, so any submissions by you will be automatically rejected for being fake. That is, unless you legitimately start hating me.
Alkibiades:
Kick up shit. Get under people’s skin. Learn to love the tag cloud. That is all I can teach you, young Padawan.
Does that make you feel better? The fact you can succeed in a fucked up society?
So failing in the same society is preferable?
David,
My contempt is directed exclusively at the people who go into those majors and incredulously wonder “but but but I have a college degree… where is my slice of the American dream?” Especially when they look down on tradesmen who make money hand over fist compared to them, all because they have read a few classical works and have a piece of paper from an expensive papermill.
***and not just go into those majors per se, but after the fact don’t seem to grasp the fact that employers care more about what your education can enable you to do than anything else. It’s the complete ignorance and denial of the economic realities, especially the opportunity costs and the snob factor versus other routes like trade school or not continuing education at all that rubs me raw with those (usually SWPL) people.
Re: Mike T
As a railfan, one can note that the general anger of the public toward railway employees when it’s discovered that some of employees are earning six figures with overtime. The notion of the non-college educated earning more than college educated seems to eat away at their notion of egalitarianism. For the SWPL types, those who didn’t go to college are merely lazy and unwilling to do the work needed to acquire a college degree, in lieu of being genetically inferior or preferential to doing blue collar work. To a certain extent, it explains the desire for the SWPL types to shunt as many blacks (and Hispanics) as possible into college* in order to create an “acceptable” black populace. The “dirty” work of the blue collar is to be reserved for immigrants, as the true path for whites is to what I’ve called a Marxist upper middle class state where everybody lives the lifestyle of the upper middle class with organic food, climate change sensitive processes and products, and hybrid for all.
Although I lack a college degree (I only have an associates degree), since I’m completely unsuited to any blue collar work, I’ll have to get a real degree at some point. I’m well aware that a cheap poli sci degree is basically a bypass into lower level civil service work, but it’s better than working in customer service or putting people at risk.
*Preferably elite institutions. A NPR piece from two years ago lamenting the inability of local students to pay for a non-selective regional private college received some scolding from those of us who discovered a perfectly viable alternative to overpriced schools, the community college.
Your problems stem from two interconnected beliefs..
1. Whites are the “bestest” and we deserve it all, even if we have to make up fake reasons to justify it.
2. The world should not change, we will not allow it.
Newsflash- human beings have as much control over their futures as ants.
@Mike T
Are you sure that you aren’t an alias of me? Cause I’m watching the same crap in my college and I’m also am a Computer Science’s guy. Thank god that I knew what could teach an skill useful in the real world. And that I can tolerate, unlike many other that went for getting in the college and transfered faster than you can say 3 Mathematics.
Don’t care much about the title (I’m going for engineer, half of that is a technical), but better learn how to think in the bigger things.
@David
I plan to send my kids to a community college for their first 2 years. That would not only be substantially cheaper than sending them to a state university, but it has the added benefit of making them more marketable for internships (an A.S. is a more complete education than half of a B.S. in most fields).
@Gx1080
The sad part is that there are plenty of people like an ex-girlfriend of mine who was the first person in her family to go college, majored in music, flunked out of that, THEN transferred to a more economically productive major… only $80k of debt later.
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