I Want To Write My Random Thoughts And Feelings
Hatred has always been one of the biggest detriments to civilizations throughout history, and still to this day it draws followers from all sides, even those who say they're against it no less.
Such is the allure of hate. It seems to come easily and naturally to the human race. It requires almost no mental expenditure, certainly no higher-order thinking or deep contemplation. And most importantly, it makes us feel righteously justified for our actions and our words, even if they appear shocking or unwarranted from the outside.
Of course people don't see their hatred as hatred, but as a normal and appropriate response to a sick world, a world that needs to be told how to think and how to behave. The apparent reason for this response is: to rehabilitate the ignorance of people; to make them see the error of their ways; and to strengthen the resolve of those who believe they're in the right. And yet, almost always, it fails disastrously to accomplish this... and to even give a semblance of actually wanting to.
The end result of righteous anger is that those championing virtue and morality quickly succumb to the very behaviours they despise within their opposition - whether it's intolerance of other people's views, bigotry, dogmatic attitudes, or just pure senseless violence, etc. They transform into the *exact* one-to-one image of everything they don't like about the world, while completely lacking the ability to even see it. That's quite the conundrum. How do you break it to someone that they've become the very thing they don't like without them despising you even more? I'm not sure it's possible.
Such is the allure of hate. It seems to come easily and naturally to the human race. It requires almost no mental expenditure, certainly no higher-order thinking or deep contemplation. And most importantly, it makes us feel righteously justified for our actions and our words, even if they appear shocking or unwarranted from the outside.
Of course people don't see their hatred as hatred, but as a normal and appropriate response to a sick world, a world that needs to be told how to think and how to behave. The apparent reason for this response is: to rehabilitate the ignorance of people; to make them see the error of their ways; and to strengthen the resolve of those who believe they're in the right. And yet, almost always, it fails disastrously to accomplish this... and to even give a semblance of actually wanting to.
The end result of righteous anger is that those championing virtue and morality quickly succumb to the very behaviours they despise within their opposition - whether it's intolerance of other people's views, bigotry, dogmatic attitudes, or just pure senseless violence, etc. They transform into the *exact* one-to-one image of everything they don't like about the world, while completely lacking the ability to even see it. That's quite the conundrum. How do you break it to someone that they've become the very thing they don't like without them despising you even more? I'm not sure it's possible.
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