/lit/ - Literature

>>12034740
this is one of the best questions i've ever seen raised in these threads.

i'd say the answer is heavily yes, although it has something to do with our brain processes under the hood. Nietzsche called it ressentiment, Sartre bad faith, Heidegger angst (or inauthenticity) and JBP Bitterness And That's No Joke. they're all right, and the list goes on for much longer.

i'd say it's a) the fear of death and b) the anxiety about the ladies. my own feel is that mostly people hate themselves more than each other. from ignorance, and confusion, which drives the sad passions, and fuels envy, guilt, bitterness, and the rest. once upon a time maybe there was a little more conviction in God; that became transferred over into a kind of conviction in Revolution; and now God is a question mark and the Revolution has entered a phase of terminal scapegoating and hysteria. speaking for the West, i mean, inasmuch as i can. perhaps we fear our encroaching obsolescence in the face of tech, but i think it's in general just a breakdown in those orders and systems that held us in place and allowed for some existential comfort and psychic regulation. all that has been very much deregulated in about a half-century and it doesn't look like it's heading towards re-regulation in the future either.

we hate ourselves, for our pitiable condition, and moreso when we can't use meme irony or weaponized cynicism to patch up the leaks in the dam. ideological bullshit will be attractive because on some level jihad is a cure for depression. but it only works while there is the momentum of the zealous holy roller, for whatever cause.

people are lonely, and they're scared, and they're angry, and much else. we are dwarfed by the things we can make and this makes panic levels rise. maybe they do hate humanity. but mostly i think they just hate themselves.