An enormous number of people you encounter every single day are not like you or I. They do not have any interests. At all. They see. They coom. They do nothing else. They have no internal dialogue. They simply exist and interact on the most superficial level with actual humans, like an NPC in a vidya game.
They literally can't understand hypotheticals. "How would you feel if you didn't have lunch yesterday." This baffles them. They are unable even to contemplate something outside of their sad, pale shadow of an existence.
The world we live in is run by "democracy" where these "people" have equal power to choose our "leaders" as we do.
Fear for our future.
And that is all a
choice. Ignorance is in itself a choice: sure someone can be a retard, but there is a difference between being uneducated, and lacking in any form of critical thinking or processing of the world around you. Many people rely on appeals to authority because it is easy to do so, and therefore have their opinions shaped by whoever has managed to implant their specific narrative(s) in that empty little noggin. But it is often daunting to examine your own psyche and assess who is saying what to you, not necessarily just because of the time it takes to unravel each knot in order to eventually reach the Truth, but because you start to become aware of all the little pieces of propaganda and messaging that you tripped over and didn't even realize. You consider the times someone, be it the government, religion, maybe even someone you have loved dearly, has sold you a line that you quickly and without question lapped up without even considering it as a line to lap up; it affected you on a subconscious level. Most people, no matter how stupid, have at least had at one point in their lives where they had to come to terms with being made the dope, or have been felted, and it makes you feel such a fool to the point where most people find it best not to overthink it, if even think about it at all. Make money, buy beer, watch sportsball, play vidya, fuck in some way shape or form, rinse and repeat. Once you get in the groove of it the bad feelings possibly subside and life becomes more bearable. It is a weird contradiction, in some ways I can't stand how ignorant people are, and how they operate in constant generalizations that make it an impossibility to have any meaningful interaction with them, and yet I completely understand the plight of merely trying to exist in a modern hellscape that is barreling a million miles an hours into the future while entangling itself into the opaque forest of the digital ecosystem. That is why I feel it wrong to hate humanity, to hate the people I deal with on a daily basis, even if, for a quick second, I gain a flash of frustration from dealing with them, because they are creatures who react to outward stimuli, same as I, and are making logical reactions in regards to their capabilities.
Thread tax: Being prepared with an umbrella to go out in the rain, only to not pay attention to a puddle in front of you, and still getting soaked.
