The Uninspired Idiot's Guide to Misanthropy

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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Misanthropy isn't very hard. Anyone can be a misanthrope. Even you. Let me show how easy it can be. Step one: open your eyes to the world around you. That's it. Just one sweeping gaze across the endless horizon of humanity should suffice in your efforts towards becoming a misanthrope. If the vast sea of humanity is too much for you to hate as a whole, here are a few subsets you can narrow your focus upon.
  1. The Abusers: the kind of people who drive a lifted truck to Walmart, park in a handicap spot, pop a blue placard onto the rearview mirror, hop out, and speedwalk into the store.
  2. The Better-Thans: these people drive luxury automobiles, merge into any lane regardless of current occupancy, drive on closed shoulders on the highway (obviously their own personal luxury lanes), and take up two parking spots just for the hell of it. I mean after all, they payed WAY more for their rolling heap of steel than you did, so fuck you.
  3. The Chest-Beaters: always making it a point to show that they are in charge, no matter how small the chunk of Earth they are in charge of. 
  4. The Fabricators: they always feel the need to look you dead in the eyes and fabricate the wildest stories. Always. 
  5. The Loiterers: the seat fillers of Earth. Forever just there, never doing anything. Just standing, gawking at nothing, leaning on poles, holding down the concrete.
  6. The Try-Too-Hardsters: always looking for the next hip thing to wear out ad nauseum. They always have to be part of the latest scene, buying their way to cool, and generally leeching off of anything that could be considered a subculture. They are ruining the world one bad sweater and copypasta lifestyle at a time.
  7. The Scoot-Abouts: riding scooters everywhere, oblivious to everything. Clogging up traffic on a motorized vehicle that can't even exceed 30mph. No insurance. No licence. No registration. No problem.
You see? Now that's just a start. The tip of the iceberg. You can get as fancy as you want with your misanthropy. Give it a whirl. See what kind of things take the wind out the the sails of S.S. Faith in Humanity. 


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