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What makes you hold utter and continual contempt against the world? (piefed.social)

submitted 3 days ago by Pyrixas@piefed.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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To narrow it down, it has to be something you will not forgive a country for doing for the rest of your life. Alternatively, you can feel something in great disdain towards the whole world, like what you see universally done or know of.

Mine would be and I strongly use this word because of the practice associated to it, but, the raping of information.

And I say that because it is astonishingly appalling just how distorted information has gotten. With how modern day journalism has been to even half-baked Wikipedia articles that aren't detailed. Even historical accounts aren't entirely safe because they just get revised and re-written at a moment's notice to fit particular narratives or perspectives of others.

The lines of lies and truths are completely blurred, only registered by particular contexts or levels of convenience. It burns my mind up to think some of the time, as to what I should take in for information that isn't just for a purpose of study. I'm so jaded towards anything, I take everything projected with contempt.

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[–] Tedesche@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Oh, man, where to start? The tribal nature of humanity is a core problem in our psychology that leads to so many different problems in modern society, it’s difficult to even fathom. We just aren’t evolved to live in a society this large. We’re also grossly myopic and don’t act to fix problems that we know are coming but aren’t right in front of us yet. Then there’s the fact that we have advanced science and yet tons of us still subscribe to religion.

I don’t know if contempt for humanity is right phrase for what I feel, but I definitely consider myself a misanthrope. Disappointment might be more accurate.