Reply #35: Speaking as a misanthrope

[cgrindley]

I don't trust our species to behave rationally or look out for anything other than shallow self-interest. I think that emotions tend to dominate reason and that people for unknown reasons actually privilege the emotional over the rational. I think that most people don't grasp a lot of the very serious issues facing us today and that what's worse, few make any attempt to educate themselves on the issues. Others actually appear to revel in their own ignorance. I think that our species is doomed and that with anthrogenic climate change, we've caused our own destruction. Certainly some individuals have created some beauty in the world, but our collective history is far more one of misery than majesty. So yeah. I dislike people. Individually, however, people are okay. I have friends. But our species as a whole? I don't care if we go extinct tomorrow.