[lit-ideas] Re: Cheap nano geese
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 22:39:39 -0400
Andy: Be a Misanthropist. Be Proud.
To be a misanthrope is to hate people. Yet you are a person.
So being proud of being a misanthrope is being proud of
hating people. Since you are a person, you are proud of
hating yourself.
"To be proud" can mean to feel pleasure in self-respect. Yet
if your self-respect is founded in hating people--and by
extension, hating yourself--then you are taking pleasure in
hating yourself.
The little Wilhelm Reich inside each us animadverts, "If you
are taking pleasure in hating yourself, you may believe you
need to be punished. Rather than live with the daily anxiety
of waiting to be punished, you punish yourself first, and
thus pre-empt punishment, but more importantly, reduce anxiety."
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