Comment by sunir | Hacker News Reader

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It's great you are aware your pattern is harming you. When I was very young I had similar feelings too.

That which you oppose you maintain. You are trapped by your misanthropy. The article makes this point.

You can only move forward by finding another path that is positive for both halves of the equation. You have to begin with empathy. I have a rule of life: my next set of friends are the people I dislike the most. It's amazing how much you can learn from other people that you would never have guessed. Negative feelings create blindness.

I don't understand all these people obsessed with IQ. Life has more to it that logic and rationality. Tell me how much IQ you need to appreciate a hot dog at the carnival on the first beautiful day of summer. Live beyond this single measure of you.

This is exactly what I'm referring to, I simply don't connect with what you're trying to illustrate. I understand you're trying to draw a scenario that has some supposedly appealing emotional quality to it, but I'd just be thinking I'd rather be doing something useful than going to a carnival and I don't like hot weather.

This is not simply a case of a single example that would not hold up under a barrage of alternative options, simply put I want to learn, discover, build and create and passive experience holds little to no value to me.

Well folks like you aren't uncommon. I see someone posted sifter.org.

One thing to note. You have all these negative feelings to people but positive feelings to your work. I suggest you can kill your negative feelings if you realize all people enjoy something the same way you enjoy your work. We just all like different things.

In the way I don't understand why people enjoy experimental jazz but I can appreciate they must find something in it for them and thus I do not judge them, you can at least teach yourself to not look down on others for what measures of joy they take from life.

No sense polluting yourself with misanthropy. Instead be happy for them and happy you are clear what makes you happy.

Heard of Sifter.org?

I hadn't, I had a brief look and my curiosity is aroused, are there archives of the list content?

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