The Devil's Advocate

Utter Contempt for the Human Race: Misanthropy & Its Place within My Magickal Works

by John Shaden

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In my teenage years, I got politically literate and got involved in politics Nothing will turn you cynical of humankind faster than the political arena.

People will always try to sway you by saying things like “so you hate your family and friends?” This silver bullet strawman is the manifestation of arrogance passing itself off as intelligence. Their view of how I feel is so shallow it is almost embarrassing. Obviously, I love. I love my friends and family. I'd kill and be killed for them. My views are with the glut of humanity, not particularly with individual humans. No, they must earn my love or loathing. My views are of such (for the record I'm only speaking for myself. This is my Misanthropy. Some other misanthropes may feel differently. And that's on them)

1) My Misanthropy deals with the species as a whole

2) I treat all people with a decent level of respect at the beginning Whether they gain or lose said respect depends on their actions and that alone.

3) Forgiveness is a luxury I can seldom afford.

4) My memory is a bear trap with interest.

5) Humanity as a whole is a plague. I am but a single-cell organism among the contagion.

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