by John Grauerholz
Suppose you were some sort of extraterrestrial that could observe the entire lifetime of a human being in one glance. In this split second, you would see that a particular adolescent would never amount to anything. No matter what might happen in the future, any money spent on that kid would be wasted. In a blink of an eye, you would realize that all those years of education would be squandered on such a stupid sprog. All that parental care would only result in some slob playing computer games while pushing carbohydrates into his mouth.
You don’t have to be a space alien to know that the younger generation is completely worthless. You don’t have to be from another planet to recognize that children have no value. It doesn’t matter what you might do for your offspring, your flesh-and-blood are only going to turn out to be total failures just like you.
You can’t change fate. If your child is destined to be useless, then you need to accept that judgement of providence. Don’t bother sending the bastard to school; the brat will not have the intelligence to learn anything – and the witless educators simply wouldn’t be smart enough to teach anything anyway. Don’t throw-away money on child support – the minors are going to turn into fat wastrels that remain on public assistance their entire lives no matter what happens. Feeding the creature ain’t your problem.
Rather than frittering away your existence on inept progeny, a wise man should have used his days to develop an awareness that could actually assess a human being in an instant. There are many things that could be said about metaphysics, but one thing is certain: cosmic consciousness is childfree. A farsighted man does not raise children – he runs away from them.
An enlightened sage doesn’t give a shit about some kid’s suffering.
by John Grauerholz
Misanthropic pessimism is the suspicion that existence itself is a rather horrible affair and that any change human beings might make on this earth would only make things even more horrific. Misanthropic pessimism starts from the recognition that life itself is agonizing and appalling – and the realization expands to the awareness that it is actually other people that have made things so much more anguished and atrocious. Humans, being what they are, will start to meddle in this awful reality – and all that effort and exertion will only make this planet all the worse.
Being born is bad enough to begin with, but it is humanity that makes this world unendurable. For a pessimistic misanthrope, mankind is the worst thing about existence – other people are the most ghastly and grisly things in the universe.
Think of the cosmos as a sort of concentration camp – a terrible enough way to live out one’s days. But, to make things even crueler, each inmate is then violated and victimized by the other prisoners, making life all the more terrifying. Being imprisoned in life is ruinous enough – but the every day you are raped and ravaged by the other convicts. Just as in a Nazi death camp, the Jewish kapos were far more sadistic than the German overlords. Like a celestial warden, Jehovah delights in your eternal suffering. Human existence is a life sentence.
There is an easy and obvious solution: extinction of the entire species. Only human extermination and execution will end this scourge. The only encouraging thing about modern society is that total annihilation is close enough to tickle the nose hairs. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army determined that sometimes it is necessary to destroy a village in order to save the territory – so it is necessary to eliminate the whole species in order to attain salvation. The only thing that ought to inspire and invigorate you is the prospect of complete eradication of the human race.
