Tuesday, February 12, 2008

The Art Of Misanthropy ( Part Two )

Okay, the second part i wanted to talk about is regarding my failure to believe on the past two years that there's such thing as "purity" in humans, specifically on "being good and kind", and that when some one cares, he does so 'cause he's kind or 'cause he's caring, instead, i actually believe, that no human does 'nything except by motive of a self-interest and for a personal benefit to obtain or expect to obtain in a direct or an indirect way, and thus following the pleasure principle that i discussed before " hence all personal benefits result in pleasure ".In a rephrased form, i believe that all the human actions, specifically the good ones, are always motivated by self-interests, and whenever we have options, we tend to choose the ones which fulfill our interests the most, even when its apparently good and kind and of no self-interest, its eventually because of a personal benefit on a way or another, consciously or unconsciously.

a child is born all selfish by nature, then he starts doing what his parents teaches him to get appreciation " shater ya ... bravo 3aleik, that's what i mean " , then he goes to school, he get friends to emphasize the feeling of being accepted, he talks to them to fulfill his social needs, he listen to their problems because it makes him feel good about himself " 'cause with his friends telling him it means some sort of appreciation " and with solving the problem he increases his self-esteem, he grows up to become creative, draw sing or whatever either to impress others, or to prove his presence, then he meets the girl which he will care about her to get her " which will fulfill many needs " , he grows up to be a father, he loves his kids and raise them 'cause by that he's following an image he has been built by the society all this years in his mind, which results in feeling better about one's self " succeeding ? ", he cares about the society because in making notable changes in the environment he feels powerful, he helps the poor 'cause it unconsciously makes him feel powerful, or makes him feel better about himself, he prays for the expectation of a reward in the afterlife.

all those acts are considered selfish, because the real motives of them is to bring some benefit to the person accomplishing them, This "something" is generally referred to as " good feeling ", and those acts are quite applicable on every human being of us, and with that i mean : Behind every single good act, there's a hidden self-interest either consciously or unconsciously, and by that, the meaning of " Pure " can never be valid, 'cause its called pure 'cause its pure of self-interest, which can not happen.

A friend who cares, cares for a reason, either to get to something " most of boy-girl relations for example " , or either 'cause he's motivated by proving one's self, or motivated by fulfilling he's social needs, or 'cause with his help to you he feels better at some sort of way, or plainly 'cause it makes him feels good about himself 'cause he's being good, and when i talk about motives i mean consciously and unconsciously, so he might not even know it yet he feels like doing it.
A mother cares about her children 'cause she has been raised to know that that's what's supposed to be happening, so she's following an image in her mind she was programmed to feel like she's supposed to follow, and by succeeding in that she feels better about herself.
Most people feels helpless infront of babies, because being a baby means he's harmless to your own needs, he won't steal your girlfriend or your job, he makes you feel higher and powerful, so why wouldn't you love him ? on the other hand, a young child may hate his younger baby brother 'cause he sees his parents giving him more care.

the two cases that wouldn't follow this are, either a dumb / naive person, which in that case isn't kind 'cause he can't do the opposite, meaning, if a weak person didn't hit you, this doesn't make him peaceful, 'cause he can't hit you in the first place even if he wanted to, and the other case is the divine causes, and God-sent people.

And to end this topic, i don't actually consider this as BAD, 'cause that's the nature, that's how things God wanted us to be, i can't say that fan is bad 'cause it doesn't fly, i was never supposed to be flying, same with humans, that's how God intended us to be like, and if all our motives are self-interest, its because God knows that nothing motivates us like the something that benefits us, for that reason he set the punishment and the reward, so i'm not saying in 'nyway that these ugly sides of the human nature are bad, that's how we are like,
and when i say i hate humans, i don't mean i hate their nature, i hate how helplessly weak they stand before their nature.

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