The Ethics of Hatred.

Just why exactly must we limit the applicability of a word? Loneliness doesn't only mean being alone in one's misery, but it can also mean a more broad alienation felt even in the company of others. Love isn't entirely about completion, because it is also experienced with in one's incompleteness. And in the same way, hatred must not be seen as an implication of envy or misery felt on the hater's behalf.

THe immoral run rampant in this country, and this world, yet people don't want to 'waste' their emotions. People don't want to be consumed by that idea that someone is the moderator of pain felt by others. People, most simply, don't want to hate them. Part of it seems to be because of the fact that we've been given this idea of autonomy, and as long as an individual doesn't appear to directly harm me, then I've no reason to feel hatred or loathing for them.

But I ask you, what does that establish? What has been established in the name of apathy or indifference? WHen has a mass of unhappy people ever changed anything drastically when they've convinced themselves that things are fine as is?

THe idea of hating one of these individuals, or at least deploring them and boycotting what they produce, should be a more commonly acceptable form of protest and intervention. If we are to put any control back in our own hands, we must place blame on people who don't support the sympathizing of harmed people, of down-trodden families and individuals. ANd in that blame, we must seek communion in each other for the castrating of their resources that we probably didn't need (or could easily find an alternative to) in the first place.

Cough, cough, cough, anarchism, cough, is the way of the careful, cough.