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Hating conventional morality
Lately I've been developing a passing hatred for the sense of morality that is shoved down the average person's throat in American society. The type of morality that is so ingrained into the dogma of millions of slackjawed morons fluctuating to their jobs and miserable lives, not to mention the millions of bored kids sitting in high school assemblies listening to f**ked up sh*t about how it's best to let your heart govern your mind. Here are some examples of such morality:
1) Be always altruistic firsthand
2) Hate only who it's socially acceptable to hate
3) Avoid confrontation, but act as if you won't until that time for conflict comes
4) Be normal, heed the social dogmas--box yourself in to mandatory politeness
5) Humility is better than pride
6) Fight the censorship of your ideas, unless you happen to be against those ideas
And to repeat myself, I absolutely hate this mindset so badly that it angers me. I feel like it can't sweep past my train of thought without my face grimacing a sneer.
And I encounter it each, and every, day.
At the risk of repeating a thought-terminating cliche with a blinkful stupor on my face, let me say that:
It doesn't upset me that humans have a base nature, it upsets me that so many people won't admit it.
And here I am, ranting against this on this website--because I can't think of a better place to do it. Regardless of whether or not I am taken seriously, scorned, laughed at, misunderstood, or simply not understood at all.
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I may have also worded that wrong, I hate more anyone who refuses to believe there's a bit of selfishness in each action.
I'm not entirely interested in altruism, though, it doesn't concern me except when I derive something from it.
Humility may help you achieve better things, such as what Holden's teacher told him in "Catcher in the Rye":
"The mark of an immature man is he who wants to perish quickly for something, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live in humility for that thing he loves.
But pride and nobility is important to me.
I've considered that.
6. You say that people should be less altruistic, but you want them to fight for things they don't agree with?
You raise a good point on five, but it also falls down to what the human's base nature is. Thing about this is, obviously a lot of us have different opinions on this base nature. I think that in our base nature, pride has a higher priority than humility for most people. I wouldn't mind hearing more from you on this, though.
On six, notice that my idea of their hypocritical, conventional morality isn't an antithesis of my perceived morality. Personally, I don't know if I have an easily identified sense of ethics--but I do realize I seem to have less principles than the average person I've met.
Six is implying, though, that if someone openly expresses equal voice for all--it's annoying to see them take that back when group they disagree with--such as gays wanting to be acknowledged--wants expression of themselves.
Also note that I don't disdain excessive altruism in people, I have something against he/she who acts as if selfishness is a purely immoral thing.
#2 I understand and concur; #3 I don't quite get. Do you mean you should pretend to be confrontational and then wuss out when you have to actually be in a confrontation?
#4 Understood; concur.
#5 Humility usually IS better than pride. I'd substitute the word "pride" for "confidence" here, then I would concur.
#6 Understood; concur.
Rather than despise the "mindset" you describe here (and you could find plenty of those who would agree with most or all of your points), why not be "confident" in your own values? Thinking freely takes practice and a certain amount of intelligence. Not everyone is up to the task.
The only thing that pisses me off is that so many people *pretend* they are altruistic, and actually are just looking out for themselves. It's healthy to look out for yourself, but just fucking admit it.
2) "Hate only who it's socially acceptable to hate"
I agree... but in every subculture there is a new set of people to hate... some town in the midwest might have a large population of white supremacists, so they hate blacks. In NYC, there is a general disdain for people in the midwest. If it were to be reversed, there would be choas because everyone conforms to some degree, even when it comes to hating an entire population.
3) Avoid confrontation, but act as if you won't until that time for conflict comes
Some people are all talk. They are pussies :)
4) Be normal, heed the social dogmas--box yourself in to mandatory politeness
I belive, however, that politness is good for low-contact strangers. You hold the door for a wheelchair, you don't have a shit fit if someone bumps into you. You hold your tongue when a baby cries. This is functional, to avoid choas...
5) Humility is better than pride
Pride is ok. Glorifying yourself is narcissistic. There is a fine line. What pisses me off is that people will act with apparent humility just to hear "oh, don't say that, you are wonderful!" from other people- just to affirm to themselves that they are the Big Shit.
6) Fight the censorship of your ideas, unless you happen to be against those ideas
Ah... hypocricy. I hate it.