Reason number 15: Misanthropy is frowned on

I like misanthropy, I believe it to be healthy and under-appreciated. What upsets me is when people are relentlessly positive and bubbly and think everyone else should be too. They think everyone is lovely, all their friends are beautiful (there are sadly few poeple for who this is true) and anyone who deviates from this worldview is some sort of deviant.

I came across a thread vanity-googling for this site that, I think, provides a good illustration of the kind of abuse that misanthropes have to put up with in their daily lives. The Dutch, a poster, makes the entirely reasonable proposition that blogs are shite and "Google [has] been fucked right up by a shitload of whiney blogging twats who, for some reason, want to share EVERY bloody moment of their vapid little lives."

He goes on to describe blogging as the "most self-obsessed, masturbatory thing you could possibly do" (surely not more than wanking?) and therefore gets a lot of people telling him he is evil and wrong. Best of all, that if you don't like a blog then don't read it. I'm still crying with laughter at that last point. Who reads diary blogs anyway? His reply warmed my cold cold heart.

But then I don't get to act bitter and hateful towards a bunch of strangers, and if the internet isn't here for that reason then I don't know WHAT the hell it's for.