Do you know anyone who is misanthropic?

officerripley said:
There are a lot of people here in the U.S. (particularly the northernmost parts of the midwest, Minnesota, North Dakota, etc.) whose ancestors migrated here from Sweden. So that could explain that kind of behavior here in the States, I guess. It's odd because I've heard so much about the friendliness of small towns as opposed to the unfriendliness of big cities but it's not always true; depending on which big city you're in, sometimes people are very willing to chat and in some small towns--some I've been in anyway--you're invisible to them unless you were born and raised there.
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I hear you. If what I described is similar to Minnesota you can bet it's from the Swedish mentality. Finns are rather strange too, in an introverted way, but oddly Norwegians and Danes are not very much like Swedes at all. I love Norwegians!
 
Sunny said:
The Misanthrope is a play by the 17th century French author, Moliere. He probably invented the term. It's been around for a long time.
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Misanthrope comes from the Greek misanthrōpos “hating humankind” and was very likely popularized by the French playwright Moliere's Le Misanthrope, which depicts a bitter critic of society who chooses exile over contact with other people. In English, misanthrope (or its anglicized equivalent, misanthropist) has been applied to many a perceived antisocial crank, from satirist Jonathan Swift to philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to Charles Dicken’s character Ebenezer Scrooge. It is one of several English words beginning with mis- (from Greek misein "to hate") naming persons who despise something or someone. The most familiar example nowadays is misogynist, used of a person who hates women. Two lesser-known variations on the theme are misandrist “one who hates men” and misopedist “a person who hates children.”
 
grahamg said:
"I was born under a wondering star,.........., Do you know where hell is? Hell is in hello. Do you know where heaven is? In goodbye its time for me to go!"

(you remember the movie "Paint your way on" using the above song at the start?)
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Nope. It does sound familiar ....... but it's here :

 
Judycat said:
Well how about that. If you're known to hate a place and everyone in it, you get a bench and a plaque.
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It's the UK, a nation where November 5th. is celebrated each year in honour of the man who tried to assassinate King James I. It is said that Guy Fawkes is the only man in British history to entered parliament with honest intentions. :)
 
I guess I'm sort of a misanthrope, not against individuals, not that I'm grumpy and I do maintain love for people. However when I stop and think about the species in general I become horrified.

The more I've learned about history over my life, the more shocked and appalled I've become with man's inhumanity to man. Unspeakable horrors, the most beastly cruel things have been done to each other.

The wars, the crimes the mass extinctions of people and animals. If there's a movie or a show that depicts torture I can't even think about it -I won't look.

When one thinks about the children and animals that have been abused it's disgusting beyond any tolerance so then I think I'm a misanthrope with regards to humankind. This gets me depressed sometimes and I fight it.

I'm not always feeling like this it's not permanent but when I see the news with what we've done to our climate and what we've done to the earth,the marine life that's dying, sometimes I just don't know.
 
grahamg said:
I meant "Paint your wagon" of course, for the film containing the track "I was born under a wondering star", sung in the gravelly voice of whoever it was, (Lee Marvin of course :) ).
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I had nightmares for weeks and I couldn't play my harmonica for 2 months after hearing Lee Marvin's singing voice. It left me tone-deaf. :D
 
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