Having a little rant.

This is how I feel right now

Now, I don’t like to rant often...who am I kidding, I love ranting, but I don’t like being annoyed enough to the point where I need to rant. The day has now brought me to that point.

It has struck me in recent weeks that people are, in essence, narcissistic idiots. I guess I’ve known this for some time but it’s not really been in the forefront of my mind. Now it very much is. Recent events have got me thinking about this issue more and more and I’ve decided that, as a general rule, human beings are not good at being around other human beings, in fact I don’t think we like it that much at all. Anyone who says ‘humans are social animals’ clearly doesn’t know the people I know. When that is combined with the fact that humans like to think that they are important, (even when in my opinion none of us are that important in the grand scheme of things), it tends to make for a mess in the end. A big mess.

What I don’t understand is why we seem to have this desire to screw each other over. Hobbs would say that it’s because humanity is a fundamentally selfish race and I am more and more inclined to believe him. I don’t think we really care about other people as much as we think we do. We all have friends and people who we love like our families, but if we were given the opportunity to screw someone we claim to care about over to benefit ourselves most of us would consider it, you over there saying that you wouldn’t think about it...you’re a liar. That surprisingly doesn’t bother me as much as it possibly should, I know that I have thought about doing things I shouldn’t do on more than one occasion, what bothers me is when people act on it. When somebody actively goes out of their way to screw somebody over. Why? Why would you want to do this? Surely moral high ground is so much better, or at least knowing that you’re smart enough not to do something that will make you look like an idiot? So, if that’s the seemingly sensible thing to do, why do people not do it?

I have an idea on answering these questions. In terms of why people want to screw people over, I think it’s often because they are insecure. My theory is that people who are insecure need to upset someone else to make themselves feel better because something in their lives sucks so much that they want to make someone else feel as bad as they do. I know a lot of people share this theory; it’s one that makes the most logical sense even if it is a pretty daft way to think. Surely you will just feel worse in the long run for trying to ruin someone’s day? Going further than that and trying to ruin the rest of their adult life, that’s where I think the person gets really pathetic. Think about it people, heck even talk about it, don’t actually set about doing it. That makes you a fool.

I do, however, have another theory which is a little less widely accepted...it may be purely in my head, but I’m sure other people will agree. This theory is that people are idiots; people have nothing else to do and find it fun, that makes them b-tards in my book. I mean, saying something a little rude would be almost alright; I don’t think there is a single person in the world who has never said anything bad about someone. Perhaps babies, but tiny humans don’t count as proper people, and as such don’t come into this. I simply don’t personally see the appeal of being a bitch but I guess some people just like to ruin a day. On the note of having the moral high ground I simply believe that these particular people don’t care, they want to frustrate others and don’t mind looking like a fool in the process. To be honest I think that makes them look even more stupid than they did to begin with!

Bleh, now that’s out of my head a little bit I can carry on with a day of avoiding stupid people. Thank Goddess it’s a weekend.