Our species doesn't disgust me except in doses. There are cases that offend me, but those are honestly irrational. Morality evolved to facilitate humans living in groups and to lose faith in humanity because of that morality is irrational. The only rational response to human morality is to use it increase human survivability, and when the human race falls short of that morality as a whole then it's rather funny to me. We've given ourselves a catch 22.
We can never live up to our own impossible standards that exist only to perpetuate our species, and yet when we on occasion do live up to those standards it's either because through struggle we've finally managed to reach standards low enough that we can't help but not fail them or because those standards were never high enough in the first place.
And yet it's dumb simply to strive for those standards because we made them up and they don't mean anything beyond being goalposts for the sake of being goalposts.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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