The fine line between needing to be social and needing solitude.

Does anyone else have problems with this balancing act? If not I'm just getting this off my chest.

I feel odd when I'm with people, without being insulting towards other humans I find they frustrate the life out of me. I find people just don't really have much valid to say. At the moment I'm sick of hearing people being demonised for claiming benifits, by people who claim working tax credits, child tax credits etc. I'm not in a position were I personally need to claim benifits, however I'm not into the demonisation of the ill and unemployed. It's not only this issue, people just being wide of the mark on lots of topics, science denialist's tend to be particulary frustrating.

I'd like to get on with people a lot more, I enjoy being social (within my small circle of friends). But I just find people stupid, ignorant and inhumane. I'm generally misanthropic and tend to upset people quite frequently by telling them that human life is cheap and explaining about a history of slave labour, concentration camps etc. Well I say upset, I think it just annoys people as It questions thier humanitarian ideals. I suppose thier lies my problem, hypocritical humanist whom don't see that they treat humans particulary badly. For instance they want to save the world and help African children, but have a poor attitude to work colleages.

I went to Auschwitz recently and people seem perplexed that I didn't get upset from the visit. I find it very odd: when I here people talking about how they think other people should be dealt with for not working (and not conforming to thier belief system), I can easily see how something as big as Nazi Germany could escalate. I find it so odd that people think that work is the only important thing in life. Surely there has to be more to life than self regulated slavery?

Today I cut my grass with mp3 player on and it was just bliss. Solitude and the world blanked out.

Wierdly, I still crave some social activities even tho people frustrate the life out of me. 

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  • Hope said:

    It might be the case that people who lack curiosity and zest for life are not mentally ill from a clinical standpoint, but it is also true that they lack optimal mental health. A good book that I highly recommend is Eric Fromm's The Sane Society, which puts forth this argument far better than I can. To have optimal mental health, a person will be resilient, interested in things, have meaning in their life, feel secure, seek out new experiences and have respect for life and human worth. Maslow's Hierarchy of needs explains the same view in a slightly different way - as a pyramid.

    I'm aware of Maslow's pyramid, but I've not read the book. From the sound of it, I'd probably hate it.

    'Optimal mental health' sounds like a sterotyped generalisation to me.

    Everyone is an individual, and some people live quite happy, and healthy, lives without one or more of those needs.

    Should we label those individuals as insane or mentall ill just because they don't fit some uterly arbitrary concept of 'optimal mental health'?

    I think not.

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  • Hope said:

    It might be the case that people who lack curiosity and zest for life are not mentally ill from a clinical standpoint, but it is also true that they lack optimal mental health. A good book that I highly recommend is Eric Fromm's The Sane Society, which puts forth this argument far better than I can. To have optimal mental health, a person will be resilient, interested in things, have meaning in their life, feel secure, seek out new experiences and have respect for life and human worth. Maslow's Hierarchy of needs explains the same view in a slightly different way - as a pyramid.

    I'm aware of Maslow's pyramid, but I've not read the book. From the sound of it, I'd probably hate it.

    'Optimal mental health' sounds like a sterotyped generalisation to me.

    Everyone is an individual, and some people live quite happy, and healthy, lives without one or more of those needs.

    Should we label those individuals as insane or mentall ill just because they don't fit some uterly arbitrary concept of 'optimal mental health'?

    I think not.

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