{"id":1477,"date":"2003-09-30T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2003\/09\/30\/1477.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:43:27","slug":"is-misanthropy-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2003\/09\/30\/is-misanthropy-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Misanthropy Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I mean, morally? I have held for some years that misanthropy is essentially a sin. Humans are made in the image of the Lord, and to hold them in contempt is to hold the Lord in contempt. Still further, to hold anything in the world in utter contempt is, of course, to criticize its Creator (although you can get around that by dabbling in duality, and blaming the Devil for what you don't like).\n\n<p>Anyway, some of the criticisms of democracy seem to come from a deeply-held and observant misanthropy; I can't deny that ignorance, short-sidedness, venality, cruelty, dishonesty, etc., etc., exist, and a million examples of what I might call humanity on the part of humans won't outnumber examples of inhumanity. I cling to my optimism (a muddled, defiant, harsh, and fierce sort of optimism) despite my perception of the universe, rather than because of it.\n\n<p>Misanthropists aren't factually wrong, but I feel they are morally wrong. Or are they?\n\n<p>Redintegro Iraq,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, morally? I have held for some years that misanthropy is essentially a sin. Humans are made in the image of the Lord, and to hold them in contempt is to hold the Lord in contempt. Still further, to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16843,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/16843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}