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"I'm
such a negative person, and always have been. Was I born that way? I don't
know. I am constantly disgusted by reality, horrified and afraid. I cling
desperately to the few things that give me some solace, that make me feel good.
I hate most of humanity. Though I might be very fond of particular individuals,
humanity in general fills me with contempt and despair. I hate most of what
passes for civilization. I hate the modern world. For one thing there are just
too goddamn many people. I hate the hordes, the crowds in their vast cities,
with all their hateful vehicles, their noise, their constant meaningless
comings and goings. I hate cars. I hate modern architecture. Every building
built after 1955 should be torn down! I despise modern popular music. Words
cannot express how much it gets on my nerves—the false, pretentious, smug
assertiveness of it. I hate business, having to deal with money. Money is one
of the most hateful inventions of the human race. I hate the commodity culture,
in which everything is bought and sold. No stone is left unturned. I hate the
mass media, and how passively people suck it up. ... I hate having to eat,
shit, maintain the body—I hate my body. ... Nature is horrible. It's not cute
and lovable. It's kill or be killed. ... How I hate the courting ritual! I was
always repelled by my own sex drive, which in my youth, never left me alone.
... I hate the way the human psyche works, the way we are traumatized and
stupidly imprinted in early childhood and have to spend the rest of our lives
trying to overcome these infantile mental fixations. And we never fully succeed
in this endeavor. I hate organized religions. I hate governments. It's all a
lot of power games played out by ambition-driven people, and foisted on the
weak, the poor, and on children. Most humans are bullies. Adults pick on
children. Older children pick on younger children. Men bully women. The rich
bully the poor. People love to dominate. I hate the way humans worship
power—one of the most disgusting of all human traits. I hate the human tendency
toward revenge and vindictiveness. I hate the way humans are constantly trying
to trick and deceive one another, to swindle, cheat, and take unfair advantage
of the innocent, the naïve and the ignorant. I hate all the vacuous, false,
banal conversation that goes on among people. Sometimes I feel suffocated. I
want to flee from it. For me, to be human is, for the most part, to hate what I
am. When I suddenly realize that I am one of them, I want to scream in horror.
§ "The Litany of Hate" in The R. Crumb Handbook by Robert Crumb and Peter Poplaski (2005), p.
386.
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