Word: misanthropeã
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...good vibes, and they deserve to be represented, too. So here’s a look at two films and two books of 2008 that just love to hate. Films “Saw V:” Thomas Hobbes would have been proud of this film, a misanthrope??s delight. Films like this seem to exist only to prove Hobbes’s rage-fueled philosophical vision: that man cares only about his self-interest and that life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Characters self-inflict tracheometries, saw their arms...
...This was deeply embarrassing for a lot of reasons, mostly because it threw me into the role of the artsy misanthrope??really into music and secluded on purpose from the rest of the world—but also because in the minutes leading up to my turn at show and tell, it forced me to acknowledge, inwardly, that I knew how clearly everyone around me can hear what I’m listening to whenever I walk around with the volume up. That every once in a while I consciously turn the sound up too high, especially...
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