Irrelevance Glorified

(note : originally written in 1999)
Hate has a bad rap. We’re always being told that hate is horrible. It should be abolished. “Make Love, Not War!” (Personally, I thought that last one was just made up by people who wanted to get some) But you know, hate isn’t all that bad. It’s just so often misused. It’s often been said that Hate isn’t the opposite of Love, Apathy is. Which is very true, if you stop to think about it. In both Love and Hate, you feel very strong about something. The difference between Love and Hate is merely is one of a sign, not of magnitude. So if we treat them as scalars instead of the vectors that they actually are, they’re pretty much equal to each other. Man I’m such a dork for using an analogy like that. Anyways, one can easily see Hate is sometimes just Love going in the wrong direction.

Hate has historically been used for bad purposes. National Socialism and the Klu Klux Klan are just two examples of this. But while sitting in class today, I realized that Hate, much like Love, can bring people together. There was a very annoying person in my group today, who didn’t really hve the prerequisites for the course, and was asking a lot of questions. This in itself wasn’t so bad. Asking questions is just the mark of a curious mind. However, he wouldn’t wait for answers before he asked another one, and was just overall not very cool. Eventually he left, after much needless discussion, to talk with an advisor about perhaps getting out. When he left, all of us agreed that this was a guy that we could do without. And you know, it created a bond between us all. We were able to converse and joke freely. And icebreaker, almost.

Hate is also a much more efficient unifying force than Love. Just try and get people to agree on pizza toppings. They’ll argue for months about what is better. But I bet that they’ll all agree that yak dung is a horrid pizza topping. There are so many more things to hate than to love, that it’ll be much easier to use Hate than Love. I think we’ve given love a great chance to solve our problems. Now it’s time to bring in the big guns.

Hate is kind of like The Force, and there are a lot of people on the Dark Side. Really, we need to to focus our hate on something more constructive than blacks, gays and mimes. Well, okay, I suppose the mime part is fine, but at any rate…. As you may have figured out, I really don’t like ignorant people. And cucumbers. But I can’t really justify ridding the world of cucumbers. I can however, put out the idea of getting rid of stupidity. And as collaries, we can get rid of racism and Scientific Creationism too. There are so many horrible things out there to Hate, and once we get them knocked out of the picture, we can get back to loving each other. Or if that can’t be done, tolerance is also acceptable.

In short: invest in Hate; it gives much better returns than Love. Make Hate, not War!

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