Hate
Hate is the back of the mirror, without which you would just have a piece of glass. “It can be positive,” Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys wrote in a terrific 1992 polemic on the virtues of hate. “It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you’re about… To hate a lot of things is tantamount to really
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Hatred is the sign and the expression of loneliness, of unworthiness, of insufficiency.
Thomas Merton • New Seeds of Contemplation
The philosopher Ingrid Vendrell Ferran reminds us that hatred also involves seeing the other as a threat to your self-worth. This threat can concern your physical and mental health, your image, or something you value. For instance, your boss’s manipulation dehumanizes you, threatening your value as a person. Furthermore, you cannot reason with... See more