I think it’s like this: We hold people to the impossible standards we set for ourselves, a standard we will never reach, and since we are constantly punishing ourselves for not meeting it we’re in a bad mood and feel hatred when we see other people not meeting it, especially if they seem happy not meeting it, because they remind us of our great and humiliating shortcoming.
iwasstaringthrough t1_iu0nlqu wrote
Reply to Most of society’s problems derive from people holding everyone else to higher standards than they hold themselves by Scatterbrained247365
I disagree!!
I think it’s like this: We hold people to the impossible standards we set for ourselves, a standard we will never reach, and since we are constantly punishing ourselves for not meeting it we’re in a bad mood and feel hatred when we see other people not meeting it, especially if they seem happy not meeting it, because they remind us of our great and humiliating shortcoming.