Maybe I'm being overly sensitive about this, but sometimes I can't help but feel that there are people in the world whose entire lives revolve around discrediting other people's narrative.

They are not exactly the "Karens" of the world, but something similarly unfathomable!

It seems like they don't do anything significant to further their own narrative — in fact, sometimes it seems like they don't have a narrative at all — all they really are focused on is tearing other people's stuff apart.

And, to the degree that they do have their own narrative, it seems like that narrative is so challenged by somebody else having a different opinion that said "different opinion" must be silenced immediately, and at all costs.

It's an approach to life I really don't appreciate, because it's so combative and destructive.

Sometimes such an approach to life appears to be tied to a sense of revenge, but not always. At least I can somewhat understand where people are coming from if they want revenge, even though it remains a very destructive emotion that seldom leads to anything positive, in the long run.

I guess I am somewhat against this whole thing because my experience has invariably been that destruction begets more destruction. So if you're busy trying to tear down someone else — without offering anything positive of your own as a substitute — you're not really contributing anything to the world!

Politics

It's an attitude I particularly don't understand in the field of politics. I'm not kidding when I say that I have encountered politicians out there whose entire platform seems to revolve around hating their opponent's platform. And they openly will say — when questioned as to what their platform is — that their platform is to get their opponent to lose, or out of office.

Well what the hell does that have to do with running a town, running a company, running a state or anything else?

Religion

One of the more ridiculous situations I've encountered happened many years ago where there were two churches of the same denomination in a city and they were literally "having a war" with each other because each believed the other was a bunch of uncivilized heathens on account of the way they interpreted scripture.

So you have two groups of people who, on Sunday, were sitting around preaching Peace, Love and God, and yet spending the rest of their time bad-mouthing each other and telling people not to visit their fellow denominational church because they were "sinners from Hell?"

Sorry, but there's just something deeply and terribly wrong with that!

Almost sounds like an old comedy parody on debate: "If you don't have a point to make, just ATTACK your opponent!"

Crypto Madness!

Seems like we even see shades of it here in the Cryptosphere where is there are "maximalists" who support a particular blockchain project or token but who are determined to label anybody who supports a different project as an idiot, and that project as doomed. And they will even — perhaps in a subtle and passive sort of way — try to sabotage the other project.

What the hell is wrong with you???

If your perspective or believe won't stand up to scrutiny, perhaps you need to revisit why you even hold it, in the first place!

Maybe it's all just an aspect of human nature I simply don't understand. And I'm willing to concede that is a distinct possibility — after all, I'm a cat! Even so, what about the idea that you emphasize your own and highlight what is good about the things you're contributing in an attempt to make them stand out as better than other options? Making a life that revolves around belittling other options while not saying anything much about your own just strikes me as very little better than being a snake oil salesman!

Well, I really didn't set out to write a rant, but it seems like it's turned out that way.

Thanks for coming to visit, and do leave a comment if you feel so inclined!

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