Well hate tends to be a word taken not favorably in modern culture, it makes people uncomfortable when listening to anything based on hate. Even though it is everywhere and anybody who loves anything without exception hates something. Hate is just like love, only the opposite. Its something that tends towards the extreme, like love moves from liking to become an irrepressible need, hate moves from dislike to despisal to utterly disrespectful enmity. I know this is a bad topic so I'll end it here.
As a substitute I will use the word despise which is a more toned down version and is more acceptable. So who are these people that I despise so much and why do I need to despise anyone in this beautiful yet imperfect world? Well, I have my reasons.
The Disciplinarian
A.k.a the headmaster. Among the various pathetic losers that exist in this world who seem to be quite dispensable yet are still kept in production by evolution, the headmaster seems to me the worst. As they say that nothing is purposeless in this world, I suppose there existence does serve some purpose probably to challenge those who are not the sheep these disciplinarians wish to produce. They exist as the metaphorical opposing wind that only helps to lift the high flyers up in Iqbal's poetry. They are seen as imparting moral and social discipline while in fact they are doling out years upon years of hardened conformity and unquestioning obedience that has ceased their heads like rust. They cannot change even if they wish to and they cannot let others change even if they should, that's the tragedy of a lifelong conformist. Even if they are not bad their incorrigible compulsion to create more clones like themselves turns them into evil monsters who would eat anything unlike them.
The Conformist
A.k.a the sheep. The disciplinarian's best friend. The sheep makes the headmaster look good, reinforces confidence in his ways and the contribution that they are making to the world. Their sheepiness engenders an environment of distrust and inhabitability for those who seek the new the different and more often then not, the better. When it comes to life the sheep are as clueless as a five year old in an astrophysics class. Just as the kid they cannot seem to figure out what needs to be done with their life and how should they go about doing something with it. They need directions, lots of directions. Actually, they would rather hold the hand then just take direction. The headmaster goads them in the direction they should go and they happily do that knowing that some knowledgeable is leading the way. Their utter reliance on someone else's ability to give their life direction and meaning is to me quite frankly, disturbing. As they say that childhood habits stay for life, their reliance shows at every stage of their life in one form or another, rendering them eternally clueless about their life and its purpose.
The Race Rat
This is another character that crosses my path now and then. The race rat is also a bit of clueless personality. They are clueless because their actions do not come from and internal drive or sense of direction but from outside, by chasing anything and everything. When it comes to determining what makes their life meaningful and purposeful, they need something to compare with, something against which they can relatively determine their meaning of life. Wherever they are whatever they are doing they look left and right and compare themselves to acquire a semblance of meaning. They exhaust their energies eternally chasing things in one direction or another, its not to say that they don't achieve anything, they do and often lots but at the end of the day they really don't know why they must do what they do.
The Unscrupulous
They go by the rule that there is no rule or everything goes. As far as their interests are concerned they will take any action necessary. These people are not necessarily evil but their ability to have no rules and no principles puts them right beside the devil. Only the devil overtly admits to doing wrong, they just do the necessary. Having no principles at all is a liberating feeling and some people just live for it. It relieves all responsibility and lifts the burden of conscience. Having some principles any principles would put you with some other people as long as you adhere to it. But if you have none or you have all whenever whichever is required, they you fit with all and are bound by none. It was only when man learned to stick to some principles despite self-interest to the contrary that he became human and separated from animals.
The Liar
The primary difference between the unscrupulous and the liars is that liars are afraid. The perennial problem of liars is that they need to stay in the safe zone. Whenever they detect threat whether big or small or anything that the said or did puts them in the spotlight, they lie. They lie to keep themselves safe, they lie to keep people happy, they lie to avoid any responsibility, they lie to avoid any trouble. They lie whenever and however much is necessary for as long as necessary to protect themselves, but they will not face the music. They will not come out, they will not say who they are, they will not be classified, they will not be bound by any law or need. Lying has always saved their skin or at least temporarily diverted attention. They will lose everything, which seems to be a contradiction, to stay safe but they will lie. Lying becomes not just a habit but lifeline for them and they don't know what else to do.
The Emotional Roller-coaster
For the emotional roller coaster whatever that is right and wrong is just how they feel right now. Irrationality reins supreme and they are the kings and queens of their territory. If they are feeling good about something they will completely ignore the dark side and become devoted and immersed in the bright image they love. If for some reason their feelings were to change, they do a hundred and eighty degree turn and become the worst enemies. They will ignore the bright sun in the sky and become fixated at the shadow on the ground. There is absolutely no middle way between for them. The either love it or hate it and whatever they do has no guarantees of staying that way.
The confident Ignorant
There are two types of ignorant people, those who are ignorant and are aware of this fact and those who are not. Those who are aware of the fact either become humble in the face of this shortcoming or, if with low self-esteem, become ashamed and docile. Those who are unaware mostly take the bull by the horn when they are in a horse stable. It happens when you are ignorant and you don't know. Knowledge does not mean anything until the results defy your expectations. Even then it does not have to make any difference, the real confident mock knowledge at its face. Life is too simple for them to misunderstand it. They have it figured out and even if they haven't, knowing and not knowing are the same. They feel good about themselves, they are confident and as long as they are confident whatever they do is ok.
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