The unworthy.

[Angrboda]

So, forgive me for feeling low, because its as simple as that: We are deseased with prejudice and corruption, the human race best available option is to be erradicated from this planet as the plague it is.

I'm skipping in here because I see there's stuff I might want to respond to but just don't have the energy and heart at the moment.

I do want to suggest a glass half full alternative to the glass completely empty view you have here. The psychological mechanisms which result in the behaviors which are causing you such distress and anger at the moment have another side to them. These behaviors — and the ones indicated by your story are some important behaviors — have evolved in humans to allow them to build cohesive and productive social communities. In the microcosm, it helped small bands of primates function more effectively by rewarding honesty and positive social examples, and punishing dishonesty and destructive behaviors. The example you give, is, perhaps, an example of the behaviors not hitting the mark and punishing behavior that is honest and positive, admittedly. But these behaviors exist because of the totality of their effect on the social group, and they are heuristics, which means that they're based on cognitively simple judgements, which at best only partially model reality, and which are fast, efficient, and widely applicable; the downside of any heuristic strategy is that it only "probably yields the right answer" if the environment in which it is applied is a good match for the heuristic's characteristic probability function, and thus there is a built-in percentage of error in applying a heuristic. You're experiencing the "error" part. But be aware that the non-error part of that set of human behaviors is likely why you have safety, law, modern medical conveniences, good food, art, music, literature, and all the other benefits that our social behaviors have led us as a species to develop.

There are two sides to the coin you have presented. And the side you're looking at isn't even "all bad," as the efficiency and simplicity of these cognitive behaviors means that they have broad and cheap application for our species, and that means that even the least among us can successfully use them, which is likely one of the reasons for our success as a species.


Anyway. Sorry to hear about your experience. That really sucks. If I can manage, I'll come back and comment more specifically on your OP and the discussion.