There have been so many pit threads lately that I heartily agree with that it’s starting to affect my outlook on life, to a significant degree. I need to stop reading The Pit, but it’s an addiction, an addiction that might seem rather minor in comparison to other addictions out there. There’s so much stupid, evil, unpleasant, rude and crude in the world, and the pit is often a decent a snapshot thereof, a constant reminder of how shitty other people truly are.
I am not losing my faith in mankind, I never had any faith in mankind. I am losing my belief that I will be able to lead a happy life among my fellow men and women. It’s not their actions or words towards me, that can only get me a little bit - it’s the knowledge that this is the way the world is. It bothers me.
I need an anti-pit, a refuge from the dumb jerks that get pitted here every day. Some place where human virtue is revered, heroes celebrated, people happy. A church for the secular kind, a church with no judgement, no advice, just a loosely associated group of anonymous faces that approve of the good and forget the bad, if only just for a few hours…
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I’m going to a bar now.