Do you fear or love Machiavelli?
It is claimed that Plato or Socrates complained about they your during their time, but it might also be myth to pretend that old people have always complained about the youth.
I can not help though to wonder if it is unique to our time or if this is something that is reoccurring in history; where we either have a certain period of time or when you reach a certain age that it seems that everyone around you is just whinging and complaining about everything not worth mentioning.
Most people from western countries should spend a few months in a third-world country, maybe and hopefully they will stop complaining about how hard their life is and start appreciating what they have.
Maybe they even stop being bothered with minor announces in life.
That is what a lot of people would most likely call wish-full-thinking and add that, people like that is sadly beyond help and will always whine and never be happy.
Which is why I have always been an existential nihilist and a misanthrope.
People annoy me and they are self-centered bastards!
Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
