myself as a fundamentally bad person and self-destructively say horrific shit to drive others away and wallow in my dark parts
If it makes you feel any better, I don’t think there is such a thing as a fundamentally bad person. Labeling yourself as good or bad is a false dichotomy propagated by an ineffectual social construct, where literal slave owners can be quantified as good people.
The only thing I’d push back on is your characterization of materialism being a bad thing
Ahh, I may have worded that oddly. I didn’t mean that materialism is bad, just that the only real difference between the two cultures has been erected to mask the material motivations that really create the schism.
and just to be clear
If it makes you feel any better, I don’t think there is such a thing as a fundamentally bad person. Labeling yourself as good or bad is a false dichotomy propagated by an ineffectual social construct, where literal slave owners can be quantified as good people.
Ahh, I may have worded that oddly. I didn’t mean that materialism is bad, just that the only real difference between the two cultures has been erected to mask the material motivations that really create the schism.