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In Admiration of a Fellow Hater

3/20/11 by Cyle Gage

Andy Rutledge might not know it, but he’s a hater. And he hates a lot. And I like it. If you like some of my rants, you’ll really like his, mostly because he’s older than me and has a lot more swing behind his hate. While I do not agree on some of his fundamentals (see: his very thorough and interesting article on capitalism), he is nonetheless a very articulate writer who I agree with the majority of the time. Here’s a best-of list of his very intriguing thoughts:

Capitalism. (My stance as a hater: weary disgruntlement, but worth understanding.)
Rational Professionalism. (My stance: valid points, somewhat beleaguered acceptance.)
Everybody under 40 is a sociopath. (My stance: excited agreement.)
Kickstarter Sucks. (My stance: more excited agreement, but for different reasons than his.)
The Sales Department should be Killed. (My stance: sure, why not.)

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On Hate

1/25/10 by Cyle Gage

Recently I’ve been getting questions/comments like “why do you hate everything?” and “nobody likes you because you hate everything”. It’s easy for people to ask this and it’s also hard to disagree with their reasoning: I write a blog about hating things. It makes sense, superficially, to assume that I hate everything. I tear things down much faster than I praise them. I don’t usually like to write about things just because they’re awesome (unless they’re awesome because they bring the hate). It’s fairly logical to assume that, in general, I hate things, and that I’m a fairly negative person because of it.

However, I’m not writing this blog because I hate things, and I’m generally a lot more positive than my nonfiction would make it seem. I like the illusion that I hate everything, because hate can be provocative in a very basic sense. It weeds people out; those who can handle it, and those who cannot. If you can’t handle a little hate and provocative thinking in your life, there’s something wrong. I write these entries because I enjoy analyzing culture, thinking critically, and expanding on those thoughts through writing. (People have said that I like listening to myself talk: I don’t. However, I do like reading my own writing. I’m re-reading this sentence right now, and I’m pretty happy with myself. Does that make me an asshole? Probably.) This writing stems from desire, from enjoying things, from wanting to know more and to express myself. I come upon a topic and I do some research and I read a lot and I think a bit and then I write. Hate is just the easily-accessible platform these ideas orbit: it’s the lowest common denominator.