Which are;
Open Hostility,
An Acute Eye for What's Truth,
and
An Unflinching Commitment to Telling It Like It Is.
I am Divinely Hostile.
I generally just hate EVERYBODY, it's far easier.I have a few people that I like, the rest are generally worthy of,(at the very least), a sneering dislike. I'm comfortable with this philosophy; I've sifted through various styles of interactive approach,(general amiability, guarded enthusiasm, zen-ish stand-offishness,etc), and have arrived at the simple,(and time-saving*), principal of cutting through the politics and going straight for the Truth.
I used to dally about with the veneer of Diplomacy. But it was more for the sake of keeping people comfortable around me. And I was mistakenly optimistic about humans in general.
Here's the dealio:
Most of the people I encounter have gone on to demonstrate just what a malignant species humans REALLY are; try paying attention to the nonchalance with which we are killing the planet out from under EVERYBODY,(not just ourselves, and we're doing it all the while we profess to be the species that KNOWS BETTER),...... a careen out the freeway among the 90MPH texting Barbees....... watching the Black Friday shopping melee videos.....War,(any and all of them)..... a powerful awareness of the Victim Market, (you name it,Victims for Profit is in everything from Kiddie Porn to Agriculture), The Oil Industry ,(okay, almost ANYTHING Corporate)....... it can make you insane if you keep trying to comprehensively validate people.....so I gave up on that and I no longer assume that a person is decent without some sort of proof to that effect. I don't generally colour something/somebody as more rosy than they are.
As for Telling It Like It Is...
get used to it.
Get over it.
Suck it up.
It's refreshing.
*sneer*
I'm not here to massage your feelings.
If you are out there hurtling around on the freeway with a text phone on the steering wheel and a spoon up your nose....
I'm going to tell you about it.
And, quite possibly, try to run you into the guard-rail.
* You have no idea just how time saving this philosophy really really is;
if you are generally honest/hostile enough to everybody, eventually they just stop bothering you entirely so you don't actually have to interact with anybody that you don't really want to any more.
