Triticum Guzzler posted:

schadenfreude is a special emotion only computer programmers can feel. it's about taking joy in the perceived or real failings of others despite an abject lack of personal success according to any metric, including your own. the unspoken basis of the desire to see others fail is a protective psychological mechanism to ensure that we, ourselves, never attempt to better ourselves or create anything. each and every one of us is more contemptible than the last, linked as a human poo poo ouroboros eating a newly pooped human poo poo in perpetuity. i have personally never accomplished anything nor has anyone felt pride in me or my actions due to my extremely myopic, embittered worldview and my wholly repellant personality. i can only ignore the deep shame i feel by constantly and obsessively documenting every action of another in a psychotic and negative way. and i love cats.