Hatred is an all-consuming feeling; it leaves no room for its peaceful, philanthropic opposite. Of course, hatred has a rational component, needs constant substantiation, fueled by memories and sore fantasy projections into the future. This feeling is not just affecting, but subjugating the whole human mind. No wonder Horace called anger, the emotional part of hatred, short-term insanity.
Letter and spirit
Unlike a flash of anger, similar to the lightning discharge of a short-lived state, hatred is a substance that can produce a dry poisonous residue, be immortalized in books, works of art, ritual and religious objects. Suffice it to recall the “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler, propaganda posters from the time of the international wars, which became the common symbolism of the Ku Klux Klan.
Art, not just depicting, but transmitting hatred, still can not be compared with the one-time crafts of the media. It is with their assistance that the cold steel idea of hatred is programmed, cultivated and planted in the minds of millions of people.
Why do some hate others?
National hatred is a direct consequence of the clash of interests of peoples, when the impaired self-awareness of some is compensated at first by verbal-mental humiliation, and then by a real defeat in the rights of others. It is by no means the other side of healthy nationalism, but it is an integral attribute of Nazism.
On the eve of Hitler ’s coming to power, the Germans have not yet eliminated the humiliation of the nation that lost the First World War. This initially prompted to search not so much external as internal enemies, to differentiate into Aryans and people who are not so Nordic in nature, and therefore awaken the mood of defeatism in society. That is what the Führer called for, ascending to the short-lived, but bloody power.
Denial of the contrary and fear of the unknown
What we do not do, but what someone else is fond of, is often alarming, causes an unconscious protest. The point here is not even envy, but the difference in the boundaries of the permissible, soaked with mother’s milk. Annoyance is caused by someone who knows how not only to "get around" us, but to make it an unacceptable way for us. For example, if in one part of a society coexisting on a single territory a deceit of a “stranger”, quackery is considered criminally unacceptable, and in another it is justified and considered a norm, distortions and tensions of social relations are almost inevitable.
Noted features of individual representatives of peoples gradually become common nouns. For a long time, anti-Semitism has been universally fueled by the protest of the layman against usury, the mutual support of members of the Jewish community while filling advantageous vacancies in the field of science, art, and financial organizations. Hatred is a cauldron, which is also heated by the theme of incomprehensible, unspoken, unknown. Everything characteristic of secret societies, whether it be Masonic lodges, closed councils of diasporas, mafia clans or catacomb meetings of Christians in the first centuries from Nero to Constantine.
The historical and cultural roots of mutual hostility
The foundation on which hatred is based is also history, those moments when great blood was shed on the basis of religious or national hostility. The gap between Eastern Christians and Rome began not with a papal scroll laid on the altar of St. Sophia, but with greedy orgies arranged by the crusaders in the villages of the “schismatics,” with the looting of temples and massacres. The Armenians are unlikely to feel love for the Turks, bearing in mind the one and a half million genocide against their people, the lands of the motherland torn away by force, including the sacred mountain Ararat.
The feeling of hatred is, among other things, a consequence of tension in the sphere of cultural relations. Disrespect for the traditions and values of the indigenous population by alien ethnic groups leads, if not to war, then to open hostile confrontation in the fields of politics, economics, and everyday coexistence. So, the tension between Europeans and the Arab world is growing with the flow of migrants who do not want to assimilate, integrate into the cultural world of the Old World.
Is tolerance an antidote?
Modern theorists of the conflict-free world are increasingly calling for the cultivation of tolerance as a universal means of counteracting hatred. However, if you understand the essence of the propaganda approach, it is easy to see that indifference, indifference to the variety of manifestations of those living next to you can hardly extinguish the passionate fire, based on deeply rooted reasons for mutual rejection. In fact, adherents of tolerance merely call for new Tolstoyism, for non-resistance to evil under a different, new-fangled sign.
Hatred of people is, in fact, a sublimation of their own inferiority. A feeling of bitterness is generated by a sense of inferiority driven into the subconscious, the latter is often compensated by self-exaltation on false, far-fetched grounds.
Deaf discontent is the eternal companion of hatred. As the Scripture says, "the righteous is content with everything." That is why the antidote against hatred can only serve as a healthy sense of self-worth and work on their own shortcomings without looking for the guilty on the side.
Hate is the lack of love
A loving people will not hate representatives of another ethnic group, but it will also not allow these latter to mock, humiliate, exploit, show neglect, arrogance, signs of imaginary superiority towards their loved ones.
In a religious sense, hatred is a sin, because it is aimed at condemning someone else, and not at changing for the better, and potentially at infringing on the freedom of another person. This feeling is mutually destructive, ineradicable without acquiring a peaceful spirit, without serving love in spite of one’s own passions, suspicions, and old insults.
The anger, called Horace "madness", is considered in Christianity one of the seven deadly sins. In a popular saying he is called a "bad adviser." Psychology characterizes the same phenomenon as an acute painful affective state. The elimination of hatred in religious or secular ways is a prerequisite for humanity to have hope for a future without wars and internal conflicts.