What is something you've become disillusioned with?

The Simpsons. After seeing Family Guy I just was unable to go back to Homer and Bart.

Politics.

American politics, specifically. I can’t go anywhere (especially online) without some retard going on about “hurr durr the Rethuglicans are trying to force me to be a christian and they are hateful racists” or “derp derp the libruls are killing all the babies and trying to make me gay and force me to drive a prius.”

Hence my disillusionment.

There’s more to life than Democrats and Republicans… Jesus fuck.

/weak rant

I think a great many things through my life, but only because I had to grow up and realize there is nothing perfect in life because so long as we are all flawed, everything we touch will be flawed.
So I went from disillusioned to acceptance or I try my best to fight to make right the things I can change.
And when all else fails, I rant so that I can at least get it off my chest and move on.
You can’t change everything or anyone who disappoints but you can always choose how you deal with it.

Politics, especially the GOP. (Why the rational Conservatives have not disowned the batshit insane elements that get all of the bad press is beyond me.)

Economics.

Religion. (If you can’t think of a reason to hate someone/something, just blame God/Allah/The Great, Green Arkleseizure, and then become the homicidal maniac you always wanted to be.)

95% of TV and music. (I can only tolerate Family Guy episodes where Peter either barely appears or is totally absent.)

Humanity.

My yellow wrist band is going into the trash! I do want to believe in miracles but the testimony of Armstrong’s past team mates casts just enough doubt in my mind that Lance wasn’t the drug free athlete that he claims. At first I didn’t give much thought about this when Tyler Hamilton and Floyd Landis started pointing fingers at Armstrong but since George Hincapie’s recent testimony under oath to Federal investigators that Armstrong used EPO and testosterone I’m no longer a true believer.

Oh and I’m especially disillusioned with politics in general and Obama and the Democratic Party in particular.

Youth being the hope for the future. I’m mostly disappointed by so many younger people who have a sense of entitlement to the point where they are like children into their mid lives, or expecting some miracle to happen so they don’t have to repay student loans, actively land a paying job or take responsibility for breeding.

@mazingerz88 I weirdly became disillusioned with Family Guy after watching South Park. Although the recent episode have been improving.

I think I really lost faith in both political parties, and I’ve realized you just kind of have to…stick with the lesser of two evils. Better yet, go with the best option, parties be damned. I’ll probably always lean to the right a little bit more, but the general definition of the words “liberal” and “conservative” have become so twisted that it may not even matter in the grand scheme of things. But I can’t vote yet anyways :P

Where to fucking begin, man… I’ve become disillusioned with religion and politics because it’s all a load of shit anymore. I’ll leave us to our individual beliefs, they’re most pure. Entertainment, too; it seems that the art that becomes popular is done for completely wrong reasons. As always, there are exceptions, but it’s noticeable. Life in general, my attention span is shrinking by the day, and quite frankly, I blame school. It isn’t creatively stimulating enough. Which leads me to my next point, school! It tries to overload you with all the pointless elements of things that you should know. The only required class I’ve found that didn’t do this is history because all history is important. But come on! Titrations and imaginary numbers do not sufficiently round anybody unless you’re a chemist or theoretical mathematician! I could go on, but I’m tired and should sleep, also I have one of those nagging headaches that doesn’t hurt so much as it just distracts your focus, which is such a nuisance..

Not much. Being disillusioned means that at one point, you were illusioned, and I really have had a low opinion of most things/people since I first learned about them, so there’s been no illusionment to dis.

I am disillusioned with medical pot smokers it seems many (at least around here) will concoct or use any slight illness as the vehicle to get prescribe pot hoping it comes with a Greatful Dead or Cheech and Chong CD.

Disillusioned with atheist because their argument is weak and tired.

Disillusioned with US politics and government because for all the hype and propaganda it is little better than the governments it tried to say it is better than.

Disillusioned with the diet industry preying off a bunch of lazy people who can do it on their own (I did) if they had the will power to put the burger down and step away from the nachos, and get their flesh moving.

Disillusioned with ”buffet Christians” who want to pluck the good parts they like from the Bible but not want to digest the whole Bible.

Disillusioned of the whiny poor who figure everyone who got out there and made it rooked them and thus owe them something, instead of working smarter and not harder.

I better stop here or I might still be here at 3am in the morning.

Other people’s work ethic. I work hard and I care about the job I do. I am confounded about how little some people care about the work they do or how their slack arsed efforts affect other people. I don’t get it.

I am disillusioned with people in general. I’ve given up on making friends of any particular closeness. I have ‘acquaintances’, but no one gets in any more. It’s not worth it and at my age, it’s too much effort.

I am disillusioned with my marriage. ‘nuff said.

Politics
The Internet

Most people’s concern. Try being chronically ill and you’ll see it too. The first bout of illness, flowers and cards come flooding onto your doorstep and you think the people around you are saints. The second bout, people say, “again? Really?” and maybe you get some displays of concern from your close friends. The third bout, you’re ignored. Once they know it won’t kill you, they don’t really care anymore. Never mind if you’re suffering, most people will just say “oh that poor girl” and feel sorry for you but they won’t do anything to show they care. The worst of them will cut off ties with you with some shitty excuse that being around all that pain makes them depressed or something.

I used to like arguing some topics (like politics) on the Internet. I thought if I could just present a factual rebuttal, the other person might consider the things I presented and at least think about it, even if he or she didn’t change their mind at the end. I’ve come to realize this is usually a lost cause. Politics is almost like religion that way. People have their ideas that they “know in their gut” are right, and no amount of insight will change that. It’s sad in a way, because I still feel the moral obligation to set things right from time to time, because these people, misguided as they may be, have just as much say in the way my country is run as I do. You’d think they’d want to do it based on actual evidence, not just faith.

And yes, this cuts both all directions. No one gets a free pass from me. except when I don’t have the energy to discuss it, which, lately, is almost always.

Lately I’m severely disappointed with our politicians.

religion – hypocrisy and self-righteousness
politics – LIES
relationships
mainstream media – dumbing down the society
humans – ignorant humans, that is