A few people we encounter just can't get happy. If it rains they are gloomy and if the sun shines they feel too hot. It's nothing more than the old Papa Bear/Momma Bear scenario.
Jesus encountered such dismal personalities. When some just can't get happy, these have one steady recourse for daily endurance; slander. The slander of others seems to appeal to the mindset of bringing everyone down to misery's level.
John Piper addressed it in this fashion; When someone hates your cause, all strategies of love will be slandered, even opposite ones. Jesus was astonished at this in his generation: "To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces" (Mt. 11:16). They won't dance with the flute and they won't weep with the dirge. For them the music of truth is never right. John the Baptist was the dirge. Jesus was the flute. And his generation would hear neither. How shall these two be silenced? Slander.
Some have a bent for simply not liking whatever happens to be on the radar at the moment. These seem to find their greatest satisfaction in cutting down others via slander. I've concluded that either their porridge is too hot or too cold. Or....it may be a simple matter that their underwear hurts.
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