Except by mistake, Freud said of misanthropy “a psychic state”; in the dictionary, we find a dull “lack of sociability”. Both definitions are glaringly inaccurate, for they hide the essentially active character of misanthropy. So we need an expert to redo the shoddy work and enlighten us on the meaning of this very special word. Thank you very much. Misanthropy is a sport. In it, two teams confront each other: that of the misanthrope, consisting of himself; and that of humanity, consisting of all other people. The misanthrope’s goal is to avoid humanity, and humanity’s goal is to harass him. The differential of this sport is that its practitioner practices it all the time, and every step of his life can be considered a move. Let’s take soccer as a reference. If the misanthrope, for example, realizing the threat of an approach on the street, pulls out his cell phone from his pocket and pretends to answer a call, or pretends to be concentrated in order not to take part in a stupid conversation around him, he performs something like a dribble. If he misses any social occasion, it is as if he scored a goal. Fernando Pessoa pretended to be ill to miss a family Christmas: an honest goal. A beautiful goal would be the one Karl Kraus scored when, asked on a train if he was the famous Karl Kraus, he answered the stranger with a resounding “no”. Thoreau, moving to a forest to live among wild animals, scored a goal similar to Maradona’s against England in the 1986 World Cup. And so on… With these few examples, one can already see that misanthropy has nothing passive or passing, being much less a “psychic state” than a daily and wonderfully stimulating practice. Thank you very much.