Schopenhauer's Misanthropy

Schopenhauer was basically a Hobbesian and he says this explicitly. His view of the state is very Hobbesian. And it's really like, you know, people are animalistic, they're dumb. The will makes them pursue their desires blindly; there's desires come into conflict with everybody else's desires. So in that sense, Schopenhauer's misanthropy, his sort of Hobbesian reactionary belief in the state as like a muffling force on the animalistic impulses of humanity. It has something to say to the individual, but not politically. I think if you really stretched it, I don't think either of them would fucking be very happy with