Why does society hate chess?

I like chess, but i have chess class that makes chess seem like hell

Society does not hate chess - just chess players.

who wouldnt like chess???

It depends on what you mean by "society."  It might mean "the influential few who make things happen," or it might mean "those who exhibit the most common behaviors." Certainly people still interact in one way or another with each other, but of course in different ways in different eras. 

For the last 150 years, I think most people (society) think chess is an okay intellectual game to dabble with, but "nerdy" to waste too much time doing.  After all, wealth and notoriety are "society's" most important goalposts, and chess rarely gets one there.

Chess is a game that takes study and understanding to fully enjoy. Most games are are active, the players have to move fast and use brawn rather than brains. But if you put in the extra effort that chess takes you will find it is well worth the effort. Most people disagree and the slow moving pace and mental effort turns people off.  Let thos people who do not like chess play their children's games and have fun and I will have fun with my more interesting game of chess!

Well-reasoned, NM Impractical

He's a national master of philosophy too

The writer of this forum must not be aware that chess is rising in public popularity and is getting widely romanticized.

I didn't realize america doesn't like chess.

I mean, last week I saw like five commercials featuring chess.

America is intrigued in chess, actually.  Don't believe me, ask Good Morning America why George Stephanopoulos interviewed/played a game with a chess prodigy with an IM title

Let's just be realistic, watching chess or go isn't as much fun as watching a football game (i guess) for most people. People want to feel like they belong to the club and when they goto the bar and they're wearing their favorite jersey they fit in better. I bet if they publicized chess and gave players cool names like Beaver Slayer 9000 and badass looking Jerseys people would like it too; but then, would you?

I've just always thought chess was cool, maybe that's why I'm not so popular. Now if only my game was as strong as my passion.

Furthermore, along the lines of team thinking. Chess is in individualized game, when you loose you can't say "We" lost. You have to admit your own shortcomings and I think that that is a huge deterrent to a lot of people.

Who cares what everyone else thinks?  Their opinion doesn't matter as long as you like yourself.  Go find your social contentment from yourself.  Also I totally disagree about the football thing.  Chess games are so much more fun to watch lol.  I also am rather unpopular myself.  I mean, people generally want to like me because I'm a nice guy but they can't relate to me because instead of watching TV I read C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Gladwell and miscellaneous unrelated things, and instead of playing sports I play chess and perform in piano competitions, because I like doing those things.  My famous line is, "To hell what you think."  If only people thought like that.  They'd find their skills honed and their minds broadened with nobody picking on them for what they like.  Also don't worry you'll get better in no time if you got the passion.

Oh yeah that is true.  No support.  Good point.

I agree with you.

like, i'd be interested to, you know, like, see the commercials. like, see 'em.

or, like, you admit that there might have been a board or chess pieces in some ads you saw, and your blindness told you that chess was 'featured'. 

this would be quite interesting, actually, because i have never seen an advertisement that features chess but is used to sell another product or service.

insert a number of random "likes" in the last two sentences so they make sense to you.

First off, watch it.  Phrases like "your blindness" are meant to aggravate.  In addition it didn't take six lines to criticize one little word.  Overkill.  I didn't do that to you.  Second, all I meant from "features" is chess was in the commercial.  It was in a completely unrelated thing to the commercial's topic yet got 10% of its screentime.  Why?  If it wasn't a thing that the media meant to indirectly promote they wouldn't have put it there, because it would've been a waste.  Also like I said before chess actually has been, by your definition, "featured" on the news.  See my Good Morning America comment.

yes, everyone heeds good morning america as the countries #1 news source.

"watch it"? stop with the empty threats and go back to your playpen.

Society hates chess because it's difficult. And if there is one thing we have learned over the last 3 months (exactly), it's that people like "simple".