I reckon wrath is now beating lust as the deadly sin most people go online in the hope of stirring up in themselves
Do you think there’s always been so much rage around, or is it on the rise? Are there usually this many angry people – or rather this percentage of angry people, past ages invariably having a smaller population? Two hundred millennia ago there were probably fewer humans living in total than have furiously “liked” some tweet about Brexit in the past hour. So we’ve got to talk about rate, not numbers. Is the human anger rate generally this high?
There’s no reason to think not. Human history is, after all, overwhelmingly grim and unfair – much like contemporary events but, on average, probably worse. That’ll cause a little rage spike in some: “How dare you say this isn’t the worst time to be alive – how out of touch!” But it isn’t – not yet. If we all work together, maybe it can become so, but the competition’s fairly stiff and covered in buboes.
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