The craziness online and in public life are getting worse. I'm seeing more and more people I can only describe as drunk on anger. The discourse is being swamped by a wave of irrational arguments and coarse language. Manipulating anger is a chump's game. I can't believe we're falling for it like this.
Anger is a cheap high.
It's easily whipped up, and after that it's as easy to make an angry man angrier as it is to get a drunk to take another drink. If he gets mad enough, he may even take a swing at anyone who tries to tell him he's out of control. Chumps, chumps, chumps. I'll tell you a secret. It's a basic rule of politics.