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>Why are we living in an age of anger – is it because of the 50-year rage cycle? The cycle is 75-100 years. Pretty well documented, and happily increasing. We
by incomingpain 2y ago
>Why are we living in an age of anger – is it because of the 50-year rage cycle?
The cycle is 75-100 years. Pretty well documented, and happily increasing.
We are in that post-great depression, pre-world war spot. Or if looking at the previous cycle it's the american civil war or if looking at the previous cycle it's the age of revolution.
>And from CNN in 2022, “American happiness hits record lows.” Or from Gallup in 2024, “The percentage of Americans ‘very’ satisfied with lives near record low”:
Nobody will deny that we live in the age of rage.
>Viral videos on X/Twitter of societal breakdown are algorithmically promoted to millions, such as looting and physical violence, creating the perception by the public that lawlessness reigns and consequently having the effect of making people less trusting of each other.
Overstating the amount of damage to trust that any of these are causing. At best you're pointing at the trend.
>a more atomistic and less trusting society may also mean a less violent one, save for the occasional mass shooting
I own a 22lr cooey that's old enough that it has been to a high school gun range MANY times. Why did we go from a society which could bring guns to school to 'mass shooting' is a key one in understanding what shifted. This has been ongoing since Columbine.
>?Or the post-2010s rise in teen anxiety as documented by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, which he blames on social media.
You literally quote that the problem was identified in the 1990s with bowling alone, thus this blame on social media is just wrong.
>All of this breeds well-earned resentment by the public against policy and business-elites.
People know they are angry, but the reason behind the rage is being censored. You're not allowed to talk about what is causing the rage. But incidentally because you cant talk about it, you cant fix the rage and political polarization.