People are selective in their indignation, Henry. Same deal with apes. On any given day there gotta be hundreds of thousands of things one could get indignant about, but everyone has their few special favorite obsessions, see? So...they just concentrate on those few favorites and they ignore the rest. This is efficient, actually, cos if one tried to get indignant about every bad thing that is goin' on...it would just be too much to handle, and the indignancy nerves in the body would shortcircuit! That would lead to total exhaustion, incontinency, and impotency. A nasty spot to be in! This is why I get indignant, for instance, about specism and about people bein' discourteous to women...but I don't spend a lotta time railin' on about religion or obsessin' over gay rights issues.

Like anyone else, I got a limited amount of indignancy ravin' capability percolatin' around in my system and just waitin' to bombard the ears of any poor sucker who happens to be in range. I gotta make sure I measure it out carefully so as to have enough OUTRAGE left for each one of my "special" favorite issues to do them full justice!

Some would call this hypocrisy. I just call it efficiency.

- Chongo