The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #145418   Message #3364369
Posted By: Little Hawk
16-Jun-12 - 07:47 PM
Thread Name: From the horse's mouth, as it were.
Subject: RE: From the horse's mouth, as it were.
Jeri - "It's as if they cruise around the internet actually looking for reasons to be act upset."

That is exactly what they do, Jeri. And people do it off the Internet too in their 3-D lives. It's called "recreational outrage". It suffices to provide a little excitement and self-justification, even a sense of martyrdom, in an otherwise empty and frustrated life.

Newspapers and news shows are big on recreational outrage too, because it attracts listeners, and that pleases the sponsors.

And then there are the politicians! Even recreational outrage there to power the whole electrical grid if we could just find a way to harness and distribute it effectively.