What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?
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What Do We Do With All This Consumer Rage?
I’m mad at him. I’m mad at me. I’m just generally, irrationally mad.
Emily Henry • Book Lovers
anguished expression and her tone of judgement and her statistics that were meant to terrify me into handing over all my bank details and filling out a form. And I felt rage like I’d never felt before.
Dolly Alderton • Good Material: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
There is literally nothing you can print anymore that isn’t going to generate a negative response. This, I believe, was brought on by the internet. It used to be that you’d write a letter of complaint, then read it over wondering, Is this really worth a twenty-five cent stamp? With the advent of e-mail, complaining became free. Thus people who were... See more
David Sedaris • The Best of Me
People have plenty of reasons to be angry.
Pema Chödrön • Start Where You Are: How to accept yourself and others
FIRST THING TO TRY Watch how anxiety sparks Anxiety sparks when a perspective we value bumps into another perspective that challenges it in some way. If we find this new perspective to be unacceptable, that’s when our “Someone is wrong on the internet; I must correct them!” impulse leaps into action. When anxiety sparks—poof!—it’s like a little anx
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