re: Why are people so angry?

quote:

---

Why are people so angry?

---

Because conspiracy theories are rampant, and such beliefs are alienating and emasculating. Going through life thinking they're powerless pisses people off.

There are a lot of miserable people on both sides.

You're average middle aged white dude obsessed with Tucker Carlson is pretty much pissed all the time.

People who follow politics obsessively are mostly unhappy on both sides.

Talk radio and echo chambers like the Politics board on here are nothing but bitching about the left. Those people seem pretty angry too.

20 percent of the country sucks and that's the extremes on both sides. Doesn't help that the government and media are fanning the flames.

For the most part, I blame social media. This might be the best time in the history of people to be alive, when you look at it in terms of technology advancement, etc, etc.. Yet people are less happy.

I think one part of social media that places a factor is people wanting to "keep up with the Jones'". They see what they don't have instead of appreciating what they do have.

And then politics. I have never seen a political climate like we have today. People let political views divide them more I have ever experienced.

And everything that happens is turned political and since we are exposed to everything as it happens, it makes it seem like all of these bad things are happening more than ever because we are getting information all day long.

Its crazy.

Baton Rouge has become a very angry city over the last 20 years. You can feel it. Probably a nation wide trend and related to social media, tv, anger at dangerous minorities

(no message)

quote:

---

They’re not fricking enough.

---

This is actually a fact.

The Atlantic: Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex?

quote:

---

To the relief of many parents, educators, and clergy members who care about the health and well-being of young people, teens are launching their sex lives later. From 1991 to 2017, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey finds, the percentage of high-school students who’d had intercourse dropped from 54 to 40 percent. In other words, in the space of a generation, sex has gone from something most high-school students have experienced to something most haven’t. (And no, they aren’t having oral sex instead—that rate hasn’t changed much.)

---

quote:

---

People now in their early 20s are two and a half times as likely to be abstinent as Gen Xers were at that age; 15 percent report having had no sex since they reached adulthood.

---

quote:

---

it might be a consequence of the hookup culture, of crushing economic pressures, of surging anxiety rates, of psychological frailty, of widespread antidepressant use, of streaming television, of environmental estrogens leaked by plastics, of dropping testosterone levels, of digital porn, of the vibrator’s golden age, of dating apps, of option paralysis, of helicopter parents, of careerism, of smartphones, of the news cycle, of information overload generally, of sleep deprivation, of obesity.

---

Media and partisan politics is the driver. 24 hr news networks. They want you to hate the other side. In actuality they are two sides of the same coin.

Because social media has made everyone feel like they have a voice, and its an illusion. So when the voice isn't heard, there is a frustration of realizing you're not as important as it seems.

Plus most people don't know how to accept they have a nice life compared to others in this world.

quote:

---

what about mid 20s obsessed with Tucker????

---

I'd say that person really needs to get a life.

Wasting your youth following something that mostly just leads to agitation is a good recipe for being miserable.

And I'd say the same to anyone obsessing over Rachel Maddow or whatever the Tucker equivalent is.

Life is too short to be mad all the time.

If you don't like the politics or people where you live, move. And stop worrying about shite that doesn't impact you.

How does a bunch of loons protesting in Oregon impact the life of some baw in bumfrick Alabama? It doesn't so stop focusing on it.

Conversely, people in the NW should just roll their eyes at the doofuses that refuse to social distance and wear masks in the South.

I get that it's annoying but constantly watching/listening about it 24/7 isn't helping. Take a break and enjoy the outdoors or some shite.

quote:

---

I'm much happier since I stopped debating people on FB.

---

Deactivating Facebook is a huge help.

It’s safer to debate politics, sports, and religion in a more anonymous fashion anyways....especially with cancel culture.