The book of Proverbs suggested, "Fools give vent to their rage, but the wise bring calm in the end." Ecclesiastes recommended, "Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools." And Aristotle suggested that anger, while useful, should only be channeled in service of reason.
Reason must never trump anger - allowing reason to trump anger is a sign of insincerity.
The same holds true of new Democratic stars like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist who has been hailed as the avatar of the new Leftism, or Bernie Sanders, who channeled the supposed rage of the youth, or Donald Trump, the man who captured the anger of conservatives.
The problem is that once anger becomes a metric of authenticity, the incentives to public anger grow exponentially.
The result is worse policy, because authentic anger in politics generally stems from frustration - and frustration in the freest, most prosperous country in world history generally stems from extremism.
Utopianism breeds extremism; extremism breeds frustration; frustration breeds anger; anger breeds authenticity, and thus popularity.
Anger may be authentic, but there's no reason to trust angry people to wield power responsibly.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/politics-of-anger-addiction-to-authenticity-must-be-broken/
Reason must never trump anger - allowing reason to trump anger is a sign of insincerity.
The same holds true of new Democratic stars like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist who has been hailed as the avatar of the new Leftism, or Bernie Sanders, who channeled the supposed rage of the youth, or Donald Trump, the man who captured the anger of conservatives.
The problem is that once anger becomes a metric of authenticity, the incentives to public anger grow exponentially.
The result is worse policy, because authentic anger in politics generally stems from frustration - and frustration in the freest, most prosperous country in world history generally stems from extremism.
Utopianism breeds extremism; extremism breeds frustration; frustration breeds anger; anger breeds authenticity, and thus popularity.
Anger may be authentic, but there's no reason to trust angry people to wield power responsibly.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/politics-of-anger-addiction-to-authenticity-must-be-broken/
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