in retrospect, it seems almost ridiculous that something this obvious hadn't fully occurred to me--i mean, me, mr. self-aware--before, but we all have our blind spots, and i guess this was one of mine.
then i sat back and started counting the ways:
1. the market
first thing in my morning (after waking up mad about having to get up in the first goddam place), i flip on CNBC so i can rail at (a) the idiots who have brought us to the brink of financial collapse, and (b) all the other idiots who, in the face of this looming catastrophe, keep running up the market against all reason and thus blowing the bubble even bigger.
2. the news
next, i settle into my eames throne, open the macbook and hit the news sites--always starting, of course, with the incendiary drudge report--in order to learn what latest outrage the corrupt, idiot politicians have perpetrated upon us while we all slept in order to feather their own nests and fuck us up even further [and if i'm really lucky there'll be a good mass murder or world-government conspiracy or something to really get me going].
3. the blogs
ah, my cherished blogs. first, i make my daily rounds of the left so i can sneer at the liberals for being the self-righteous, deluded idiots they generally are, and then i go to over to the conservatives in order to sneer at them for being equal-but-opposite idiots.
then, the pump properly primed, it's time for that most sure-fire, anger-inducing of activities in which i indulge on any given day:
4. the drive to work
which topic will require a post in itself.
4 comments:
It really is just easier to hate everyone.
todd x: finally, a reader who understands me.
Todd X is right...
You left out a lot...
'Cause when the truth is finally told, there isn't much you aren't angry about.
noblesavage: first, thanks as always for playing our lightning round.
second, this post was less about the anger that found me years ago than that which i seek out and nurture each day.
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