Raging Anger

THERE RECENTLY RAGED on Facebook, and perhaps other places, a virtual war concerning whether 'tis proper to breast feed in public. Although nobody seemed able to identify its source, contact tracing would likely result in pinpointing a single conversation gone bad. The Puritans versus the free spirits, presumably. No one knows who won, if anybody. No one ever does, no one wins, nor nor who claims victory. all parties, presumably. It is now well documented that people become merciless savages, to quote Jefferson, when using a computer, barricaded from direct enemy fire by a screen. This is why I only use Facebook to promote this website, and to spread opposition to tump, among people who already oppose him. No new friendship formation or conversation online for me. I learned that lesson twenty years ago, in AOL chatrooms. When the lady the other day, having sworn up and down that she could never bring herself to hate a human being, then moments later declared her hatred for Colin Kaepernick, I couldn't remain silent, much to my regret. I pointed out the contradiction, then suggested that disapproval was preferable to hatred. She sarcastically responded that once again I had demonstrated my intellectual superiority. People don't like to be corrected, even people who have no internal self correcting mechanism. The other day my neighbor's teen age son brought out a ton of garbage one minute after the garbage truck had come and gone. He spilled some watermelon rind from the trash can, then just kicked it into place, leaving it lying on the ground until the next pick up, which would be in three days. the flies began to gather immediately, and my neighbor hates flies. I thought it made for a funny story, but when i told him, boy, did he ever get mad. he thought I was mocking him. I hope I'm finally learning how to deal with people in an angry culture, with the three epidemics of Covid 19, racist tension, and anger all infecting the United States of Anger and Arrogance at once.The trick, of course, is to strictly avoid all three sources of disease, meaning, human beings.