My anger seems to resonate with Tiedrich's ~ https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/what-kind-of-shithole-country-lets
I wouldn't care to spend my entire waking existence as upset with literally everything as that dude seems to be.
@mcfate "Everything in moderation..."
Ell oh ell, this is the guy who spends hours every day raving about how vexed he is. What's the "moderate" part?
@mcfate I was speaking of my own consuming of a product.
For my part, the appropriate amount of "raving aggretsu" is infinitesimal.
@mcfate Sometimes it is a comfort food; other times it can upset my stomach. π Just knowing there is another out there who can voice my outrage when I need it is the extent of my interest, but yeah. I don't know if Mr. Tiedrich can sustain that level of outrage for himself for too much longer without some serious balance in other areas of his life. Even Stewart had had enough doing the Daily Show, and he was a spoonful of sugar...
Eating outrage just makes you outraged. You come to first enjoy it and then be addicted to it. You start LOOKING for things to be outraged enough if you decide you're insufficiently upset.
@mcfate Hmm. I've not experienced anything like what you're describing here. Instead, I read a diverse array of articles and try to inform myself with history. When I do the latter, it especially helps me keep things in perspective and tempers my own parochial views.
Getting much "information" from Tiedrich?
@mcfate Just some emotional validation. Ever see Louis Black? Kinda like that.
Nope. I don't need to have anger or fear "validated".
@mcfate Then we must process such things in a different manner.
Maybe I'm just not a fan of being angry and afraid.
@mcfate Are you suggesting I am?
Seems like you're projecting stuff onto me now.
I don't get vexed about stuff that's beyond my control, it's pointless.
@mcfate Ok. To be clear, like you, I am not a fan of being angry and afraid either. I'm a consumer of various points of view, some of which I find validating and entertaining; others I find informative and reassuring; still others, I find educational and inconvenient. Sometimes it is useful to me to be angry because it helps focus my energy to be useful and effective. Does this make a little more sense?
Everything I've ever seen from Tiedrich seems to be his being anxious and/or aggrieved about something, in extremely vituperative terms, usually with the implication that if you're not anxious and aggrieved by how anxious and aggrieved he's being made, there must be something wrong with you.
@mcfate I agree that Tiedrich's posts are of a particularly angry nature, but I think it's important to understand the context within which his grievances are made. Again, his posts are not my main meal, at all, but I appreciate the times when I can nod my head at some things he's written & say, "yeah, spot on." Context is important, & there are some things worth being angry about. If one avoids this emotion rather than embrace it to corral its power, to me, the fear is more of one's own anger.
Why do I need to "understand the context" for a guy chronically losing his shit, completely fecklessly? He just LIKES losing his shit, it's his jones.
@mcfate He's a writer with a bit. That's why I brought up Louis Black. It's a schtick. I am fairly certain that he is not - cannot be - like that for the rest of his life. If he is, his level of anger cannot be sustained.
@mcfate Bill Barr is another with a similar temperament. My bro seems to like his brand, but I find it a bit much at times.
The only "Bill Barr" I know was Attorney General for a while.
@mcfate Bill Barr is a comedian, not any way associated with politics except as fodder for his commentary. Here is a sample of which I have not yet heard before: https://youtu.be/PGuqnE35cCg
No, thanks.
You've already convinced me that I'm not interested in investing any time in him.
A temper tantrum isn't much of a temperament. Two-year-old can do that, and he's small enough to be cute-ish at it.
"Similar to Jeff Tiedrich but even more over-the-top" isn't really much of a draw for me.
It's not a bit I'm going to see any value in.
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Not to me. Anger never made anything better. I stare at a rock every day, that seems a lot better way to learn how to focus to me.
As I said, my experience is that when you think anger's useful, you start looking for opportunities to "use" it, whether it actually makes sense to or not.