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Wonder Cabinet

Mad As Hell

Wonder Cabinet

Wonder Cabinet Productions

Society & Culture, Wonder, Philosophy, Ttbook, Knowledge, Interview

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Wherever you turn, it seems like someone’s angry -- on Facebook and cable news, in street marches and congressional town halls. It would seem that we’ve entered a new era of increased hostility. But how did we, as a nation, get here? Is it possible we’re addicted to outrage? This hour, we explore the advantages and perils of getting mad as hell. A Lovely Day For A Tea Party; Want To Be More Understanding? Get Angry; How 18th Century Philosophers Created Our Age of Anger; The Fury And The Calm of Harvey Milk’s Memory; Addicted to Indignation; Michael Eric Dyson's Message to White America: Get Angry.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:10.4

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0:15.3

It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm in, Strain, champs.

0:19.0

Can anger be a force for good?

0:24.5

I was in the airport in Charlotte, North Carolina on a flight to somewhere,

0:28.4

and I remember walking around and watching the TV monitors and seeing the news.

0:33.1

Activist Brendan Steinhauser.

0:37.1

Rick Santelli is on CNBC live on the floor of the Chicago Board of Mercantile Exchange.

0:43.3

The government is promoting bad behavior.

0:46.3

And he's talking to traders, and there was this moment where he kind of had this righteous indignation, this moral outrage.

0:52.3

This is America.

0:53.3

How many you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage that has an extra bathroom

0:57.9

and can't pay their bills?

0:59.2

Raise their hand.

1:00.2

How about we all?

1:02.2

Everyone around me was glued to the television screens sitting there with anger, with

1:07.2

outrage, with fear.

1:09.2

President Obama, are you listening?

1:11.4

And they were wondering, how did we get into this mess and how are we going to get out of it?

1:15.6

We're thinking of having a Chicago tea party in July.

1:19.1

All you capitalists, I want to show up to Lake Michigan, I'm going to start organizing.

1:26.8

What was interesting was that Rick was very upset

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