This is Stephen Fry's Seven Deadly Sills.

Episode 7.

Roth.

Anger is the vice of our age.

Our age is our rage.

Everyone can surely agree on that.

Whether you're on the left or right as if those demarcations have any meaning anymore,

you know that they, the enemy, are motivated by manufacture and rage,

fake fury, confected collar, virtue signaling outrage, self-righteous indignation,

and reckless irrational eye.

The culture wars are fed by our anger,

much as the vast fortress empires of Silicon Valley are fed by our data.

And as it happens, the rage feeds the data in an endless vicious cycle.

And I mean vicious.

Or vicious is the adjectival form of vice, a cycle of vice,

a cycle peddled by the sixth of the seven deadly vices of our series, Roth.

The twin giants, rage and outrage,

we might think about the difference between the two later,

how long sold newspapers and now they fuel click-throughs, posts, counter-posts

and all the social media shitstorms and flame wars are times endure.

The modern fetish for identity,

equally on what we might as well persist in calling left and right,

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