re: #80 Renaissance_Man

And the biggest difference I found was that I was consistently angry. It didn’t make a lot of sense, because I didn’t agree especially with what I was hearing, nor did I feel especial anger towards the radio hosts as some might. I was just - angry. I talked to others who left that workplace, including the guy I replaced, and they noted that the biggest difference in being removed from the constant talk radio was how much less angry they were.

Yes, exactly. That is partly what I meant about our ability to affect the emotions of those around us.

The advertising industry has become so specialized in their ability to manipulate people via emotions and self-identity - the promotion of the self, that it is hard to see how we can escape it.

The need to compete - to be the alpha male, goes along with this anger. Did you catch the survey a few weeks ago, about the sports interests of Americans compared to political identity? Telling it was.