Our Age of Anger
Anger, rage, fury: it seems like everywhere we look right now, we see rising temperatures, smoldering resentment, blood boiling, floods of emotion. From Trump to Brexit, Hindu Nationalism to Black Lives Matter, from Hollywood me too to Pandemic Protestors, ISIS to white nationalists, Ukraine to Fox News, to my ongoing conflict with my unreasonably slow computer, it seems, as the historian Pankaj Mishra has argued, like we’re living in an age of anger. I look at the history and philosophy of anger. What is it? What triggers it? Is it ever good? I look at the Stoics – including Epictetus and Seneca – Aristotle, Christianity, Enlightenment figures like Rousseau, Hume, and Adam Smith, through to modern day anger management psychology. I make some surprising findings about the usefulness of a misunderstood emotion. Then & Now is FAN-FUNDED! Support me on Patreon and pledge as little as $1 per video: http://patreon.com/user?u=3517018 Or send me a one-off tip of any amount and help me make more videos: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JJ76W4CZ2A8J2 Follow me on: Facebook: http://fb.me/thethenandnow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thethenandnow/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller Subscribe to the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/then-now-philosophy-history-politics/id1499254204 https://open.spotify.com/show/1Khac2ih0UYUtuIJEWL47z Sources: Faith Harper, Unfuck Your Brain, Using Science To Get Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers Barabara Rosenwein, Anger: The Conflicted History of an Emotion Ryan Martin, Why We Get Mad: How to Use Your Anger for Positive Change Ost D. Politics as the Mobilization of Anger: Emotions in Movements and in Power. European Journal of Social Theory. Pankaj Mishra, The Age of Anger: A History of the Present https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/trump-and-politics-anger/573556/ Martha Nussbaum, Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice Seneca, On Anger Aristotle, Rhetoric https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/american-anger-polarization-fox-news/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/opinion/sunday/sick-of-racism-literally.html David Konstan, The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks William B. Irvine, A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy John Sellars, Stoicism Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Epictitus, Handbook & Discourses Credits: Renatus Des Cartes De homine / figuris et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/dr3x345t/images?id=whyf623u L homme ... et un traitté de la formation du fœtus. Du mesme autheur / Avec les remarques de Louys de la Forge ... sur le traitté de l homme. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uft3tqv6/images?id=wc6yp6w5 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Simonis_%26_Buunk_%E2%80%93_Pieter_Hendrik_Koekkoek_%E2%80%93_Travellers_on_a_country_road.jpg Simonis & Buunk Kunsthandel, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-1987-0410-503%2C_N%C3%BCrnberg%2C_Reichsparteitag%2C_Wehrmachts-Aufmarsch.jpg Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1987-0410-503 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en Renatus Des Cartes De homine / figuris et Latinitate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/dr3x345t/images?id=ccdbf9ka https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Judith_Beheading_Holofernes_-_Caravaggio.jpg Caravaggio, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e5/Aiva_1846.jpg AralGuillaume, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Mirabeau_Palais_de_Justice.JPG Malost, CC BY-SA 3.0 0 https://conversations.terraamericanart.org/artworks/une-averse-rue-bonaparte https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Brexit_crowds_in_Parliament_Square.jpg Andrew Davidson, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Prime_Minister_Narendra_Modi_greets_people_in_Varanasi_%282%29.jpg Prime Minister s Office, Government of India, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Marine_Le_Pen%2C_chantant_la_Marseillaise_Paris_louis_maitrier_banquet_des_Mille.jpg NdFrayssinet, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/President_Donald_Trump_-_Fayetteville%2C_NC_Rally.jpg Jackson A. Lanier, CC BY-SA 4.0 Credit: L homme. et un traitté de la formation du fœtus. Du mesme autheur / Avec les remarques de Louys de la Forge ... sur le traitté de l homme. https://wellcomecollection.org/works/uft3tqv6/images?id=xk94yxwe https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Altsasuko_Mahaia_%281978%29.jpg Theklan based on work by ezkerabertzalea.info, CC BY-SA 3.0
