Anger in the Age of Entitlement

Cleaning up emotional pollution.

Steven Stosny, Ph.D., treats people for anger and relationship problems. Recent books: How to Improve your Marriage without Talking about It, and Love Without Hurt. See full bio

February 8, 2009, Anxiety

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Anger Problems: How Blogs and Emails Make Them Worse

By Steven Stosny on February 8, 2009 in Anger in the Age of Entitlement

The proliferation of blogs and emails may be partially responsible for the increase in anger of recent years. We can learn a lot about the emotions that motivate many blogs and emails, as well as reactions to them, from, believe it or not, a few observations of animals.

Anger, for instance, is the fight part of the primitive fight/flight/freeze response common to all mammals.

A balance worth preserving

Submitted by IPAC on February 8, 2009 - 1:44pm.

Great thoughts concerning the anger you see in e-mails and on blogs or on a social network like FaceBook.

How do you take the need for individual ego and connection to a social hierarchy and balance them?
In the work place you want everyone contributing and being respectful but at the same time you have a hierarchy from the executive on down. The executive gets paid more therefore they are more valuable in the company's eyes then the janitor who gets paid a lot less. So how is individual value determined? How would a truly egalitarian culture or workplace actually work? It seems there are two different things at work here Core or the intrinsic value of every human individual and then there is another type value that comes from what is contributed to the whole of humanity by that individual. I can see it is a balance that is worth preserving - please shed some more light on why you think this balance is worth preserving.