Making It Up

Spent some time today - it wasn't that much time actually, but it felt like a lot - viewing some of the talking heads on Fox News manufacturing remarkable amounts of outrage about almost everything they could think of to be outraged over, which was plenty. Oddly it included little, if anything at all, of the sort of stuff you'd think would make a sentient being get hot under the collar.

I've known for quite some time, being particularly prone to it, what a dangerous emotion righteous indignation is. But watching it in action on this scale struck me as providing the perfect cure. The problem is though that some folk obviously find this stuff deeply inspirational. In fact, I reckon some of the talking heads themselves are so in love with their own rhetoric that they end up almost fooling themselves.

It is, by the way, of some interest to consider the fact that if they aren't fooling themselves they qualify as genuinely wicked.