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Age of Rage: Stories, Not Facts, Bridge the Divide
Book coverToday's world is filled with angry people. Comment sections on online articles have sunk to gutter levels. Regardless of the article's content, people personally insult the opposing camp based on their political leanings. Hostility toward those with different views or positions has reached dangerous levels. Why have people become so angry?In his new book "Why You and I Get Angry," world-renowned moral psychologist Kurt Gray argues that anger is not a phenomenon unique to our time. Only now, with the development of digital media, its patterns are expressed far more blatantly and collectively. Opposition to or criticism of the other side leads to judgments of "immorality," which quickly spread into anger. This is why progressives and conservatives go beyond merely opposing each other's positions, instead branding one another as "lunatics," "murderers," and "thieves."The author traces the roots of such narrow-minded moral judgment to the "perception of harm." Humans have evolved to feel anger in proportion to how much a particular action harms the vulnerable, he argues. On immigration, for example, progressives emphasize the suffering of children fleeing war and dictatorship to argue for acceptance. Conservatives, by contrast, emphasize the harm caused by crimes committed by some immigrants to argue against it. Abortion, too, divides the direction of anger depending on whether one focuses on women's rights or the life of the fetus.Ultimately, both sides perceive "danger" and experience the emotion of anger in the process of trying to avoid it. The only difference lies in judgments about to whom, and how severely, that danger causes harm. The author argues that the cognitive habit of simplifying a complex reality further fuels anger. People are divided into victims and perpetrators. Yet in reality, humans far more often exist on the border between the two. A representative example is a domestic violence perpetrator who was simultaneously a victim in childhood. Perceiving morality in such binary terms defines the other side as wholly evil and blocks any possibility of debate or persuasion. Conflict intensifies, and anger is amplified.So what is the solution? Many believe that debate grounded in "facts" and "data" is the answer. But the author flatly rejects this. Once the other side has already been perceived as "a dangerous entity," no amount of logic will be accepted.Instead, the author proposes "stories" and "shared experience." It means directly l...
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