Everyone seems to be raging: about race-resentment, gender-confusion, neuro-variance (which looks a lot like neuro-sameness), marginalization, and more.
Are you among the outraged, or are you the rage-fatigued? Do you need a holiday from opinion, both others' and your own?
Outrage leads to cancel-culture, as moralistic and totalitarian as any Victorian rules, and today's "influencers" are as censorious as Victorians against non-compliance with their ideology.
The Victorian Age actually had an energetic sub-society of transgressors and free-thinkers. So, of course, do we: the non-PC. Victorian Age politicians were afraid to join the transgressors; so are ours.
Social-media corporations make huge profits monetizing outrage, while politicians check the direction of public opinion so as to know how to follow it.
Regarding outrage the American investigative journalist/editor Ida Tarbell in the 1890s gave her staff at Maclure's Magazine some advice. The magazine's owner/boss (Sam Maclure) was driving staff mad with his erratic bi-polar behaviour. "Try not to mind", said Ida Tarbell, calmly sympathizing with everyone. So simple, so sane, such Stoic philosophy.
"TNTM" is wisdom in today's unforgiving climate of opinion when everyone feels their tribe is getting the short straw and is full of ideological anger about it. Why is it so hard not to mind when other people's opinions differ from one's own? (Oh ... right ... it's because we're right and they're wrong ...) But you don't need to take your rage for an outing at the drop of every ideological hat. Not minding, once in a while, is such a relief. Be balanced, like Ida. Your identity will survive.
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