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Below is a chapter from my upcoming book Humanity Is Beautiful: A New Story For A World On Fire. Paying members can follow along and watch the book emerge and evolve as I write it. View the Table of Contents of this "living draft" here.
The outrage, despair, and hatred many of us feel today are not simply everyday anger, sadness, and disgust. They are something deeper and more core to who we are.
Anger is the negative, combative emotion we feel when we believe someone has wronged us. Outrage is that wild, unhinged anger we feel when someone has threatened our very identity or core values. We’re not outraged when someone cuts us off on the road. Very angry, maybe. But we save our outrage for moments when our fundamental rights or beliefs of what it means to be decent or even human are threatened.
