When the Trucker Convoy Came for Me(theatlantic.com)
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When the Trucker Convoy Came for Me
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/02/canada-anti-vaccine-trucker-protests/622060/
6 comments
The article uses two titles; I chose the <header> title (ie: "Trucker Convoy") instead of the <body> title (ie: "Rage"). The former is more useful since HN doesn't include article previews.
"Clearly men should not be in power"
Yes, I rolled my eyes at that particular line. compulsion to express literal disgust of other humans
Well, in context, it makes sense that he would stress that. A major point of the article is that our political environment increasingly features hatred and blame. The implication is that angers begets anger. I sympathize with the sentiment; our zeitgeist probably isn't helping humanity solve problems.How do these writers still have a job? I get more out of a substack article.
would you expect any less from the Atlantic....
If you can make it past the author's compulsion to express literal disgust of other humans (6 different times in a short piece) then you can look forward to colorful assertions like this one:
"For the first time, I felt political rage: a sharp rise in testosterone, blinding and stupefying and violent. I am ashamed to have felt it. Clearly men should not be in power. Our hormones make us too unreliable. Testosterone is a hell of a drug."