Ellemeno
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Ellemeno

CULTURE

The First Stone

The inherent danger of embracing self-righteousness indignation

There is nothing sweeter than succumbing to the warm embrace of self-righteous anger and warranted outrage. The feelings of superiority we get from casting aspersions on people who have fucked up, or who were willfully wrong, mask the fear that it could just as easily have been us. We revel in…

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David Todd McCarty

A curmudgeonly writer and raconteur searching for hope and humor in trying times. Top Writer in Writing, Culture, Social Media, Politics, History, and Science.