Why You Want To Kill All Those Idiots In Front Of You

Alex Balk
The Awl
Published in
1 min readJun 21, 2013

“Modern day life is satisfying our basic needs but in turn is making us angrier, claims a leading psychologist. Dr Sandi Mann from the University of Central Lancashire said that the aggression we once needed for survival, and which is ‘hard-wired’ into our brains, can ‘misfire’ when it doesn’t have a purpose. This leads us to lash out and rage about relatively inconsequential and trivial events such as waiting to see a doctor, computers crashing and traffic…. She continued that our comfortable lifestyles may have spoiled us and boosted our expectations to the point where anything short of perfect causes us to act like ‘petulant children.’

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