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Everybody’s Angry Nowadays

Public rage as a bellwether for social collapse, and what we can do about it

Patrick Metzger
The Bad Influence
Published in
5 min readNov 9, 2022
Image by Ground Picture on shutterstock.com

Last week I was walking through the concourse at Eglinton subway with a crowd of people who’d just gotten off the train, when a man ran up and kicked another man in the back, shoving him violently forward.

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Patrick Metzger
The Bad Influence

Dilettante, smartass, apocalypticist. ***See “Lists” for stories by genre.***