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Political Rage, Broken Windows, and Millennial Sincerity Trend Reports
from Kind Of A Minister · #28
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3 minDiscussion of blind partisan rage toward Obama and the Clintons, comparisons to pro wrestling anger, and a pivot into a friend's marketing trend report claiming millennials crave 'sincerity' over irony.
- 4:37Tim on the blind rage people fly into when their political enemies are in power, with no need for logic.
- 5:01Politics as wrestling: people just need their team to rage against the other team.
- 5:14Tim admits he has threatened fast food workers' lives over rage at a restaurant.
- 5:35People with real legitimate anger—lost healthcare, kids arrested for drugs, felony convictions—have to put that rage somewhere.
- 6:02Broken windows theory introduced as segue into a complaint about how people don't know how to behave.
- 6:15A friend who handles social media gets trend reports showing millennials want sincerity to come back.
- 6:50Tim: sincerity trending is bad news for this program and the show.