rant · moment 13 of 18
Technology Making Holidays Angrier
from A Time Gone By with H. Foley & Kevin Ryan | The Tim Dillon Show #364 · #364
1 min
Tim argues technology has made people perpetually angry instead of just briefly boozy-emotional during holidays, contrasting the old cycle of drunken blowups followed by reconciliation with today's unresolvable political anger.
- Technology has ruined holidays by making people angry all the time, constantly reinforced by articles and information.
- Holidays used to create emotional release through drinking, a time-release versus binge effect that's now replaced by constant daily anger.
- Alcohol at family gatherings allowed for emotional catharsis—declarations of love or arguments—followed by reconciliation the next day.
- Political arguments online don't resolve the same way because people remain convinced they're right with no alcohol-fueled excuse to apologize.
- In Irish Catholic families, that drunk apology and reconciliation is essential; technology is slowly making people less human.