Why is everyone thus angry today, and what is it doing towards the world?

In the developed world we reside in a blessed epoch, a time and a place where life hasn’t been better. Infant mortality has been all but abolished, we’ve greater personal choice than ever before, we have access to technology that would have been viewed as the stuff of science fiction bit more than a decade ago. We are safer and wealthier than at any time in history. Why are we so damn angry about everything?

On- about Why Are We Thus Angry?: And the facts doing to the globe? line, in the pub, in the ballot container, anger may be the most dominant public feelings of our age. Just what exactly are we therefore irritated about, and how is usually our anger shaping the world? We know the problems that people seem to be angry about – the iniquities of globalisation, diversity, democratic disconnect – but why has anger become our default feelings when giving an answer to the condition of the globe- and what is anger doing to the globe we reside in?

Oliver Burkeman can be an award-winning feature writer for the Guardian. He writes a popular every week column on psychology, ‘This Column Will Change Your Lifestyle’, and provides reported from London, Washington and New York.