The era of outrage

This is the era of outrage. Everywhere you look online it's about people putting others in their place with personal attacks, trolling and gotcha comebacks meant presumably to massage egos and release pent up frustrations.

It's cruelty run amok. 

Trumpism is definitely about cruelty and it was sown on a soil ripe with uncertainty after the 2008 financial crisis. The 2020 pandemic ramped things up even more and the tension has never let up since. Culprits were identified and used as pin cushions for societal ills best blamed on human greed.

We are nearing the end of a cycle which began post World War II and will eventually usher in a new one. The problem is that these cycles tend to end in turmoil and we don't want it to involve human suffering on a massive scale.