“It is amazing how much anger just simmers, simmers. And then of course the algorithm, it just amplifies it. Because our algorithms, their design, man, keep people on.
The angrier they are, the better. We want the clickbait, we want the rage that sells, and you and I are being formed by this all the time. I don't know about you.
I can go online and literally I feel a visceral shift in my whole disposition as I'm going through and I'm reading comments or I'm scrolling through the things people say. Like I have banned myself from going on so that I don't react because it just fuels me and the anger fuels me. And this is what psychologists have said.
They said there's this phenomena and it's called the bitterness anger loop. And I looked at it and said this is a self-reinforcing cycle that transforms temporary hurt into permanent hostility. Welcome to 2026.
And the fact is it's affecting all of our relationships. It's affecting us psychologically, emotionally, physiologically and spiritually.
And the fact is it's become a macroeconomic force. The rage economy, this is how they're making money.
“It is their goal to make us get angry so we stay online longer and longer and longer. And the fact is they've monetised anger in the world that we're growing up in. The social media algorithms, they literally, literally promote content that triggers outrage because angry people click more, share more, and stay online more.
The data is there. And you and I are being formed in the midst of that, and we think it is normal. We are being sucked into this anger, bitterness loop, hook, line, and sinker.
It's kind of like anger, it's been said, is like dynamite. It blows up the very structures and foundations that are supposed to be holding us together. It disintegrates them, and we're watching it happen in real time in our lifetime.
It causes us to act and to say things that we later regret big time, and it wounds people, and it fractures relationships, and sometimes permanently. What happens is it causes us to go into this denial, and Naomi's poem and talk was so powerful, because our anger masks our fear and our shame. Listen, I had a PhD in this.
From Bridgetown Audio Podcast: 7 Deadly Sins: Anger, Jan 12, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bridgetown-audio-podcast/id84246334?i=1000744768076&r=918
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