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Do I qualify for at least Third Class Curmudgeon status if I opine that I’m getting really tired of “[Fill in the Blank] Rage” being used as a label for everything?
\nRoad Rage. Air Rage. Now Snow Rage<\/a>.
\nFirst of all, the Snow Rage story doesn’t even sound like a classic Rage tale. There’s no sign that the attackers (rarely to Rage tales involve multiple Ragers anyway) were tired, cranky and frustrated. They just beat up a guy who indicated they oughtn’t be doing what they were.
\nSecond, this Rage stuff has always just struck me as yet another way of labeling behavior to get out of being responsible for it. “It wasn’t me, officer. I’m normally a quiet, gentle man. It was circumstances, other rude folks, the rush, the stress, the frenetic pace of modern society. It was the Rage.”
\nThe Devil Made Me Do It.
\nFeh.
\nI do not believe that life today is more stressful than twenty, fifty, or a hundred years ago. I think we’re just more creative at coming up with pop psych excuses for folks misbehaving. It couldn’t just be that they have a bad temper, that they lack self-control, that they were just acting-out cranky. It couldn’t be that they thought they could get away with throwing a temper tantrum, or that some people are incredibly self-centered and have no personal sense of restraint or self-control. No, we shake our heads sadly, it must be … the Rage. Blame society. Blame modern life. Blame anyone but the poor, deluded individual.
\nMy mother-in-law almost flunked out of the psych course she took in college because she failed to go along with the then-current party line about child misbehavior all being traceable back to badly timed toilet training. I wonder, though … if we started publicly speculating on the toilet training of Ragers, would that someone remove some of the … well, perhaps not glamor, but certainly Victimization of Modern Society aura that they so proudly bear?
\nAgain, feh.
\nI’m hoping that the prospect of fellow passengers beating some yahoo senseless with their food trays, just before the pilot stuns said yahoo even senseless with a taser (or a “small axe”), will reduce Air Rage incidents. Too bad Road Rage and (God help us) Snow Rage incidents cannot be so easily dealt with.
\nI hope they find the snowboarding hooligans (to resurrect another curmudgeonly word) who perpetrated the crime in the article. And I hope, if they actually have the gall to dredge out the term “Snow Rage” in their defense, the judge smiles, says, “Fine. Five-to-ten sitting in the corner, until you can control your tantrums,” and goes on from there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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