Think of a typical day in our angry world. You open social media and read abuse either directed at yourself or someone else, then you get in your car and find yourself aggressively overtaken while driving at the speed limit. You pull into a shopping mall car park, where another driver executes a fast three-point turn to take your park, and then shouts a stream of abuse when you honk.
You find another park but your car gets damaged by a rogue trolley rolling into it; its previous user couldn’t be bothered putting it away.
In the cinema you grit your teeth while those around you light up their phones to send texts, put their feet on seats and talk throughout the movie.
Lining up at the airport to take a flight, the person in front of you shouts abuse at the airline staff because they are going to charge for extra carry-on.
When you board the flight and head down the aisle to your window seat, your neighbours do not want to get up to let you in, so you have to squeeze past them.
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