Jack-wagonry

Why is being a jack-wagon expected from such a huge majority of the population?  Really. There are countless examples of people being nasty and mean-spirited for no real reason, when they could easily be pleasant and kind.  Why?  Here's a shocker for you:  I think it's emotional.

The world is not always a very kind place.  We've all suffered.  I think a large number of people have looked at their own suffering and felt cheated or abused.  Because of the huge taboo against expressing emotion, they don't do what's healthy.  They don't express their emotions about feeling abused and then just move on.  No, instead they push that emotion down inside.  This repression gets them through that instant, but causes a huge amount of pain over time.  And they come to resent that pain.  And because all of this is happening subconsciously, they don't attribute the pain to it's source, which would allow them to solve the problem.  They just feel angry and resentful.  The obvious next step from angry and resentful is entitled.  And all the jack-wagons are incredibly entitled.  "It's my right to act however I want."  And they do.  Internet trolls are sort of becoming passé. They're too obvious.  The real problem are these entitled jack-wagons who just spew nastiness all over the place, but do it in a way that fits within the bounds of what people will accept.  It creates horrible environments.  I don't watch television, so to get local news, I like to read MLive.  It's a great source for information that I wouldn't get otherwise. But any time I get sucked into the comments, I just can't believe my eyes.  The environment there is so disgusting that it's hard to maintain any faith in humanity while reading those comments.  Any time I can, I try to leave pleasant, positive, non-judgmental comments there.  You never know.  Maybe one of them will read that positivity and it will have an impact.  

But not really.  Because they aren't really angry at the specific situation they're blowing their nastiness at.  As I said above, they have structural anger that is caused by repressing their emotions.  So, until they decide to emote, we'll all just have to put up with them.  I'm doing what I can to break that taboo, but it could be a while.