There is a vast machine out there that feeds on your rage. A long time ago, the various people who profit from the machine made it immune to being raged against by figuring out how to make vitriol the very fuel that powers it.
This machine exists to make you angry, because you being angry at it makes it more powerful. It then has the power to make you even angrier, growing ever mightier with each spike in your blood pressure.
Do you remember the advice in the earliest days of the internet, “don’t feed the trolls?” The wiser among us recognized that some people got pleasure out of baiting you into arguments and getting under your skin. The only winning move was not to play; ignore, block, and move on with your life.
Well, the trolls are behind the wheel, now. Entertainment and politics alike thrive exclusively on your attention, and the most reliable attention is angry attention. So the machine has learned to make you angry, not as a side effect, but as the main objective. This means you cannot ever win. You can’t ever beat the machine, because it feeds on your very attempts. It isn’t a person that can be intimidated, reasoned with, or overpowered. Your anger does nothing but spin the flywheel, and that’s why it spends so much of its power directly trying to make you angry.
Don’t feed the trolls, and don’t feed the machine. Whenever you get angry about anything that isn’t within your arm’s reach, remember that your anger is worse than impotent. It’s actually feeding the thing you hate.
Ignore, block, and move on with your life.
The Opportunity Machine 