Mishra — Age of Anger
Book page: mishra-age-anger
From: Quotes batch 14
Edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2017)
On Social Identity and Resentment
“The modern world promises equality but delivers a hierarchy that feels more personal and more permanent than any that came before.” (p. 42)
On Society
“We are living in an age where the individual is told they can be anything, while the society makes it impossible for them to be anything at all.” (p. 115)
On Critical Thinking
“Anger is a cognitive failure; it is the moment when the complexity of the world becomes too much to bear.” (p. 256)