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Why Are Londoners So Angry?

London Times writer wonders what's eating her angry city

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted May 17, 2008 6:08 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Most Londoners are living comfortable, even enviable lives, yet they seem to be getting angrier and angrier, Janice Turner writes in the London Times. Minor stresses of everyday life boil over into violent disputes with alarming regularity, reminiscent of pampered resort guests flying off the handle over tiny inconveniences.

Anger no longer carries a stigma in today's society, Turner writes. Fury is often taken as drive or passion or used to mask a lack of power or self-esteem. With hunger, danger, and physical challenges often absent from cosseted modern lives, she writes, flashes of anger can be "the only time some people feel briefly and iridescently alive."

London life seems built upon a thin and fragile crust through which a bubbling magma of anger could, at any moment, blow, Turner writes.
"London life seems built upon a thin and fragile crust through which a bubbling magma of anger could, at any moment, blow," Turner writes.   ((c) fabbio)
An encounter with a furious London driver prompted Janice Turner to write about the huge amount of anger people in her city display in everyday life.
An encounter with a furious London driver prompted Janice Turner to write about the huge amount of anger people in her city display in everyday life.   (Shutter Stock)
A London Times writer finds her city is getting to be a grumpier and grumpier place, despite the comfortable lives most people have.
A London Times writer finds her city is getting to be a grumpier and grumpier place, despite the comfortable lives most people have.   ((c) saragoldsmith)
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