Why it’s Fun to be Righteously Indignant

by David Angel Published on: February 20, 2009
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Everyone likes to be right.

Heck, even I enjoy this guilty pleasure.  However, there is just something special about being righteously indignant.  Nothing quite beats being indignant, except being right about it, too.

The only problem is that most the time, indignation can be a spur of the moment, and often uneducated, response to an issue.  Talk about over reacting.  However, when indignation is warranted then it can pull people together to collectively enforce the communal will against whatever transgression has so stirred the people into action.

I like being righteously indignant.  It’s fun to care about something enough to really feel stirred to protest, to act, to call for change.  However, I try to temper my temper with logic, research, and an openness to possible explanations.  Plus, after I do all that, if I’m still angry my righteous indignation feels even more justified (mua-hahahahahaaa).

Ahem….

3 Easy Steps to Righteous Indignation:

  1. Really, and I mean REALLY, get worked up about an issue (doesn’t really matter what).
  2. Decide why you are right, and why everyone who disagrees with you is wrong – so, so, dead wrong.
  3. Once worked up to the right frenzy, start venting it to like-minded people, preferably somewhere you don’t have to discuss the opposite point of view.

Et voila, you have Righteous Indignation!

Example:

What is the deal with dogs that are all white?  I don’t like any fully white-furred dogs, unless they come from cold Arctic regions.  Why do any dogs with all white fur live anywhere but the Arctic??  I mean, really, poodles?!  Who decided to make poodles white???  I can accept that they are shaved to help them swim, but white fur???  That’s just a cruel joke.  Not only do they look funny and unnatural, they get dirty really easily and probably smell, too.  Especially toy poodles.  Poor little bastards.

Explication:

So, do you see what I did there?  I found an issue that probably isn’t that important (step 1), decided what I didn’t like about it with possibly very fallacious logic (step 2), and then ranted about it online (step 3)!  Please note that proper Internet etiquette, grammar, and punctuation can be malleable, including all caps, multiple punctuation marks (including the use of “1″ as an exclamation mark), and grammar can include incomplete sentences as well as hanging adjectives.

Conclusion

So, being righteously indignant is something you, too, can become.  Just follow the steps above, and you will soon be on your way to having your own blog.


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