The View from 22 – rage against the machine

Has the world become one huge ball of anger? As a follow-up to his book A Bee in the Mouth, Pete Wood examines how ostentatious rage — once the preserve of Americans — is now spreading to Europe and taking over the world in this week’s cover feature.

In our latest View from 22 podcast, Freddy Gray and Fraser Nelson discuss this growing anger, much of it resonating from technology:

‘If you look at internet commenters or trolls, you can see the natural human default position when in front of technology is to be as angry as possible. But only if you are anonymous, the internet has given the cloak of anonymity. If people were forced to give their name they would be more polite. But there is a lot of bile swirling around the internet right now…technology and globalisation have increased this feeling of alienation that the average man on the street feels.’