2001connections-article0016 Road rage is a tiny tip of a giant iceberg.

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Road rage is a tiny tip of a giant iceberg.

Road rage represents only one symptom of a much larger socio-economic problem. The average citizen has to endure an outrageous amount of daily irritants. The automobile is one environment where a person losing control becomes most visible. Unfortunately, probably also the most dangerous. Hence, these incidents seem to receive the greatest amount of publicity. But people also lose control in their houses. What do you call these events - house rage?
I have composed this article directly after dealing with another recurring annoyance. Some pest has tried to send a junk fax to my answering machine. I often get at least 5[five] such nuisance calls per day. Mostly from companies I previously never heard of. About half are from new callers. And half from recurring callers: those who have been attempting to send junk faxes to my answering machine for many months. Sometimes years. Yes, years!! Some have made literally dozens of attempts. It's bewildering. You'd think they'd give up after several failed transmissions. Just a series of meaningless "beep beep buzz buzz" noises end up recording as a "message" on my answering machine. Or I pick up the phone when it rings, thinking it's a normal voice call, but then I hear the same familiar series of meaningless "beep beep buzz buzz" sounds. During composing this article, I pick up the phone to answer another call, but it's the same junk faxer as 5 minutes earlier. I shout "Hello hello!! Stop stop!!" but there is no person at the other end. Just a mindless machine, perhaps programmed by an almost equally mindless character. This frequency of repeated nuisance calls could arguably qualify as harassment. But seriously, how many of us really have the resources to effectively pursue these offenders? Hence they get away, compounding our frustration even further.

But back to the main point. The quantity and frequency of daily irritants that we all have to contend with, has become a major social problem. We need to focus less attention on the effect [angry reactions, rage of all types] and more attention on the cause [a variety of recurring annoyances]. The frequency of outbursts such as road rage has risen a lot higher because the onslaught of daily irritants has become downright unmanageable. These constant indignations include long line-ups at stores. Sudden shorter hours at some stores, causing you to rush before closing time. Badly configured traffic lights and stop signs. And of course, junk faxes and junk email. Clearly, this list is only a partial one. But you get the general idea. All these provocation points could cause you to lose control in your car, in your house or in your workplace. But the amount and frequency of daily irritants are the real problem that we need to address most urgently. Not the reaction of the average person to these negative elements.
Objectively speaking, you could almost say that the majority of angry reactions are normal, after considering how much constant aggravation we all have to put up with. The logical approach, then, would be to reduce the sum of all these daily irritants that we are forced to tolerate. Easier said than done. But now, we have at least a very general idea of where to start.

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