Quote of the Year candidate
Posted By Russ Emerson on October 10, 2003 at 11:56 pm
Eiland’s Theory of Compensatory Misery:
As human society gradually solves the problems of basic survival and reduces the amount of other miseries rooted in the reality of the human condition, the fringe elements of that society feel an increasingly strong compulsion to become obsessively angry about ever more trivial causes to recapture the sense that life is a painful struggle.
Simple. Brilliant.
This may be the quote of the year.
[Update, 16May2012: the original link has died.]
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