When I teach color theory to my Columbia University students, as I do for at least one class period in my course, Multiplatform Design & Storytelling, I take each of the important colors one at a time. For red, I always say: an ideal color if the story involves passion, anger, fire!
So I am happy to see a good example in this cover from The Atlantic, with a cover story by Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author Charles Duhigg, who tells the untold story of how we all got so mad at one another, how dangerous our fury has become, and what we might do about it. Duhigg interviewed social scientists, psychologists, political operatives, protest organizers, and others to illustrate the promise and peril of this powerful emotion.
The cover story headline is “Why Are We So Angry?,” and it it is published now on TheAtlantic.com, and leads the January/February issue which will be released across the next week and reach newsstands on December 18.
Highlight of the article:
We may think of anger, and especially political anger, as being like the weather. It comes and goes, and some days are hotter than others. But anger in America has become more like the climate—it infuses so much of American life now, and it’s been getting steadily worse, year by year. Duhigg’s gripping thesis explains that while Donald Trump is a master manipulator of anger, he is a symptom, not the cause of our furious present. A whole host of invisible forces have been steadily transforming a useful and episodic emotion into something much darker and more persistent.
A good example to study and, in my case, to save to show to class when the new semester starts in January.
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