NY Times: Why do so many people seem on the edge of losing it in public?

by JOHN SEXTONat HotAir: Jan 14, 2022 5:30 PM ETShareTweet

Earlier this month theNY Timespublished a piece about what it called “consumer rage.” Here’show it opened:

Nerves at the grocery store were already frayed, in the way of these things as the pandemic slouches toward its third year, when the customer arrived. He wanted Cambozola, a type of blue cheese. He had been cooped up for a long time. He scoured the dairy area; nothing. He flagged down an employee who also did not see the cheese. He demanded that she hunt in the back and look it up on the store computer. No luck.

And then he lost it, just another out-of-control member of the great chorus of American consumer outrage, 2021 style.

“Have you seen a…