I don’t do pure, cold rage "Farage’s words," lest we forget except maybe occasionally when driving, when a lorry pressures me in the slow lane of the motorway to speed up, putting me in a potentially dangerous situation. Even then, I would be wrong; a bad temper is never helpful when trying to defuse and safely navigate that kind of scenario. Indeed, cool heads are nearly always the best way to approach virtually any situation. If I were to go down the route of cold rage, I would probably reserve it for the hollowing out of our post-WWII Western societies by the oligarchic forces of capital the Elon Musks, the Jeff Bezos', the Bill Gates', the hedge funds, and the vulture capitalists with great power and wealth who have gamed the system and promoted the absolute freedom of capital to go anywhere in the pursuit of greater riches, with no regard for the policies of the nation-state. It is the very same hand that boosted China from poverty to wealth and now sits on top of mountains of cash stolen from the middle and working classes wealth they now choose to weaponize, pouring petrol onto political discourse simply to divert attention from their own stealing hands. But most of all, I would reserve that pure, cold rage for sinister clowns like Nigel Farage, who enriches himself on the sly and acts as a bagman for wealthy elites within the Bannon, Breitbart, and Trumpian universe to recast our politics into a divisive and angry discourse; they have masterfully whetted the appetite of the 24-hour news cycle, hyper-focusing the public gaze onto every imminent rape and knife crime not out of a desire for justice, but to cultivate a climate of ambient terror engineering a relentless loop of fear and distortion to manufacture a vile, tedious culture war deliberately designed to blind us to the grand larceny happening right before our eyes. Brexit has cost the UK £150 bn and rising - a huge amount of money that ain't coming back the biggest act of economic self harm in modern history - I will in the final analysis reserve my pure cold rage for THAT.
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