There’s a sub-routine I call “the op-ed writer in my head”—a sort of “habitual outrage that people like me exist” meme. I’m not sure what’s helped tone it down, but after a while it occurred to me that outrage is a very easy habit, and I imagine mediocre real world op-ed writers who are unable to find anything interesting to say, so they just dump the usual insults.
Maybe it helps to get cynical about status so that it’s possible to assign higher status to oneself than to the attack voices in one’s head.
There’s a sub-routine I call “the op-ed writer in my head”—a sort of “habitual outrage that people like me exist” meme. I’m not sure what’s helped tone it down, but after a while it occurred to me that outrage is a very easy habit, and I imagine mediocre real world op-ed writers who are unable to find anything interesting to say, so they just dump the usual insults.
Maybe it helps to get cynical about status so that it’s possible to assign higher status to oneself than to the attack voices in one’s head.