cynicism, bitterness, hopelessness, anger, jealousy, and self-pity - online

I once heard character defined as who you are when no one is looking.

I think one of the problems with blogs, Facebook, and Twitter is that no one is looking while we type. It’s just us when we type things we probably wouldn’t say out loud - We craft posts, status updates, and comments that drip with bile, cynicism, bitterness, hopelessness, anger, jealousy, and self-pity. We set out to attack organizations, celebrities, and peers because they need to be taken down a peg. Then, we click the “Publish” button. As I see it, there are three tragic aspects of this kind of behavior.

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"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I do not see how the "fear" of God could have ever meant to me anything but the lowest prudential efforts to be safe, if I had never seen certain ominous ravines and unapproachable crags. And if nature had never awakened certain longings in me, huge areas of what I can now mean by the "love" of God would never, so far as I can see, have existed."
The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis