“Wrath, though, disconnects us. Like many of these temptations, it initially feels good. Media content creators know the sad secret of the human soul: wrath, in the form of self-righteous rage and contempt, is a compelling, borderline pleasurable emotion. Historian Noel Annan wrote in his 1990 social history Our Age: “for many more people than we care to admit, moral indignation is the supreme joy in life.”