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Notice how all of these things are variations on escapism. Extortion is a way of escaping your responsibility; impatience is a way of escaping reality and wishing things were different from the way they are; anger is a way of escaping your inability to cope with things not being the way you want them; nostalgia by taking vacations in the past instead of grappling with the past or looking to the future in faith.