“I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.”
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My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.
Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.
People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.