Eiland's Theory Of Compensatory Misery
"As human society gradually solves the problems of basic survival and reduces the amount of other miseries rooted in the reality of the human condition, the fringe elements of that society feel an increasingly strong compulsion to become obsessively angry about ever more trivial causes to recapture the sense that life is a painful struggle."
That explains so friggin’ much. I think I might be able to ignore idiots with even greater ease now that I see the light!