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You let other people and media tell you what to be outraged about

 And that's insanity. Whatever they present to you for the day online, that's what you go with as your activist mission or outrage de jour. We've all been doing this and it's nuts. We go off about things we had no interest in or concern about the day prior, and don't even remember a few months later. Why?

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