SEEING the fury from both sides of the House of Commons on Wednesday night was one of the most dramatic things any of us can have ever seen from British parliamentarians.

The vitriol being flung across the aisle was like nothing I have ever seen from our elected representatives, but in many ways, it is a microcosm of the kind of world we now live in.

It seems like every aspect of our lives has become like football: you pick your side on any issue and you defend it to the death, no questions, no debate, just white hot fury when anyone questions your choices.

It applies to so many parts of our daily lives, from our political affiliation to choosing whether or not we want to eat meat, and I'm not entirely sure how we get around it.

It can't be healthy for us to get so worked up about everything, all the time.

No normal person has a furiously held belief about every subject, yet it seems increasingly like we as individuals are being pushed towards that.

Take the issue of climate change, for instance. We are seemingly being pulled one way or the other from being absolutely terrified the planet will die next week on one side, to being absolutely convinced it is all a hoax.

On that subject, the amount of people directing their rage at Greta Thunberg is, quite frankly, bizarre.

If you are on Twitter or Facebook calling a 16 year-old with Asperger's a brat or some other derogatory term, what happened to you?

Where has the desire gone for consensus agreement on things?

It doesn't seem enough now to simply be broadly in favour of one thing while accepting it is not the perfect solution.

These days, you simply have to dig your fox-hole and be ready to yell and scream until either the person on the other side of the argument gets bored or you both just give up and agree never to discuss it again.

Perhaps it was always like this, and throughout history we have always argued in this way, but it seems as though, in recent times, there has been so much rage, so much fury on both sides.

Maybe we should all just calm down? No doubt someone will be frothing with rage at that idea, but maybe it would solve a few of our problems if we all just stopped being so irate all the time.