“Their capacity for tolerating stress may be even greater than men's, ” she observes, “it's just that they're dealing with so many more things that they become worn out from it more visibly and sooner. ”
The proportions of these salts and minerals in our tissues is uncannily similar to seawater we sweat and cry seawater, as Margulis and Sagan have put it-but curiously we cannot tolerate them as an input.
In summer 2020, after a period of too-low inflation, America's Federal Reserve said that it would tolerate inflation that was a little above its 2% target for a time, in the hope of making up for undershoots.
They tolerate long, slow journeys to and from work on packed highways because they can work, entertain themselves or sleep on the ride, which encourages urban spread.
Without anger, we would be reconciled to accept the unacceptable, tolerate the intolerable, and thereby consign ourselves to a status quo in need of repair.