THE PROPER ROLE OF ANGER IN A MISMANAGED NATION
Psychology and law-enforcement focus on the causes and negative results of anger--crimes against others or their property, various abuses and other dysfunctional behaviors. But there is another side to the story of anger. This involves our response or lack-of-response to mistreatment. For example, where would we be without the indignation that we feel towards the perpetrators of evil in its various forms, especially towards those who target the innocent, ethnic minorities and various other vulnerable folks who are the victims of this abuse in its many forms?
The problem with our thinking on the subject of anger is that we have begun to regard anger --ANY anger, as wrong. The logical result of this kind of reasoning is that there is no check on people's bad acts, and those who commit these abusive acts are allowed to continue their behaviors. Let me illustrate this, using our current economic climate. Who has benefitted and who has been hurt by the actions of leadership in the financial sector? Their deception in packaging substandard loans as safe investments is what led to a world-wide devaluation in which the average person lost half of his net worth and which triggered the worst wave of unemployment since the Great Depression.
So are you telling me that anger has no place in this discussion? Are you saying that people have no right to show their anger by demonstrating and protesting in front of many of the same Wall Street banks and investment houses who caused this catastrophic world-wide recession? I have heard some who have characterized the demonstrators as unfocused, ineffective, overly-simplistic, disorganized, impotent, clueless and worse. If these observations are accurate, then comparing these demonstrators with the U.S. Congress is the next logical step, because the two would appear to have a great deal in common.
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