Chill the FUCK out!!!
Before you read any further, do both you and me a kindness. Choose any five newspapers from any country other than the one in which you live and stroll through the headlines and main stories of the past few days. (intermission)
Your back. Great! How many accounts of sensless violence did you read about? Three? Six? Seventeen? (include the number in your comment).
We encounter the propagation of violence at many junctions of everyday life and it's out of control. Everywhere we look we find examples of seemingly irreconcilable attitudes between friend and foe, good and evil, parent and child. Violence engendered to suppress, break and eliminate any and all who don't adhere to our beliefs or those who go against the grain of what we believe to be the correct way of doing things.
Me honestly can't explain the motivation of rage. Rage is becoming the thing which any normal human under normal circumstances would loathe to become, so why does it show up so quickly when someone passes us on the freeway or when our team is losing.
What happened to manners? What happened to respect? What happened on the final episode of Survivor, Me missed it?
Me doesn't see a cessation of this ugly emotion. Me can only decide for meself not to enter the castle where it lives. Hopefully, the things Me teach allows others to avoid feelings of inferiority that must occur before we resort to such vapidity and irresponsible actions.
Me no see red anymore.
Your back. Great! How many accounts of sensless violence did you read about? Three? Six? Seventeen? (include the number in your comment).
We encounter the propagation of violence at many junctions of everyday life and it's out of control. Everywhere we look we find examples of seemingly irreconcilable attitudes between friend and foe, good and evil, parent and child. Violence engendered to suppress, break and eliminate any and all who don't adhere to our beliefs or those who go against the grain of what we believe to be the correct way of doing things.
Me honestly can't explain the motivation of rage. Rage is becoming the thing which any normal human under normal circumstances would loathe to become, so why does it show up so quickly when someone passes us on the freeway or when our team is losing.
What happened to manners? What happened to respect? What happened on the final episode of Survivor, Me missed it?
Me doesn't see a cessation of this ugly emotion. Me can only decide for meself not to enter the castle where it lives. Hopefully, the things Me teach allows others to avoid feelings of inferiority that must occur before we resort to such vapidity and irresponsible actions.
Me no see red anymore.
13 comments:
It seems easy for people to use their anger as a reaction, instead of stopping and thinking..the count to 10 rule is widely UNDERUSED!!
11, 12, 13...nope. I'm still pissed.
you may be pissed, but enough to slap your kid or wife?...take a shotgun into your workplace and blow them all away? or fire a "mcmissile" into a passing car?
I'm pissed too...everytime I watch the news...
Violence begets violence, and I think too many people have become inured to it. When people are getting a steady diet of it in TV and other media, I think they may begin to see nothing wrong with it and behave accordingly. That's just my 2 cents worth, but I think that's a big part of the reason why manners have fallen by the wayside.
leelee,
jl4,
Joyful and Serene. Thanks for responding. Let's persue another tack.
Me once had a job where me was "forced" to employ agressive physical intervention against those who could not control themselves. Me disliked the constant feelings of anger, but it happened to be very cathartic. How do we handle the angry among us?
Anger is natural. Rage is natural. To suppress it is only to feed it. The trick is to direct it. Anger is a powerful self-motivator as well. Most of us are not willing to affect a major change in our lives until we reach the point of not being able to take any more. Anger and rage are releases that are needed in the human body.
I believe the rise in violence is due directly to our teaching that anger is bad. People repress and deny it until it reaches a point beyond what they can control. We must instead teach people to accept and direct their anger.
All emotions be "natural" their very existance be the proof of that. Rage is anger out of control.
One must strive to display the correct emotion in the correct proportion to every situation.
Me does agree that repression of any feeling is unhealthy. Me believes that many people do not have the ability to express themseves intelligently nor do they have an outlet for negative feelings that's why things build to the exploding or imploding point.
Holy crap, Y'all,
I take a single solid day to write a short story--a single ONE-- and some crazy mid-week mayhem comes all bustin' forth.
Monster,
I'm very moved by your eloquence and desire for genuine dialogue. I think you have an incredible talent for asking people to give from the inside without being pushy or off-putting.
Kanrei,
I really liked your comment about personal responsibility (specifically related to voting). Apathy is more damaging (to Americans especially) than almost anything else, other than perhaps dehumanization of our fellow humans and a general lack of respect for ourselves, other living creatures, the environment, and whatever bizarre, glorious thing you want to call life.
It's that lack of respect and dehumanization that leads to the rage, and it all starts w/ the apathy.
I'm w/ leelee; the news pisses me right the f*ck off. I truly can't even look any more, at any of it. It's not apathy, it's helplessness.
And Serena J,
It's not that violence begets violence, exactly; think of the Cormac McCarthy book you were just telling me about (or for others of you, let's use Heller's Catch 22 or Mash or...I don't know, I'm not too good w/pop culture references--Sophie's Choice or Schindler's List--please feel free to provide better examples).
There's tons of violence in that stuff, but it's illustrative of what we shouldn't do; it's not inviting us to feel casual about such things.
what littlebirdblue said!
I see your point, Littlebird, and concur with it. I think that one of the problems with the violence inherent in modern society is that too many people have become casual about it.
Hmmm, Little bird There be much to your I don't Know and I don't care theory and it be true that great literature and writers point us toward the realization that violence be a lose - lose situation. Me sees the problem in the common everyday exposure to mass media and contemporary music that extolls violence.
Some have mentioned that Loony Tunes cartoons were exceedingly violent, but when compared to the things me has experienced with today's video games there can be no comparison.
(sorry if this is a bit sketchy, I'm at work. Tee Hee.)
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Me can't see your thumbnail. Yer hands be tucked under your breasts.
Kerouac with breasts? What a hoot!
Iffin anyone out there be brave enough to click on the above link, be sure to let me know how it turns out.
Me be just a itsy bitsy teeny weeny cowardly Monster.
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