Anger
An unbridled emotion found in both humans and animals.
Humans use anger as a tool to express or carry out the very worst in their either developed or chaotic character. Presidents and peasants use anger to hurt other people, most often emotionally but sometimes physically.
At a recent Market Day event in the Texas Hill Country in a town of less than 900 known as the “Cowboy Capital of the World” a local Democratic club had their booth set up on the courthouse square. Nearby were a Republican booth and another booth selling Trump paraphernalia. A host of other booths selling crafts and food were also set up in the town square.
One man walked up to the Democratic booth and spat, “I would never vote for a goddamn Democrat” while another man said “Black Lives Matter … that’s a bunch of shit!” A woman said she didn’t care if immigrant children were being yanked off life-supporting medical care before being deported. She didn’t want her “tax dollars” spent on that.
This is the sort of anger eating away at the bowels of the American political system. Amongst themselves, these three individuals believe this sort of political and racist fueled anger is what makes them “fine people” who own the “land of the free” and “home of the brave.”
As these “fine people” were spewing out their unsolicited anger toward people simply occupying a booth, an angry man was driving around the Odessa-Midland area firing an AR-style automatic weapon at anyone and everyone near him—an angry rampage that left seven innocent people dead and another 22 injured.
According to media reports, the Odessa-Midland shooter was angry at everyone and everything around him, including his own miserable, useless life. He spent his last hour on this earth doing everything he could to destroy as many innocent lives as possible.
Anger is a contagious disorder. It moves from one individual to another, steadily consuming the society that ties humans into a collective body.
142 innocent people have died so far this year in mass shootings. More angry individuals are stockpiling their weapons, either as a perceived need to protect themselves from imagined enemies or to take their anger out on others.
America is consumed with anger at the moment. The Netflix documentary “American Factory” captured that anger in the workplace—the same anger that exists in the marketplace, our schools, our political systems, and even in our churches.
Big Pharma doesn’t have a pill for anger. The only cure for anger is rational thought—and it is losing its centuries old battle with anger. Rational thought is fast-approaching a place on the “endangered species” list. Anger will then reign supreme.
American will turn to Mussolini over Barak Obama.