Anger is like a viscious rash. It is like an itch that causes everything to become tense. Anger is focus and boiling. It is, in modern society, something that must be managed or will lead to restraint. Only in the most justifiable cases can anger be utilized without recourse.
Exceptions include war and the removal of an assailant from a victim. Left unchecked and unmitigated, anger will eat away at the angered until it becomes wrath or the subject has a breakdown.
Anger is raw, red, and pulsating. It is chaotic and destructive. Anger seethes and writhes in the mind and in the gut. It can lash out or rot but it always hurts someone to some degree. In the jungle, anger is a tool. In society, it is borderline breaking the rules. In the wild, anger can be unleashed while in human civilization, it can only be harnessed and used in the most delicate of ways.
There are always situations, be it Lord of the Flies type scenarios or in the generally ordered Courtroom of public opinion, where anger can be temporarily useful and attention-getting. Focused anger, in brief moments, can yield desirable outcomes but prolonged anger almost always results in stress and anxiety.
Anger is a festering emotion and it rarely leads to anything productive because even where it is certainly justifiable, it often leads to mistakes and pitfalls because the feeling rules one's actions rather than calm deliberation about the best course of action.
Not all cases seem to be inappropriate for anger, however, and in some situations it can be the driving emotion behind an act of heroism or stupidity depending entirely on the circumstances.
Anger is an emotion that all normal humans have experienced at some time or another. It appears unlikely that any human, through developing from childhood, would not have experienced anger at least to some degree even if only as a child or adolescent.
Some monks and people with abnormal brains may have conquered this emotion in some sense. My own experience has been one in which anger is an emotion that arises in me as a result of my inability to remove myself from the welling up of this reactionary emotion.
During times when life was relatively regular and stress free, I was able to distance myself from the surging anger and it would often, if not almost always, subside. This period while I lived in New Orleans was one of serenity, meditation, calm
It is an emotion that comes forth when the world does not match our understanding of how we think it should be.
Injustice is the trigger for anger in humans. What is it about the world that can make us so angry? Is anger ever appropriate? Should we allow innocents to be harmed in front of us?
Or, rather, should we throw the rapist off his victim and break his neck with a quick twist?
Does anyone feel bad for the dead rapist? Should the abusive alcoholic monster face some abuse too? Should evil be removed with force? WIth anger and wrath? Should those that kill innocents be subject to the anger of which I speak?
There are countless scenarious in movies and in literature where the audience is sucked into feeling anger towards a character who is despicable. But, in reality, solutions to overcoming a villian or an enemy are best come to with a clear, level head.
Even when violence is justifiable and necessary (something that a pacifist may debate), a cool mind and deliberate thinking will likely trump an aggressive and foolhearty move against some opponent, be it some inanimate object or another human being.
Examples:
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That guy should not have hit me. He should not have shot at me. She should not have stabbed me. They should not have tortured me.
He shouldn't have stolen this from me. She shouldn't have hurt my child. They shouldn't be doing this. They should stop hurting the innocents.
He is a murderer. She let it happen. They are totally to blame for this. I don't deserve this. It's they who are hurting innocents
