Anger, repression, sheep

Why does society repress anger?

Children are funnelled through schools and institutions, where the process often rips every shred of their individuality from them, turning them into a member of one or another group of sheep. At least one constant is that all anger is completely discouraged. Any anger expressed by one student towards another student, teacher, or anything in particular is treated in a highly punitive manner. This perfectly normal human emotion is put out like a candle. People often grow up with emotional and relationship problems and more and more often difficulty expressing themselves. Psychological and mental disorders continue to rise in frequency among the population.

There are a group of people who remain unaffected by the 'disorders'. They are usually the club-going, reality television watching so-called 'cool' of our society. They are the people who are considered sociable and popular. They take little notice of the world around them, including all of the war, death, disease, starvation, inequality and injustice in the world. They say ignorance is bliss, and in the case of this group, it is certainly true. They even take little notice of the politics in their own country, and make it a cool thing to do so. In most social venues, workplaces, educational institutions and generally everywhere, one who talks about politics is flagged a bore. It is discouraged through a widespread social campaign of negative feedback to mention politics. So the citizens of most of countries of the developed world will not realise what is going on in their countries until it is too late - when their own governments happen to be closing the bars down on you like caged animals. The trends are already beginning to appear. Rising rates of police brutality, all time high numbers for police and military forces (often justified by stupid wars/ invasions for oil covered with the excuse of a stupid excuse for a stupid war). Our great grandparents and our recent ancestors would have been as angry as hell about the way the world is, if they lived now. But we're a population of sheep. We watch our television, swallow whatever nonsense and misinformation the politicians and tabloids spew out at us (1984 anyone?) (or completely take no notice of it as reality TV and celebrity gossip is of more importance to us or the other sources of media and information from everywhere is just too great for us to take notice of the things that truly matter (Brave new world, anyone?)).

For the minority who are aware of the truth and actively seek it, there are the prisons, mental institutions and cemeteries of the world. I can only hope there are good beings who do not have a similar nature to us, out there in the universe. I may not have faith and hope in humanity, but of the cosmos outside in which we originated as a speck of dust, I am unsure, and that alone prevents me from getting down and depressed about our shitty little world. I know space, time and existence is so vast, that none of this really matters, and ironically that is a good thing.

I'll leave you with this brilliant song from the brilliant Pink Floyd. Good luck in life, citizen of the world which I wish was a better place than it is.

Our grand ecosystem

Our universe really is huge beyond human comprehension.

What lies outside that? Possibly an infinite number of other universes.

We are ourselves currently on our little rock very insignificant in the true scale of existence, of space and time.

We are small beings, possibly not yet fully evolved.

However we did come from the atoms themselves which gave way to organic molecules, multi-cellular lifeforms and eventually us.

If that says anything it says that life is natural, that the reason for all of the stars and galaxies and everything wasn't just so they could continue to co-exist in their celestial lives, but it's all there as an ecosystem for biological life to exist like humans and all of our cousins on earth do and probably countless others do throughout the universe/s.



I can see why people rely on religions to explain our existence. Without being taught such a holy book from a young age we can stray to a path of poor principle, being blindly tempted by the evils of the world.

Chemicals in our brains react positively to certain situations and that alone is enough to bypass willpower for many people. However long before any religious texts came to be written or gods were conceived life was abundant on earth. It is much harder to live a life of principle from your own mind than blindly follow the teachings of a false god but also much greater - one who can think and act for them self. If humanity is going to abandon religion I hope great minds can keep our world a place of principle. I cannot help but think that religion at its core wouldn't allow much of the evils and stupidities in our world today - alcohol and pornography for example. Both wrongly accepted by the masses to be a norm. One is a chemical man found which happened to intoxicate him and is now mass manufactured and consumed everywhere. The other is a recording or depiction of a sexual act by person/s purely for profit and self gain and watching it does a person no good except for the temporary high they get from the orgasm (just like drugs). I honestly don't know if our evolution intended for us to use our reproductive organs in such a way. Studies have shown that if someone does not relieve them self sexually regularly then it causes biological problems. At the same time our bodies go to great lengths to make the seed of existence which continues our species, surely it should not be wasted in such a manner? People should be having physical relationships with another human being rather than witnessing it as a recording of a third party which seems to be a degradation of that persons self esteem.

Drugs are illegal by law. This is a good thing because drugs are very stupid but ideally we would exist in a society where everyone realised this, no drugs were manufactured anywhere and no one was interested in them anyway through education and awareness. The same can be said for murder, rape and most other things criminal justice systems commonly punish. They should be illegal and at this moment in time it is probably essential that they are, but again most people rely on the existence of a criminal justice system (just like many rely on religions to give them moral guidelines) to prevent crime - even to stop them from committing crimes.

It is my hope that we are not fully evolved yet. That when we do we will have much higher control over our thoughts and as a result possess much greater willpower and will no longer rely on religion and criminal justice systems and governments for our world to function.