Rage is an interesting and often overlooked facet of human emotion.
Simply put, rage is an underlying anger, that lurks below the facade of civility that we all portray to the world.
A child who has been abused, although compliant and nice on the outside, may harbor a devastating rage - yet it is frequently overlooked.
An adult who feels he or she is being taken advantage of, may also have a great deal of rage, held in place by the illusional facade.
So what happens when the facade of civilization is broken? The rage flows out like an erupting Versuvias, taking everyone aback and off guard.
The person becomes engulfed in the outflow of unbridled anger.
But who is the victim? Who is the perpetrator?
It is easy to point the finger at the adult showing the rage, making comments about how they should have dealt with their emotions better - how many of us hear such shallow comments about others? Many of course - a father who snaps and throws the child, is clearly blamed, but why was the rage there? Who is responsible for putting the rage there in that person?
Yes, maybe it was another person, but Emile Durkheim, the father of sociology, had insight into many things. He talked of how societies age - the more a society ages, the more laws that are generated. In the end, a simple crossing of the road may one day lead to long term imprisonment, and be considered one of the foulest of crimes, with the end result being revolution against the government or dictator, as the people reach a point where they can no longer endure the hardship of law.
This is what we are seeing now, the extension of law to control behavior to a level unheard of before. A 14 year old can legally have sex with a 13 year old or a 12 year old, and law permits it on the basis it is experimentation, up the age level to one partner being 17, and it becomes an act of pedophilia. My mother was married when she was 16 years old, now that marriage would be seen as an act of disgust and reviled.
On top of the tightening and ever expanding of laws to outlaw more human behaviors, we also have a dependency on supermarket chains and the like that continually rip the average bloke off. For example, in one state, all plastic bags that don’t carry the company logo, like the ones you find in supermarkets, are to be totally banned. Needless to say, there has been a sudden increase in bags with out logos, that means the companies will no longer provide them - An interesting manipulation of profiteering. 60% of the people, the majority, don’t approve of the law to be enacted, but it’s being enacted against the will of the people, as it may save a dolphins life. Most of us reuse those supermarket bags as garbage tidy liners, food carriers and so on, so now we have to go out and buy plastic bags for the job, making the supermarkets even richer. If that weren’t enough, there is no offer of the free brown paper bags that supermarkets used before, now it’s you to pay for the brown bags and or buy the stronger shopping bags, which is really making the supermarkets a nice gift.
To top it off, some supermarkets then stopped carrying the plastic bags before the law was enacted, but they don’t tell you that before you enter the shop, they tell you that after you do the shopping, and say, do you want to buy some bags! I calmly told the operator that the law has not been enacted and they had no right to try selling me bags to carry the groceries in. He then packed all my groceries into one box, enough to say that even before it was properly positioned in the trolley, the bottom of the flimsy box gave way, issuing the contents over the bottom of my trolley. So I took 4 boxes to pack the same amount of groceries. He packed one of them. When I got home, guess what, there were the bananas underneath the apples and ice creams that he had packed…
We all know these chain stores make massive amounts of money out us. We get a paper called the Weekly Times sometimes, it’s a farmer’s newspaper. We found that one egg grower got about 55 cents in postage stamps for around 64 dozen eggs - that same supermarket that paid him then went on to sell those eggs for around $2 a dozen.
There is also another law of human behavior so to speak, Carl Gustav Jung, about a century back, one of the fathers of modern psychology and psychiatry, commented on how we become the thing we hate the most, that we are all capable of the most horrendious crimes and the greatest acts of sacrifice. This is where the facade of civilized behavior becomes real interesting.
A policeman or policewoman who uses excessive force, or refuses to deliver proper aid to someone, or who lies to get the result they want, has either been unfit to start with, or become corrupted by their zealousness to do good. People who protect the abused of a society, also often become the perpetrators of abuse in many hidden ways.
Of course, with that happening also, and mixing that power abuse with increasing societal laws, creates a strong basis for the generation of rage.
But society desires to have perpetrator and victim clearly identified, clouds the real issues, that continue to mould the degeneration and eventual overthrow of society.
I will rant more about this at another time. As mixed up as the above may seem, if you read it well enough, you can see what I am getting at.