Daniel Amen, MD from Amen Clinics:
“Anger Helps Us to Survive. Scientific research recognizes that anger has played an important evolutionary role in ensuring survival. Our primal “fight” response stems from anger. Anger motivates us to vigilantly detect threats and sharpens our focus. When our safety is at risk or we are attacked, our anger is automatically activated and drives us to defend ourselves, sometimes quickly and forcefully. Anger essentially alerts us when someone or something wants to hurt us and provides the aggression needed to overcome a stronger attacker.”
We live in a culture where many have forgotten that, although anger can be destructive, anger in and of itself, like any other emotion, is neither good nor bad.
And in the right context, it can be wielded like an appropriate weapon of rage.
It's like fire. It can destroy your home, or it can warm your home… as well as defend you against people attempting to break into your home to destroy you, by using fire in, say… the form of a flamethrower.
And it's not unreasonable to suggest… that right now… in this political moment… before the various and wildly mounting atrocities being escalated by a profoundly corrupt coalition of every type of human malignance from the narcissistic, to the sociopathic, to the psychopathic, prompting the absolute worst outcomes of seeded cluster B personality traits from tendencies towards sexual assault, all the way to torture and genocide of both adults and children… traits which have now poisonously infiltrated the very governmental infrastructure of our entire nation’s systems of functioning, and to an insidious extent upon which our survival as a nation, a people, and indeed, a species is under catastrophic global threat... we're currently in a time where the tool… the weapon of rage… may have never been more appropriately called for. Where fire, in its most formidable incendiary application may have never been more needed.
But as many of us have forgotten that fire, outside of utilities such as cooking, warmth, or aesthetic, isn't just something to be hastily extinguished for fear of its purely destructive effects... Cliff Cash reminds us... there are times when it is crucial to our very survival… to ignite it. To set it ablaze, harness it, and focus it like the unstoppable weapon that it needs to be… so that it may urgently defend us from our own very annihilation.
And that time is now.
In this current democratic trend within our leadership that seems to laud repression from any fiery reaction whatsoever, then in its stead, elevate decorum, even if it literally helps our current enemies undeniably hellbent on destroying us, remembering that it's not just fire to cook a meal that we need at some times in our lives, and at some points in our history becomes a nonnegotiable imperative. We need to swiftly reacclimate ourselves on how to wield the rage of fire like the weapon we need right now at this unprecedented moment of societally existential threat within our nation's pivotal moment. Let Cliff’s video remind you in this, one of many of his demonstrated immediately needed atrocity calling-out, rage-wielding examples.
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(Cliff Cash's YouTube channel, Instagram, and Bluesky account.)
