Anger Management

A few days ago I heard the dean of our college get defensive over the fact that the people that work for him are getting rather pissed at the mismanagement of the school. "It looks like some people are choosing to get angry," he said as though it was something those people should be ashamed of. I've heard this a lot lately. "Oh, it looks like your a little angry there. Tsk, tsk." As though getting angry is never justified. Bulldoze over us. Flush our jobs down the toilet. Learn to enjoy losing, it's easier that way.

My friends, getting angry is the reason we have any rights as citizens at all.

So when I read a speech Bill Moyers gave a few days ago at New York University that began with, "It is important from time to time to remember that some things are worth getting mad about," I felt a little stiring in my heart.

From an article on Common Dreams: This is the Fight of Our Lives , by Bill Moyers

The middle class and working poor are told that what's happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand.' This is a lie. What's happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us. Read More

Read it. And then ask yourselves why we are not rioting in the streets.

Found an interesting quote today that speaks to our corporately controlled country:

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln