The Constructive Use of Anger

When I look back at my life most of the best things in my life came from constructively using anger in very useful ways.

I'm not talking about rage which is completely uncontrolled anger that explodes out of people who have so repressed themselves that often it causes their deaths or the deaths of others. No.

I'm talking about the controlled use of anger. What is anger? Anger is to let us know something is wrong. To repress anger simply is going to cause worse problems and possibly deaths in the future.
So, being aware of anger and searching for the cause of it will preserve your life and all lives around you. Escaping from anger and repressing anger only causes insanity and death. This is a lesson all of us need to learn.

For example, the shutdown of government. All of us should be angry at Congress and especially the Tea Party for causing the shutdown. Otherwise, this shutdown could go on weeks or months until our democracy is no more. The Tea party out of over zealousness and extremism could actually be the end of our democracy. It's not that their ideas are inherently wrong. It is just that democracies only operate when there is compromise. Without compromise democracies always turn into dictatorships and so could our country now if a splinter party of the minority party in the U.S. is allowed to run rampant over the needs of everyone.

IT is like this. For the want of a nail for the shoe the horse was lost. For the want of a horse the rider was lost. For the want of a rider the nation was lost. So, only if all of us get angry enough in a constructive way can this whole government shutdown and debt ceiling issue be resolved in a way that Americans (and the world) can live with.