America’s Anger Is Out of Control, Jeffrey Kluger … After the September 11 attacks, TIME’s Lance Morrow wrote a powerful essay titled, “The Case for Rage and Retribution,” in which he argued:
“For once let’s have no fatuous rhetoric about ‘healing.’ A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let’s have rage. What’s needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple American fury—a ruthless indignation that doesn’t leak away in a week or two…”
As we can see from the above statement, Jeff Kluger has in mind another convulsive episode like Pearl Harbor or 9/11 that will unify the “anger” that Americans feel.
Kluger seems to imply that this anger is stemming from current elections. His concern is that it is spilling over into other areas of life.
If every offensive, unjust or insulting incident turns into a jolt of high-fructose fury mainlined straight to the brain’s amygdala, what’s left when there’s a truly right and righteous reason to rise up in anger? And those important moments do occur.
Kluger seems to be saying that anger has become fashionable and applying anger liberally trivializes it.
Also, if Americans are angry about many things, that makes for a dysfunctional society rather than a unified one.
Kluger obviously wants a unified America. In order for rage to be unifying it needs to be a “purple American fury.”
This is actually a somewhat cynical assessment of how to manipulate anger in our view.
Why do we need another Pearl Harbor or 9/11 just so Americans can feel unified?
Why should “Americans” feel unified anyway? And, really, what is an “American?”
Because the “anger in America” meme is ubiquitous in the mainstream media at the moment, there are many other commentaries on it.
Here’s one from CNN by Michael Smerconish:
Are the voters really mad as hell? … voters, many of them in the GOP, have outsized weight in politics … The anger that threatens Washington based on partisanship is metastasizing. Now is the time to take back control of our political debate.
Remember, when Howard Beale asked Americans to shout outside that they were “mad as hell”, many followed. It’s time for the rest of us to close our windows.
CNN is asking us to “close our windows” and not listen to people who are “angry” about the state of America’s politics and economy.
TIME is hopeful that this anger can be channeled into some horrible, outsized event that will unify the current emotional anarchy.
Both of these editorials seem frightened by anger. But the description trivializes what is going on.
People aren’t just “angry.” Many are extraordinarily upset about certain events taking place in the USA. It’s not simply an inchoate emotion.
Millions upon millions are angry over the reduction in freedoms and the rise of the fedgov political class.
They are worried and anxious about police shootings, gun confiscation and a general trend toward increased authoritarianism all around them.
They don’t recognize America anymore. It feels like a fascist or socialist country.
Like Kluger’s article, Smerconish’s CNN piece suggests ways that the electorate’s anger can be reduced.
His solution to American anger is to change voting laws so that “silent ones” have more impact and are more noticeable.
That would make the anger less visible. Eventually, people would calm down.
We don’t believe in either of these solutions.
It is not a good idea to root for another major national tragedy in order to resolve American anger. And changing voter laws to empower people who are not angry surely does not address the causes of the anger.
Conclusion: What will make people less angry in this case is more freedom. But freedom is rarely given and mostly manipulated. If you want to be free, you will have to do it yourself. Get out of debt. Store gold and silver. Find alternative living arrangements in case of an emergency. Don’t leave it up to mainstream punditry to determine how to deal with what you feel. Inevitably, their solutions will not lessen problems but increase them.
Seriously, what are those people smoking? The CIA News Network wants me to shut the Hell up, do they?
Well, congratulations to you genius’s….you just made me angrier.
America no longer has a common character, moral standards, religious unity if not religious practice (even the atheists and agnostics used to subscribe to the basic Judaeo-Christian system of religious standards as American standards), economic and social goals, culture (we no longer assimilate into a common culture) and on and on and on.
We are a deeply divided nation that will celebrate or despise the same event according to our separate and opposing membership in any particular belief, cult, racial ethnicity, assimilated culture or religion (all of which are set against one another).
A new 9/11 will not unify America, it will divide it into warring factions held together only by brute force of government (as Iraq was under Saddam). Witness the response to the Dallas police shootings and various support or spite for it among the different political and racial divisions our country now has, some celebrating it and some horrified by it, with no unity against it anywhere including Congress and political parties.
Our nation as a distinct nation is coming to its end, time is short so be ready to deal with it as things unfold over the next several years.
Everybody is mad at something so TPTB are succeeding.
I’m not angry. I used to be, but that was because I was disappointed in myself for a) believing in lies and b) contributing to a corrupt system through my actions or rather my inaction.
The Colonel and I had a great conversation the other day and he asked me what I thought we could do to change the world for the better. It sounds trite, but you have to be the change. Withdraw your loyalty, find a way to lower your income and needs to the point that there’s nothing to tax so you aren’t compelled to contribute, quit using pubic services, don’t fly, stay away from urban areas and public gatherings, stop consuming, etc. Once you start living intentionally with these kinds of goals in mind you start setting an example of how to live that counters their toxic ideologies. Is it as effective as striking back physically? I don’t know yet, but it sure as hell is safer and it helps you to escape the black hole of constant upset and outrage that comes with engaging the system head on.
Remember War Games?
The only way to win is not to play the game.
But that’s assuming you can opt out of playing.
Maybe s homeless guy begging for his food and living under a bridge or in the sewer system can come close to it, but not so easy for anyone else.
I used to think the same thing but the only limiting factor is your choices.
A lot of people are willing to pay the cost of living in the modern world- the taxation, the consumer costs, the loss of freedoms, etc. In exchange they get the distractions, the medications, the empty calories, and so on. You are not obligated to opt out, but you can and there are just as may ways to do it as your imagination will allow. Living under a bridge seems like the worst choice imaginable, but that would qualify I suppose.
It’s extremely difficult to try and envision a world out of time, but understand that billions of people- far more than those that do participate in modernity- live that way.
You can too!
HSH….I agree with rhs AND the billions that already live in your escapist world have a shit life; No thanks, under the bridge in California is a better option.
I fit into the escape world but it was due to the U.S. being different during my working years. Decent paying jobs existed even for non-college educated, with benefits, retirement pay, 401K with employer contribution, and SS. My home is paid off and monthly ‘income’ exceeds normal living expenses. My total Fed. Inc. Tax was around $600 and CT State Tax was zero.
It is very, very tough for the eligible workers today for a host of reasons, including the so-called Trade Deals (offshore jobs) and Obamacare.
HSF, nice in theory, but I’d like to know how you avoid paying property tax if you’re not living under a bridge.
Annie, I don’t pay property taxes to the Federal government (except for those attached to goods and services, like gasoline, etc), I pay them to my local municipality. As I have said repeatedly I am fine with local taxation because it provides services for my community, of which I am a member.
The two are not the same.
HSF, I have several issues with property taxes, even here in NH.
1) Regardless of where the money is going, it means that you don’t really own your property because they will take the property away from you if you don’t pay the taxes. If you want to have some way to pay for local services, that’s fine, but they shouldn’t be allowed to confiscate your property.
2) Part of the taxes go to the state, which I don’t see as “local”.
3) A large part of the property tax goes to fund the public schools. So if you don’t have children or you home-school your children or you pay to send your children to a private school you’re paying to school other people’s children in a manner that I, for one, don’t agree with.
You can’t opt out of the system, but you can opt out of the evil within it.
Such as, say, public schools and poisonous foods in your diet and such.
Other things can be used for either good or evil and you have the choice of which way to use them or choose not to use them at all (i.e. the internet and iThings).
And it is still legal to do this (at this time) in most places.
I hear what you’re saying HSF, but I’ll bet you’re still paying property taxes, sales tax when you make a purchase, registration and license on your vehicles, aren’t you? So you’re not really “opting out”, you’re kidding yourself.
To expand on HSF’s point:
http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/9166-07042016
HSF,
exactly, 100%, and you have given us a “formula” to
follow to “be the change”. So, thanks.
Until and unless we take out the vermin called Tptb ie; the zionist jew scum we are lost.
It is really that simple.
So we need another 9-11 to unify the people ? This is what they hope for ? out of there fn minds…. there is just so much wrong with that it boggles your mind. Another 9-11 would be the death knell.
Project For New American Century-
”Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor. …”
The call for a new Pearl Harbor is a remake, sorta like Ghostbusters. Only not as funny.
“Is Another 9/11 Necessary To Re-Direct American Anger?”
Absofuckinglutely………..on one condition……….that we are able to direct that anger and fury at the true enemy and take them out with extreme prejudice. It’ll never happen but one can dream.
The problem there is that while you are pointing at someone as the true enemy they are pointing at you as the true enemy.
wishing for another 9/11? Insane. Actually, we are living with
the consequences of the real 9/11…done by the neocons in the US, GB, Saudi Arabia, and the ever lovely Israel. And the beat goes on,
as we now have the BLM chaos…funded and exalted by the same
neocons that gave us 9/11. Financial fraud, insurance fraud, the
Patriot Act, and so much more…including a major bank robbery.
Let us not forget the endless war mongering, the fight for oil
and more resources. Basterds.
We could have avoid much of this if Obama had done the right thing and pushed for indictment of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, et al for their war crimes.
Instead he opted to “look forward, not backward” and screwed the American people. A crime for which he will be eternally guilty.
Or if Bush had done the same thing for the Clinton’s crimes.
But our ex leaders are never prosecuted for their abuse of power, the next bunch of them doesn’t want to set a precedent for what they plan to be doing while they are in office.
West, O is the same as Bush et al. Is he going to prosecute himself?
Typical Jew gibberish. Let’s all get together and be angry………at anybody but the bastards who have ruined our country. Sorry, pal. Your WW 2 era tripe doesn’t cut it any more. Yeah, we’re angry and we know why and at who. Kluger, you best get out of dodge.
I’m not angry either (for the most part). Mostly I am sad for what we have lost. Sad for what my kids and grandkids will have to endure. I stay out of urban areas when i can, but as an example, I am taking a group of teenagers to the Warped tour in Mansfield Ma Wednesday. Throngs of brainwashed teenagers and no concealed carry. These kids have no idea. Repeat Repeat Repeat Situational Awareness Situational Awareness Situational Awareness.
I think therefore I need more ammo. I think i will go fishing.
On another note, I really like and respect the cops around my area. That’s why the push for violence and a replacement by Fed cops not tied to the community. Fuck the Feds.
Another 9/11 is some form or another is coming. False flag or no, probably won’t need a false flag as the organizers are being very effective at fomenting anger everywhere.
The shitstorm is forming thunderheads. Watch out.
The enemy is Sodom and Gomorrah mass corruption perversion in DC.They expect citizens to go along with Godless acts of Planned Parenthood, soon to be sign of the beast to buy or sell..