Welch on populist rage

THE WELCHWAY: "Put Your Rage on the Back Burner: Folks are fuming. But rage-busters--reasons to let go of anger--are everywhere," by Jack & Suzy Welch, BusinessWeek, 6 April 2009.

Good, sensible piece:

Rage begets only rage: It often makes people do stupid, short-sighted things that invariably spawn unintended consequences.

Rage isn't healing. It's polarizing.

Most of the long list of good things to watch out for in this article suggest a shift from populism to progressivism--a consistent theme of mine in Great Powers.

But you have to go through the anger to get to the answers. Skipping ahead would be nice, but it's not how things work in our country nor this world.

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Gotta say this about that . . The "RAGE" was CREATED by the Administration, several Congressmen and the Media . . WHY?

While the WHY? may be debatable, but we don't see any sort of the same when the Execs of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae got a little more than $40 million more ($210 M) than the AIG Execs and worker Bees received last week, I believe . .

[Louis Heberlein]

Jesus, Confucius, Buddha and a lot of other thinkers over the world and centuries made the proper insights on anger and hatred.

The emotions may have helped early humans survive, and now deal with unavoidable conflicts, but they had to be understood, contained etc. for long term improvements and reduced unintended consequences.

The only mental benefits from anger and hatred I see involve focusing perception, attention and endurance when there is a threat problem.

I know there is the 'hate the sin, not the sinner' theme, but that has been difficult for mankind to use correctly, and it raises quilt on our own flaws that we too often suppress, or transfer to others.