Anger management - make sense?

I've just replied to an email in the following way. What do you think?

Yes you're right and I'm feeling frustrated that the public , who came across as in favour of Virgin trains, were ignored and that the contract has gone to the other company.

Once again I despair of 'democracy' and the lack of influence the Liberals appear to be able to exert.

Tim must have a wide experience of the West Coast line, but he seems to just stand by and say/do nothing.

I'm moving steadily away from having any faith in the whole party/voting/parliament system.

If I feel like this, I wonder how many others will feel when they want to take a radical, law breaking solution to get what they consider to be 'justice'.

There is much support for the view that we're heading towards a big explosion coming from pent up emotional frustrations and strong and possibly irrational actions from the public.

I'm really thankful that we've got people like George Galloway who will speak up and risk being 'not politically correct' - regarding his comments today on rape - the Assange case.

Geoff

Geoff


"Opening the flood gates to human aggresion and violence is one of the easiest jobs - - - - -"


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I find your answer over simplistic.

We, British, as a culture, are encouraged not to show our emotion. This may be because we are frightened along the lines described by you. We are scared we can't handle it so we do all we can to keep the lid on.

So what happens?

When the lid does blow we have an almighty explosion - it's like a boiler without a safety valve.

Apparently if you compare the number of serious injuries reported in our Accident  Emergency  Hospital units with those of places in very different cultures like Spain, you find the figures for serious injury from fights and knives something like five times here as there.

A likely reason is that nearly all our injuries are alcohol fuelled. Only when we've had too much to drink does the anger escape and when it does the result is horrific and the people who did the damage can't believe it was them.

What I've witnessed in French culture is very different  - people blow their top at the slightest thing - especially road traffic - they blow their horns and  get out their cars and gesticulate at would be offenders. They shout if they're not getting served and demand attention - there's very little simmering with resentment going on. As a result when people explode theres very little pressure to release and very few real injuries take place.

I've stood by in French cafes and watched animated arguments taking place(during the massib=ve stike two years ago in October) and as an English man I expected a fight - but no these were friends expressing their opposing views. Next day or even an hour later everyone was chatting away as though nothing had happened.

I was talking to another English couple yesterday and saying how we hated 'polite' behaviour because you never knew when you might be touch and really sore open emotional wound and get a totally unexpected and disproportionate reaction.

So your saying has an element of truth - yes there are floodgates and no they are kept shut by our society because we're frightened of what might escape.

Result : we have a mentally screwed up society and when the opportunity arises; a hell will break out and it will be totally irrational. All because we are frightened of the alternative and don't encourage even a small release from  a highly over-pressured bolier.

We all need to do all we can to provoke a release of emotional anger but in lots of small doses and not massive big ones. In order to make up for lost time, we need to start a world where there's and animated argument going on everywhere we look and have plenty of boxing gloves at hand to deal with people who can't handle it.

I love a good scrap but sadly had my last thirty years ago and now just let myself go in words in an argument and find that most people run away because they can't cope. It's great to find someone who stands their ground and is angry back  and we both feel better for it and are friends next time we meet - I've fortunately got a few like this .

At all convinced!