Ire

Greetings good citizen, just as many of us have reached an age where we can't remember when a nap didn't sound like a great idea the same could be said about the last time we WEREN'T angry. Most of us can't remember a time when we were at least peeved.

Yes good citizen, life is annoying and we spend much our of time annoyed.

Is 'simmering anger' our natural state?

Pretty much if we bothered to conduct a mental review of our mood over the course of the average day.

Happy, that thing we included in our Constitution is a highly subjective state, so much so that there is no consensus regarding what constitutes happiness...except, perhaps, being at Liberty.

How sad that most of you have no clue what liberty actually is.

Ironic to see where society is today considering we revolted principally to obtain Liberty. [Don't forget Justice...and it seems Equality is nowhere to be found so sorry ladies and individuals of color/ethnicity...not even in the f'n Bible.]

What does that tell you? [Apparently nothing as most of you believe you're 'free' and somehow equate that with the Liberty the constitution promises.]

Yet today's society is even more tyrannical than the monarchy we revolted against.

Is tyranny your proverbial 'slippery slope'? Where does the 'rule of law' end and being bent over to accommodate the selfish few begin?

Se habla Capitalism [which is actually just wage slavery in disguise?]

None are so blind as those who 'think' they are free.

Is it any wonder we are angry all of the time? Is there a cure for this?

Lobotomys all around perhaps?

[Suggestion: Let's try lobotomizing the leaders first and see how that works out!] Theory has it if we stop them from peeing in everyone else's cornflakes life will instantly become measurably more pleasant/tolerable.

If we start at the top we would quickly arrive at a point where it was no longer necessary/effective, people who aren't full of themselves have already been lobotomized or self medicated themselves into the equivalent of a waking coma.

While we'd be hard pressed to prove it I could point out that it is a damn good thing we aren't all 'rage monsters' like Marvel's Incredible Hulk although most of us have encountered the 'green eyed monster' that lives inside us all.

Comics or no, all 'art' is a mirror held up so we can see ourselves reflected in it.

Albeit some are so dense they see nothing and register even less.

Perhaps part of the Ire is caused by getting the basic formula wrong. The American Constitution enshrines Life, liberty and the pursuit of Happiness as being it's founding pillars but without Equality, all three are both meaningless and 'unachievable'.

Without Equality there can be no Justice and without Justice there can be no peace...and without peace there can be no prosperity and without prosperity there can be no comfort...and without comfort there can be no rest.

Some opine that resting is a sin (especially when your efforts are what provides THEM with comfort.)

Death to the tyrants whose sole goal is to make your life miserable so they can be comfortable.

Is it any wonder that we are all so 'annoyed' all the time?

Live and learn, Head, live and learn...

Gegner