Hate and Anger are the currencies of the fallen.\u00a0\u00a0 Hate and Anger as concepts will consume and control a person if not appropriately understood;\u00a0 the people who most sincerely want you to be outraged constantly are those who profit from manipulating you.\u00a0 There is a common thread linking a considerable number of the profiteers of hatred – fear.\u00a0 Once a Tucker Carlson, or a Rush Limbaugh, has corrupted you to Hate and Anger, you have to unlearn it.\u00a0\u00a0 If your pastor hides behind Jesus’s love while telling you all the things and people to hate,\u00a0 you have to unlearn it.\u00a0 If your magic (R) politician has one set of rules for rich white people, another for everyone else, and does their best to get you to be Hateful and Angry at “Them” for your life, you have to unlearn it.<\/p>\n
How does one unlearn powerful and, at times, overwhelming emotions like Hate and Anger?\u00a0 Fear lies beyond the boundaries of these emotions because we have to change not to experience them anymore.\u00a0 Change is different, and different is scary.\u00a0 The profiteers of hatred know this and do all they can to keep you from moving beyond your fear.\u00a0 If you never move beyond your fear, you will fall back into where they want you – Hateful and Angry.\u00a0 If you are Hateful and Angry, they can manipulate you into making poor decisions, often against your best interests.<\/p>\n
In the United States of America, we see this pattern constantly.\u00a0 Fox pushes false narratives as a business model to keep white supremacy and white-collar corruption cover.\u00a0 Their viewers vigorously defend it with Olympic-level mental gymnastics until they feel the need to create safe-spaces wherein they won’t have to anymore.\u00a0 Such partitioning and anonymization of society have allowed radical elements to be increasingly influential.\u00a0 Domestic white terrorism poses more of a genuine threat than ever, and not even our nation’s capital is safe from fascist threats and confederate ghosts.\u00a0 White people moan about being tired of hearing about racism but imagine what it feels like for people of color to live it.\u00a0 That requires a level of self-reflection and empathy the profiteers of hatred don’t want them to have as it cuts into their bottom line, and so we have a clear divide.<\/p>\n
Part of Hate and Anger’s effectiveness is it can be effortless to shift the focus of our energies onto someone else.\u00a0 While other people cause legitimate traumas in the world, some individuals are victims; the profiteers of hatred exclusively want you to focus on other people.\u00a0 If your energy is solely focused on someone else, you relinquish control.\u00a0 If you are not in control, growth is impossible, and if you cannot grow, you will always contribute to their profit margins.\u00a0 The profiteers of hatred want you to keep tuning in to get your outrage fix.\u00a0 They need you to come to them to find out the problems, the talking points, and that they are the only ones you can trust.\u00a0 If you discover you can push past the fear and think for yourself,\u00a0 you threaten their business.<\/p>\n
Every profiteer has a different method to hook you in and pretend they aren’t evil.\u00a0 Tucker Carlson, for instance, hides behind the appearance of looking confused, setting up an opinion as to if it was a question, and going to court saying that he is an entertainment show and no reasonable person would take him seriously.\u00a0 However, the people watching him take him seriously and attempt to ponder his leading premises as if they were genuine questions.\u00a0 Anger is an emotion that draws us to protect,\u00a0 and the profiteers of hatred corrupt what could be a necessary and righteous emotion into something self-serving and destructive.\u00a0 The profiteers of hatred make people want to ‘protect’ against a threat that isn’t real, so the profiteer and the sponsor can make more money.<\/p>\n
After this election,\u00a0 the Republicans wasted no time introducing a dizzying and tragic amount of bills to restrict the right to vote.\u00a0\u00a0 Republicans set up a lie that the election was fraudulent; they spread that lie as much as possible and now are using that fear to justify helping rich white people.\u00a0 The profiteers of hatred are seizing on an opportunity to pit one group against another to help themselves further.\u00a0 However, in the wake of shootings, those same people say we can’t act;\u00a0 to make things political would be too soon, and the time for discussion will come later.\u00a0 It is not in the interests of their profit to do anything, and so they won’t.<\/p>\n
The profiteers of hatred want you to feel weak and helpless;\u00a0 they want you to feel like there’s nothing you can do, and so you give in and give up.\u00a0\u00a0 You being ultimately weak and helpless is false.\u00a0 Breaking free of any cycle is scary, especially if it’s all you’ve known and have been fed.\u00a0\u00a0 It doesn’t matter if it’s tribalism, trauma, confirmation bias, etc., pushing past the fear and understanding there is a world past the fear, and there is so much more beyond Hate, and Angry is in itself a reward.\u00a0 It doesn’t happen overnight and is a continuous process.\u00a0 We have angry moments, even when we live outside of being manipulated by the profiteers of hatred.\u00a0\u00a0 You don’t have to be fallen; you can be redeemed, and having angry moments, as opposed to dealing in the currency of Hate and Anger, though, is a life worth living.<\/p>\n
~Monk Anchorwind.<\/p>\n
~Author’s Note – I’ve written about White Supremacy and America’s Woes so often I really wanted to write something that was both micro and macro in scale.\u00a0 I hope that came across.\u00a0 Our journeys to take responsibility for ourselves have rippling consequences – both in our day to day lives and impacting change on a societal level.\u00a0 Cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hate and Anger are the currencies of the fallen.\u00a0\u00a0 Hate and Anger as concepts will consume and control a person if not appropriately understood;\u00a0 the people who most sincerely want you to be outraged constantly are those who profit from manipulating you.\u00a0 There is a common thread linking a considerable number of the profiteers of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[307,179],"class_list":["post-28006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-considered-thoughts","tag-307","tag-anger"],"yoast_head":"\n