Reminds me of the somewhat popular phrase, "rage is all the rage these days". Remember hearing it some 50 years ago, and Google's Gemini fills in the blanks with other more recent examples.
And the C.S. Lewis quote -- 1931 -- shows the theme, and human failing goes back much further.
Humans have supposedly been touched with the finger of God, but clearly there were some design flaws, or He -- She, or It -- had to work with shoddy material to begin with. So to speak. 🙂
Anger is not a human failing, worshipping the imaginary god Yahweh is though.
Anger is an integral part of a healthy human psyche. The shaming or guilting of anger, in its essence, is foolish and cruel. It is the impulse of a slave who is afraid of their slaver and a slaver who hates disobedience of those who he sees as his slaves. C.S. Lewis was tragically infected with slave morality of Christianity. Sometimes a smart and interesting man, but could never see himself as more than a slave of an imaginary psycho that didn't like him being angry.
If I'm not mistaken, anger is considered, with some justification, to be one of the seven deadly sins. Anger itself may not be the problem, more that it is self-indulgent, more for show and self-aggrandizement that for rectifying any problems which produced it.
As for "imaginary gods", I expect most are in the same boat as is Yahweh. But that’s not to say that they haven't been a important stage in humanity's evolution. See:
Wikipedia: The theory posits that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain that appears to be "speaking" [god] and a second part that listens and obeys—a bicameral mind—and that the breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans. The term was coined by Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ...
Reminds me of the somewhat popular phrase, "rage is all the rage these days". Remember hearing it some 50 years ago, and Google's Gemini fills in the blanks with other more recent examples.
And the C.S. Lewis quote -- 1931 -- shows the theme, and human failing goes back much further.
Humans have supposedly been touched with the finger of God, but clearly there were some design flaws, or He -- She, or It -- had to work with shoddy material to begin with. So to speak. 🙂
Anger is not a human failing, worshipping the imaginary god Yahweh is though.
Anger is an integral part of a healthy human psyche. The shaming or guilting of anger, in its essence, is foolish and cruel. It is the impulse of a slave who is afraid of their slaver and a slaver who hates disobedience of those who he sees as his slaves. C.S. Lewis was tragically infected with slave morality of Christianity. Sometimes a smart and interesting man, but could never see himself as more than a slave of an imaginary psycho that didn't like him being angry.
If I'm not mistaken, anger is considered, with some justification, to be one of the seven deadly sins. Anger itself may not be the problem, more that it is self-indulgent, more for show and self-aggrandizement that for rectifying any problems which produced it.
As for "imaginary gods", I expect most are in the same boat as is Yahweh. But that’s not to say that they haven't been a important stage in humanity's evolution. See:
Wikipedia: The theory posits that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain that appears to be "speaking" [god] and a second part that listens and obeys—a bicameral mind—and that the breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans. The term was coined by Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
This resonates.