When I am angry, does it mean I care?
To stop being angry, do I have to stop caring?
Actions are good things we do to make the world a better
place in the future. Caring about the world, if genuine and untarnished by
anger, will produce action automatically.
Anger, by contrast, is the response to a perception of
reality that says this:
"What is see is not what I planned. How dare the world defy
me! How dare the world fail to recognise my Godly supremacy over all I touch?"
Anger, really, is the rage of the impoverished emperor, dethroned
and ragged, with no one recognising who he really is. It is not a sign of
caring, although we may care, too.
You can take good action and be a raging God-pretender.
You can take no action and be a raging God-pretender.
You can take good action and accept the world as it is right
now without relinquishing the ideal towards which you are willing to help the
world grow.
You can accept the world but take no action (although this
may be a sign more of anger turned to depression and indifference than genuine
equanimity).
To care means to act; to be angry means not to care but to rage
against a recalcitrant world.