> If you want a theory; a man who isn't in control of his emotions can present anything up to an immediate mortal danger to the people around him (particularly if they are female).
What emotions do you really control?
We expect men to suppress this emotion. And there's is 400k years of survival and reproductive success tied up with that emotion. We didn't get half a percent of the population with Ghegis Khans Y chromosome with a smile, balloons and a cake.
It's not like violence doest exist. But we seem to think that we can remove it just like the murder in the meat case. Are we supposed to put anger on a foam tray and wrap it in plastic and store it away like a steak because the reality of it upsets people?
It's to the point where words murder, suicide, rape and porn are "forbidden words"... were saying unlike, grape and corn. So as not to offend advertisers a peoples precious sensibilities. Failing to see this behavior is a major plot point in 1984.
I think we all need to get bad to the reality of the world being "gritty" and having to live in it.
1) If you are comparing people's behaviour to Genghis Khan, don't expect positive social reinforcement. The man was a calamity clothed in flesh, we could do without anything like him happening ever again.
2) Violence != anger [0]. I don't know much about him, but Ghengis Khan could have been an extremely calm person. It is hard to build an empire that large and win that many campaigns for someone prone to clouded thinking which is a point in favour of him being fairly calculating.
> What emotions do you really control?
3) In terms of what gets expressed? Nearly all of them. Especially in a written setting, there is more than enough time to take a deep breath and settle.
> We expect men to suppress this emotion.
4) As an aside, I advise against suppressing negative emotions if that means trying to hold them back or something. That tends to lead to explosions sooner or later. It is better to take a soft touch, let the emotion play out but disconnect it from your actions unless it leads to doing something productive. Reflect on it and think about it; that sort of thing.
[0] Although maybe I should not that angery violence is a lot more dangerous than thoughtful violence; angry violence tends to be harder to predict and lead to worse outcomes.
> If you want a theory; a man who isn't in control of his emotions can present anything up to an immediate mortal danger to the people around him
You cant posit this and then go on to try and claim Violence != anger.
> The man was a calamity clothed in flesh
Nice, well said!!! He was also likely brilliant. Its rare stupid people make it to the top!
I hope that Ghengis Kahn NEVER happen again...But I think society is just a thin veil between us and those monsters. The whole idea of pushing down anger is just moving us one more steep from that reality!
What emotions do you really control?
We expect men to suppress this emotion. And there's is 400k years of survival and reproductive success tied up with that emotion. We didn't get half a percent of the population with Ghegis Khans Y chromosome with a smile, balloons and a cake.
It's not like violence doest exist. But we seem to think that we can remove it just like the murder in the meat case. Are we supposed to put anger on a foam tray and wrap it in plastic and store it away like a steak because the reality of it upsets people?
It's to the point where words murder, suicide, rape and porn are "forbidden words"... were saying unlike, grape and corn. So as not to offend advertisers a peoples precious sensibilities. Failing to see this behavior is a major plot point in 1984.
I think we all need to get bad to the reality of the world being "gritty" and having to live in it.