The War Against Emotion

A WISE MAN ONCE SAID that guilt and fear are both bullshit. Actually, he was a fellow graduate student, so his wisdom is questionable. But he had a point. Necessary that guilt and especially are to human survival and civilization, they get in the way more often then they seem to be worth, as if they are becoming outdated in our evolutionary journey. We live in an emotional world. Do cell phones have something to do with that? Unless I'm dreaming, we still haven't precisely identified the effect of extensive cell phone use and ambient microwave radiation on long term human health. It may be that cell phone radiation jammed up against your head for hours upon end each day eventually causes not only cancer, but hyper emotionality. For that matter, it may well be that having a huge flat screen TV in your living room with perfect definition and reception, and five hundred channels full of angry violent stressed out people has some impact, and watching it several hours every day might have some small, or large impact on someone's or everyone's attitude, stress level, anger level, emotional level. This, however, seems certain: we need to find out about all this, this question of the exact impact of our electronic saturated environment on ourselves. Its worth knowing about, because if indeed we are suffering ill effects from it, we must find a way of eliminating the ill effects. Looking back on a long life,its always been the other person mad at me. I, the maddee, never the madman. It makes me mad when someone gets mad at me. I have long since grown tired of other people's anger, extended anger, and grudges. But as much as I despise fear and anger, I am full of both. I just try not to show it. I'm also tired of my own guilt and fear, almost all of which is unreasonable and unjustified. Maybe its caused by other people's cell phones. (I don't have one). On the day I die, I plan to be free of fear and anger. Sometimes you think it just might be a better world without all this emotion - this hatred, this anger, and all the rest of it - with which we seem so obviously currently inundated. We could banish all emotions from the human mind, and becomes like Mr.Spock and the Vulcans. Or, if not something that extreme, it would at least be desirable to stop pouring fuel on the fires of our passions with our electronic social media and other means. We seek a less violent, less angry, calmer, gentler global civilization, don't we?