ANGER !WOW! AUGUR : STUDENTS GLOBAL ESSAY

JOSEPHINE COCHRANE - annoyed that her china tableware was being chipped when washed by hand, invented the dishwasher. '' Anger is the mother of invention. ''

! Turning Anger into Art ! : From protest anthem and songs to paintings and inventions, the anger of individuals has often shaped art, justice and technology.

PUBLIC ANGER emerges from a place of care, a longing for a better life, an attempt to lead society back to compassion.

TRAUMA counsellor Tim Fletcher suggests we ask ourselves. " If anger had a voice, what would it be trying to tell me?''

ANGER is often generated by the powerlessness - waiting for someone else to fix things. But when the  adrenaline that accompanied anger is harnessed, people find they are able to do things they never imagined they could.

Maya Angelou said : '' Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire, it burns it all clean.''

For Angelou, it was poetry, for others, it may be music, dance, the catharsis of acting, or drumming. Art that is shared enables witness to your emotion.

Growing out of the West African Griot tradition of storytellers, poets and musicians, Rage Rap became a music genre of the USA and Caribbean, reflecting the anger of black youth experiencing deep inequalities and racism, even spreading to Lyari [ Sindh, Pakistan ] as an alternative to gang warfare.

There are many levels of anger, from temper tantrums to moral outrage. Public anger emerges from a place of care, a longing for a better life, an attempt to lead society back to compassion.

The absence of that anger would be apathy - a far more destructive state. The key to productive anger is to replace impulsive action with thoughtful action.

Posters, poems and songs awaken the conscience of those who would dismiss the genocide of Palestinians long after the marches are over.

Even at the personal level, anger can be the pivot of change. Studies show that anger can enable creative breakthroughs, partly because we break our own rules as the usual mind pathways are disrupted, making individuals more likely to brainstorm in an unstructured way, leading to new solutions.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Shuji Nakamura says, '' Anger is the mother of invention.''

Potato chips were the result of an angry New York chef George Crum, whose customer kept sending back the potatoes because they were ''too thick.'' Josephine Cochrane, annoyed that her china tableware was being chipped when washed by hand, invented the dishwasher.

The Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks Durriya Kazi.