Perspective from 2026: The Rage That Clarified Everything
What has unfolded since this was written in 2022 has not quieted the rage—it has clarified it.
What once felt like scattered abuses of power now reveals itself as a pattern: a system where wealth insulates behavior, where influence distorts truth, and where consequences bend around those who believe themselves untouchable. The second Trump administration did not create this reality—it exposed it in sharper relief. Corruption, manipulation, and cruelty were not hidden—they were normalized, reframed, even celebrated in certain circles as strength.
The role of billionaire backers has come into clearer focus. The gap between those who live within the law and those who seem to operate above it has widened into something undeniable. The continued surfacing of details tied to Jeffrey Epstein’s network—his ranch, his connections, the culture of entitlement surrounding extreme wealth—has forced an uncomfortable reckoning. Whether every claim is proven or not, the broader truth has landed: there exists a class of people who, for too long, have behaved as if human lives, bodies, and futures were assets to be shaped, controlled, or discarded.
History echoes here in disturbing ways. The obsession with control, perfection, legacy—these are not new impulses. They trace back to some of humanity’s darkest chapters, including attempts to engineer a “master race.” That kind of thinking never disappears; it mutates, modernizes, hides behind money, technology, and influence.
And so the rage grows.
But rage without awareness is a weapon that turns inward—or worse, is redirected outward by those who benefit from chaos.
We saw this in the young man who attempted to assassinate Trump and members of his cabinet at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. His rage was real. It came from somewhere understandable. But the act itself—had it succeeded—would not have dismantled power. It would have fortified it. It would have created a martyr, unified a fracturing movement, and unleashed consequences that would almost certainly have fallen hardest on Black and brown communities already carrying disproportionate risk.
This is the trap.
Unconscious rage is predictable. It is exploitable. It strengthens the very systems it seeks to destroy.
We are seeing similar miscalculations on the global stage. Impulsive displays of force—like reckless military actions—do not always weaken adversaries. They can unify them. They can turn fractures into solidarity. They can hand strategic advantage to those who know how to apply pressure patiently—economically, psychologically, asymmetrically. In a world where information warfare and narrative control are as powerful as weapons, ignorance is no longer passive—it is dangerous.
So where does that leave us?
Right where this piece began—but with higher stakes.
Rage is still not wrong.
But now, more than ever, it must be conscious.
That is why movements like May Day and coordinated national strikes matter. They redirect energy away from spectacle and toward leverage. They apply pressure where it is actually felt—economically, structurally, politically. They refuse the script of violence and instead disrupt the systems that depend on compliance.
Because the truth is simple, even if it is uncomfortable:
The powerful do not fear outrage.
They fear organized, sustained, intelligent action.
If rage is the fire, then consciousness is the forge.
Without it, everything burns.
With it, something can be built.
Introduction from 2022: The Grief of Rage
I wrote this piece about one year ago after years of being bullied by egotistical bosses and a broken capitalist system. Anyone who is being brutalized (physically, psychologically, or spiritually) by someone who holds power over you takes unbelievable amounts of inner strength, courage, and perseverance to endure. Feeling rage is never wrong. However, choosing how to express rage can cross social, cultural, and moral boundaries that exist for very good reasons.
I believe rage is something building up all over the world for many reasons such as being bullied by popular kids at school, bullied by a boss at work, bullied by governmental systems designed to enforce huge inequalities baked deep into its operating systems long ago, or bullied by another country who seek to control a people or a place through violence carried out withimpunity.
It doesn’t matter where or how superior power is used to control another human being such use of force is humiliating and is meant to put someone else down. A person on the receiving end of this sort of abuse is suppose to feel fear, sadness, anger, and rage. It is part of the abuse. It is a form of social torture.
If you find yourself in a place of rage, you are right to feel it. Do not try to suppress your rage or run from it. Turn around and face it dead on. Only this way can you choose how to express this rage. It is energy. It has to flow. It will flow whether you are conscious of it or not.
How a persons deals with how rage flow depends on many factors such as family, culture, social groups, emotional maturity, personality, mental health, social structure, and so many other factors. But it is only with conscious awareness that you can capture your rage and choose a better path of action versus a more destructive path.
Rage is going to flow consciously or unconsciously. You begin to heal and regain your strength and dignity when you are conscious of your rage, when you feel your rage, when you own your rage. By doing this, you can use your rage to get to a better place like a sailor who uses the wind to get to where he wants to be rather than letting the wind blow you somewhere you don’t want to be.
Note: Rage can be manufactured, especially in these times. Let’s call this Fake Rage. It is artificially induced into people’s minds by other people seeking to manipulate public sentiment for their own purposes. This is not the kind of rage I am referring to in this blog.
The Grief of Rage: Sacrifice to the Squirrel Gods — A Creative Way to Channel Rage
Sacrifice to the Squirrel Gods | Channeling Rage | Deborah Wunderman
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Music: High Noon — Patrick Warren [as featured in iMovie for iPhones, music that gets you ready for What’s coming next!]
Thanksgiving… what a wonderful time to get together with family and friends and share our collective blessings, and oh how precious, after a year and a half of not being able to get together due to a global pandemic!
But, Thanksgiving, oh how aggravating, antagonizing, and infuriating it can be to get together with precisely the people who know how to get under your skin. The one’s who know how to rip off the fragile psychological Band-Aid you’ve managed to put over the bubbling hot well of pain, torment, and psychological abuse inflicted on you by people who are supposed to love and support you (friends or family), but instead they get their kicks inflicting emotional pain and psychological torture at your expense.
Since inflicting pain and torture back on them is not the karmic path you want to take, nor may you have the opportunity to tell them just how horrible and monstrous they have become as defectively amoral human beings… something like June was finally able to do when she confronted Serena Waterford in her prison cell in Season 4, Episode 7 of the Handmaid’s Tale. The part where she screams in her face ‘Do You Understand Me’:
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If you don’t have this outlet to express your anger and rage at their moral deficiencies and extremely flawed character traits that are hurting you, then try a sacrifice to the squirrel gods!
t’s what our ancestors used to do long, long ago. We think it’s kind of silly and not what a modern person should be doing… but this is another ploy by your tormentors to keep you feeling horrible. They don’t want you to find your voice, your power.
You can’t let go of your rage any more than you can hold onto it.
The only thing you can do is to try to remove the inner obstructions that are hanging you up as you try to navigate through this blistering inner torrent that is moving through you like a river of rage searing its way through your soul.
That is what sacrifices where for long, long ago. They were never for some god sitting up on high making judgements over us all. They were for us… to help us navigate inner rivers of rage so that we do not become the monsters who are tormenting us and causing so much destruction not only in our lives but the shared reality of everyone.
So make a sacrifice…use your creativity to make your voodoo doll, your effigy of your tormentors. Project all their dangerous energies and damaged soul into your talisman and set it out as an offering to any animal spirit you choose–it could be ravens, wolves, or squirrels.
It is so satisfying…and when you feel this satisfaction inside, you have removed an impediment to your rage because it needs to flow, it’s part of your power and you need all parts of your power…the good, the bad, and the ugly… to heal and grow into the individual you want (and know) you are, which is not a monster like your tormentors but a healer and conscious decision maker of your destiny.
The Grief of Rage: Evolving Rage — Storytelling Is Powerful in Helping to Transform Rage
One year later, my rage has not gone away but it has evolved. Margret Atwood is a genesis in capturing the evolution of rage… the kind I’m talking about above. Season 5, episode 10 is absolutely awesome and Billie Eilish’s song dead on! Go Margret, go June, go Serena! Maybe there is hope!
Samet Turgut (1.31K subscribers) | Serena and June Train Scene | Video Clip: The Handmaid’s Tale S5E10 Ending Music: Billie Eilish – bury a friend The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5 finale ending
The Grief of Rage: Feature Archetypal Animation
Love Rage Grief Hatred Escape Soap Bubble Tree | LN_Photoart | Lars Nissen • Vogt/Deutschland • Member since June 19, 2016
Eye Iris City Skyscraper Screen Background | LN_Photoart | Lars Nissen • Vogt/Deutschland • Member since June 19, 2016
Pregnant Child War Escape Historical Maternity | Mysticsartdesign | Mystic Art Design • Deutsch • Member since July 3, 2014
Skeletons Atomic Bomb Nuclear Weapons Explosion | geralt | Gerd Altmann • Freiburg/Deutschland • Member since Sept. 15, 2012 • #25
Annoy Cells Stars Dendrites Sepia Excitement Brain | geralt | Gerd Altmann • Freiburg/Deutschland • Member since Sept. 15, 2012 • #25
