GET ANGRY

[Transylvanian]

But I believe, there should be a balance on the concept of anger. Anger can get you awake but unless controlled it burns you out quite quickly. The only thing that can help is to become disciplined. Skills health learns things that are worth paying. Not raging posting not making everyone to blame.I do concur with the main message. There is nothing like sitting in a sad and never-ending analysis. There is something to be done and that something begins with oneself. The system can be broken but it is a losing strategy to wait and hope that it self heals. Work with the frustration but cause no headache. That is the manner in which individuals proceed.

[hero_the_bossman]

But I believe, there should be a balance on the concept of anger. Anger can get you awake but unless controlled it burns you out quite quickly. The only thing that can help is to become disciplined. Skills health learns things that are worth paying. Not raging posting not making everyone to blame.I do concur with the main message. There is nothing like sitting in a sad and never-ending analysis. There is something to be done and that something begins with oneself. The system can be broken but it is a losing strategy to wait and hope that it self heals. Work with the frustration but cause no headache. That is the manner in which individuals proceed.

It should be a state of flow and calm, imo. Or the angriness that can be controlled and put to use, in a true way.

[SusanVac]

Anger is destructive, when you're angry you can’t really think straight. It’s better to replace ANGER with DETERMINATION, because only that can actually get us off the couch and start living life. It’s thanks to it that we step into the unknown and change our lives. Anger, on the other hand, usually just makes things worse, since decisions made in the heat of the moment rarely end well.

[Mpamaegbu]

At least you will die for a purpose.

You're right on that. Don't just be sad or angry, act on that energy.

Be angry, be rebellious! Don't resign to fate when things aren't right. Act.

Non-conformists have been known to change narratives. I don't think those who conform to existing rules ever make it to a hall of fame. Satoshi is one. Be remembered for a course.

[john_egbert]

At least you will die for a purpose.

You're right on that. Don't just be sad or angry, act on that energy.

Be angry, be rebellious! Don't resign to fate when things aren't right. Act.

Non-conformists have been known to change narratives. I don't think those who conform to existing rules ever make it to a hall of fame. Satoshi is one. Be remembered for a course.

It depends on whether your efforts will be seen or heard at all, but, - to try is to be have a chance for that to happen, or to change status quo.. That's the least we can do.

[barbara44]

We did, millennials did, we rioted, we protested, even all the way until to wall street, see what changed? Nothing at all.

Z generation was babies when we did that, we were in colleges and we tried to rebel against the system that prevented us from getting a house by hard work, it is as simple as that, all we wanted from life was living a decent life, not dying because we lack money and be able to afford a house eventually, and they prevented and we protested this. Nothing changed and it's still the same, in fact it is even worse. So, not sure if Z generation getting angry will change anything neither.

[abaeze]

An average Gen Z male's life in 2026 -- Cross-checked:

YOU NEED TO GET ANGRY.

Anger is the only emotion that produces force.

Sadness sedates. Sadness submits. Sadness turns structural failure into personal therapy sessions.

You will either get what you want from life, or you die.

At least you will die for a purpose.

Be angry, be rebellious! When things are not going well. But Generation Z is overly emotional and when they cannot change something, they surrender to fate. So if anger can bring about a good change then anger is good but work cannot be abandoned due to anger, it can be invested but patience will be required along with anger. If you do not understand a thing, you can try again and again but you should never get disappointed.

[Rikafip]

Not sure who else said it, but that was a lyric right before the chorus on one of Rage Against The Machine's songs...Freedom, I think it was.

Yep, RATM (or more appropriate RFTM-Rage For The Machine given how they sold out) used it in Freedom, but I think I heard it being connected with Malcom X as well.

If anger could get me a hot girlfriend and would never stop being angry like all the time.

It could get you a hot gf, as girls like tough, "bad boy" kind of guys. 

[imthegreat]

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I loved the line about adulthood being a subscription you can't cancel; it's true and incredibly relevant. Ever since I left school, all my thoughts have been about money. But you know what I regret? That I didn't think about money sooner, because then I would have been prepared for this chaos that began when I turned 18. Although I wouldn't say my life was a bed of roses before that. It was always difficult, but at least now I'm at the helm of this ship called life, and I absolutely love it. But I believe that anger doesn't add strength. Cold calculation decides everything.

This is what rules the world, both global corporations and the life of an ordinary guy. You need to think and act, not gain motivation through emotions.

[viljy]

There are different ways to get angry. Anger can fuel the desire to earn more in order to achieve a higher standard of living and social status. But anger alone is not enough for that. But in order to turn your anger on someone, you don't need any other conditions. We just need someone to blame for the problems. It would seem that anger is constructive in the first case, but not in the second case. However, this is not entirely true. After all, you can get angry in order to earn more by simply robbing stores - you don't need education or efforts to build a business for this. So is anger really constructive? - No. Even when robbing a store, you need to keep your cool so you don't get caught!   Not to mention building your own business, where those who are prudent and cold-blooded are successful.

[Outhue]

Anger is destructive, when you're angry you can’t really think straight. It’s better to replace ANGER with DETERMINATION, because only that can actually get us off the couch and start living life. It’s thanks to it that we step into the unknown and change our lives. Anger, on the other hand, usually just makes things worse, since decisions made in the heat of the moment rarely end well.

You don't get the message at all, there is nothing that I have ever done out of merely trying over again, I turned into a different person the moment I got angry 💢 to why I am not making progress, determination isn't enough, fine-tuning your seriously with anger gets things done than just having determination.

I am talking from experience, the little achievement that I have been able to achieve in life was all because I got anger towards failure, I got anger as to why I am not making it, it just make me see things clearly, do not compare this with anger on people because they spit on you, I am not talking about anger that turned into street fights and all violence alike.

[ChiliByte]

Anger is destructive, when you're angry you can’t really think straight. It’s better to replace ANGER with DETERMINATION, because only that can actually get us off the couch and start living life. It’s thanks to it that we step into the unknown and change our lives. Anger, on the other hand, usually just makes things worse, since decisions made in the heat of the moment rarely end well.

You don't get the message at all, there is nothing that I have ever done out of merely trying over again, I turned into a different person the moment I got angry 💢 to why I am not making progress, determination isn't enough, fine-tuning your seriously with anger gets things done than just having determination.

I am talking from experience, the little achievement that I have been able to achieve in life was all because I got anger towards failure, I got anger as to why I am not making it, it just make me see things clearly, do not compare this with anger on people because they spit on you, I am not talking about anger that turned into street fights and all violence alike.

I understand now—your anger isn't a destructive emotion, but a personal catalyst that sharpens your focus after repeated failures. Your experience shows that passive willpower isn't enough; constructive anger fosters clarity of vision, unlike the explosion of street violence. It's like a fire that burns away illusions, allowing you to see opportunity in failure. Many successful figures have acknowledged the same thing: Nikola Tesla used frustration to innovate, or athletes angry at defeat train harder. It's not about comparing yourself to others, but about transforming yourself internally into a productive, "different person." Tip: channel it into a daily journal—note your anger triggers and turn them into specific action plans. Mentally forged in fire is powerful, but balance it with recovery like meditation to ensure sustainability. Your experience is inspiring; proof that directed anger produces real achievements.

[FortuneFollower]

Anger is destructive, when you're angry you can’t really think straight. It’s better to replace ANGER with DETERMINATION, because only that can actually get us off the couch and start living life. It’s thanks to it that we step into the unknown and change our lives. Anger, on the other hand, usually just makes things worse, since decisions made in the heat of the moment rarely end well.

You don't get the message at all, there is nothing that I have ever done out of merely trying over again, I turned into a different person the moment I got angry 💢 to why I am not making progress, determination isn't enough, fine-tuning your seriously with anger gets things done than just having determination.

I am talking from experience, the little achievement that I have been able to achieve in life was all because I got anger towards failure, I got anger as to why I am not making it, it just make me see things clearly, do not compare this with anger on people because they spit on you, I am not talking about anger that turned into street fights and all violence alike.

It's an anger that goes out not from a physical point, but from our soul, basically.. Or our brain not getting why it's not working, why there is no progress even we try that hard? - I agree that these two.. are different anger points

[Satofan44]

That was kind of my point--OP's call to anger isn't one that will work universally.  It won't now and never has, for the simple reason that each individual has a different psychological makeup and deals with anger in the face of injustice/corruption/whatever by very powerful institutions differently.

Perhaps we mean to say the same things, but are just having some trouble understanding it here. Whenever someone makes a good case like OP did here, I work with the assumption that they are talking about the smart version of something. Essentially every emotion or thing has bad and good variants of it, it does not matter whether we are talking about positive or negative emotions really. Therefore, yes. Directed, smart anger is nice. When I was younger I used it to drive me to work longer and harder while most people gave up much earlier because the things we had to solve were of enormous complexity.

But on the other hand....a lot of protesting happens on university campuses (at least in the US), and from my experience most of the professors on those campuses are liberal-leaning.  But the students are usually even more leftist in terms of politics than the professors or administrators at universities.  That tells me that students aren't just swallowing the BS of those who would preserve the status quo; nor do I think higher education is useless.  It is for a lot of students who attend university for the wrong reasons (and it's far too expensive), but people centuries ago would have killed to have the kind of access to knowledge that we have today.  Just saying, now.

It does happen, but it is mostly virtue signalling foolishness and the desperation to belong to something of the Gen Z. Students were actually protesting about Gaza and Israel, black lives matter, or other stuff that is completely meaningless in the grand scheme of things, they weren't protesting on any more fundamental issue -- perhaps aside in some smaller scale protests. Therefore, this indicates that indeed almost all students are swallowing bullshit and have no idea what is actually wrong with the word.   Whether 10 thousand or 1 million people die in Gaza will make zero difference in the grand scheme and will not do anything at all to hurt the system. That being said, black lives matter was one of the dumbest things that happened -- the guy with which it started was a degenerated junkie criminal, therefore it just proves me point further. Most students have no idea about anything at all and are trivially manipulated into any doctrine. Since almost all those students are social media addicts, it is easier to gather protesters for a variety of topics. Hell, many of them want communism to be revived. What does that tell you?  

[SusanVac]

Anger is destructive, when you're angry you can’t really think straight. It’s better to replace ANGER with DETERMINATION, because only that can actually get us off the couch and start living life. It’s thanks to it that we step into the unknown and change our lives. Anger, on the other hand, usually just makes things worse, since decisions made in the heat of the moment rarely end well.

You don't get the message at all, there is nothing that I have ever done out of merely trying over again, I turned into a different person the moment I got angry 💢 to why I am not making progress, determination isn't enough, fine-tuning your seriously with anger gets things done than just having determination.

I am talking from experience, the little achievement that I have been able to achieve in life was all because I got anger towards failure, I got anger as to why I am not making it, it just make me see things clearly, do not compare this with anger on people because they spit on you, I am not talking about anger that turned into street fights and all violence alike.

Yeah, I didn’t get you right at first. For me, anger has always been about destruction, that’s all I’ve seen in my life.

[C10H15N]

Yes, the "system" is rigged.
Yes, we're all property / livestock of the state to do with as it pleases.
Yes, the so called "news" is propaganda - either outright lies or truth spun to advance the narrative.
Yes, with few exceptions your overpriced "education" is worthless - a scam designed to capture you in debt slavery.
Yes, you may avoid the college trap, but new cars, vacations, the latest must-have tech is always available via credit cards or BNPL.  Fake it till you make it, YOLO, call it what you will.  It's the same debt trap.
Yes, the smarmy politicians (they're all scum) always have the solutions to problems they themselves have created. All you have to do it vote for them - again. How convenient.  🙄
Yes, the true power in the world lies with the money. The massive wealth that owns the smarmy politicians who really work for them, not you - you're livestock.
Yes, you think you're comfortable and safe from predators in your corral eating your daily feed ration. but unbeknownst to you up in the ranch house they're having steak.


 

[Versatile_choice]

Yeah, I didn’t get you right at first. For me, anger has always been about destruction, that’s all I’ve seen in my life.

I totally understand your point, yes when I heard the word "anger" I think about destruction because that's the only outcome I get whenever I'm provoke to anger or when I decide to apply it myself. I think the word aggressive is more better than anger because when you talk about aggressive it means applying more force to what you're doing take for instance in bitcoin investment, sometimes we might decide to be more aggressive in accumulating bitcoin more especially when there's a buying opportunity because aggressive does not come with destruction unless you over do.

[tread93]

An average Gen Z male's life in 2026 -- Cross-checked:

You're living in a neighborhood that is having a rally on criminal activity. Every week, a new all-time-high.

You have no girlfriend. Those of you who do probably rent her attention with dinners you can't afford and patience you don't have.

In terms of difficulty, starting a family is now following the same graph as Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment. Just upwards.

The food they sell you is poison.

You're 25, living with parents. Independence postponed indefinitely. Adulthood turned into a subscription you can't cancel.

AI is reshaping the entire capitalistic model, while you still haven't finished your degree in "Modern Philosophy".

YOU NEED TO GET ANGRY.

Anger is the only emotion that produces force.

Sadness sedates. Sadness submits. Sadness turns structural failure into personal therapy sessions.

If you're just sad about the above, then you just cope with them and move on.

Anger is different. Anger refuses the current state as final. Anger creates friction.

You can be sad and blame the system. Or corporations. Or immigrants. Or Jews. Or capitalism. Or history. Pick a villain and the path ends in resignation.

Anger asks one thing only: what are you doing about it?

No outrage posts. No abstract debates.

Concrete action. Physical capability. Marketable skills.

Get angry about the current state of affairs.

Get your way out of this absolute mess that keeps you numb, broke and distracted.

You will either get what you want from life, or you die.

At least you will die for a purpose.

Now replace anger with persistence and I like that a whole lot more. I do feel like the anger is not the best way to produce.or at least not the only way but I have to admit that it is pretty darn effective

[MWayne]

At least you will die for a purpose.

You're right on that. Don't just be sad or angry, act on that energy.

Be angry, be rebellious! Don't resign to fate when things aren't right. Act.

Non-conformists have been known to change narratives. I don't think those who conform to existing rules ever make it to a hall of fame. Satoshi is one. Be remembered for a course.

It depends on whether your efforts will be seen or heard at all, but, - to try is to be have a chance for that to happen, or to change status quo.. That's the least we can do.

  is this what late stage HODL feels like?

[alani123]

I live in a city where all of the above applies but I can't complain about crime. Crime is the lowest it has been in over 20 years in spite of worsened policing and lack of enforcement. My guess is that poverty and financial tightness are now so widespread it's even not worth it to steal from each other.

But I'll raise you this. The issue doesn't boil down to the individual level.
Even if you have 0 post-midleschool skills your labour is still valuable. The butcher may not know excel or good arithmetic but without him we'd have to import and kill live animals. The trash man may not know how to write but without him we'd still have the black plague. Thr production line worker may not have taken a day in school but he's still essential in the production of accessories that power devices we use every day. You get the idea.

Every worker is an essential worker at the end of the day. Many of the skills that are promoted to us as "marketable" are actually things society could do entirely without. Notaries, lawyers, accountants are all considered high skill jobs in the west. Surely they produce some sense of value too but for these jobs to be essential We enforce too many societal constructs.

But let's consider what notaries, lawyers and accountants have in common. They're better at lobbying the state than factory workers in today's world. So out of the production process, a person working with burreocracy is able to squeeze out more of the value he generated to keep for himself than a worker who actually produces tangible results with his labour like making slaughtered animals into table ready meat, cleaning the streets or producing parts.

Some countries manage to create a fairer system for everyone.

A tangible example I can present:

Bulgaria is said to be the worst performing economy in Europe in terms of purchasing power per person. And yet a person working with the average wage there today is able to afford a flat and even save a few hundred bucks every month after expenses.

Greece who is bordering Bulgaria in the south, is a much bigger economy and more developed for years, has it much worse. Over 80% of households can't save a penny at the end of the month. Prices are through the roof and wages remain stagnant. As a youth with a job it's impossible to escape your parental home because no matter your degrees and experience, when there's 30% unemployment outside of the tourist season, everyone is looking to eat you alive at the job market. The employers will never give good salaries no matter anyone's skills when there's this level of desperation. So it's normal to feel desperate as an individual too.

Here in south Europe the latest crises in the system (2000 crisis, subsequent euro crisis, the global financial crisis of 2008 and then COVID) made many people lose belief in organising. But there's still examples of certain groups of workers striking better deals in their sectors by fighting for it together. For instance shipyard and sea workers got collective agreements with very decent salaries. And construction workers have kept getting increases in salaries through their collective bargaining. It's now paying better in Greece to be a construction worker than be an accountant in a major hotel. Ironic? No. But accountants in Greece have been too scared to fight for a collective agreement although they're as essential to the country's economic growth as construction workers.

So as a response to OP, I'm saying yes, let's all do self study and improve on a personal level.
But not everything boils down to the individual level.

If by merely moving to a different country most of one's issues are solved, then maybe there's an issue of corruption and lack of proper legislation where one lives too. The way to fight this isn't just alone.