Continuing my contribution to The Agoge, I want to touch on one of the most fundamental and powerful of human emotions. The one we are sometimes scared of, taught to suppress (“don’t be a raging lunatic” or “you’re an angry bitter man”) and “should be ashamed of”. I’m talking about ANGER, and its longer lasting sibling RAGE. In this post, I will show you how to use your rage as fuel to get what you want out of life.

Suppress Him, Suppress Him, Suppress Him (The Women’s Guide to Happiness)

That heading comes from the a title of a fictional book, in that great series, filled with Red-Pill wisdom – Married… With Children. In it, the character of Marcy showcased that book. (The caption on her shirt there is a little hard to see, but it reads: “Feminists Against Neanderthal Guys”. Process it for a moment and you’ll see the irony – and the genius of the show.) The reason I bring it up is because anger is considered a “wrong emotion”. You should manage it, you should suppress it. So women constantly tell us. The “anger management” techniques we are all familiar with (count to 10, walk away and so on) are aimed at that.

The result is that men suppress our rage and keep it bottled up – until it explodes and destroys people around us.

I’m one of the last people to say that you should let your emotions run loose. No, you should definitely have your emotions in check. That, however, does not mean one should be ashamed of feeling them and/or suppress them. By shaming yourself, you are forfeiting a great and powerful resource. You are also giving in to the gynocentric society.

Anger and Rage are fuel

I’m not the first person to say it. If one looks around the web, you’ll see a lot of websites and instructions on that. Poets have talked about it (the classic line “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” from Dylan Thomas’s great poem comes to mind) and if you look closely you can see people using it in their day-to-day life.

Fuel by itself is neither good, nor bad. It is what you make of it. What I teach my children, and sometimes my friends, is very similar. Anger and Rage are like fuel – using it in small amounts can get you to go where you want, but having too much of it can blow you up.

If you stop to think about it, I believe you will see the point.

You should not give up on an important emotion and source of power, yet you should treat it carefully. If you go through life feeling rage (and we all know that there are so many reasons to feel that) you may pull an Elliot Rodger. I’m not kidding, walking around carrying all that rage can get you to that place. However, if you use it wisely (examples to follow), you may get to a way better place. This may become your temporary source of motivation, or fuel.

Use Your Rage as Fuel – Personal Anecdotes

The example I’ll share is from my pre-Red-Pill days. That example is my go-to one when explaining how to use your rage as fuel.

This is from my time in the Army. I was a staff officer in the IDF. In the beginning of the 2000s I received an honour equivalent to “Officer of the Year”. It was a recognition of my effort and excellence for that year. It also came with a promotion.

The following year, I had a few rough outs with my CO. We did not see eye to eye on everything, but I was still his right hand man. Looking backwards, I understand that he was right most of the time, but then again I was a young officer who knew nothing about life (and was somewhat of a Gamma). I went on a long vacation during the holiday season, only to come back and find out that he put me in the “3 Class” of employee evaluation. That meant I was in the lower third of officers evaluated in my unit. It also meant that I could be up for discharge.

I was angry as hell, and my blood boiled. I may not be the best (as I was last year) but I did not see myself as a lower tier officer. When confronting him, he pointed to facts but also explained that he “had to do it” to protect other officers. I wanted to either punch him in the face or quit the army at that moment. I did neither.

What I did, for a whole month, was to let my rage simmer on a slow burn. Almost every waking moment was spent contemplating on the injustice and how to fix it. I distinctly remembering waking up and thinking: “Who do I go to today? How do I fix it?”. My CO encouraged me to go to the top and change it (he wouldn’t do it himself).

So that’s what I did. I went to more than 10 higher ranking officers. Told my story and asked for a change. Most of them were sympathetic to my situation, but did nothing. Finally I got an interview with the corps General. He knew me, as earlier that year he inspected a course that I managed. When I told him the story, emphasising the injustice and the improbability of it, he understood. He ordered my evaluation to be changed and shook my hand. It took me several more days to release the anger in full, but the process becoming much easier.

I used my immediate anger and my longer-term rage to get results. I did it without losing my temper in public. Instead, I found ways to channel that rage into productive ends.

Conclusion

Rage is fuel. Use it wisely and you’ll go places and change your life. Let it consume you, and you become a ticking bomb. The balance is sometimes very narrow. Don’t shame yourself about raging or getting angry, but “don’t get mad, get even”. If you use it wisely, anger and rage can propel you.

My story may not apply to all of you, but I hope it can be used as an example. You are angry about injustice? Good. Feel it, and now direct it. How do you want the world to change? What are you going to DO about it?

Note that I wrote the verb: DO. Just venting online does not mean you did something. An opposite example is the time I talked to a Millennial 20 something kid. He boasted about how he won an online debate with a Leftist columnist. “So he won’t write again?” I asked. He was puzzled. “I don’t know” he answered. “You think he’ll never write again? You believe that he’ll issue an official apology and back down from the stuff he has written?” I continued to press. The kid acknowledged that those scenarios will not happen. “So” I told him, “You wasted an hour of your life that has no consequences what so ever. Too bad you didn’t work out or study, at least that would have helped you”.

You’re upset? Good!

“This is me taking control of my life. What the F&#k have you done lately?”