Our society drowns in rage and frustration. Leonard Scheff, a prosecutor, was using rage to levera his court performace until he became aware of how toxic anger could be. His transition can be summed up in a quick parable: Consider how you're driving through a busy parking lot and, just when you see a space, another car is speeding ahead and takes it. The rage can be easily imagined. Yet consider now that a cow…
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Our society drowns in rage and frustration. Leonard Scheff, a prosecutor, was using rage to levera his court performace until he became aware of how toxic anger could be. His transition can be summed up in a quick parable: Consider how you’re driving through a busy parking lot and, just when you see a space, another car is speeding ahead and takes it. The rage can be easily imagined. Yet consider now that a cow has lumbered into the parking spot instead of another driver and sat down. The rage is dissolving into bafflement. Scheff and Edmiston demonstrate that we can remove the rage when we recognise our true unmet demands; how, when we know our buttons, we can change the results of their activations. Eventually, when the viewer simply keeps watching and drawing out the drills, it doesn’t matter who occupies the parking space.
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Our society drowns in rage and frustration. Leonard Scheff, a prosecutor, was using rage to levera his court performace until he became aware of how toxic anger could be. His transition can be summed up in a quick parable: Consider how you’re driving through a busy parking lot and, just when you see a space, another car is speeding ahead and takes it. The rage can be easily imagined. Yet consider now that a cow has lumbered into the parking spot instead of another driver and sat down. The rage is dissolving into bafflement. Scheff and Edmiston demonstrate that we can remove the rage when we recognise our true unmet demands; how, when we know our buttons, we can change the results of their activations. Eventually, when the viewer simply keeps watching and drawing out the drills, it doesn’t matter who occupies the parking space.
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