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Opening Insights: Catalyst for Change<\/h2>\n

There are two things a person should never be angry at,
what they can help,
and what they cannot.<\/em>
PLATO<\/p>\n

Anger gathers on the horizon like storm clouds. Soon there will be lightning strikes, setting the fields ablaze, and thunder shaking the rafters. Is there anything we can do besides hunker down and weather the storm?<\/p>\n

The global anger epidemic cannot be ignored nor can it be controlled. Most of those with tremendous anger aren’t clear on the reason, they only know that they are!<\/em> They have become their anger and now they must retaliate… but retaliate against who?<\/p>\n

Can you retaliate against technology for sapping your intelligence and removing your choices?<\/p>\n

Can you retaliate again media controlled by a powerful few that twist the truth and stoke the flames of unrest all to feed an agenda?<\/p>\n

Can you retaliate against an system of education that has ceased to teach the youth HOW to think and instead teaches them WHAT to think, and what’s not okay to think<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Only the power of “NO” can stop these foes, but we must recognize them as foes and hold them accountable for what they’ve done. Unfortunately, while the narrative is being controlled the youth have no idea who the real enemy is, so they get angry or get apathetic and just stop caring. Either way, the unrest, discord and divide only gets worse.<\/p>\n

Informational Insights: Angry for Good Reason<\/h2>\n

The following article was published by the The Guardian UK, a British independent news organization headquartered in London. It was written by Simon Tisdall, a foreign affairs commentator, foreign leader writer, foreign editor and US editor for the Guardian and the Associate Press.<\/p>\n

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A spate of large-scale street protests around the world, from Chile and Hong Kong to Lebanon and Barcelona, is fuelling a search for common denominators and collective causes. Are we entering a new age of global revolution? Or is it foolish to try to link anger in India over the price of onions<\/a> to pro-democracy demonstrations in Russia?<\/a><\/p>\n

Each country\u2019s protests differ in detail. But recent upheavals do appear to share one key factor: youth. In most cases, younger people are at the forefront of calls for change. The uprising that unexpectedly swept away Sudan\u2019s ancien regime<\/a> this year was essentially generational in nature.<\/p>\n

In one sense, this is unsurprising. Wordsworth expressed the eternal appeal of revolt for the young in The Prelude, a poem applauding the French Revolution. \u201cBliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very Heaven!\u201d he declared. Wordsworth was 19 years old when the Bastille was stormed.<\/p>\n

Yet while younger people, in any era, are predisposed to shake up the established order, extreme demographic, social and political imbalances are intensifying present-day pressures. It is as if the unprecedented environmental traumas experienced by the natural world are being matched by similarly exceptional stresses in human society.<\/p>\n

There are more young people than ever before<\/a>. About 41% of the global population of 7.7 billion<\/a> is aged 24 or under. In Africa, 41% is under 15. In Asia and Latin America (where 65% of the world\u2019s people live), it\u2019s 25%<\/a>. In developed countries, imbalances tilt the other way. While 16% of Europeans are under 15, about 18%, double the world average, are over 65.<\/p>\n

Perhaps these protests will merge into international revolt against injustice, inequality and oppressive powers-that-be.<\/p>\n

Most of these young people have reached, or will reach, adulthood in a world scarred by the 2008 financial crash. Recession, stagnant or falling living standards, and austerity programmes delivered from on high have shaped their experience. As a result, many current protests<\/a> are rooted in shared grievances about economic inequality and jobs. In Tunisia,<\/a> birthplace of the failed 2011 Arab spring, and more recently in neighbouring Algeria, street protests were led by unemployed young people and students angry about price and tax rises \u2013 and, more broadly, about broken reform promises. Chile and Iraq faced similar upheavals last week.<\/p>\n

This global phenomenon of unfulfilled youthful aspirations is producing political timebombs. Each month in India, one million people turn 18 and can register to vote. In the Middle East and North Africa<\/a>, an estimated 27 million youngsters will enter the workforce in the next five years. Any government, elected or not, that fails to provide jobs, decent wages and housing faces big trouble.<\/p>\n

Numbers aside, the younger generations have something else that their elders lacked: they\u2019re connected. More people than ever before have access to education. They are healthier. They appear less bound by social conventions and religion. They are mutually aware. And their expectations are higher.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because, thanks to social media, the ubiquity of English as a common tongue, and the internet\u2019s globalisation and democratisation of information, younger people from all backgrounds and locations are more open to alternative life choices, more attuned to \u201cuniversal\u201d rights and norms such as free speech or a living wage \u2013 and less prepared to accept their denial.<\/p>\n

Political unrest deriving from such rapid social evolution is everywhere. Lebanon\u2019s \u201cWhatsApp revolution\u201d<\/a> is a perfect example. Yet some protests, such as those in Hong Kong and Catalonia, are overtly political from the very start.<\/p>\n

Young Hong Kongers<\/a> face familiar problems over scarce jobs and high rents. But by taking on China\u2019s authoritarian regime, they have assumed pole position in a struggle against autocratic \u201cstrongman\u201d rulers everywhere. Their campaign has international resonance, which is why China\u2019s President Xi Jinping fears it.<\/p>\n

It is difficult, if not perverse, to watch protesters risking torture and death<\/a> by challenging Egypt\u2019s dictator, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, and not relate their daring both to Hong Kong and, say, to Kashmiris\u2019 efforts to throw off the yoke<\/a> imposed by another \u201cstrongman\u201d, India\u2019s Narendra Modi. When Palestinian youths taunt the Israel Defence Forces with flags and stones, are they not part of the same global fight for democratic self-determination, basic freedoms and human rights espoused by young Muscovites opposing Vladimir Putin\u2019s cruel kleptocracy<\/a>?<\/p>\n

In this sea of protest, a common factor is the increased willingness of undemocratic regimes, ruling elites and wealthy oligarchies to use force to crush threats to their power \u2013 while hypocritically condemning protester violence. Repression is often justified in the name of fighting terrorism, as in Hong Kong. Other culprits include Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Myanmar<\/a> and Nicaragua<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Another negative is the perceived, growing readiness of democratically elected governments, notably in the US and Europe, to lie, manipulate and disinform. Distrust of politicians, and resulting public alienation, is the common ground on which stand France\u2019s \u201cgilets jaunes\u201d, Czech anti-corruption marchers<\/a> and Extinction Rebellion. As William Hazlitt,<\/a> the 18th-century essayist and celebrated mocker of Wordsworth might have said, disbelief is the new spirit of the age. <\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/26\/young-people-predisposed-shake-up-established-order-protest<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article originally appeared in THE GUARDIAN: About 41% of the global population are under 24. And they\u2019re angry\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Possibilities for Consideration: Changing the Approach<\/h2>\n

To cease the build-up of anger and the de-evolution of orderly society, steps must be taken to return self-authority, self-responsibility and self-accountability to the people. They need to regain a measure of power over their own lives and their futures. One person at a time will not be enough. We need to change one community culture<\/em> at a time. How do we do that? AwareComm<\/a>\u00ae<\/a><\/sup> has a field-proven answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Take a moment and examine\u2026<\/p>\n