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... square eyes? Which was ninja'd, but okay.

As for the anger thing above, time and perspective has done much of it for me. Beyond the time/distance aspect, paying attention to what triggers anger and then, y'know, confronting it -- emotionally/intellectually if the causal factors can't be dealt with -- and deciding if something can be done (and then doing it, of course) has been my key. When something can't be done, I just remind myself of that fact and let things go. If nothing can be done, and the anger serves no use for me, then there's no need for it and it is to be discarded (eventually, anyway).

Meditation and whatnot, particularly the physical aspects such as breathing and muscle control, help a lot with that. It's a lot harder to get and stay angry when you can cut off and/or prevent the physiological aspects of it (muscle tension, faster/shallower breathing, etc.) from manifesting.

As for beating things up and that sort of thing, well, be very careful with that -- catharsis in general, really. It's been well identified that that is more likely to reinforce your temper than it is to diffuse it.

Also there's kinda' a ton of stuff on the net re: anger management. Skimming around google or whatever might not be a bad idea if you're looking for concrete steps/practices and the like. Just do check several sources and look for overlap, since there's also some bugnut insane stuff on the subject out there, too.

Either better PR or rather good propaganda, though. Think the states have always been pretty good at saying they're the land of the free (implied: Everyone else isn't, so don't turn to those godless freedom hating foreigners for anything), but less so on the whole being it part. Plus there seems to be more folks than normal who have a great deal of their identity wrapped around the concept and are very willing to bend their perception of reality to meet it, ha.

That, and I guess it's not so bad so long as you're you average non-poor WASP type critter. Eh.

Tip: You can turn automatic updates off. Alternately just tell the firewall to block microsoft

... well, you can in Vista and earlier. Dunno about after that.

... yeah, it's probably going to have trouble with TV and voices, anyway. I've been using gun-range sound-blocker whatsits for a while, and even those have trouble with voices and whatnot. Plus, y'know, TV does a lot of shit with sound specifically to make it catch people's attention.

You have no idea how much I hate TV because of that. So much hate.

Or it could just be fairly low quality noise canceling wazdingers, too.

They're not acting like soldiers, though. Well, maybe "acting", but from what I've picked up in discussion elsewhere, a lot of military policy and whatnot is... considerably more restrained than police policy has been. It's been kinda' interesting seeing vets shit on how the cops are acting, honestly.

... and that's not exactly going to happen unless the cops start giving the public reasons to. Preferably more (and more importantly, more visible) reasons to than not to.

Beyond that, "being shit on" doesn't excuse going out and fucking killing people, maiming innocents, violating huge swaths of the law (and getting away with it), etc., so forth, so on.

Police get ridiculous amounts of goddamn privileges (Hint: There's some of that bloody "respect") for what they do, and the ability and mandate to use more power than almost any civil position in the states. What many of them are doing with that is completely inexcusable, and the fact that the ones that aren't doing such are not stopping their fellows from doing that is just... yeah. The group in the position of power has a considerably greater responsibility in regards to action than the others involved in the equation. And for the last long damn while, the police, in general, in the states, have been failing that responsibility badly.

Seriously though. Any cop that starts displaying an "US V THEM" mentality needs to be fired, immediately. That -- policing their own goddamn people -- more than just about anything, is one of the biggest things the discontent are asking for at this point.

There doesn't really have to be something "different" -- just that it gets latched on to. Camel's back, just happening to be at the right time, stars being right, s'a whole bunch of things that could cause it to cause policy or perception change, even when identical or near identical events in the past didn't.

Doesn't mean it will, but there doesn't have to be anything strange or unusual about this particular case of police bullshit for it to be the one that strikes something off. If it does. Which it probably won't, but *shrugs*