[00:00:00] This is the FCB Podcast Network.
[00:00:09] Just Listen to Yourself presents I'm Just Saying it with Kira Davis.
[00:00:14] Yet another video went viral on social media recently.
[00:00:17] This one highlighting a group of women engaging in rage rituals.
[00:00:21] These rage rituals are exactly what they sound like.
[00:00:25] Women are encouraged to scream, cry and take out their aggression on innocent, inanimate objects around them.
[00:00:32] The point is apparently to release suppressed emotions and reconnect with themselves.
[00:00:48] Now, I'm all for a good guttural scream every now and then.
[00:00:52] Who among us hasn't grabbed a pillow to stifle a frustrated scream at least once in our lives?
[00:00:57] There's something to be said about just letting it all out sometimes.
[00:01:02] However, there is something disturbing about making an entire therapy session out of it.
[00:01:07] For one thing, why are these women so full of rage?
[00:01:11] You might say, well Kira, the state of the world is enraging.
[00:01:15] Climate change, sexism, racism, people named Donald Trump.
[00:01:19] There's a lot to be enraged about.
[00:01:21] Okay, fine. But we all live in the same world and yet most of us are able to go through our days and our lives
[00:01:28] without amassing such a cache of rage inside us that it eventually must be released in an adult temper tantrum session.
[00:01:36] And for another thing, this level of internalized rage suggests a marked sense of helplessness.
[00:01:42] One that seems to be pervading our modern culture.
[00:01:45] Injustice makes me angry most certainly, but I don't feel the need to join scream therapy to cope with it
[00:01:52] because I have an informed understanding of the nature of man and of creation.
[00:01:57] I have an explanation, the fall of me, and I have a solution, God.
[00:02:03] These are foundational concepts that provide the necessary mental emotional framework to processing the injustices of the world around us.
[00:02:12] And perhaps your framework doesn't involve faith, but whatever it is,
[00:02:16] if you're not currently beating up body pillows in a group therapy session,
[00:02:21] I can only surmise that framework offers you some type of explanation and some type of solution.
[00:02:28] The problem with modern American culture is that too many people have no explanations for anything anymore.
[00:02:35] They're angry, but they don't know why.
[00:02:37] They're lonely, but they don't know why.
[00:02:40] Their lives aren't as happy and prosperous as they've been promised, but they don't know why.
[00:02:46] It's unmoored mass confusion.
[00:02:49] If you don't know where to turn for the answers in life, the only place to turn is inward.
[00:02:54] And that's enough to make anyone scream because we're rotten inside.
[00:02:58] Being not rotten is a full-time job for a human.
[00:03:01] The women who engage in these therapy sessions seem to have based their life philosophy on a disintegrating foundation.
[00:03:08] Until they discover why they are here in the first place,
[00:03:11] I'm afraid they are doomed to continue screaming into the ceaseless void and paying a hefty tuition for the privilege.
[00:03:19] I'm Kira Davis, and I'm just saying.
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