Matthew Fox: What Are We Doing With Our Anger?

There is so much to be angry about in today's world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns. The debts the young are inheriting, which include not only unheard of educational debts but the debts of foolish wars and the debts of a depleted Earth system and the loss of so much  beauty and richness and variety of species, the deteriorating health of the planet, climate change, ineffective political systems and religious systems -- they all cry out for grieving.

And anger is the first level of grief, after all. The question is not "Who is angry and why?" but "What are we doing with our anger? What is the most effective us of it?" What Howard Thurman and Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. teach us is that it is possible and necessary to steer anger into useful protest and authentic change.

- Matthew Fox, excerpted from "Occupy Spirituality: 

A Radical Vision For a New Generation"