Was just talking about anger with a few friends, and remembered this quote from Not-Two Is Peace:

The entire world is now out of control with egoic motives... The ego-"I", whether individual or collective, is eventually reduced to sorrow and despair because of the inability of life (in and of itself) to generate Happiness and Joy and Immortality. 

And that "self"-contained depression finally becomes anger, or loveless confrontation with the total world and every form of presumed "not-self"-- including even (and especially) the Inherently egoless, and Acausally Real, Self-Identity, Which is "locked away" by means of conventional ideas of "God Apart", and is thereby made into an "Other" by the egoic mind.

And when anger becomes the mood of human societies, the quality of fire (or the primitive and destructive intent of the frustrated ego) invades the plane of humanity.  That fire is expressed as all of the aggression and competitiveness (and all of the resultant sufferings and painful illusions) of humankind, including all the ego-based politics of confrontation. 

And that ego-fire is, finally, summarized in the acts of war.

- Not-Two Is Peace, pp. 104-5

I feel the truth of this quote when I go to the DVD rental store and try to pick out an entertainment. There is just so much fiery, heartless violence on display in the movies and video games.

Recently on facebook a friend shared a photo of two Iraqi children pointing guns at a third child. One commentator wrote several hateful messages about Islam being a  false religion of war and that muslims are animals who have no respect for human life and that he hoped that the kids did infact shoot each other because their lives were not worth more than the fifty cents the bullets would cost. It was painful to read his comments, especially because the writer himself was demonstrating a profound lack of respect for human life. Apparently he failed to see the irony/hypocrisy evident in his comment. His anger was palpable. When today I tried to return to the posting to see if others perhaps had responded to his comment (and perhaps to respond, lovingly, myself), I couldn't find it. Hopefully the originator wisely chose to remove the provocative photo posting. (Is that possible? New to Facebook, I'm not yet hip to options for deleting previous FB posts.)