I consider rage

My head is spinning, and my heart is aching.

I do not understand how silencing atrocity, killing the innocent, and fabricating truth can become accepted at any level. 

I consider rage. The accumulation of unexpressed anger that reaches a threshold, and that at some unknown point in time, will be unleashed. 

There is only so much rage we can hold.

The Principle of Perturbation demonstrates that when we are perturbed enough, a threshold will be crossed. This Principle has key elements.

1. The timing is unpredictable.
2. The threshold crossing is irreversible. You cannot go back to what was before.
3. Heat and energy will be released. Or emotion. 

In Iran, people on the streets. At great risk. 

In America, people are on the streets. At great risk of being indiscriminately shot in the face.

In Australia, people are being told they cannot be on the streets. Which will get people on the streets.

In the UK, people protesting are now held as terrorists, and a few of the protesters are in their last stages of a hunger strike. 

In Australia, a prestigious writers’ festival is becoming a farce after its board, pressured by the government of South Australia, deemed a Palestinian writer inappropriate for these culturally sensitive times. Over one hundred authors have now boycotted the event. Bravo to them. 

The threshold is being danced with all over the world as injustice spreads to anyone who doesn’t have keys to the castle. The once trusty old ladder we had the opportunity to climb has been destroyed. 

In this world, only those who have access to the castle, the Empire, walk free in impunity. For now. The castle is a brutal place, for its walls are built on lies, corruption, hate and dominating power. With walls like that, one indiscretion and you are lunch.

I do not see a ‘going back’ moment. 

I only see the perturbative threshold crossing as imminent. 

The Empire needs to fall. As it always has. 

Photo Taken January 10th 2026, Article published January 10th 2026