I was writing the below in my book about how anger cannot be suppressed but will have it's way out. Then I watched an old movie and heard this slip of the decade. I thought you would appreciate it.

 

Even if force stops crime or war, the anger will be diverted to other forms of oppression, including increased child abuse and the suppression of healthy anger through extreme moral discipline of young children. These children are at risk for future violence. In the United States we have only to observe the terrible tragedies of misdirected rage in school shootings in our otherwise peaceful nation. In the movie Canadian Bacon with Alan Alda playing a US president, there is a revealing slip when he says in a speech, "It’s time to turn off the cold war and turn on our children."

Ellie