Slightly Perturbed

Okay so the topic of the day is disagreements. What is it about disagreements that upset us so much? Shouldn’t disagreements be a natural thing? After all aren’t there going to be people that do not share your opinion? Why are so easily angered? Is it because we feel belittled, ashamed or insulted? I’m asking because there must always be an underlying factor. In every workplace there are always fights, bosses with employees, employees with employees… a constant power struggle. I know I might be approaching this very vaguely but let’s just say I don’t want to implicate any specific situation or people. This morning on the radio someone was extremely upset because the words “previously disadvantaged” refers to the greater community of black people and thus he called it reverse racism… I wondered to myself what this persons views were during the apartheid regime? Did he call in to radio stations to announce his disagreements? Or was it just because he was affected now? It seems to me that when we get upset we ask all the wrong questions… the first one of coarse being; “why did this upset me so much?”