This is the first I’ve heard of a “rage room,” where people pay money to smash things up with a sledgehammer, particularly office printers.

On the one hand it’s kind of funny, but on the other, it makes me wonder about American aggression. Why do people have so much pent up anger, and does taking it out physically help or make it worse?

Anyway, that’s not the point of the article

https://www.washingtonpost.com...-environment-health/

Swinging a sledgehammer is satisfying. It’s an element of the demolition process on all the remodeling shows.

quote:

Swinging a sledgehammer is satisfying.

I have never swung a sledgehammer. Ok wait.. so it depends on how we define sledgehammer.. well, most accurate is to say I’ve never swung a sledgehammer, but I have swung a very large wooden mallet, when making Japanese mochi the traditional way. But this was in the service of creation, not destruction.

I guess I’m wondering why destruction is satisfying.

Maybe I should revisit this question some time when I’m super angry or frustrated.

Well, you do eat the mochi, right? There's the destruction! You're just preparing the material to be destroyed ...

"Acting out feelings of anger reinforces those neural pathways that are primed for anger. By strengthening these pathways, people are more likely to respond and act out with anger in the future."

Another form of rage room?

The Axe Hole House

I wonder how many people who do that imagine the boss's face, or perhaps an ex for the axe.

quote:

Originally posted by CHAS:
"Acting out feelings of anger reinforces those neural pathways that are primed for anger. By strengthening these pathways, people are more likely to respond and act out with anger in the future."

Yep, that's pretty much exactly what my thought/concern was.

I also think this is very embedded in American culture.

Also, yuck.