desires vs angst....

Was wondering what "drives"(key motivators of) accomplishments...was it desires or angst(or anger)... out of positive attitudes or negative ones like anger... would the results be of any difference?...

Adults comment that young adults today do not possess the "anger" that they used to generations ago...cos of the growing affluence...where we worry more of what shoes to buy than in the era where you see young girls, no better than slaves in garment factories, virtually sold their lives, for a few meagre pennies and to die with tuberculosis or end up blind cos of the working conditions....so we see, people used to retaliate because of the environment, many things they saw were just not morally right( eg. the corrupt government, the police officers who were no more than "dogs" of the gov. , slavery, whatever situations that cannot justify appropriate human conditions...u name it...)...hence it was these conditions that stirred up humans' emotions to retaliate...to accomplish smthng...to fight for one's right to a better living..now that we do not see these does it meant that we no longer possess the "anger" within to accomplish smthing?

I always felt that human emotions evolve just like technology....they get more sophisticated as years past...that bring about more complex layers that need time to comprehend....like in the previous era where "anger" was stirred from a more basic need for rights and better living conditions...but in this era does "anger" no longer exist?...i beg to differ....i think we have evolved out of the first phase where we fight against the environment...now we fight not just against our environment but people as well...that's when it gets more sophisticated...but ridiculously the purpose which stirred up our emotions and our "anger" are in my opinion getting so superficial...as in...something that we hope to achieve...is possibly resulted...eg. because we feel a need to be wealthier than someone else...to be more successful "materially"...so that we will not be mocked at or feel discouraged in this league where " who owns more, wins" we may laugh...but aren't many of us guilty of such thoughts?

Thus,makes me wonder whether accomplishments from this human vs human competition results differently from one's desires,...passion....longing for smthing, for the purpose of fulfilling oneself....one being motivated frm the external competition while the other motivated from within, does external or internal makes much difference?

Cn't believe i actually wrote such a long post...anyway was partly inspired after i watched America's top model....shandi and yoanna....especially shandi...who does not have the natural born model look to start...neither extremely beautiful...and like many of us commoners taking commoners salary from a mart or mall....cld have imagined the accomplisments that were beyond predictions...eg. in shandi's case...she got 8 agencies which contacted her after the show...that's a "wow!" if you were in a modelling industry....was happy for yoanna as well...didn't know she used to be a baby-sitter....she has that classic model look which i really like...gd luck to them and everyone else....hope you have the "nothing to lose" attitude....applies to me as well....give yourself a chance...u have nothing to lose...why not try it...even if you look like a clown...what have you to lose? we take a commoner's salary..we don't "bet" much...so wat have we to lose? and beyond our imagination...who knows that the chances we take are the very paths that open our future? what have we to lose?

ps...pardon my bad grammer and stuff...and who says i don't use the dictionary?...and i think i invented some words too... haha....