Anger

[pecunium]

Patrick at Making Light says Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon is his hero for the day.

I agree.

A excerpt The sane response of people who are actually living in the world to infuriating things is to be infuriated. So being called angry can be taken as a huge compliment, since it means you are sane and you aren’t a sociopath and you actually love life and hate that others are trying to fuck things up...

Now that the entire left blogosphere has been inducted into The Pissed Off Club, it’s probably a good time to go over some incorrect myths about our friend Anger...

Anger muddles your thinking. Not necessarily. Sometimes anger is quite clarifying, as I mentioned in the humor section. But more importantly, trying to avoid being angry even when the situation calls for it seriously muddles people’s thinking, because it forces them to go into denial about reality.

I point out the last in particular (but you really ought to go and look at the whole thing, links and all) because the stuff I write which gets the most reactions (and the most favorable reactions) like, "Am I a "L"iberal?" are written in the heat of the moment when somthing pisses me off.

Anger works, the Right has been using it for years. Some of it trumped up (Christians are persecuted? Wha?) but all of it effective ar motivating the base. Now the Left has gotten royally pissed off, and lots of folks (the Right, and the press) are trying to negate it. The Right because it threatens them (they have been used to a passive target) and the press because, well I don't know. Some say it's because Left Blogistan threatens their primacy. Others because they feel threatend; that the blogosphere is showing them up, by doing the job they ought to be doing.

For whatever reason anger, righteous indignation and all its fellow travellers are being denounced.

Well I am angry about a lot of things, and I'm not embarrased about it. If it means I belong to the order of the shrill, fine.

Comments

[lexica510.livejournal.com]

Psst - the link to "Am I a "L"iberal?" seems to be broken (points to pecunium.livejournal.com/183316.htm instead of 183316.html; also it closes with a second <a> tag instead of an </a>). FYI.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. Right now I'm royally pissed off because one of the guys at the board & care I live at had the living shit beat out of him last night.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I think anger clarifies. The end result might not make sense, but it will be clear.

B

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It's fixed.

TK