All The Rage

I noticed the write failed to draw the distinction between anger and righteous indignation. There are injustices, tragedies, and out right evil we should be angry at, that should be the focus of our venom and ire. However I think we as humans are too self centered, too ego-centric of a species. We are angry that we don't get our way, when the world is not the way we think it should be.

as some one who struggles with anger, it is easy to just let fly, but that moment of analysis, of thinking about what we are angry about before we let fly is a lost trait and is our greatest downfall as evolved creatures. We care too much about our emotions and too little about our thoughts.
 
Salvor-Hardon said:
I noticed the write failed to draw the distinction between anger and righteous indignation. There are injustices, tragedies, and out right evil we should be angry at, that should be the focus of our venom and ire. However I think we as humans are too self centered, too ego-centric of a species. We are angry that we don't get our way, when the world is not the way we think it should be.

as some one who struggles with anger, it is easy to just let fly, but that moment of analysis, of thinking about what we are angry about before we let fly is a lost trait and is our greatest downfall as evolved creatures. We care too much about our emotions and too little about our thoughts.

One very often becomes the other, Salvor. A good example is Andrea Dworkin, in my opinion.

I sent a letter to them.

The writer thought there was no personal reward for anger as there is for the other deadly sins. I pointed out that there is. Anger gets you high. It's a real rush.

I also said I suspect the reason for the increase in anger is the dichotomy between our myth and our reality. Our myth is that we, as individuals, are free and that we are powerful. The reality is that we are often neither of those things.
 
Anger is a naturally occurring emotion like lust or joy or despair or fear.
 
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