[lit-ideas] Re: Max Boot and Anger

  • From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:00:53 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

The DSM is written by pharma (seriously) and you're not advocating anger; 
you're advocating vaporizing and killing.  Anger is not something to be 
advocated in any case.  It's to be felt.  Advocating is politicizing.



-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jan 3, 2007 11:53 AM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Max Boot and Anger
>
>Ursula: Emotions cause physical changes.  Anger corrodes and 
>long term anger corrodes absolutely.  I see it every day in 
>someone close to me.
>
>
>It could be that we are discussing several different types 
>of anger. There's the DSM-IV explosive personality type 
>anger. There's the anger that comes from unaddressed 
>personal dissatisfaction, which may either be short term or 
>chronic. Both of these are undoubtedly debilitating.
>
>Then there's the type of anger I am advocating. Because you 
>disagree with my politics you don't see it as a positive 
>thing, but let me translate it into something acceptable, 
>like "anger at social injustice."
>
>This last kind of anger is very productive. Consider Teddy 
>Roosevelt's anger at the conditions of the urban slums, 
>Margaret Sanger's anger at the reproductive fealty of women, 
>  or Malcolm X's anger at the state of black Americans in 
>his time. In all three cases, anger was a justifiable 
>response to social injustice and motivated these individuals 
>to seek change and effect it.
>
>
>
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