Reply #35: There are two kinds of anger, one is not helpful at all, and one ...

[Selwynn]

...changes everything.

I'm not angry out of hate, I'm not feeling feelings of violence or "wrath." I do not have the anger of losing my temper and losing my "top." I do not have the anger that is so devoid of rationality that it is pure emotionalism. I am not angry in a way that promotes as much fanaticism or miltantism as the people that I am angry against.

The kind of anger I have is a different anger. Though it may sound a bit self-serving, I'd like to call it a "holy" anger, or a "righteous indignation." I am not angry because I am filled with hate - I am angry, righteously indignant because I am the cries of the American people and the world for JUSTICE are ignored, and mocked by this Administration. I have a righteous indignation because the cries of the oppressed and the needs of the people are ignored and marginalized. I am have a righteous indignation at what I see is the tyranny of the Administration. My anger is partnered with my compassion for the victims of this oppression, as well as my sorrow over the destruction caused by this administration.

I think, when "anger" becomes detached from reason, logic, compassion, sorrow, and a commitment to equality, social justice, civil liberties and freedom, it becomes litter more than "blind rage" for blind rage's sake. And that helps no one.

However, anger that is fueled by logic, compelled by the demand for equality, driving by the cries for justice, motivated by commitment to civil liberties and ignited in the defense of freedom, it because more and just empty ranting ramblings, more than rhetoric, and becomes truly revolutionary.

So sure, get angry. But make that anger really count. :)
Sel