I was going through some old blog entries of a friend of mine, and came across something from when the Iraq war started and all the protests were happening. It made me think of how anger has been demonized so much this year in relation to the Dean campaign.
The entry talks about what anger is and isn't, and I like it a lot. Good to think about, and good talking points to use next time someone tries to tell you that it's bad to be angry, or tries to pass off the Dean campaign as an angry campaign.
I shared excitement watching people exercise their freedom of assembly, their freedom of dissent because I believe we have to get honest with ourselves. It feels like relief to me to hear someone say, "Yes.. I am angry! I'm enraged!!" There is so much judgement against strong emotion in this society. Much more than most societies that make more room for passion. We are mostly a society stuck in our heads. We tend to discount emotion. We would rather get the emotions to quiet down so we can think. This is a fundamental problem that denies the way we are built. It denies our humanity.
