Re: [microsound] Anger/Sitting On Our Hands

[dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Store wrote:

> what you are talking about concerning the politicians is NOT anger,
> imho, but plain lust for power. Anger is a feeling of the oppressed, a
> feeling that the counterparty doesn't need, as political leaders/the
> represantants of power need cold and planful reason - i.e. the golden
> calf of humanism - to cement the supremacy. Politicians getting angry
> mostly  show us the rare face of human beings dealing with the issues of
> inequity - or the show us the manipulative power of playing with
> emotions, the propagandistic values perfectioned by the fascist regime
> of Hitler-Germany. What made this power so horrendous was the cool
> calculation behind all the destruction, not blind anger...
>

Yeah, well put.  If there's an emotion behind the 'anger' of politicians in power it's fear; fear to lose that power. And that fear (and a lot of what Nietzsche called "ressentiments") is rationalized beyond recognition into a clean cold well-structured system of dominance.  Bush is not angry.  (He may be scared shitless, because there a a few things happening he doesn't understand)
But don't mistake those patriotic speeches for anger...

It's possible that anger blurs the view, but then the anger might be the result of an all too clear view before.  If you see how the machinery is working, if you see it so clearly that you can predict every move AND YOU CANNOT PREVENT IT, then you get angry.

Dagmar

"Anger is an energy" Public Image Limited

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