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Notes inspired by a panel: You Don't Like Me When I'm Angry
Panel description; very brief notes (300 words) of mostly navel-gazing about emotions.
I think I am probably not actually going to type notes on this coz my hands hate me a bit.
thought: anger conceived of as violence --> cannot be angry
when is anger "justified"? what degree of external motivator - and what type - is required? is it always wrong to have these emotions? what am I supposed to do with them? how can they be internal motivators to positive action?
... dude on the panel is saying that stories are ONE PERSON being angry versus societies/groups ~IRL~ ew
also claiming that anger is a most useful tool for the powerful, because they have the ability to act on their anger
I'm... so unconvinced by him
good question from Stephanie: people in privileged positions will perceive anger where there is none - "it'll be better for you if you let go of this/have closure/healing" - collective healing via acknowldgement and sharing strength and realities is punished
audience asserts religion suppresses anger in order to support the status quo - I think this is wrong; we've got Jesus & nonviolent resistance and his general anger (and Irish panelist says "my experience is not that religion is used to suppress anger, quite the opposite") - talking about narratives of control ("don't listen to people who aren't in control") - but it is an interesting point that the interpretations of a religion - the exegesis that is inculcated - can be twisted to serve the powers-that-be, which is interestingly at variance with my Current Feelings about how religion is the way we have extelligence about how brains work.
-- separation of emotion from consequences - anger vs rage?
emphasis on healing rather than reparations - inherently oppressive?
I think I am probably not actually going to type notes on this coz my hands hate me a bit.
thought: anger conceived of as violence --> cannot be angry
when is anger "justified"? what degree of external motivator - and what type - is required? is it always wrong to have these emotions? what am I supposed to do with them? how can they be internal motivators to positive action?
... dude on the panel is saying that stories are ONE PERSON being angry versus societies/groups ~IRL~ ew
also claiming that anger is a most useful tool for the powerful, because they have the ability to act on their anger
I'm... so unconvinced by him
good question from Stephanie: people in privileged positions will perceive anger where there is none - "it'll be better for you if you let go of this/have closure/healing" - collective healing via acknowldgement and sharing strength and realities is punished
audience asserts religion suppresses anger in order to support the status quo - I think this is wrong; we've got Jesus & nonviolent resistance and his general anger (and Irish panelist says "my experience is not that religion is used to suppress anger, quite the opposite") - talking about narratives of control ("don't listen to people who aren't in control") - but it is an interesting point that the interpretations of a religion - the exegesis that is inculcated - can be twisted to serve the powers-that-be, which is interestingly at variance with my Current Feelings about how religion is the way we have extelligence about how brains work.
-- separation of emotion from consequences - anger vs rage?
emphasis on healing rather than reparations - inherently oppressive?