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  • From: David Fuller <sol3az@igc.apc.org>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu, UNC Perm List <permaculture@listserv.unc.edu>, Envirolink Perm List <permaculture@envirolink.org>
  • Subject: Re: righteous anger?
  • Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:43:07 -0800 (PST)

Hi Jack,

Not often on this list... but every now and then a chord is struck, and I
reply.
I suggest that the word "anger" is too inchoate to be useful. "Outrage", I
can deal with.

It has the sense of focus - a reaction to specific events, or a set of
values that are abhorrent.

A thought, not wishing to be a wordsmith, but these are the tools we work
with.

David Fuller
Learning Village Project, Tucson, AZ.


At 03:28 PM 3/29/98 -0500, Jack Rowe wrote:
>Just back from some 'speelunking'...
>
>Righteous anger, eh? I don't buy it... seen lots of it, you bet. I grew up
>in an angry place and time far, far away... not so far in some terms,
>perhaps -- aeons and other worlds, in other terms. Funny thing, righteous
>anger comes in all colors. What fuels the bombers and terrorists of the
>right wing (or any wing), the Anti-Choicers, the racists? How do we
>distinguish our 'good' righteous anger from the 'bad' righteous anger of
>our 'adversaries' on other than some narcissistic or absolutist ethical
>basis? Why do we have the vast majority of the wars we have?
>Jack
>
>




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