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Okay, this all makes sense... but why anger specifically then and not disgust, despair, depression, sadness, annoyance or something else?
by guerrilla 5y ago
Okay, this all makes sense... but why anger specifically then and not disgust, despair, depression, sadness, annoyance or something else?
- Mezzie 5y agoBecause I am an irrational little ape whose fight, flight, freeze, or fawn response is all fight, all the time. I'm just a very angry person. It's not a good thing, but that's why. The anger itself generally revolves around how these people get other people to do more work in order to coddle their obliviousness. Think people in supermarkets who are so oblivious they make everybody else walk around them/go around the aisle, etc. It's the assumption that everybody else has to adapt to them, and that drives me bonkers because it's an implicit assumption of superiority. ("My needs are the only ones that matter.") I'm VERY sensitive to people thinking they're better than me. (Or myself thinking they do). Not the best part of myself, but one that's worth being aware of so I can do things like curb any authoritarian tendencies that try to use my anger to worm their way into my brain.
- guerrilla 5y agoThanks for sharing.