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i’ve been circling around this sense of anger being unusually blocked and unusually hard to unblock among people i know. some gestures in this direction: anger is the political emotion, anger is the legal emotion, anger is the conflict and dispute and justice emotion

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Malcolm Ocean in Glasgow (37/100 vids)

@Malcolm_Ocean

· Jul 13

anger is the means by which we assert "this is your problem, not mine" (from a convo w @QiaochuYuan)

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Jul 13

i think that in an important sense anger is the most tightly socially regulated emotion; the state monopoly on violence meaningfully constrains our ability to express anger through violence, only allows it in very specific directions

QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

unblocking anger is a political project with political consequences. anger contains grievances and assertions about other people and entities, and their wrongs and harms and injustices. allowing and respecting anger involves political action, in a broad sense

3:34 PM · Jul 13, 2022Twitter for iPhone

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anger is ultimately due to the world or other people not behaving the way we deeply believe and expect them to. so it makes sense that it'd prompt action to change the world.

mago micélio (45/100 sonnets)

@myceliummage

Jul 14

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love this frame