Now, the nature of the life force, as they term it in NARM, is growth, expansion. Anger is the outcome when the impulse to grow is met with opposition. This is a primal response, one seen in earliest infancy.
So how do you get chronic anger? You internalize actually non-existent opposition. You literally argue with yourself, on a physiological level. Expressing the anger–flipping off any of the sundry jackasses off who populate every freeway in every city every day–does not, I don’t think, release it, so much as create an opportunity for it to come to consciousness, and awareness is something we seek instinctually.
So on this reading dogmatism, ideology, and congenital conservatism are species of congealed anger, which consists in a bound up impulse towards growth, and an introjected obstacle which cannot be undone by any means that person can see at the unconscious level at which this process happens.
It is to my mind obvious that dogmatism and life expression are antithetical, but this process is working me in the direction of making this distinction more formal.
I wonder if one day we will root all logic in somatic states, if that will be the end and beginning of all our reasoning. I think this would be a good, useful thing. If you do not incorporate the body, you have lost nearly everything. Nothing becomes impossible, and no lunacy cannot be founded in emotional trauma, need, obsession, mania, and the like first, then made to seem obvious, natural, and part of that generations version of Natural Law.
How did Communism happen? Well, look at the bodies of those who founded and perpetuate it. They will quite certainly be disordered.