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Anger and fear

It seems to me these two are two sides of the same coin, which I have likely said before.  What I see now is that in general anger is expressed outwardly, and fear inwardly.  And on the inside we do not call it fear.  It exists not so much as a recognized attribute of our experience so much as an absence: the absence of innocent joy; the absence of trust; the absence of spontaneity; the absence of dance.

In this sense sadomasochism is sex plus fear.  That is perhaps the simplest way of showing why it is wrong: it is by definition unhealthy, being the product of undesirable emotions.

So much of our culture induces fear.  That is the role of alleged “news” programs which, if they were worth a damn, would regularly do in-depth analyses of the various cultural maladies of which the “news” is merely a temporal manifestation.  Someone got shot.  The interesting question is why.  Why were they poor?  Why were they so angry?  Why were they in a gang?

Few drive by thoughts.