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[Rafael Thundercat]

17 hours ago, Natasha Tori Maru said:

Doubt Your Own Antipathy

Aversion can be treated as a source of information about our own perceptual filters, rather than merely as a verdict about the person/thing/concept/idea we are reacting to. Such a good and useful way to data-mine a different scope of information we might disregard - or simply take for granted, treat as a by-product of thought, or miss completely 

I also got this nuance. The difference of Hate and Anger. 

It's Erotic to Make Good Use of Anger
No achievement of dignity, rights, or freedom in human history was born from good behavior or obedience.
"Order" serves to preserve privileges and keep bodies disciplined. Progress has always been the fruit of conflict, rupture, and disobedience
"Anger is not the same as hatred. Hatred is the drop that corrodes the very container that holds it; hatred is destruction as an objective. Anger is pain translated into energy in service of a purpose"
Lucid anger is born from love for one's own life and for the lives of those around us. It doesn't want to destroy the world, it wants to make it habitable. When you feel anger in the face of abuse or oppression, the engine of that indignation is your regard for justice and for your own integrity
Hatred wants to annihilate and dehumanize the other; anger seeks to dismantle injustice and restore dignity
Making good use of anger means ceasing to treat it as loss of control and inadequacy, and perceiving it as vital energy. Anger is fuel for transforming reality, and without it we would sicken in inertia
Rebelling is a profoundly erotic act. Because apathy is the language of submission. The erotic is the pulse of life wanting more life - and whoever loves life does not passively accept the violence of imposed order. All of history shows us that blind obedience has never freed anyone
Anger is the most lucid raw material of transformation. It warns us where the line of limit was crossed. Anger is a survival resource and a weapon to defend our dignity
Anger is not destruction. It is a compass.
It points with surgical precision to where a limit was crossed, where life was made precarious, and where our humanity was negotiated
Anger is loaded with information and energy