Salon.com -- "I'm Filled With Rage"

[mcscajun]

Sounds like some DUer's been talking outta school. Sounds like a great many of us here, really.

It's political, it's personal -- I just wanna clobber the people in charge!
- - - - - - - - - - - -
By Cary Tennis

Sept. 27, 2005 | Dear Cary,

I have an emotional problem. I walk around with a rage inside me that I don't know how to address. I fantasize about things that, were I to describe them to you, I would be visited by black-suited men at my apartment one night and, if not taken away, at least placed on a list I'd rather not be on.

(snip)

My problem is this, I just never felt interested in or comfortable with political action. I can't stand the excruciatingly slow pace of it. I can't stand the one-step-forward, two-steps-back inevitability of it. I can't stand that progress is measured in generations and not years, in shades of brown and not in lives enriched.

(snip)

I don't like being angry. It's a pathetic cliché, but I'm a lover, not fighter. Especially when the fight is as heartbreaking and insurmountable as this. Where can I put this energy that is poisoning me?

The rest, and Cary's answer here:
http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2005/09/27/political_rage/index.html

[alpaca]

1. Pretty much

sums up my own feelings for the past few years.