I have to tell myself...
Sep. 12th, 2001 07:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivka...that everyone I have seen, heard, or read posts from in the past 24 hours is in shock. That people are not responding to this with their full reasoning capacities. That the ugliness I'm seeing in some online exchanges is not people's "true selves" revealed, but their anger and terror being expressed in a rather scattershot fashion.
But some of it scares me, and more of it saddens me.
But some of it scares me, and more of it saddens me.
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I understand...
Date: 2001-09-15 12:33 am (UTC)I understand better than some. On my tired days, I have to run at full emotional intensity to do anything. People are numbed, and tired, and feeling defeated. And strong emotions can carry you past that.
"Kill them all!" gives you anger, and anger gives you energy, and energy lets you keep going when you can't go on your own anymore. And, yeah, it's pretty damn scary sometimes... but it's also not "the real person". It's the animal part that runs the meat-machine that carries "the real person" around. The real person is exhausted, and not in control... but the good ones will reassert control, ASAP, and be back.