<The next pearl of wisdom is that your emotion isn't even emotion unless
certified as such (genuine vs false sadness etc) by the newly angered
fringe. The return of the repressed is announced in many different voices. I
must confess that the standard of my sadness isn't meant to be endorsed as
credible by such moralers and isn't manufactured to fit into some
neo-imperialist agenda a propos de emotions.>
I have no knowledge of what you are feeling. I simply am responding to what
you are conveying to me. It continues to be blame and rage. It was you
that called us all to task for not recognizing your sadness. I am telling
you that, as far as I am concerned, it is unrecognizable.
<I would like to assert and categorically state that I love Americans as I do
the rest of the world and that those who accuse me of nurturing anger
towards Americans or America have taken leave of their senses.>
I do not feel loved by you at the moment. If your intention is to convey your
love to me and your sadness, then, in my case at least, you have failed. If,
as you seem to state earlier, you regard the complaint that your sadness
is registering as anger and your love is registering as, well, anger as an
attempt to impose some external standard on your emotions, then I am quite
confused by what you mean by love. I would think that if you loved us you
would have some interest in conveying that.
Lee Perlman
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