So this is what Aristotle's got to say about me:

Anger may be defined as an impulse, accompanied by pain, to a conspicuous revenge for a conspicuous slight directed without justification towards what concerns oneself or towards what concerns one's friends. If this is a proper definition of anger, it must always be felt towards some particular individual, e.g. Cleon and not 'man' in general... It must always be attended by a certain pleasure--that which arises from the expectation of revenge. For since nobody aims at what he thinks he cannot attain, the angry man is aiming at what he can attain, and the belief that your will attain your aim is pleasant... It is also attendd by a certain pleasure because the thoughts dwell upon the act of vengeance, and the images then called up cause pleasure, like the images called up in dreams

Hrmmm.. So you say. So I need to find another word for my old state, and I would argue that the modern conception of anger in the senses of "Angry White Man" and "Angry Asian Man" are far removed from this particular conception. But then, I think Alric has already covered this in a different post--I have kotos, cosmic anger. Or something. In any case, this taxonomy should be a minor sideline project for me later this summer, as I seem singularly suited to write this, just as Broke wrote her senior thesis back in school on other people's pain...

Of course, I've mellowed out a great deal since my college days and my Alric days, and this is in part due to the Joephetian pacification, and also some sense that I'm doing something about the troubles.

Now slighting is the actively enteratined opinon of something as obviously of not importance... There are three kinds of slighting--contempt, spite, and insolence. (I) Contempt is one kind of slighting: you feel contempt for what you consider unimportant, and it is just such things that you slight. (II) Spite is another kind; it is a thwarting another man's wishes, not to get something yourself but to prevent his getting it.... (III) Insolence is also a form of slighting, since it consists in doing and saying things that cause shame to the victim, not in order that anything many happen to yourself, or because anything has happened to yourself, but simply for the pleasure involved...

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We are angrier with our friends than with other people, since we feel that our friends out to ttreat us well and not badly... Further, with those who slight us before five classes of people: namely, (1) our rivals, (2) those whom we admire, (3) those whom we wish to admire us, (4) those for whom we feel reverence, (5) those who feel reverence for us: if anyone slights us before such persons, we feel particularly angry

Rhetoric, Book II, Chapter 2, trans. W. Rhys Roberts.