--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Judy:"I think you mean Curtis's (exceptionally dishonest) > attack on me, don't you? You know, the one in which > he equated "angry wisdom" with road rage in order to > demean it, and suggested that my purported anger was > equally psychologically unbalanced as the anger of > drivers who attack drivers with their vehicles?" > > Me: There was nothing dishonest in what I wrote.
If you want to admit that simply getting angry at another driver (as opposed to "road rage") may be entirely justifiable because of the other driver's careless and/or dangerous driving, and is not necessarily a function of feeling more powerful in the car when the driver feels powerless in his/her personal life, fine. You could have done that when I first commented on your post. If you want to admit you misused the term "road rage" (which is not "banging on the dash and pointing fingers at other drivers" but actually attacking other drivers, usually with their vehicles, as I said), fine. You could have done that when the issue first arose. If you want to admit that equating "road rage" with "angry wisdom" in an attempt to demean the latter was a really dumb cheap shot (which I haven't mentioned until now because I was focusing on the first two items), fine. You could have done that in your present post rather than trying to accuse *me* of making a "slippery move" because I accurately described the dishonesties of your original post. You made a dishonest post, I called you on it, and you've been dishonestly trying to defend it ever since. You may be honest as the day is long in other areas of your life, but somehow when you get behind a keyboard and start talking about TM, or get in an argument with a TMer, all that honesty goes straight out the window. But here you have > made a slippery move haven't you? I was talking about people getting > angry behind the wheel because they feel more powerful in a car. Later > I made a distinction between road rage behaviors and aggressive > driving, so I know you are aware that this is not what I said or > meant. But it sounded better to turn it into me equating your posting > behavior with "attacking drivers with their vehicles' didn't it? > > Here is the actual post: > I come across a lot of "angry wisdom" drivers on the Capital Beltway. > They pound on their dashes and point to other drivers as if every > lane change is a personal attack on them. I have heard that road rage > is a way to feel powerful behind the wheel of a car when the person > feels powerless in their personal life. Or maybe "angry wisdom" > people are like a person carrying a hammer, so everything looks like a > nail to pound on. Feeling as if they are the only skilled drivers on > the road and everyone else must be corrected to their "bad driving." > > "Angry wisdom", man that is a great phrase! >
