Tag: violence

When the burdens of the road meet the other troubles of life, road rage erupts. Traveling in one-ton vehicles at a mile a minute, the consequences of this emotional break are often deadly.

“Man up,” people say, but what does that mean? The identity of a real man can only exist through the exclusion of others who fail to meet the demands of the masculine ideology.

The model of bloodthirsty feelings is the vampire, an undead creature that is motivated by an irresistible desire to drink human blood.

Feeling disgruntled is a feeling of powerlessness, of being insulted by fools who don’t deserve the authority that they have been granted.

Whereas a surprise can be unsettling and confusing, the emotion of shock is associated with the possibility of actual physical harm.

The word cholera comes from the Greek word for the yellow bile, the humor that is associated with deadly intestinal distress. It’s a cousin of an emotional word, choleric.