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>Back to the whole rage thing, I feel there is an admirable quality to Achilles rage

>The first word of the Illiad is "Menin", Wrath.
>"Sing o Goddess, the Wrath of Achilles", we read in the first paragraph of the first narration of European Culture. Wrath can be Sang here because it supports, structures, animates and vivifies.
>It's the Heroic medium per excelence of Action.
>The Illiad is a Song of Wrath. This Wrath is narrative, Epic, because it produces determined actions.

>In this it distinguishes itself from Anger as an effect from waves of indignation.
>Digital Indignation cannot be Sung. It is not capable of action nor narration; it's an afective state that does not develop any powerfull force of action. General distraction, that charecterizes society of today, does not allow the flourishing of the epic energy of Wrath.
>Wrath, in its enfatic sense, is more than an afective state. It is a capacity to interrupt an existing state and make a new state. the present indignant multitude is very disperse. It lacks Mass, gravitas, that is neccesary for action.

>It does not give brith to any Future.
Byung Chul Han - In the Swarm ; Page 22.

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