ex cathedra: Irascible passions

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Irascible passions

Parts of Thomas Aquinas' work never made any sense to me, or at least penetrated my brain enough so that I could say I understood it. For example, he spoke of concupiscible and irascible passions. Not just a matter of desire and anger. As I say, despite explanations, I never got the meaning.

But I do know something about irritability. Or, as we say in the trade, crankiness. I am pretty cranky today. Hard to please me. Easy to irk me.

A typical conservative curmudgeon? Part of aging? A stage of grieving? My sinful fallen nature?

What irks me today:

Martin Lawrence is worth $100 million dollars.
People of color who are rank racists but think they can't be, because they are people of color.
Gay men who talk like teenage girls.
My capacity for jealousy
Middle-class British accents
Torture porn on television (Carver, Saw, etc)
Islam
Some people at my former workplace
Gullible white people who fall for the Noble Savage game
The memory of feeling happy when I don't feel happy presently
Gay Pride Weekend upcoming
How repetitively stupid I can be
The leak in my dishwasher
That I don't have a car

And that's just the stuff I can print.

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