Anger is Better than Despair: We Soldier On TO IMPROVE MEDFORD

 

I feel like re-reviewing Terminator 3.  In light of the past three Terminator flicks, it holds up very well

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Terminator: You’re right. You’re not the one I want. I’m wasting my time.

 

John Connor: Fuck you, you fucking machine!

 

Terminator: [releases John] Better.

 

John Connor: What, you were just dicking with me?

 

Terminator: Anger is more useful than despair.

 

John Connor: What?

 

Terminator: Basic psychology is among my sub-routines.

 

Anger is more useful than despair — I’ve always remembered that line. I’m not talking about the kind of anger that swallows you up, that poisons and clouds how you treat others. I’m talking about the anger that gets shit done. The kind of anger that fueled the men and women who protested outside the Stonewall Inn at 1:20am on the 28th of June, 1969. It was their anger, at the police, and at a society that treated them like lesser people, that fueled the modern gay rights movement. It was this same anger that Act Up used to force an uncaring government to take action to fight a plague that had already killed thousands of us. It was this anger that forced politicians to finally support us in our fight for marriage equality, for protections at work, for the right to fight openly in the armed forces, for so many positive changes that have taken place over the last 50 years.