i. Feelings & Functions
From Deep Green Resistance:
"The legacy of the Romantics is especially prominent in the politics of emotion embraced by many different strands of the alternative culture.
Emotions are understood as pure, unmediated by society, a society whose main offense is seen to be the suppression of these always-authentic feelings.
The paramount emotional state varies—for the hippies and New Agers, it’s love; for the punks, it’s rage; and for the Goths, it’s exquisite suffering—but the ultimate goal is to achieve the selected emotion and maintain.