escalation - alive why

escalation

negative emotions gain strength or escalate
by seeming to become louder and more dominant
and by recruiting or entraining other thoughts which support them
the content may sound like logic but the driver is emotion
some thoughts are corroborating
and others are amplifiers
eg righteous indignation
which tells us that we have been wronged
which pulls in our self pity
which allows us the right to retribution
this involves the belief that we have an aggressor
someone who has done wrong to us
so determining ill will in another
is a potent trigger for our negative emotions
much of this has a backbone of logic
and seems correct and proper

but we need to pull back
from fully believing arguments which are
driven by and entwined by emotion