The Opposed Virtues... Temperance:Courage::Wisdom:Justice
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What is Ressentiment (aka- Slave Morality)? Fuel for the Internet?Ressentiment is an emotion in the resentment family. And so before exploring ressentiment we must first explore resentment. By resentment here we mean a sense of being wronged - of being insulted, offended or deprived unjustly. It is an emotional alarm bell signalling that our self-esteem has been attacked. It’s important to note the moral undertone here. The great 20th century philosopher of justice John Rawls suggests that resentment (and by extension ressentiment) assumes equality and hence is tied to our justice complex.Another key distinction is between resentment and indignation. In the case of resentment the victim is ourselves; in the case of indignation the victim is somebody else. Both are moral emotions, but resentment and its offspring aren’t merely morally scandalous, but personal experiences of attack.So resentment then is a moral emotion in which we are the victims. But what separates resentment from ressentiment? In their article Resentment and Ressentiment Meltzer and Musolf explore the various definitions of ressentiment in the literature and they identify two key features of the term that distinguish it from resentment:1) the chronic ongoing character of the emotional experience the powerlessness of the individual experiencing the emotion to take retaliatory action against the sources of their emotional storm. Resentment then is the fruit of sporadic, isolated injustices whereas ressentiment is related to ongoing, lasting injustices. Something can happen today that makes you feel resentful but you might forget it tomorrow and never think of it again or only rarely. That would be resentment. You have been wronged but it’s far from a defining theme of your life.2) But when the injustice is something that you engage with daily and are powerless to affect then we’re talking about a different animal. We’ve moved from resentment to ressentiment. Whenever we feel like a David fighting a Goliath — when we feel like a bug being tortured by a giant (Kafka "Metamorphosis") — then we have entered the realm of ressentiment. If you feel like the Patriarchy dominates how you live your life or if you feel like liberals and their Social Justice Movement are polluting schools and destroying the culture, then you're in the throes of ressentiment.
And on that note, we have carved out the emotional territory of Ressentiment.
And??? You want to Know it? Or you want to Have it?
ReplyDeleteI'd like to be Rid of it. Just as powerful people have natural afflictions, powerless people also have them as well. They're not usually the same. Ressentiment is but one for the powerless.
ReplyDeleteThen... you need a tech... ;-P
ReplyDeleteEven if it a "tech" of buddists -- of how to eliminate your desires...
Philosophy is a tech.
ReplyDeleteBS
ReplyDeleteMarcus Aurelius.
ReplyDeleteWell... I will not be googling even.
ReplyDeleteWill just guess -- not a technologist? ;-)
Well... tech is just a tech.
ReplyDeleteThere is no hierarchy of techs. More pure and holy techs. Or more vicious ones.
But well... morality -- can be looked it as being tech too. ;-)
You suffer from recurring object relations theory overload. "tech" becomes a system of fetish objects to be hoarded.
ReplyDeleteMarx's "commodity fetish" on steroids.
ReplyDeleteNow go find a breast to suckle...
ReplyDeletePft!
ReplyDeleteRuined my such a perfect dichotomy. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat to Have (or not have)... one need to gain Knowledge, in the first place. ;-)
But you like your state of Decadance (sucking Nitches's tit?) too much.
Thriving discussion in DiBi's blog.
ReplyDeleteBeating around bush of "Y-bottlnek". AGAIN!
Not able to see apparent answer -- "and why, why, why... so little males have offspring... that must be something vicious, like nasty-nasty-feudalism saying DiBi (and banning everyone who dare to doubt)"-- while answer is so close -- veneric diseases. Few females with syphilis can eradicate ability to mate of most of males in neighborhood.
But most hilarious thing -- that DiBi, though loathing "nasty-nasty-feudalism", just recreated it in own blog. :-)))))
ReplyDelete\\ "tech" becomes a system of fetish objects to be hoarded.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a tool kit in your garage, at your home at all? Some hammer and nails for at least?
Do you venerate am as some fetish??? :-)))) Praying to a hammer? Ogling at nails?
Tech... it's just a toolkit.
Yes, I do have tools. And yes, I seldom use them, because I worship them when some other object breaks and I must worship it again.
ReplyDeleteMy toolbench is an altar to the other objects I venerate.
ReplyDelete:-)
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ReplyDeleteKISS principle
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Like, "throw it away and buy another"?
ReplyDeleteIf you KNOW what to throw away... and HAVE enough for new thing... whatever it is. ;-)
ReplyDeleteI suppose I'd have enough if I sold all my tools...
ReplyDeleteAnd leave nothing to be inherited?
ReplyDeleteThey'd have the new object I fetishized.
ReplyDeleteAnd back to politics...
ReplyDeleteUSA tried to workaround challenge to protect VALUES on farest forpost.
So, now your MONEY challenged. On the farest forpost.
Will you try to postpone it too?
Then you'd be forced not answer to challenges CLOSER and CLOSER to your heartland.
And that challenges WILL not be in a way, or trough means, you are MOST PREPARED to.
Nobody will be attacking USA into your shield.
Only at your non-protected back.
Because... what you have now? AI, to protect you???
I mean this
The Guardian
‘People are fearful’: Guyana alert for land grab by Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro
US staged flyover of border region Thursday after Maduro held national vote and alleged country's support for annexation.
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8 hours ago
""Likewise, America is both a democracy and a nation devoted to justice, equality, and human dignity, and we're finding we have to choose between the two.""
ReplyDeleteFunny choice of words... isn't it?
Or that is just for me -- foreigner?
And for you it perfectly rings that bell?
Will we choose "Athens" or "Enlightenment"? I'd guess we'd choose the "middle". Meden agan!
ReplyDeletebtw - All that oil? Very tempting.
ReplyDelete\\ I'd guess we'd choose the "middle".
ReplyDeleteMiddleground fallacy.
Yawn.
\\btw - All that oil? Very tempting.
Yeah... may you for the first time, just for a change -- start a new war... because of oil.
But I guess that conspirologists will be howling that that is not true -- and reason is some other much more dirty secret. :-)))))