Ressentiment - the Emotion of Our Times
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- In "On the Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche mapped out the emotion of Modern times - the emotion underlying BLM, Jordan Peterson, Social Justice and Oliver Anthony. That emotion is called ressentiment. It is the poisoned fruit that creates a better world while poisoning its host.
In "On the Genealogy of Morals" Nietzsche argues that ressentiment is the root cause of Slave Morality and the Ascetic Ideal. Max Scheler developed Nietzsche's work further in his 1915 work "Ressentiment" where he argued that Christianity is not inherently ressentimentful but bourgeois middle-class capitalism is.
As we will see in this episode, ressentiment is the underlying emotional background of modern times - from the French and American Revolutions to the Storming of the Capitol Building and the BLM marches.
Ressentiment has the power to make a better world but in the process destroys our capacity to enjoy it.
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📚 Further Reading:
- Meltzer BN and Musolf GR (2002) Resentment and Ressentiment. Sociological Inquiry 72(2): 240-255.
- Nietzsche FW (2000) _Basic Writings of Nietzsche_. translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York: Modern Library.
- Scheler M (1915) Ressentiment.
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⌛ Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
2:18 Resentment and Ressentiment
4:42 Nietzschean Ressentiment
10:48 Revolutionary Ressentiment
13:06 Ressentiment in the 21st Century
I encountered ressentiment when studying Nietzsche as past of my MA in Philosophy. Sometimes I wish we, as a society, had listened more to Nietzsche.
Ah the nietzsche arc, a blessing or curse?
@@Johnnyfittt I don't believe in blessings or curses...so I'll leave the choice to you.
What would Nietzsche have us do? I'm still not sure anyone knows.
I think Nietzsche told us what was wrong and why. I think what we do is up to us.
I agree totally...especially in the needs to enact the 'trans-valuation' of all values...which we still haven't really done yet!
I seem to remember, in the Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche talking about an 'Englishman's' notion of God as just a 'proper item' to have...even as the complete value system which supported the idea of God had completely broken down...in which he was obviously having something of a dig at 'utilitarian' philosophers such as J.S Mill (although...if we had of followed Bentham and Hume more and their ideas...and their brand of agnostic 'separation' of God from the everyday...I do think, in a sort of way, we would have gotten to a more 'practical' though possibly less 'romantic' version of what Nietzsche himself was driving at!) and we are still sort of at this point were we have these 'fractured' disjointed values in our society that come from old, outdated, moral and ethical sources...such as notions of what it means to be male / female; productive / non-productive; what is considered a family or 'group' and what is a 'societal danger'.
The trouble with Nietzsche (and he is like Marx in this regard) he is an extremely astute and brilliant critic of his society...but his remedies for its ills can be read as somewhat 'obscure' and seem to revolve around the abstract notion of 'becoming' 'Apollonian vs Dionysian...which is the sort of notion which is ripe for mis-interpretation (especially, in the rampant individualism of our own society...which, to a large degree, Nietzsche's philosophy itself largely contributed toward) and obviously such a notion will vary from person to person and society to society...this, unfortunately, can be moulded and wielded in as much of a destructive way as any value system i.e., it is the reason why the Nazi's could co-opt his philosophy so easily (along with the help of his complete racist cow of a sister!) into their 'Weltanschauung'; personally...I really think that Nietzsche is best read by individuals...on their own...perhaps with some light 'guidance' from a teacher (I really think Twilight of the Idols especially, should be required reading for older teens...it is very direct...whereas Zarathustra, as it parodies a biblical style, is sort of too 'obscure' I feel for younger minds, unless you are bought up in something of a biblical tradition yourself) in relation to an individual person's own unique 'becoming' and how this is best, and most productively, realised.
The painting in the thumbnail is of a fallen Lucifer. He is a perfect example of the concept, perfect.
This topic needs much more attention than it gets and your video is a great contribution to understanding it. Currently I have plans to explore the psychological origins of ressentiment.
Thanks for making this!
Have you seen Steven Hicks' video on the topic?
I can tell you now ressentment is only ever due to an over-inflated view of self-importance, individually or collectively. Though humans generally only remember humility immediately after a fall, and then they quickly forget. If anyone was left to survive in a jungle for one month, they would unavoidably learn of their relative importance. Humanity's sole challenge is the management of their own mind, and so, by extension, what they think about themselves in relation to their worldly circumstance.
Great video here. I am new to this channel.
There is a x-factor in this ressentiment quicksand. The esoteric and mystical teachings of the perennial philosophy and depth psychology would see it as a guardian of the threshold. A state of mind and emotion that either petrifies the afflicted soul or spurs it to deeply humble oneself before the truth of felt internal shame, incapability to rise above the circumsyances and the persistent sense of loss of agency. This can be a true fire to be deeply purified and healed by going through it.
How does one cross the threshold? Is it an internal recognition that one holds in awareness over time? Or are there external, actionable steps, or both?
@@whitecocoa42😂 I have the exact same question! How exactly does one get past the "pain" part? 🫠
Cuz' yeah... I've been "passing through" that "threshold" for about the past 4 decades or so. 💩
@@michaelmcclure3383quite an interesting story. Care to define "true self" as opposed to a false self?
that is a very interesting perspective, thanks for sharing that.@@michaelmcclure3383
@@whitecocoa42 Such good questions. I am just a novice here, but I am sure 'both' is the correct answer.
Just watched your video, James, and it's a powerful insight.
One of my favourite Nietzschean concepts. Thank you for doing a video on it!
Scary. And since this is an emotion, it's difficult to reverse.
You don't reverse it, you guide it to a healthy conclusion. The point of the difference between them is ressentiment is entirely impotent. It cannot be "solved." Thus the outlet for it needs to be changed to something life affirming so that the poison becomes a panacea. Being willing to walk away from revenge, or strengthen oneself to moderate it is much more productive than to stew in it or create illusions of justice.
Create something, express yourself through the arts. The best cure for ressentiment.
Great video! The philosophers mentioned in this video see ressentiment as a positive force that can motivate change. The way i learned the concept and always encountered in daily life and various sources is that the person or groups experiencing ressentiment are _unjustly_ feeling that way and their ressentiment is _unwarranted._ Ressentiment is a flaw. A tragi-commical one too; expressions of ressentiment are usually filled with frustration and anger and the whole feeling of ressentiment is awful. Makes the ressentimentee an object of mockery.
Yes! This is my exact feeling with it. Ressentiment sounds so negative on the surface and yet its fruit can be a powerful positive changes in the world. It is not something to be dismissed because it's a negative emotion but something that has to be investigated deeper and evaluated critically
Thank you. Quality content as usual!
Ws laid off yesterday, effectively. Was told that all remote positions will be required to be in office at least 4 days a week Feb 5th and then full time in office by June 2024. This was after I was told by multiple people, including my manager, over and over again during the hiring process that this will be a full time remote position. I am not moving to the metro where the office is, and I'm not commuting the 3-4 hours a day, five days a week. So, they get their layoffs without actually laying anyone off, and I get to have to find a new job in this horrid economy. Full of resentment and bitterness towards not only this joke of a career I find myself in, by multiple circumstances out of my control throughout my life, but also the company for doing exactly what companies always do, lying.
Good luck I bet everything will be fine❤️
That's awful! I know being lied to then abused horribly by all concerned after many promises! It's a tortuous emotion! May you find your way past it as I hope to as well! I wish you many blessings! ♥️ 🌹💥💯❤️🔥🫡
Loyalty is a two-way street, but it seems like it gets reduced to one when under construction, and pretty much stays that way until it becomes inconvenient for the crew that closed it.
As ever, excellent content. Many thanks! Don't take this as a discouragement, its a small technical detail... either my old lugs are failing due to too many impact injuries or perhaps you recorded this on a differnt mic, possibly inside a carboard box. That aside, its all good, and it applies in super-duper relevant ways... Psalm 118 is usually recited as a prophecy about Jesus, the whole ''stone the builders rejected became the cornerstone'' routine. What is largely overlooked is Psalm 118's ''Holy'' repetition of enjoying God's help in 'cutting down my enemies'. As you say, the American Christians and Islamists seem to excell in revenge fanstasies about brining on the apocalypse with divine judgement raining down... on everyone they personally dislike. What remains of the 'Left wing' are just as zealous, rushing to acuse and de-platform...anyone. It is an epidemic. What happened to the revolutionary potentials of joy, sex, music, art, creativity?
Thanks for the feedback Mark. I'll try and level up my audio game again in the near future. I've not been happy with the quality for a while but haven't had the headspace to sit down and figure out to what extent it's a hardware and to what extent it's a me issue.
Wonderful video. As an AA member we learn that resentment is the biggest killer of an alcoholics. Apparently Nietzsche agrees.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. A great take. I remember feeling Nietzsche’s definition of resentiment was quite niche, focussing so squarely on his image of Christianity. Your exploration and broadening is wonderful. Articulating what I only felt as a slight uncertainty.
Great explanation. Really helpful for me. Thanks
Great video! Merry Christmas 🎄
Thanks Bill and the same to you and yours 🙏
After the third listen, just once a week, I managed a clearer understanding, totally fascinating and uber interesting, thanks heaps.
Thank you!
Underrated and important essay.
I was just thinking about ressentiment today, really questioning my grasp of the concept. Your timing is impeccible, thank you for the education.
Also I appreciate the opening image of Cronos Devouring His Children, I have a poster of the painting in my basement.
On that note, I've just dropped a tenner to your Ko-Fi under Western Cannon. Channels like yours are a major inspiration to my own hopes of starting a philosophy channel. I really appreciate the 100 videos in 100 days you did (or to that effect) and would love to try the same soon. I have all the equipment and skills to make videos, just need to do it...
Thanks a million for that Keith and I couldn't recommend the 100 day sprint enough - by the time the dust settled out of that a style had emerged and a bit of traction and in the meantime it avoids the bogs of bottlenecks that perfectionism can bring
As ever, penetrating content! Please do make a video on Nietasche's account of overcoming ressentiment. Love from India ❤
I feel like there was a good opportunity to link Nietzsche's and Dostoyevsky's remarkable similarity of insight into the main concept of the video, which didn't really get explored.
From what i have read, Nietzsche first read Dostoyevsky in a french bookshop, in 1887, and the book he did it with was a botched version of "Notes from the Underground" which had the title "L'espirit Souterrain". Although the french title translates exactly to the original title, for some reason the version Nietzsche read contained another Dostoyevsky's work named "The Landlady" along with "Notes from the Underground" under a single, unified title.
1887 is the same year in which Nietzsche wrote "On the Genealogy of Morals", and in this book the word "resentiment" is used untranslated to german 4 times by Nietzsche. "Resentiment" is a french term and Nietzsche just so happened to read the french version of a book which uses this exact word a multitude of times, that being "L'espirit Souterrain".
After letting the terminological similarities aside, the true parallel thinking of the two writers becomes evident. The inner torment, indecisiveness, altering of perspective and dissonance of the mouse in Dostoyevsky and the "burrowing through the intestines of the past and present in a search for obscure mysteries, wherein they are at liberty [...] to get drunk on the venom of their own malice " and "to bleed from scars which have long been healed" of the modern man in Nietzsche, along with the insight from both men that there is a certain pleasure being enjoyed during the act of "resentiment", speaks volumes about their similarity of thought and the psychological depths to which both thinkers were capable of diving.
In earlier works, Nietzsche hinted at this concept, but the full fleshing out of it was probably in part to Dostoyevsky's influence.
They arrived at a similar concept with no knowing of one another, and no concurrent exposure to each others ideas, a feat i find truly legendary.
As always, great video. I hope the channel continues in this level.
Are you saying that ressentiment was used in the French translation of Dostoevsky that Nietzsche read? If so that's an absolutely fascinating insight. Genuinely mindblowing.
Notes from Underground is something I will be making a video on later but I first want to look at the work of Rene Girard since he does a very deep analysis of the book in his first work that I want to bring to bear on it. All of this theme of ressentiment is important in Girard's work so we're going to see this theme followed up into the territory you've pointed out. But this Nietzsche insight is news to me. Wonderful.
@@TheLivingPhilosophy Yes, exactly. No worries and keep up the good work.
Marx never talked about the end of injustice or egalitarianism as the preferred form of cultural and moral way for communism. In fact Marx and Nietzsche had a lot more in common than we think. From their critique of modern culture and structures to critiques of morality, egalitarianism and the asetic ideal. I would say that the work called "how to philosophize with hammer and sickle" by Jonas Ceka is a great work explaining these positions. Nietzsche's critique of socialism were pointed towards the same "socialists" that were criticized by Marx for their "utopianism"
Interesting. I'm a fan of his youtube channel so it'd be interesting to read his book
Interesting, at first I thought it was a misspelling but I like the accuracy of this concept
Wow!!!!
The Bible is full of examples of this sentiment which can be characterized as a rebellion against God. Like Cain killing his brother Abel out of envy and resentment and being condemned to a lifetime of toil. Also Ecclesiastes 4:
"Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them!
From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!
And those now dead, I declared more fortunate in death than are the living to be still alive.
And better off than both is the yet unborn, who has not seen the wicked work that is done under the sun.
***Then I saw that all toil and skillful work is the rivalry of one person with another.***
This also is vanity and a chase after wind.
“Fools fold their arms
and consume their own flesh”-
Better is one handful with tranquility
than two with toil and a chase after wind!"
Of course consumerism multiplies this effect.
The fact that the proud boy is drinking a whiteclaw gives me hope
3:12
3:38
uważaj by resentyment nie stał się tworzeniem moralności niewolnika (sprawiedliwość, zadośćuczynienie po śmierci) lub bycie wybranym (lepiej jest być barankiem dla otoczenia niż orłem, drapieżcą dla otoczenia, też rezygnacja z własnej agendy)
uważaj by resentyment nie trzymał Cię w stagnacji, pasywności, niemocy, że nie możesz nic zmienić w swoim otoczeniu
Never heard of Max Scheler very very interesting.
Very interesting points. I fully understand your logic of ressentiment being a source of slave morality i.e. Christianity (or Judaism). I can also follow your logic of extremism (on the left or on the right), either in the past (French Revolution, communism etc.) or in current times such as wokeism or proud boys. I slightly depart from the logic when explaining Trump. Trump and his supporters are often accused of not being "fair" and "equal" and basically wanting to impose some sort of fascist dictatorship or of wanting to go back to Jim Crow etc. Sounds more like Trumpers are accused of not being resentful enough and appears to be a clear cut "will to power" mentality which Nietzsche would approve of. In any event, here is my more substantial feedback: it seems that the more modern types of ressentiment such as wokeism are pathologised versions of the original Christian doctrine of "the first shall be last and the last shall be first". Meaning, in short, that at least main stream Christianity provides a constructive and contextualized way to productively and successfully deal with ressentiment, whereas more modern incarnations of Christian morality (who claim not to be Christian, of course) are radically swept up in waves of uncontrollable ressentiment.
Ressentiment is about fairness and equality it's a reaction to what is perceived as an oppressive injustice by a monolithic power. The rhetoric of stop the steal and drain the swamp carries a deep sting of ressentiment - the status quo stole the election/are doing terrible things behind closed doors (and in pizza basements). There is a bitter ressentiment here I would argue
@@TheLivingPhilosophy I agree. In that respect, the type of Trump supporters you mentioned are similar to the Wokesters. They see powerful malignant forces wanting to oppress and exploit them.
@@camielvandergraaf2381 Absolutely. This is something I explored from a different angle in the video on Jordan Peterson and Olivia Wilde as two halfs of the same coin
Fascinating! Lots of good thought to chew on here...
I suppose an oversimplification of the difference between resentment and ressentiment would be comparing them to PTSD and Complex-PTSD. The first is born from one or two intense experiences, while the second is born from a long-term pattern and (IMO) results in subtler but deeper damage.
In this light, the Book of Revelations could be seen as a work of early Christian ressentiment, similar to the Psalms mentioned in the video. Both rail against perpetrators of culturally traumatic oppression (the Babylonian Empire in the Jewish work and Rome in the Christian), screaming, "You'll get yours, just you wait! Then you'll be sorry!" It does seem like a common coping mechanism writ large across peoples and cultures rather than just individuals.
This also lines up with and clarifies a number of suspicions I've had over the years on how conspiracy theorists and the like come to be; deep feelings of injustice and powerlessness coupled with the need for exceptionalism as a means to cope. I believe part of the problem we are facing globally is that those who most deserve the ire of the powerless have figured out how to use these psychological mechanisms to misdirect, distract and harry the populace, all for the sake of maintaining and increasing their hold on power and profit. One wonders what the solution is (if any) and whether it can be implemented before the world dies...
All in all, a very interesting and timely topic which may add several pieces to the continuing puzzle of why humanity is the way it is. Thank you!
Brilliant insights. The connection with conspiracy theories was not one I'd made but you made it beautifully
Great work yet again! Does anyone know the title and artist of the painting @5:30?
Thanks Elana. The painting is: Christopher Nevinson's The Unending Cult of Human Sacrifice
What's the name of the painting at 5:27?, if anyone could be so kind to help me out:).
I saw that painting in another video (it may have been from this same channel) and wanted to know as well. I tried searching based on various keywords, but couldn't figure it out either.
“The Unending Cult of Human Sacrifice” by Nevinson 1934.
Your voice ❤
Very interesting, now the question does diversity harbor more feelings of resentment with clearly different strengths and weaknesses between the various races….
What painting is this, at 6:10?
It's called By the Waters of Babylon by Evelyn de Morgan
What do you think of empiricist (measurements) liberalism? Bertrand Russell writes about how economically permitting people to be idle (basic income which is bsre but livable) improves the quality of society by permitting labor to truly become at the discretion of three individual. Do you think that this would overcome ressentiment, or would people be unable to rid themselves of it until they have enacted some sort of "justice" for themselves?
Personally, it is entirely possible to realise you're going to die and that holding onto ressentiment will prevent you from living before that happens.
I don't believe there is anything that will truly resolve such a basic human emotion, at least not on a collective level. People will always find (or create, if one can't be found) some injustice to feel resentful about, so as long as people feel the temptation to blame others for their problems.
The pressure of this pain can turn the darkness into diamonds... I like this one, the whole socratic daemon/diamond thing. If you suffer from ressentiment you should remember this one. “All that is daimonic is intermediate between what is mortal and immortal.” wrote Plato. So basically, humility in some sense.
It greatly reminded me of something l had read once in a book called Report to Greco by N. Kazantzakis :
At the seventh day God rested and called Man.
My son, He said, I have just made the wotld but l left it half finished. It's now your task to finish my work ; SET EVERYTHING ON FIRE.
I would also go further than simply saying that ressentiment leads to mass change. That change can be an embodiment of taking something morally negative and turning it into an opportunity for good, such as the Jews in Babylon taking the exile as an opportunity to embody Judaism and its morals to a greater extent. On the other hand, you have examples of ressentiment, such as the extreme right and extreme woke left of America today, which take a perceived evil and use it as an opportunity to fuel hatred against it.
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fine for me so check your own system
Ofter resentment is confused with indignation: the first happens when a social injustice, wich must be removed to improve the life of all, is taken as a personal offence and creates not revolution but an outburst of violence wich doesn't results into any substantial change.
We are the sons of the ones who used resentment to fight against the powerful, those who nature randomly blessed, now we are the blessed and those who are resentful will seek to destroy us with new morals, who is right ? Nobody, it seems that in this reality everyone just got the right to fight for their own existence whatever means possible
As long as you can justify your actions to yourself and your tribe, you will be moral.
Even cultural universals such as the self-evident prohibitions of murder, theft, and perjury fall away when our status quo is challenged by those we perceive as the enemy. Might makes right.
Didn't Jung suggest that parents are a convenient target of resentment for what is actually an existential void? If that void is a misinterpretation of being, perhaps God represents a better interpretation, at least in the sense of inducing gratitude.
amor fati
NEVER MORE HATE? REALLY NEVER?
LOOOOOOOOOOL
. According to the way this channel uses the word ressentument, any action can be defined as being motivated by ressentiment. Therefore I can say the posting of this video was from ressentiment, also my comment and any replies also come from ressentiment.
I think the video has over generalised what Nietzsche means.
Ressentiment..... is not the same as Resentment..... it's the culmination of a life of repressed resentment.
It's French.
So rather than having ressentiment the slaves should just attack their oppressors?
Resentment is literally the most healthy underrated emotion..
Why would any self respecting person care to share space with that which they cannot relate to lest they where animals surviving in the wild?
Serpents must remain in the wild
The Apollonion just doesn't have space for it
I hear where you’re coming from. I think they’re trying to say that instead of reacting to human liabilities to our interest as agents we should treat them closer to inanimate objects.
For example we don’t get angry at an avalanche or have resentment towards the mountains and snow. We just recognize it as a liability and try to deal with it somehow.
So if a rapist or murderer wrongs you, instead of hating them, you just view them as a kind of defective machine or animal that has to be dealt with.
This can help us make more utilitarian decisions. For example instead of imprisoning people as a moral act meant to punish the wicked in the name of deserved retribution, we could treat criminals as defective machines that need rehabilitation to repair the defectiveness.
Maybe I’m wrong in my interpretation, but that’s the idea I seem to be getting when Nietzsche constantly attacks resentment and slave morality.
Heidegger is right about Nietzsche.
Damn I am reading Geneaology right now. What timing.
Central government, socialism, communism is all but resentment.
Quite the sweeping generalization to label all social change as a byproduct of ressentiment, isn't it? It's a bit like saying every great invention was born from someone being annoyed. Sure, frustration can be a catalyst, but what about inspiration, necessity, or curiosity? Reducing complex historical movements to a single emotion seems a bit... oversimplified?
Interesting point. My intention isn't to reduce complex historical movements to a single emotion but to analyse a key element of them. It's like saying that revolutions entail bloodshed - this wouldn't be a reduction of revolution to bloodshed but pointing to a trait that is common in all revolutions (this point could be argued and is intended more as an illustrative comparison). I do believe that ressentiment is a part of all social change - I believe that ressentiment is the fire under our arse that gets us up and taking action rather than passively shaking our head in disagreement and getting consumed by the concerns of our life once again. Ressentiment to my eyes is a powerful enough emotional spur that it can shake us out of the enchantment of daily life and fill us with the energy of mobilisation. I think you'll still disagree with this characterisation and I suspect you've got a perspective that I'm just not perceiving. I'd love if you could give me some examples that come to mind of non-ressentiment drive social change
Lol
@@TheLivingPhilosophy Looking back at my comment, it might have come across as a bit negative, and that wasn't my intention. I'm not trying to undermine your point about ressentiment being a driving force in social change, which is a compelling angle. However, I think it's also important to consider other motivators, like 'epistemic hunger' or 'epistophilia' - the love and pursuit of knowledge. For example, the Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution were not just reactions to ressentiment, but were driven by a profound curiosity and thirst for understanding. The Renaissance was an era of intellectual curiosity, a rediscovery of classical knowledge, and an appreciation for the arts, fueled by a desire for understanding and beauty. Similarly, the Scientific Revolution, characterized by figures like Galileo and Newton, was propelled by an insatiable curiosity and a desire to explore and comprehend the natural world.
Given this, I think a video exploring the concept of epistophilia would be really interesting. It could offer insight into how this passion for knowledge has been a key driver in major intellectual and cultural movements, and provide a nuanced view of the various forces that propel humanity forward, contrasting with the notion that social change is predominantly driven by negative emotions like ressentiment.
BE CONTENTED IN YOUR OPPRESSION? PRAISE AND IDOLIZE YOUR OPPRESSORS?
WILL WORK FOR AN UBERMAN
In reading between the lines of this video, I see hope.
As more and more people wake up and realise that, "This does not work";
That a revolution will come.
Not from the left or right, but from the masses.
I also feel that the word "revolution" has some.... bloody connotations.
In that I believe the revolutions going forward will be far less bloody, and will lead to positive outcomes MUCH sooner than previous historic revolutions.
We have a great deal of collective knowledge in order to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
We are not perfect. But we are getting there.
This is cope.
The revolution will be bloody as always, and I really really wonder what you count as “progress”…
15:31 white man
ok?
You claim that Jews did “nothing against the Babylonians”… I would argue that keeping Judaism alive and its flourishing in a hostile environment with a different religion is a powerful form of resistance. If the Jewish people had submitted to the religion and customs of Babylonia entirely and lost their faith then I would agree that they “did nothing”. What do you think?
I do enjoy your output I find it very stimulating, nevertheless, I must say that any kind of analysis that equates BLM marches in the wake of the George Floyd murder with MAGA stop the steal rallies is either completely out or tells us something so fucking trivial that it is barely worth all the big words. One is a march of people who want to assert their right to exist, the other is a march of people who want to assert their will over others. Other then that an enjoyable show.
Thanks for the input. I don't think that it's trivial but that it's simply a different layer of analysis to what you were perhaps expecting. It's about gaining a more universal understanding of the dynamics of collective change rather than about understanding the content of these particular movements
Lol
This video does an excellent job of pretending to make a point
Nietzsche was just a sociopath. Dude is as twisted as they come. Want to know about sane morality, read Kant.
Says you
Shortsighted, utterly lacking in introspection, and pretty damn arrogant to boot.
Fred said make your dark side serve the light, and both Jung and Freud recognized the need for knowing, integrating, and developing your duality to serve your highest good. All morality _is_ relative, whether you like it or not.
But hey, u du u.
@@johnmcevoy3598 Well, if morality is relative, give me one single example.
@@VelhaGuardaTricolor Educate yourself, then comment. (INSERT SCRIPTURE ABOUT HERE)
@@johnmcevoy3598 at least I am not failing to back it up my words. I asked you for one single example of relative morality, and you couldn't do it.
Hmm, an interesting take on Nietsche's idea of ressentiment. I'm inclined to think of it as people's natural resistance to Nietsche's proto-fascist idea that "certain" people are superior to others. The producer of this video, it seems, however, has taken it to mean a specific and very contemporary kind of reaction to or effect of disagreement with others, that of emotional otherness: you, random person online, I don't like your ideas; I've never met you in real life; therefore, you must be a bad person.
at a time when the earths starting to bake from global warming i wouldnt be hasty to talk about progress. more like regress.
Ha!
It looks that Nietzsche had some strong resentment against the slaves. 😂 if the slave morality won, that means that they were stronger than the “master” 😜😜😜Slaves : 1 Nietzsche resentment: 0 😂😂😂