Re: [microsound] Anger/Sitting On Our Hands

[stinky <hothandcinco@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Yeah, well put.  If there's an emotion behind the
> 'anger' of politicians in power it's fear; fear to
> lose that power. And that fear (and a lot of what
> Nietzsche called "ressentiments") is rationalized
> beyond recognition into a clean cold well-structured
> system of dominance.  Bush is not angry.  (He may be
> scared shitless, because there a a few things
> happening he doesn't understand)

fear of losing power "is" not what nietzsche meant by
ressentiments.  it can be a component of it but at its
basic it is the sort of behavior that many on the list
would contain, that of throwing away what is
immediately relevant to ones life/desires for some
lofty (decadent) goal.  on rereading what i just wrote
i think maybe i'm not being clear.

briefly ressentiment is action taken by those without
power as a result of their anger at those with power. 
the english cognate resentment is a good starting
place for understanding this idea.  if i do not pursue
my own desires in the face of whatever the assholes in
washington are doing i am acting in the spirit of
ressentiment (in my own opinion protesting them would
be doing something i'm not really interested in hence
an act of ressentiment.)

in any event ressentiment is tied to the concept of
decadence and that which denies life (read fear of non
immediate power structures such as the us government
or god) it has little to do with ones own actual
position in power.  

nietzsche liked jesus because jesus acted from such
deep ressentiment that he approached becoming the
overman.

-stinky
(hoping he doesn't sound like a total fool)

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