Re: [microsound] Anger/Sitting On Our Hands

[dbuchwald <dagmar.buchwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

stinky wrote:

>
> briefly ressentiment is action taken by those without
> power as a result of their anger at those with power.

I am also not sure whether "ressentiment" in Nietzsche's sense of the
term is an "action".  As far as I understood it "ressentiment" is a
negativity, a hindering and nay-saying.  It's a feeling against all
expressions of life and also a feeling against all pure actions.  Thus it
is always a negative reaction to some act of affirmation, of positing, of
doing.

Yes, I harbour a resentment against guys who want to blow up the planet,
and you may call this resentment "a negativity, a hindering and
nay-saying" if you wish.  But don't tell me that it is a reaction to an
expression of life.  The US government is not the overman and its doings
are no "pure actions" or acts of affirmation.  I don't like to "react" to
those events.  That's why I am looking for ways of getting out of the
dichotomies "yes/no", "action/reaction", "agressor/victim".  That game is
framed and once you enter it you have to play according to its rules
(eventually becoming like that against which you react).

My anger is partly a result of feeling the gravitational pull of that
game.  Once you enter it you become part of it.  On the other hand you
can't pretend you are NOT a part of it.  We have all profited way too
much of that game ourselves.  If you can afford to only act according to
your desires and according to what you are interested in someone else has
already payed the price for that lofty position.  (This, of course, is
NOT a Nietzschean argument).

Dagmar

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