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Ressentiment: the World-Improving Poison

Ressentiment: the World-Improving Poison

The archetypal modern emotion from Nietzsche to Oliver Anthony

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Dec 04, 2023
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There has never been more hate in the world than there is today. It sounds like an exaggeration but when we study the term ressentiment it becomes obvious that because of our modern value system there has never been so much hate to go around. Negative as this sounds, this very same potential for hate is also the birth canal of all our progress including…

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