Stephen Hicks - Postmodern Resentment

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in order socialist writing you can often
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see signs of resentment and the anger
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exulting in the destruction that the
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socialist revolution will bring how
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those capitalists will finally get
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what's coming to them and I find that
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for me what is most illuminating is
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Nietzsche's concept of race Altamonte
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erase want OMA and the French is close
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to the English resentment but it's got
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of a more curdled bitterness it's more
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seething and poisoned and bottled up for
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a long time that's erase all them all I
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want to use Nietzsche against most
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modernists for a change Nietzsche uses
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the concept of racism all in the context
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of developing his famous account of
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master and slave morality master
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morality for Nietzsche is the morality
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of the vigorous life loving strong
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it's the morality of those who love
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adventure delight and creativity in
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their own sense of purposefulness and
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assertiveness slave morality is the
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morality of the week the humble those
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who feel weak and victimized afraid to
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venture forth into the big bad world
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weaklings are the chronically passive
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largely because they are afraid of the
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strong as a result the weak feel
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frustrated they can't get what they want
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out of life they become envious of the
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strong and they also secretly start to
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hate themselves for being so cowardly
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and weak but no one can live thinking
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that he or she is deeply ether
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and so the weak invent a rationalization
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a rationalization that tells them they
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are the good and immoral because they
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are weak humble passive humility is a
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virtue and so is being on the side of
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the weak and the downtrodden people just
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like you and so of course the opposites
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of those things must be the evil
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aggressiveness pride independence being
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physically and materially successful
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eventually the smart weakling will feel
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such a combination of self-loathing and
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envy of his enemies that he will need to
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lash out he will feel the urge to hurt
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in any way he can his hated enemy of
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course he can't risk direct physical
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confrontation he's weak like his only
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weapons are words now in our time the
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capitalists are the strong the exuberant
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the active for a while in the past
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century socialists could believe that
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the revolution was coming that whoa
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would come to them that our rich and
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blessed would be the poor but that hope
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has been dashed cruelly socialism is the
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loser and if the socialists know that
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they will hate that fact the pack fact
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they will hate the winners for having
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won and they will hate themselves for
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having picked the losing side hate as a
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chronic condition leads to the urge to
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destroy but again your only weapons are
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words how can you use words to destroy I
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think the whole idea of deconstruction
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comes out of this post-modernism is
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populated by large numbers of people who
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like the idea of deconstructing other
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people's work its opposite of
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constructing something of your own
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now considered parallel examples from
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the world of visual art I think the
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visual art world was a little ahead of
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the postmodernist this century asked to
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submit something for display at the Art
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Institute of Chicago Marcel Duchamp
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sends a urinal which is then displayed
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this makes a statement about art art is
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something you piss on or there's the
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painter de Kooning's version of the Mona
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Lisa a reproduction he makes a loner
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Leonard Leonardo's masterpiece with a
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cartoonish mustache at it now that too
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makes a statement here's an achievement
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I can't hope to equal and so I'll turn
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it into a joke destroy it so you become
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a bully and a thug not because it
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destroys something bad but just because
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it feels good to wreck something so if
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words are your weapons now and you want
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to destroy the achievements of Western
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civilization especially the
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Enlightenment how do you do it well
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consider a more personal case if you
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hate someone and you want to hurt him
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hit him where it counts do you want to
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hurt a man who loves his children and
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hates child molesters what would be the
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worst thing you could say about such a
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guy well accuse him publicly a child
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molesting or better yet spread sneaky
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rumors he's a child molester do you want
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to hurt a woman who takes pride in her
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independence spread through the Groth
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gossip grapevine that she married the
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man she did because he's wealthy
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now the truth of the falsity here of the
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rumors doesn't matter and whether you
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believe them yourself
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doesn't matter and whether the people
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you believe them or tell them to really
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believe them doesn't matter they get out
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there and they do their damage what
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matters is that you score a direct hit
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in the psyche of your enemy your target
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person you know that the accusations and
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the rumors are going to cause some
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tremors even if they come to nothing and
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you get that wonderfully dark glow
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inside of knowing that you did it now
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let's bring it back to then the Western
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tradition the Western tradition it
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prides itself on its commitment to
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equality justice open-mindedness making
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opportunity available to all the West is
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proud full of itself confident and it
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knows that it's the wave of the future
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this is unbearable to someone who is
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totally invested and an opposite and
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failed outlook and so that pride is what
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you want to destroy your best bet then
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do is to attack the West's sense of its
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own moral worth attack it as racist and
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sexist them as inherently dogmatic and
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cruelly exploitative undermine it at the
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court the words don't have to be true in
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order to do their damage and so I don't
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think it's accidental that
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post-modernism has launched the kinds of
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attacks on the core values of the West
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and it's done so knowing full well that
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the accusations it's making are not true
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it's a psychological compulsion in some
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cases and so that allows you to hold the
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contradiction you can be an absolutist
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in to your assertions and you couldn't
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assert the relativism and it just
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doesn't matter as long as it's harming
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someone your enemy that's fine
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that's the final explanation or my final
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hypothesis here I call it the newest
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explanation for obvious reasons hey some
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post modernists the worst move in many
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ways are individuals of deep race Alton
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long psychologically that the
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combination of alienation bitterness
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envy and rage leads them to lashing out
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with an intent to destroy any aspect of
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culture that seems to them to be the
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opposite
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Stephen Hicks - Postmodern Resentment

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