Those who are dissatisfied with themselves project
their dissatisfaction upon the world/ . A man of ressentiment will see
his own faults magnified in others around him because, as Albert Camus
(1991), also commenting on Nietzsche’s theory of
ressentiment, notes, “resentment is always resentment against oneself”
. What makes the syndrome so circular and
pernicious is that the begrudger is not even aware that he is a begrudger, and
therefore can feel fully justified in condemning others for their begrudgery.Au
Such resentful thinking, engender, firstly, an involuntary
emotion-laden falsification of world view;
secondly, a transvaluation of values
so that what is good can appear evil and vice versa, and thirdly, a radical
subjectivization of the whole notion of value.
Reversing such a
process after it has been completely internalized and perpetuated over
generations—particularly on a national level—would entail an exceedingly
lengthy and arduous undertaking. It was highly unlikely that such a wide-scale revaluation of thinking would suceed
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