How resentment falsifies a world view.

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