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 No.3542

The worst place for ressentiment is on the internet. It's absolutely raging. The intensified communication factor. The more you learn of those above you, the more it hurts.

A man alone in a cave in the middle of nowhere would have no ressentiment — not the mental kind at any rate. This explains why so many people on online communities fall into delusions such as inferiority or superiority complex. How can you not when you see so many people who are objectively superior to you in almost every single way?

Success generates, not only money, but also resentment, resentment which must be somehow dealt with. In the old days, ressentiment was dealt with by brute violence, plain and simple. Slaves were envious of their masters' prosperity, and so when this envy flared up and threatened the civic order, the masters would bring out their clubs and start the beatings.

The masters LITERALLY BLED on a regular basis in order to be able to enjoy their prosperity and success. And is it any different with the modern masters, 50% or more of whose output is being regularly taken by the state to be redistributed, in one way or another, to the modern-day slaves so that they'll keep the peace?

Whether you bleed literally or figuratively, ressentiment will have its portion, and the only thing you can do about it is man the fuck up and pay up, all the while (hopefully) realizing that it is you who are responsible for its occurrence, and that that is the price you have to pay for your success.

Resources must be somehow taken from the successful and redistributed to the failures to keep the economy from coming to a standstill in waves of strikes and violent protests, and the society from exploding in all-out civil war. This is why ten kids being killed is news, but millions of kids finishing high school, winning sports championships, learning new languages, etc. is not. If reporting were really representative, even the subhuman would realize that the "bad" things are a drop in the bucket and barely even deserve to be mentioned.

But good news aggravate the subhuman's ressentiment. Who among them wants to learn of the countless privileged youths who are earning Masters and PhDs, going on skiing trips to the Alps or surfing holidays in Hawaii, etc.? It's the same psychology at bottom that sees tabloid rags running ugly pictures of celebrities to assuage the raging envy of the rabble that reads them. That is how this general impression of chaos and decline is created for a civilization which, in all the essentials, is so obviously flourishing.

 No.3543

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Do you feel the increased level of stress in modern society? I do. Because we're below average in a globalized world. It is a reflection and direct consequence of the increase in the extent of the order of rank inside our culture. Instead of many little hierarchies, you have a gigantic one, in which everyone feels the weight of many more others on top of him than before. This is globalization.

And globalization is efficiency. You have two options then. Engage with globalization — and either reap the rewards if you are above average, or the extra stress if you are below —, and don't engage globalization, by, I don't know, moving to a desert island or Siberia or something and living like a savage. Claiming that disengaging from globalization is a solution is of course a ruse, because no one ever does that.

We don't even want to limit the extent of our own country's globalization, because when this actually happens we whine about high prices and falling quality of life. At most we try to grab as much as they can of the fruits of globalization while giving back as little as possible. And that's why we are so stressed, because leeching is a far more nervously taxing strategy than simply giving, which is what the above average do, which is why they are above average.

I wish was above average. But alas, I am here. I am a slave. I am subhuman. Unsuccessful, weak, powerless and molded instead of being the molder. Subdued and sedated by media. Waiting to die.


 No.3544

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How does resentment feel? It feels like unfairness, injustice. It directs the gaze outward, to protect one from dwelling on the flagrant lack of power which led one to feel resentment in the first place. It is not the Other that is causing the resentment, but yourself, and all resentment does is protect you from this painful realization, which would be otherwise added to the already unbearable pain of the resentment's cause.

To feel resentment is to admit defeat. It's not even a matter of allowing yourself to feel resentment or not — you have no choice in the matter: you've either been defeated or you've not. The winner has neither the time nor any reason to feel resentment; the loser (me) has both a very good reason and all the time in the world.

Why do I have an inverted perspective in the taking/giving business? Because of my narrow worldview. I only see what is taken from me, and disregard what is given to me - everything, including, and first and above all, life itself.

It is not the Other who enslaves me, but always me myself, when I refuse to make the ultimate sacrifice and put my life on the line in order to chase after my dreams.


 No.3556

Take off your fucking hats when you are inside.


 No.3560

There are so many times I see men in my school that I hate, I really hate, because they are just good looking. They can treat people very rudely and I watch them get forgiven for it. If a normal person does the same I watch them get called for it.


 No.3672

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>>3542

What does it mean when you have a massive superiority complex, but with zero hate for anyone else?

Like, it's just a calm, matter of fact belief that everyone is an insect compared to me.


 No.3675

>>3672

Overzealous unwarranted self-importance


 No.3698

>>3560

Men don't get the pussy-pass, and their looks have very little do with their status. Maybe you are autistic and think that when normalfags are engaging in playful ribbing they are being serious, and when you attempt to emulate the behavior you only recite verbatim what you've heard them say, while failing to deliver it in a cheeky, forgivable manner. Other than that post I agree OP. Globalization is shit if you're not a top-tier performer.




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