In this podcast I consider Nietzsche's accounts of promise-making, bad conscience, ressentiment, the mnemo-technics of pain and the rise of Christianity understood as the spiritual revenge of slaves as outlined in On the Genealogy of Morals [1886]. I offer a riposte to Judith Butler's objection to Nietzsche's account of the development of a continuous will which seems to be in contradiction to Nietzsche's account of language as a 'moving army of metaphors'. [Butler, 1997 - The Psychic Life of Power.] From there, I move on to consider how the concept of ressentiment can be utilised to understand the current populism in conjuction with the notion of ideology. To the Freudian-Marxists question 'Why do slaves aquiesece in their slavery?', the Nietzschean might answer, 'They don't always. Sometimes they seek subterranean means of revenge in order to experience the intoxication of exerting their will to power over others.' [Free. 39 minutes.]
CAMPUS BUMS OR HOPE FOR THE FUTURE? ON STUDENT PROTESTS - INTERESTING TIMES 79
DODGY DAVE? - INTERESTING TIMES 78
RETALIATION - INTERESTING TIMES 77
THE DIN OF RATTLING SABRES - INTERESTING TIMES 76
MUSIC - UP THROUGH THE WOODS
THOUGHT FOR TODAY - INTERESTING TIMES 75
RULES BASED ORDER? - INTERESTING TIMES 74
CHUANG TZU 3 - CRACKING THE SAFE
LOOKING BACK OVER 2023 & FORWARD TO 2024 - INTERESTING TIMES 73
TURKEY, DEVOLUTION, GAZA - INTERESTING TIMES 72
CHUANG TZU 2 - CUTTING UP AN OX
WHAT DOES THE BBC WANT YOU TO THINK TODAY? RAW THOUGHT
CHUANG TZU 1 - ACTION AND NON-ACTION
MUSIC - GRACE OF RAIN
A MAD MONDAY IN UK POLITICS & BEYOND - INTERESTING TIMES 71
A PIVOTAL MOMENT FOR OUR FUTURE? - INTERESTING TIMES 70
BALLOTS, BOMBS, BLOWBACK - INTERESTING TIMES 69
CHUANG TZU - AN INTRODUCTION
TORY CONFERENCE 23 - INCOMPETENCE, FRAGMENTATION AND MADNESS - INTERESTING TIMES 69
LAO TZU 68
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