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.]
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TRAILER FOR ’THE APOCALYPSE & YOU’ LIVE EVENTS
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A SUSPICION - CLIMATE & CULTURE WARS
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INTERESTING TIMES 68 - WHERE IS THE WAR ON WOKE GOING?
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MUSIC - HOMAGE
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SOCRATES & THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
BORIS JOHNSON’S PERFECT POST-TRUTH MOMENT - INTERESTING TIMES 66
AI - THREAT OR PROMISE?
NAT-C OR NAZI? INTERESTING TIMES 65
CLICK BAIT, RAGE BAIT & CALM BAIT
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