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.]
GOD SAVE THE KING! SERIOUSLY? INTERESTING TIMES 64
OUR BIGGEST DANGER?
EARTH DAY 2023 - INTERESTING TIMES 63
BLUES IN G 5 - MUSIC
CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCIES - INTERESTING TIMES 62
A UNIVERSE OF DISCOURSE?
STARING INTO THE ABYSS
PROMISES & SLOGANS
INDIVIDUAL & COLLECTIVE, (& FARMING)
FESTIVAL DANCE
PATHOLOGICAL IRRATIONALISM IN THE UK AND BEYOND
LOOKING BACK OVER 2022 & FORWARD TO 2023 - INTERESTING TIMES 62
ON STRIKES - INTERESTING TIMES 61
EDEN REVISITED
LAO TZU 57
LAO TZU 56
LAO TZU 55
GROWTH, GROWTH, GROWTH? - INTERESTING TIMES 60
LAO TZU 54
EIE, A GLIMMER OF HOPE - INTERESTING TIMES 59
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