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.]
WHAT IS FASCISM? 3 - THE CORPORATE-GOVERNMENTAL ECONOMY
TRUMP'S REFUSAL TO CONCEDE - INTERESTING TIMES 15
US ELECTION AND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE - INTERESTING TIMES 14
EHRC REPORT & CORBYN SUSPENSION - INTERESTING TIMES 13
REVOLVING DOORS & COSY CABALS - INTERESTING TIMES 12
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LAO TZU 28
JOHNSON'S POST-TRUTH SPEECH TO TORY CONFERENCE - INTERESTING TIMES 11
WHAT IS FASCISM? 2 - THE PRESENT DAY UK & USA
WHAT IS FASCISM? 1 - HISTORICAL EXAMPLES
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COVIDIOCY: WHO BENEFITS? - INTERESTING TIMES 10
AGAINST FLAG-SHAGGING - INTERESTING TIMES 9
WHY HAS SOCIALISM BECOME A DIRTY WORD?
GRASSROOTS AND ASTROTURFING
STUDENTS WIN! INTERESTING TIMES 8
WHAT CAN WE DO?
LAO TZU 26
RICHARD WOLFF ON THE ECONOMY - INTERESTING TIMES 7
BRITAIN-TRUMP, PORTLAND, YELLOW-HAMMER - INTERESTING TIMES 6
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