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The Current Target of Resentment "Love"

3/17/2019

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Max Scheler published Ressentiment just before the First World War. At that time, he was acutely aware of the communist menace bubbling under the surface of society because he had been a Marxist himself. The war had not even officially ended when the Bolsheviks succeeded in overthrowing the Czar in Russia. Other communist revolutions were attempted in other European countries as well. During this time, Scheler’s observations concerning ressentiment hatred being directed at the strong, the powerful, and the wealthy certainly were true, but does the same hold true today?

As mentioned in my previous blog post, resentment-based love continues its faux concern with the oppressed, but the oppressed are no longer the working class proletariat. In our contemporary world, the working class have lost their official victimhood status, which has been transferred to other groups, namely women, people with non-traditional sexual orientations, various ethnicities within the West’s mostly pluralistic societies, and so forth. Unlike the communists of the past whose love of the proletariat actually served as means to cover their intense hatred for the rich and powerful, today’s Global Establishment – which holds nearly all the wealth and power in the West today – works diligently to ensure the ressentiment-based "love” they inspire will not be aimed at them and is deflected elsewhere. Hence, they have created new classes of oppressors.

Who are the oppressors today? The working and middle class native populations of Western nations. The very same groups who essentially maintain and uphold society through their work and taxes. The Establishment’s hatred of these two groups is so profound it can barely be concealed – even under a thick layer of ressentiment-love.
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palintropos
3/17/2019 15:34:10

How right you are.

“Second, all cultural institutions in the US are going through an overdue corrective moment, a reverberation of postmodern consciousness propelled lately by a host of overlapping social movements, including Decolonize This Place, #MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and more. Art museums, long bastions of elite (white male) privilege, are waking to the need to become more diverse and inclusive in terms of collections, programmes, staff, and audiences. For collections, which are the material part of these broader diversification efforts, this entails a redemptive quest to rectify historical omissions, especially works by women artists and artists of colour, coupled with a no less urgent mission to diversify the now.”

– Andrew McClellan, Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Art History at Tufts University, is the author of Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/modern-art-museums-deaccessioning/

Amazing and frightening article in Apollo, March 17, 2019. We truly are doomed. On the other hand, they could be panicking because of the opposite. Like the Corcoran, nobody likes Modernism, post- or otherwise. After all, progressives lie constantly, it’s second nature to them. Eventually, no one will go to the National Gallery either. They are declaring war on white artists; blacks don’t go to museums. How long before the funding dries up?

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Francis Berger
3/17/2019 19:00:18

The whole "decolonize the arts" movement is absurd and utterly steeped in resentment thinking. It is having detrimental effects, no doubt about it . . . but perhaps that's the end goal. Kill the arts through love.

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Epimetheus
3/18/2019 15:30:04

"We" are not doomed. "We" need to toughen up and fight aginst despair, which is the main weapon of the enemy.

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Francis Berger
3/18/2019 15:32:51

Agreed. Despair is among the worst of sins.

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palintropos
3/18/2019 15:48:09

Well, you'll have to pardon my bad writing style. If you notice I say "On the other hand . . ." in the very next sentence and pretty much support the opposite position that we aren't "doomed."

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Francis Berger
3/18/2019 20:32:22

@palintropos

Thanks for the clarification, but your writing is clear. I can't speak for Epimetheus, but I didn't get the sense you were saying we were certainly doomed. I was just agreeing that despair is definitely not something in which we should indulge.

palintropos
3/18/2019 16:03:22

I will say this though, if Christians aren't able to get their act together and learn how to defend themselves and their turf from the fake love racket they will be doomed, and drag the rest down with them.

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