People Like Us v. People Like You
I thought it was p'tit-boos, the cornered rats of capitalism who go ballistic when society's s-curve plateaus. I'm sticking with it. The concept of "ressentiment" was first described by Friedrich Nietzsche. He introduced and elaborated on the term in his book 𝘖𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘴 (1887). Later, Max Scheler also explored the concept in his 1912 book titled 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵. The life of Max Scheler was a continuous struggle for truth under constant pressure from the stress of his private life on one side and the chaos of German public life on the other. Located closer to the West's region of origin, Germany was a focal point for the culmination of the latest Toynbeean Time of Troubles that the New Deal has not completely resolved today. From the beginning, Scheler rejected intellectual relativism as well as the crude materialist positivism of science, preferring a view that insisted there must be an absolute truth somewhere, a...