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From Powerlessness to Collective Madness The world has gone crazy, but there is a pattern behind it. More people seem to be losing their grip on reality, swept up in ideological movements that demand conformity and punish dissent. This progression begins with powerlessness, continues with possession, and ends in resentment disguised as justice. The first stage is the breakdown of what can be called the power process. Human beings need to set goals, work toward them, and achieve them in order to feel whole. Once, daily life revolved around hunting, farming, building, and creating. Today, survival and progress are often managed by vast systems and institutions. As a result, many people feel alienated and powerless. They turn to movements for a sense of purpose, drawing progress not from their personal lives, but from the causes they embrace. Carl Jung described what happens next. Inside a movement, individuals can become possessed by collective identities. Those who refuse the difficult task of becoming themselves may dissolve into the group mind. This is why ideologies such as communism, nationalism, feminism, socialism, and environmentalism can exert such power: they offer ready-made identities and moral clarity. Individuals gradually stop thinking for themselves and become mouthpieces for the collective identity that has seized them. Nietzsche revealed the final stage: resentment. In *Thus Spoke Zarathustra*, he described the “tarantulas”—moral preachers who spin ideological webs in the name of justice. They claim to champion the weak, but their motivation may be envy and revenge, cloaked in noble language. Their goal is not always to uplift, but to tear down the strong. When the world seems to have gone mad, the pattern is clear: people lose the power process in their own lives, surrender themselves to ideologies, and then act out their resentment as justice. The cure is not another movement, but the difficult task of reclaiming individuality in an age of collective madness.

The Psychology Behind Political Violence Political life carries an appetite for violence beneath the surface. A shooter leaves a manifesto; supporters celebrate; online strangers justify killing over insults, misgendering, and fantasies of execution. We’re told these are separate phenomena—different ideologies, grievances, causes—but they’re deeply connected. The murderer, the celebrant, and the online fantasist share one conviction: blood will build a better world. We often assume ideology comes first, violence second—radicalization infecting an otherwise ordinary person. But corrupted people may seek ideologies that rationalize what they already want to believe. Feeling comes first; philosophy follows. Nietzsche called this *ressentiment*: not ordinary anger, but enduring resentment rooted in surrendered agency and perpetual victimhood. Ressentiment is creative: it turns grievance into virtue and revenge into justice. That’s why movements can sound humanitarian while obsessing over enemies. They promise liberation but focus on who must be eliminated; they call violence self-defense while celebrating destruction. Notice the imbalance: energy goes to identifying who deserves punishment, not to explaining how their better society would work. This is the difference between genuine grievance and pathological ressentiment. Genuine grievance seeks repair; ressentiment seeks subtraction. Its “solutions” are fantasies of punishment—heads cut off, privilege liquidated, wrong pronouns punished. These aren’t coherent doctrines of stability; they’re rationalizations for resentment. Ressentiment also despises self-improvement because it requires admitting agency. Its worldview depends on locating suffering outside oneself. The deepest enemy of these movements, then, is not any specific ideology. It is agency itself.

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“This is not revenge, but one way of strengthening democracy. A committee composed of widely respected democrats must be established. You have just referred to the Asset Recovery Office which would examine the financial circumstances of public figures and determine whether they #Democracy #AssetRecovery #Transparency #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

The revenge of the philosophy majors — AI labs are hiring contrarian, chin-stroking, finger-steepling sages. Philosophers are the latest hiring target for AI companies. Who’s underemployed now? https://t.co/s7Ftnhz67Y #Philosophy #AI #JobMarket #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

Dans cet article, Pascal Couté examine le genre cinématographique du « rape and revenge », qui, depuis les années 1970, met en scène des femmes victimes de viol qui cherchent à se venger de leurs agresseurs, tout en posant des questions complexes sur la représentation de la violence et du voyeurisme dans ces films. #RapeAndRevenge #FemmesVengeresses #MaleGaze

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Germany and France will clash in round of 16. Whomever wins that, has a huge chance for the title. The dream would be, Germany USA semis. And then Team Germany will take revenge for all the shit talk we had to endure as Europeans from orange guy. After that, England wins title #Germany #France #WorldCup #DE #FR #US #GB

Trump is seeing the world he has wounded turn against him. He’s discovering that the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Like another old ruler, vain and volatile, Trump is bellowing at the storm, raging at his enemies, raging into the night https://t.co/6XrALGS4SK #Trump #Politics #Justice #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.

Israeli settlers set fire to a mosque in the West Bank village of Jiljilya, causing extensive damage and leaving behind graffiti that included the word revenge, amidst rising violence in the region and renewed calls for accountability and protection of religious sites from Palestinian leaders. #WestBank #IsraeliSettlers #ReligiousViolence