The notes that HAC attached to this video are spot on IMO. This 70 year old male would add that for me Ms Arendt's most powerful statement when she was challenged over her criticism of Jewish leaders failure to act against the scourge of Nazism 'at first I am human' cracked open my mind. This realization united our current and rapidly growing knowledge of DNAs unimaginable power. Today we're 8 billion precious humans and every year another 80 million net new precious humans join us. DNA connects every human not only with each other but with the entire DNA based biosphere. This is the basis IMO for a new religion. A religion which casts off all of the cultural based myths humans have used to better understand who they are and what is their relationship to the greater world. Thanks to HAC for your work to open minds, eyes, hearts.
DNAs unimaginable power. That claim is a bit overdone. Given that we as a species, are irrational and so full of ourselves (look at the planet). Adios!
Kudos to HAC crew to put this seminar as public access (watching from Valencia ESP) - Wish esteemed Pankaj Mishra spoke a bit more, about resistance, what can be done to counter - specifically about the rise of "Buffalo Nationalism" in India. The last 20 years to be precise, the rise of right-wing hindu hordes, perhaps in millions now, the biggest threat to the rest of Indians, and bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Nepalis etc (about 1.9 billion more or less).
Mike Johnson had stage fright, complicated by fear of looking like a fool and a weakling compared to Nancy Pelosi. To manage the stage fright, someone taught him a few rudimentary stage expressions. But he was so self-conscious (and therefore out of touch with the room) that he could only get one of them on his face. It reminds me of Anne Richards on the first Bush: “Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
That’s because he’s referring to Nietzsche, I think: “But the racism and misogyny routinely on display in social media, and demagoguery in political discourse, now reveals what Nietzsche, speaking of the ‘men of RESSENTIMENT’, called ‘a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts’. (Age of Anger, Prologue) And just in case you’re wandering: we use the French term in German, so that’s why Nietzsche uses it. I hope that helps. :)
Oxford reference: "A vengeful, petty-minded state of being that does not so much want what others have (although that is partly it) as want others to not have what they have. The term, which might be translated as ‘resentment’, though in most places it is generally left in the original French, is usually associated with German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who defined it as a slave morality. Nietzsche sees ressentiment as the core of Christian and Judaic thought and, consequently, the central facet of western thought more generally. In this context, ressentiment is more fully defined as the desire to live a pious existence and thereby position oneself to judge others, apportion blame, and determine responsibility. Nietzsche did not invent the concept of ressentiment, it was a term that was very much ‘in the air’ in his lifetime (the late 19th century), as Fredric Jameson points out in his sharp critique of the concept in The Political Unconscious (1981). Jameson's quarrel with ressentiment, or more particularly Nietzsche's deployment of it, is that the latter fails to consider the ideological weight the term carried in its own time; thus, in Jameson's view Nietzsche fails to see that it is a category deployed by the ruling bourgeoisie elite to simultaneously justify their privileges and rationalize the denial of those same privileges to the poorer classes (on this view of things, the masses revolt not because their cause is just, but because they resent the rich)."
what an articulate speaker is Mr. Mishra , thank you
The notes that HAC attached to this video are spot on IMO. This 70 year old male would add that for me Ms Arendt's most powerful statement when she was challenged over her criticism of Jewish leaders failure to act against the scourge of Nazism 'at first I am human' cracked open my mind. This realization united our current and rapidly growing knowledge of DNAs unimaginable power. Today we're 8 billion precious humans and every year another 80 million net new precious humans join us. DNA connects every human not only with each other but with the entire DNA based biosphere. This is the basis IMO for a new religion. A religion which casts off all of the cultural based myths humans have used to better understand who they are and what is their relationship to the greater world. Thanks to HAC for your work to open minds, eyes, hearts.
DNAs unimaginable power. That claim is a bit overdone. Given that we as a species, are irrational and so full of ourselves (look at the planet). Adios!
Kudos to HAC crew to put this seminar as public access (watching from Valencia ESP) - Wish esteemed Pankaj Mishra spoke a bit more, about resistance, what can be done to counter - specifically about the rise of "Buffalo Nationalism" in India. The last 20 years to be precise, the rise of right-wing hindu hordes, perhaps in millions now, the biggest threat to the rest of Indians, and bangladeshis, Pakistanis, Nepalis etc (about 1.9 billion more or less).
Excellent lecture !
Mike Johnson had stage fright, complicated by fear of looking like a fool and a weakling compared to Nancy Pelosi. To manage the stage fright, someone taught him a few rudimentary stage expressions. But he was so self-conscious (and therefore out of touch with the room) that he could only get one of them on his face.
It reminds me of Anne Richards on the first Bush: “Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
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Interesting stuff. I just wonder why he always says 'resentment' in French.
That’s because he’s referring to Nietzsche, I think: “But the racism and misogyny routinely on display in social media, and demagoguery in political discourse, now reveals what Nietzsche, speaking of the ‘men of RESSENTIMENT’, called ‘a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts’. (Age of Anger, Prologue)
And just in case you’re wandering: we use the French term in German, so that’s why Nietzsche uses it. I hope that helps. :)
I also found that a bit funny
Oxford reference: "A vengeful, petty-minded state of being that does not so much want what others have (although that is partly it) as want others to not have what they have. The term, which might be translated as ‘resentment’, though in most places it is generally left in the original French, is usually associated with German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who defined it as a slave morality. Nietzsche sees ressentiment as the core of Christian and Judaic thought and, consequently, the central facet of western thought more generally. In this context, ressentiment is more fully defined as the desire to live a pious existence and thereby position oneself to judge others, apportion blame, and determine responsibility. Nietzsche did not invent the concept of ressentiment, it was a term that was very much ‘in the air’ in his lifetime (the late 19th century), as Fredric Jameson points out in his sharp critique of the concept in The Political Unconscious (1981). Jameson's quarrel with ressentiment, or more particularly Nietzsche's deployment of it, is that the latter fails to consider the ideological weight the term carried in its own time; thus, in Jameson's view Nietzsche fails to see that it is a category deployed by the ruling bourgeoisie elite to simultaneously justify their privileges and rationalize the denial of those same privileges to the poorer classes (on this view of things, the masses revolt not because their cause is just, but because they resent the rich)."
@undertheriverstone Thank you! I have learnt a thing!
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any publication?
He has written a book under the same title, Age of Anger.
Both speakers are bit too soft spoken for public speaking..wish they spoke bit louder.
Why he silent on Afghanistan Pakistan Arab Democracies and
He isn’t. Read the book.