{"id":2866,"date":"2018-04-09T22:53:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T04:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=2866"},"modified":"2018-04-09T22:53:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T04:53:19","slug":"the-overthrow-of-the-great-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2866","title":{"rendered":"The Overthrow of the Great Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindingthecampus.org\/2018\/04\/the-stunning-overthrow-of-the-great-books\/#sthash.EYAqpyRf.gbpl\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/04\/great_books-wikipedia-672x372.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The professors act this way because they are suffused with <em>ressentiment<\/em>. <em>Ressentiment<\/em> is, of course, Nietzsche\u2019s term for a certain state of mind, or rather, a condition of being. He liked the French word because it signified a deeper psychology than the German (and English) equivalent does. <em>Ressentiment<\/em> is the attitude of slave morality, Nietzsche wrote, the moral formation of one who feels rage and envy but hasn\u2019t the strength or courage to act upon them. A man of<em> ressentiment<\/em> knows and resents his own weakness and mediocrity, and he hates the sight of greatness, which only reminds the lesser party of his own inferiority. And so he fashions a new moral system whereby victimhood becomes a high badge, suspicion signifies a sensitive eye for justice, and group denunciation of lone dissenters is the surest path to virtue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I grew up with a set of the Great Books in my home. I was the only one who used them, and I still have them. With a set of these books I don&#8217;t need to deal with, or pay exhorbitant sums to, mediocre professors (but I repeat myself).<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindingthecampus.org\/2018\/04\/the-stunning-overthrow-of-the-great-books\/#sthash.EYAqpyRf.gbpl\">The Overthrow of the Great Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The professors act this way because they are suffused with ressentiment. Ressentiment is, of course, Nietzsche\u2019s term for a certain state of mind, or rather, a condition of being. He liked the French word because it signified a deeper psychology than the German (and English) equivalent does. Ressentiment is the attitude of slave morality, Nietzsche &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=2866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Overthrow of the Great Books<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,75,37,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-education-higher-ed","category-liberals","category-evil-multiculturalism","category-war-on-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}