The rise of ressentimental culture – Science of the Time

«The Rise of Ressentimental Culture is convincingly on the rise, especially in the Western hemisphere – substantially more under the radar in China and India. Ressentimental Culture has nothing to do with ’sentimentality’. On the opposite, Ressentimental Culture builds on the growing awareness and anger that fairness does not seem to exist in this world. Or at least: less than the decades before. Think the filthy rich getting richer and getting away with everything. Think global and national injustices. Think corruption. Think the anger of the ’normal’ young and jobless people in countries like Portugal, Spain and Greece. Think FIFA. But also as part of the trend, think: cool scandals revealing in Ressentimental Culture. Think of the new ways of organising – often empowered by the social media – resistance against it all. There is the Anger Moment, the Outing Moment and the Organising Moment.» in Science of the Time