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>The Superman in the Underground: The Strategies of Madness: Nietzsche, Wagner and
Dostoevsky
>Author(s): René Girard
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>How does resentment radically differ from authentic will to power?

>On this point, opinions diverge. For many commentators, it would be a difference in essence. But this risks reducing Nietzsche's vision to one of those inverted forms of Manichaeism that flourish in our world, and nullifying his fierce originality. In fact, Nietzsche himself would not have wanted this explanation—quite incompatible with the monistic character of his metaphysics. The essence of the will to power is that it is a form of energy that can only be measured in quantitative terms; can it become qualitative? Only the conception of will to power as conflictual rivalry can explain this enigma.

>It is logical that individuals endowed with a superior will to power prevail over others. The strong can only dominate the weak, and the weak bitterly suffer from their inferiority. No matter what they do or say, including denying the reality of this inferiority, they know well that in a fair fight, they have no chance of winning. So they are condemned to replace force with cunning.

>These weak ones, these defeated are the victims of resentment. Very numerous, they can gather to found religions and philosophies that are apparently very "altruistic" but whose sole purpose, in reality, is to reverse the natural hierarchy of the will to power. Endowed with an exacerbated sense of justice that only masks their resentment, these religions and philosophies dare to affirm that the turn of gentle and humble creatures will come. Foremost, the Judeo-Christian tradition whose "slave morality" has been institutionalized by the egalitarian societies of modern democracies.

>But what does Nietzsche's enigmatic allusion to the crushing weight of the will to power mean? We have just seen that the only way to avoid resentment is to surpass other wills. Nietzsche never ceases to repeat it. He always prescribes victory as the only effective remedy for the human spirit: "Remedies for the ailments of the soul. What is the most effective healing balm? Victory."

>A problem arises as soon as one begins to judge Nietzsche according to his own criteria. For where are his victories? Was his life not a perpetual defeat? And is not defeat the most pernicious of germs for the soul?

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