#grievance — Public Fediverse posts
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Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 3, ch. 14, § 75 (3.14.75) (1951)More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/11110/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hoffer #erichoffer #dedication #fanaticism #grievance #hatred #holywar #massmovement #meaning #meaningoflife #meaninglessness #purpose #purposelessness #truebeliever #follower
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HOT SAUCE APOCALYPSE
Yesterday the lunch place had run out of hot sauce.
In Australia, this is barely news.
Aussies don’t really do hot sauce.
But some of us do.
Some of us have built whole fragile emotional ecosystems around a few drops of chilli on lunch.
I agreed to sweet chilli sauce instead, because apparently I am very mature.
But I did register my disappointment with the manageress.
Politely.
Firmly.
Historically.
Then I went for my walk.
Then I did my breathwork.
Then I noticed the day still had a slight dent in it.
This caught me off guard.
I had only just been saying that everything is perfect all the time now.
Apparently, “everything” includes the lunch place running out of hot sauce and me quietly wanting the owner told so this national disgrace never happens again.
That is how the ego works.
It does not just want lunch.
It wants justice.
And there it was.
Not a catastrophe.
Not a spiritual failure.
Just a tiny place where preference had turned into grievance.
The hot sauce was missing.
The peace was not.
I had simply misplaced it for a moment under the sweet chilli sauce.
#chilli #Australia #mature #Politely #disappointment #Historically #national #ego #justice #lunch #grievance #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI
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Conservative politicians in #Alberta, from #DanielleSmith and #JasonKenney on down to #PierrePoilievre and #PrestonManning, have used the rage of Albertans as the fissile material powering their own political ambitions. In the process, they have created a generation of #grievance #junkies, people who are absolutely addicted to the idea of their own #victimhood at the hands of a corrupt federal government.
@NatObserver @maxfawcett
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Loss - the belief in progress and the reality of experiences of loss.
* Grievance-fuelled violence at home and psychological harm reduction
"The family violence workforce is stretched in Western societies... 20 out of 38 reviewed cases of fatal family violence were "grievance-fuelled"...The Fixated Grievance Perpetrator Intervention Pilot brings together experts in forensic psychology and psychiatry, criminology, policing, perpetrator intervention and victim support."
World-first trial testing whether counterterrorism strategies can prevent domestic homicide >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/dv-new-trial-terrorism-domestic-violence-grievance-homicide/106658162
#violence #FamilyViolence #grievance #loss #ressentiment #precarity #masculinity #entitlement #resentment #anger #GenderBasedViolence #homicide #DV #terror #CrisisOfReproduction #crimes #HarmReduction #therapists #psychologisation
* The role of loss within society
Andreas Reckwitz 's book 'Loss, A Modern Predicament, The first comprehensive study of the role of loss within society", 2025 explains loss not only from a psychological perspective, but also from a sociological one."Loss has come to occupy a central position in late modernity – whether in the consequences of climate change or the entrenchment of negative expectations about the future, the ‘losers’ of post-industrial modernisation or the collective processing of ‘historical wounds’ and of who is acknowledged as the victims and perpetrators of these crimes, in a heightened psychological awareness of vulnerability, in political populism, a nostalgia for things past, or programmes of resilience."
"Loss is the bread and butter of populism." >>
https://res.cloudinary.com/suhrkamp/images/q_auto/v1742134247/151338/loss_9783518588222_sample_translation.pdf
#loss #progress #ProgressNarrative #improvement #credibility #modernity #stagnation #precariousness #experience #inequality #StatusAnxiety #SocialHierarchy #CollectiveExperiencesOfLoss #populism #nostalgia #socioanalysis #ClimateDisasters #PolyCrisis #WesternModernity #future #book -
The "State of the Union" address, or as it has come to be known in recent times, the "Airing of Grievances Prior to Taking Grampa's Phone Away, Changing his Diaper, and Putting Him to Bed".
More seriously, unless they medicate him properly and do something to keep him on-script, Tuesday's performance is likely to be #legendary, and not in a good way.
#festivus #SOTU #USAnian #USPol #STFU #grievance #whine #dementia #demented #MangoMussolini #Trump
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It's hard to let go of a #grievance - a look at what happens when you can't!
What Historical #Feuds and Onscreen Squabbles Can Teach Us About Our Obsession With #Revenge https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/t-magazine/revenge-feuds-history.html
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I truly cannot say what I think about this hot mess that the NYT editorial board allowed Nicholas Kristof to spew.
𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬 𝐎𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬; 𝐝𝐨 𝐈 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲?
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"Millions of Americans, stung by the electoral rebukes of their fellow citizens, have become so resentful and detached from reality that they have plunged into a moral void, a vortex that disintegrates questions of politics or policies and replaces them with heroic fantasies of redeeming a supposedly fallen nation."
The electoral rebuke that stung them bitterly was Obama's election.
#Trump #Republicans #grievance #vengeance #retribution #CrueltyIsthePoint #ChaosAgents #NoAdultsintheRoom
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"These voters are not settling a political score. Rather, they want to get even with other Americans, their own neighbors, for a simmering (and likely unexpected) humiliation that many of them seem to have felt ever since swearing loyalty to Trump.
A lot of people, especially in the media, have a hard time accepting this simple truth."
#Trump #Republicans #grievance #vengeance #retribution #CrueltyIsthePoint #ChaosAgents #NoAdultsintheRoom
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"The Republican base actively embraces Trump’s grievances; it emulates his pettiness; it supports his childlike inability to accept responsibility. These voters are not sighing in resignation and voting for the lesser of two or three or four evils. They are getting what they want—because they, too, are set on revenge."
~ Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #grievance #vengeance #retribution #CrueltyIsthePoint #ChaosAgents #NoAdultsintheRoom
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🎙️ ✨ A new episode has been published on @ITSPmagazine
Show: Audio Signals With @Marcociappelli
Episode: Book | Black Grief, White Grievance: The Politics of Loss
Guest: Author, Professor Juliet Hooker
Podcast format: Video & Audio
#BlackGrief #WhiteGrievance #Grief #Grievance #podcast
Enjoy!