Except in the rare cases of actual Count of Monte Cristo style actual revenge against people who provoked the resentment/spite, the emotion is generally an instant-gratification one, like scratching an itch, not an anticipation-based one in striatum circuitry
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We should deconstruct "resentment". I mean something like "desire to fight", which seems heart of all writing/shakering.
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Desire to fight can come from other sources, like the sheer joy of exercising your skill at it against a competent rival. Or basic survival.
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I don't have enough "theories of war" to know full difference between basic survival & narcissistic head-game.
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But I do feel my country (America) is dying and I want to "save" it somehow. (giving you my own worst strawman of me)
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Yeah that's a toughie. I don't think anybody has a motivation problem with that particular goal. It's just a very, very hard goal. Like getting to Mars. Remember V 1.0 of the idea of America took a bunch of people going on perilous land/sea journeys. V2.0 was a bloody civil war
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Happy to talk more if you care, but I suspect you're more on -level human interest beat & don't care at all :)
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Yeah, I'm an unrepentant cosmopolitan globalist. "Saving" particular national or identity narratives makes me yawn as a mission.
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I mean, I've just got family here & stuff. *shrug*
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Well, everybody's family's got to be somewhere :) Tying location to land for wandering ape species is actually an unnatural act requiring political ideological contortions cf Republic
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