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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: bentway who wrote (631703)10/14/2011 7:11:39 PM
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And it doesn't bother me a bit. Someone being wealthy doesn't take away anything from you or anyone else. And it shouldn't bother you or provoke envy or ressentiment.

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Ressentiment is a reassignment of the pain that accompanies a sense of one's own inferiority/failure onto an external scapegoat. The ego creates the illusion of an enemy, a cause that can be "blamed" for one's own inferiority/failure. Thus, one was thwarted not by a failure in oneself, but rather by an external "evil."
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