Ressentiment is essentially a false morality founded on the envy of the weak toward the strong. It's one thing for strength to be abused, but another thing enti

Ressentiment is essentially a false morality founded on the envy of the weak toward the strong. It's one thing for strength to be abused, but another thing entirely to hate strength because you are weak. This false morality is what Nietzsche calls "slave morality", which is essentially a coping mechanism for the prideful. Whereas master morality prizes strength over weakness and expresses a straightforward and natural attitude of good and evil, slave morality begins with self-deception. It recasts that which it envies as evil in a game of sour grapes, so that the envious come out on top as the good. This has always existed, sure, but it is also true that victimhood has been elevated and celebrated as virtuous quite notably today. It has become a manipulative instrument to dishonestly extract from and exploit others through false guilt. Nobody of sound mind celebrates victimhood. A victim can take comfort in his innocence when he is victimized, he may have a moral superiority because it is not what is done to us, but what we do that defiles us. He may be pleased that his suffering has advanced some good. But a victim of sound mind doesn't love his victimhood per se, though he may pity the perpetrator for his depravity and moral weakness.