This isn’t the place for broad generalisations but it is important to note – from the Thai students committing lèse-majesté.. to the people on both sides of the ‘critical race theory’ debate.. to the ‘revisionists’ seeking to redraw state borders – a strong and persistent tone of resentment, actually, ressentiment (in the Nietzschean sense), across the world.
Why does it work so well? Here’s a tip:
Resentment is a Passion, implanted by Nature for the Preservation of the Individual. Injury is the Object which excites it. Injustice, Wrong, Injury excites the Feeling of Resentment, as naturally and necessarily as Frost and Ice excite the feeling of cold, as fire excites heat, and as both excite Pain. A Man may have the Faculty of concealing his Resentment, or suppressing it, but he must and ought to feel it. Nay he ought to indulge it, to cultivate it. It is a Duty. —John Adams
It’s not too difficult, general qualms aside, to guess where it will lead.