Against all

Abstract. The attitude to the election serves as an example to highlight the current situation in Ukraine. What becomes decisive is the thesis of our epoch having a transitional character, moreover, in many respects. Obviously, people fall out of the usual order and feel uncertain and insecure. This immediately triggers a well-known mechanism that Nietzsche refers to as ressentiment. It is a painful feeling of being a victim and hatred turned to someone else, a desire to find a “guilty” one. In our case it is, certainly, the authorities which are to blame. Therefore the election appears an attempt to avenge them somehow. In order to remove such familiar persons, people elect anybody in the street, but eventually it turns out that authorities do not mean any persons. They rather mean principles and institutions. Such voting destroys the state itself and is directed, in essence, “against all”.

Keywords: elections, transitional period, ressentiment, empire, state.

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