Dear Diary,
Do you know how it feels like you "are not"? Where there are those nobles who are considered to be the "are". They are people, they are human, while we feel like we are not people or humans. This feeling causes life as a slave gets worse and worse everyday. I feel like the nobles become more and more controlling and seemingly more powerful as time goes on. The idea of these nobles thinking that they are good is nauseating. They are not good, powerful, beautiful, or happy; however, I cannot speak about how God feels about them. And back to beautiful...those are some of the ugliest nobles I have EVER seen in my life. I actually think that the nobles are stupid in comparison to the other slaves and me. We are smart, we recognize our self importance and God's love for us without having to convince ourselves that we are "good". As a slave, I do not think the nobles understand what it is like to live fully in fear. We are subjected to those who never ever live in fear while we live every waking moment wondering when we will be constrained by being considered "bad".
However, a change is coming...we are hungry for a change. We are slaves full of ressentiment and desiring to be considered "good" in society. But, we recognize that we are beloved by God, so if we have those qualities, then therefore we should also possess the qualities like the nobels. A revolt is looming, I can feel it. We talk about how the weak will rise up against the strong and prove our morality and how we are also beloved by God. I always feel like a lamb against the preying bird, but in our situation we are not going to bow down and continue to be weak...we will rise up and prove our goodness and morality. I will keep you posted on our progress, my trusty diary.
Power to the People! Great work Jennifer. I think that this is a great illustration of what the resentment would have looked like as Nietzsche describes it. But reading your diary entry does make me think of some potential problems with Neitzsche's theory. If we the weak were truly subordinate to the strong, how were we able to get the leg up on them in the first place? If there was every truly a noble class tha had all of the strength, beauty, intelligence, etc how could they be beat out by a lesser class? The only feasible way is if the lower class just had the numbers to overpower the ruling class. I think that when we think of Nietzsche's ideas there is a danger that we compare the uprising of the slave class to modern examples of subjugated people rising up. However, the difference is these people are truly equal with their suppressors. In Neietzsche's theory they are subordinate and not just in title. So how did the weak establish the world order? Perhaps with the help of God.
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