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Misery of the Poor and Responsibility and Boredom of the Rich
Resentment on the part of churls and the subaltern classes had no moral legit- imacy and, moreover, no basis in reality. The fanatics of compassion had lost sight of the fact that the ability to feel pain and suffering was not evenly dis- tributed. It was well known that the more noble souls were more exposed and vulnerable. This was the basic theme of Nietzsche's entire development, even if it passed through different stages over time. As we already know, the 'cloud of melancholy' always surrounded noble and higher natures, who, unlike the philistines of every stripe, were unable to find fulfilment in their own time and therefore constantly struggled with an inner unrest (supra, 6 $8). The ordinary human being was unaware of this: 'The lower mass, with its scant possession, will be dissatisfied by the sight of the rich, they believe the rich is the happy one. The mass of slaves, who work, are overworked and rarely rest, believes that the human being without physical work is the happy one' (ıx, 535). In fact: '[T]he duller the eye, the more extensive the good! Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children! Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers' (Fw 53 [63]).
This too was a theme with a long tradition. In Voltaire we read: 'All the poor are not unhappy. The majority are born in that condition, and continual work keeps them from feeling their fate too keenly.'27 Mandeville had the following to say in this regard:
Besides that the things I called Hardships, neither seem nor are such to those who have been brought up to them, and know no better. There is not a more contented People among us, than those who work the hard- est, and are the least acquainted with the Pomp and Delicacies of the World.
On closer inspection, suffering was the exclusive and painful privilege of higher souls and people of elevated status: 'T]he greater …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hd62cohmcrqo7tlrlcw6bptc/bafkreibzjtl27hop2xevu4vtprtk2jciaf6tpcyenkeexhp6swlyix6pqu)
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the other 'the greatest king', and let us imagine one can observe the life of the other for a few days. Here is the result:
Had the meanest and most unciviliz'd Peasant leave Incognito to observe the greatest King for a Fortnight; tho' he might pick out several Things he would like for himself, yet he would find a great many more, which, if the Monarch and he were to change Conditions, he would wish for his part to have immediately alter'd or redress'd, and which with Amazement he sees the King submit to.
On the other hand.
And again if the Sovereign was to examine the Peasant in the same man- ner, his Labour would be insufferable, the Dirt and Squalor, his Diet and Amours, his Pastimes and Recreations would be all abominable: but then what Charms would he find in the other's Peace of Mind, the Calmness and Tranquillity of his Soul?2s
So, there was no reason to question the social hierarchy: all could be content with their destiny, and this was particularly true of peasants and the poor in general, who had less to envy in the condition of the king than the king in that of the basest subject. The hardships and rags of a peasant or a shepherd hid greater happiness than the pomp of a king: this was a topos of modern thought that we can also find in Voltaire.29 On that basis, Malthus reached a dramatic conclusion: 'Our feelings of compassion may be worked up to a higher pitch by a well-wrought scene in a play, or a fictitious tale in a novel, than by almost any events in real life.'30 On the other hand, commented Nietzsche, 'one can also suffer from an excess' (Fw, 14 [40]). Opulence and the exemption from having to earn a living did not guarantee happiness:
There is a boredom of the most subtle and cultivated minds, for whom the best that the earth has to offer has become stale: accustomed to eat- ing ever more highly sought-after food and disgusted by coarser fare, they are in danger of dying from hunger - …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hd62cohmcrqo7tlrlcw6bptc/bafkreihxy3gpqmohn5dewdaaegkps4shulh5ox5j7ofhx7dqedjzzltd5y)
![We should remember that the essence of neocolonialism is an outward orm of national self-determination and popular democracy concealing a ubmissive relationship with imperialism on the part of the new bourgeois orces. As Amilcar Cabral pointed out almost twenty years ago concerning leocolonialism:
"The objective of the imperialist countries was to prevent the enlargement of the socialist camp, to liberate the reactionary forces in our countries which were beina stifled by colonialism and to enable these forces to ally themselves with the international bourgeoisie. The fundamental idea was to create a bourgeoisie where one did not exist in order specifically to strengthen the imperialist and the capitalist camp. >>[354],](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hd62cohmcrqo7tlrlcw6bptc/bafkreicduo2in3ulmbbdqu27wmpalkyvo4zeaohlzviaxv7orlbjfix5iu)
