How I feel!: When victims become the new heroes

\\The Italian publishing house Guanda published a remarkable intellectual and critical book by the prominent French philosopher and novelist Pascal Bruckner, entitled “Poor Me!” (Povero me!), a work that belongs to the category of general prose and is 272 pages long, in which the writer deconstructs in a strict manner the dominance of “victim ideology” in contemporary Western societies.\\In his latest theses, Bruckner argues that suffering has been transformed in the modern, consumerist West into something akin to ritual worship; The humanity that aspired to progress and modernity was replaced by a weak humanity that tended to play the role of the victim, and individual freedom became summed up in the mere right to whine and complain. The philosophical strand of the book explains how everyone in our world today, even the most privileged and wealthy groups, competes to display their personal tragedies and flaunt them in order to rise above others, which threatens the emergence of a new aristocracy ofThe “artificial outcasts” remove the real victims and the actual marginalized from the scene. The author believes that this global competition between suffering necessarily leads to raising the values ​​of grudge, remorse, and revenge, instead of consolidating brotherhood and solidarity among the oppressed.The French philosopher, who is considered one of the most prominent contemporary polemicists and has written several previous critical works such as “The Tyranny of Repentance,” warns of the danger of raising new generations in societies governed by fear, panic, and surrender to the blows of fate in light of the complex challenges of globalization, such as climate change, terrorism, and wars. In his book, Bruckner concluded with an urgent call for the necessity of abandoning this excessive attraction to unhappiness and psychological fragility, stressing that the essence of simple human heroism lies in the ability of men and women to learn how to...Resist the temptation of panic and face their fates with courage and boldness instead of helpless crying over the cruelty of times.