ABSTRACT
This chapter builds on the causality by asking the following question: What happens to the mechanism when the final element, the enacted violence, never happens? For a group that has suffered an injustice adopts a moral mandate but then lacks the practical means to exact punishment – what happens next? The espousal of a moral mandate turns punishment into an imperative; It posits a non-violent binary that emerges when the moral mandate is not released into violence but arrested, forging a new pathway into a "hidden" action tendency defined by a Nietzschean Ressentiment. The social site of the hidden transcripts that provides the opportunity for these emotions to take a collective, cultural form and be acted out. In Ressentiment the punishment turns "silent" as groups undergo an identity reconstruction that takes the moral mandate of demonization as its central identity component and makes it permanent.
