About the dialectics of top and bottom: ressentiment as a principle of mass culture

The subject of consideration is the phenomenon of mass culture, the conceptual comprehension of which reveals the characteristics of an oxymoron. If culture testifies about a person who produces, creates, and therefore is free, then mass culture, with its emphasis on consumption, can be read as a combination of the incongruous, resulting from the dominance of the mass person. Mass culture is being established as a result of the victories of democracy, but this is a very peculiar “victory”. The classical version of the master-slave dialectic substantiates the superiority of the slave as a producer, but a slave who has undergone a change in his state in society in the order of mass movements does not automatically acquire an altered consciousness, which leads to the emergence of resentment - powerless envious anger. The power acquired by a mass person in the space of culture is realized as the destruction of the classical hierarchy of the essential forces of a person.