The Best Revenge is Phenomenological Reduction

The current critical times that we live in pose a curious conundrum. It’s currently impossible to seek revenge against someone. The best revenge is living well, they say. Which I’m assuming means throwing lavish parties and travelling the world, both of which are impractical, at the moment, if not impossible.

Yet, if you attempt to seek revenge by any other means, as soon as you step out of your house, you are met with an increasingly more complex threat which makes the idea of revenge seem trivial and foolish. Let’s say you decide to write a 15+ pages essay or letter and seek your revenge this way, but let’s face it, you’re not Franz Kafka, and that’s a very demanding task with a high probability of failure which might make you feel even more miserable in the end. On the other hand, the task of writing could keep your brain significantly engaged for a while, which is probably going to be beneficial, but it’s highly unlikely that it will accomplish the original intended goal.

So you will either soon end up deciding that it’s best to let go of any such temptations or you’ll forget about them. Either way, there should be a significant drop in grudges being held. Grudges will only exist ontologically. You’ll be able to say that the grudge still exists, but you are phenomenologically detached from it. You can say that the grudge is outside your head if you like, which is to say that the grudge is outside the Kantian transcendental subject and exists by itself. Either way, it is not your concern anymore. It only exists for the purpose of philosophical arguments.