"The host brain responds to the incoming meme by applying a filter that either strengthens or attenuates it. This filter is the perceptual process, i.e., the incoming signal being compared to contents of the association cortices and limbic structures which contain resident memes. This evaluative process of the brain that includes the executive function of the frontal cortex is the process of meme manipulation – making the incoming stimuli interact with existing memes and genetic imperatives including emotion. "
-Genes, Memes, Culture and Mental Illness, Hoyle Leigh (2010)
Hoyle Leigh defines the process of filtering incoming memes as meme manipulation, and that resident memes are used to evaluate whether or not to absorb incoming stimuli. When memes are associated with displeasure, it tends to based on pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain be rejected, and recurring exposure to displeasurable memes leads to the buildup of a strong filter for that particular meme, that overtime comes to co-opt genetic imperatives and form strong mutually supportive memeplex.
Slave mentality tends towards re-sentiment, devaluing that which the master values and the slave does not have, by meme-manipulation with roots in such a conditioned memetic filter that has formed a strong identity. Slave-mentality and master-mentality exist in co-dependence, and the ideal state could be called "eu-mentality", to actually see the other and meet one another based on trust and perspective taking rather than forming master-slave relationships.
Within the Westphalian system, anyone who approaches it by re-sentiment would tend to viewing everything in it as a conspiracy and so on, simply as that is the natural response to coercion. As re-sentiment is rooted in genetic bias, i.e. pursue pleasure avoid pain, the beliefs formed by re-sentiment would tend to be inaccurate, based on how bias influences belief and the definition of bias, tough may reflect deeper truths.
Note that beliefs formed by re-sentiment are used to reject the belief system of another and do not necessarily reflect actual belief within an individual, they are more similar to an immune system reacting to a foreign body.
