I came into it expecting a product of Russia's centuries of illiteracy exacerbated by nearly another century of Soviet-airbrushed "official" history, pickled in vodka, and steeped in the occultic nonsense that keeps Rasputin's dong in a jar and Lenin's corpse in a taxidermy box.
They were before the Russian and Soviet backlash against independent thinking that sits between Tchaikovsky trying to get an orchestra to tune a piece of field artillery and Lysenko trying to grow corn in snow.
Dugin wants to find a Russian identity in the world. They already have one. No flowers for Algernon here. Totally not interested in his substitute for history.
It's racist to expect foreign cultures to adapt to liberal democratic norms without killing a shit ton of them first. We didn't adapt to liberal democratic norms without a shit ton of people being killed. Why would they be different?
We Germans certainly do not think of ourselves as a particularly cruel and hard-hearted people, even less as particularly careless people who live only in the present. But have a look at our old penal code in order to understand how much trouble it took on this earth to breed a "People of Thinkers" (by that I mean the peoples of Europe, among whom today we still find a maximum of trust, seriousness, tastelessness, and practicality, and who with these characteristics have a right to breed all sorts of European mandarins). These Germans have used terrible means to make themselves a memory in order to attain mastery over their vulgar and brutally crude basic instincts. Think of the old German punishments, for example, stoning (even the legend lets the mill stone fall on the head of the guilty person), breaking on the wheel (the unique invention and specialty of the German genius in the area of punishment!), impaling on a stake, ripping people apart or stamping them to death with horses ("quartering"), boiling the criminal in oil or wine (still done in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), the well-loved practice of flaying ("cutting flesh off in strips"), carving flesh out of the chest, along with, of course, covering the offender with honey and leaving him to the flies in the burning sun.
With the help of such images and procedures people finally retained five or six "I will not's" in their memory, and so far as these precepts were concerned they gave their word in order to live with the advantages of society—and that was that! With the assistance of this sort of memory people finally came to "reason"! Ah, reason, seriousness, mastery over emotions, the whole gloomy business called reflection, all these privileges and ceremonies of human beings—how expensive they were! How much blood and horror is the basis for all "good things."
LOL. Dugin is Dyatlov underestimating and downplaying the amount of radiation released by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion because his dosimeters didn't go that high. He can't tell you how tall Mount Everest is precisely because the guy they sent with a yardstick froze to death on the way up.
We just need to calibrate metrics overall, and acknowledge the flaws in the measuring tools we have. For example, the Stanford-Binet IQ test that absurdly gives the average Russian IQ as being over 58. That flaw is glaringly obvious.
Not sure. It was a few years ago. $13 million settlement where for a time you could get paid $10 to pretend you were stupid enough to think you would grow wings by drinking bull urine (taurine)
To tie it back into Russia, it was an admission that at least American stupidity can get an easy $10.
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I find Dugin to be painfully imbecilic.
He's better in Russian with English subtitles.
It's not how he speaks. It's what he's saying.
I came into it expecting a product of Russia's centuries of illiteracy exacerbated by nearly another century of Soviet-airbrushed "official" history, pickled in vodka, and steeped in the occultic nonsense that keeps Rasputin's dong in a jar and Lenin's corpse in a taxidermy box.
He did not disappoint.
Funny, I always found Dostoevsky and Tolstoy quite articulate.
...and Nikolai Gogol, entertaining. :)
They were before the Russian and Soviet backlash against independent thinking that sits between Tchaikovsky trying to get an orchestra to tune a piece of field artillery and Lysenko trying to grow corn in snow.
Dugin wants to find a Russian identity in the world. They already have one. No flowers for Algernon here. Totally not interested in his substitute for history.
In abandoning the concept of negative liberty, America's backlash against independent thinking (ala punishing hate/thought crimes) is also "suspect".
No argument there.
Maybe my "hate speech" is that my history books say the Ukraine belongs to Poland ;)
It's just a big blob on a Risk board with Moscow as its' center to me.
Just gotta keep out the unfortunate acronyms
b-o-t-n-i-g. Got it.
No bot tho. The non-integrating gap is the part of the world where globalism is absent.
Donald Trump called these places "shit holes."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon%27s_New_Map
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a1546/thomas-barnett-iraq-war-primer/
I was never fully on board with Barnett's views, but he was John Kerry's brain in the 2004 election.
The Pentagon's New Map, brought to you by Microsoft or Amazon.com?
It's racist to expect foreign cultures to adapt to liberal democratic norms without killing a shit ton of them first. We didn't adapt to liberal democratic norms without a shit ton of people being killed. Why would they be different?
I thought you'd like to read Dugin's American counterpart :P
Nietzsche, "Genealogy of Morals, Second Essay"
We Germans certainly do not think of ourselves as a particularly cruel and hard-hearted people, even less as particularly careless people who live only in the present. But have a look at our old penal code in order to understand how much trouble it took on this earth to breed a "People of Thinkers" (by that I mean the peoples of Europe, among whom today we still find a maximum of trust, seriousness, tastelessness, and practicality, and who with these characteristics have a right to breed all sorts of European mandarins). These Germans have used terrible means to make themselves a memory in order to attain mastery over their vulgar and brutally crude basic instincts. Think of the old German punishments, for example, stoning (even the legend lets the mill stone fall on the head of the guilty person), breaking on the wheel (the unique invention and specialty of the German genius in the area of punishment!), impaling on a stake, ripping people apart or stamping them to death with horses ("quartering"), boiling the criminal in oil or wine (still done in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries), the well-loved practice of flaying ("cutting flesh off in strips"), carving flesh out of the chest, along with, of course, covering the offender with honey and leaving him to the flies in the burning sun.
With the help of such images and procedures people finally retained five or six "I will not's" in their memory, and so far as these precepts were concerned they gave their word in order to live with the advantages of society—and that was that! With the assistance of this sort of memory people finally came to "reason"! Ah, reason, seriousness, mastery over emotions, the whole gloomy business called reflection, all these privileges and ceremonies of human beings—how expensive they were! How much blood and horror is the basis for all "good things."
The end of history has an epic sequel ;)
The only real difference between nationalists and globalists is that nationalists have more NIGs on their map and want more as neighbors. ;P
Note the dark world we'd have if Oligarchical Collectivism was stamped out
Er, I mean we hate ourselves and our bellies full of oysters ;)
of cabbages and kings
I've got no problem with globalists who tell the oysters he's hungry and then catches them as they run away.
Some ancient history.
LOL. Dugin is Dyatlov underestimating and downplaying the amount of radiation released by the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion because his dosimeters didn't go that high. He can't tell you how tall Mount Everest is precisely because the guy they sent with a yardstick froze to death on the way up.
Idiots gonna idiot.
Russians believe that if you install Windows 10 on a computer twice they'd get Windows 20.
We just need to calibrate metrics overall, and acknowledge the flaws in the measuring tools we have. For example, the Stanford-Binet IQ test that absurdly gives the average Russian IQ as being over 58. That flaw is glaringly obvious.
We keep it on the jukebox for profiling purposes
Did you know someone sued Red Bull because it didn't really give him wings and he won millions?
Was he Russian?
Not sure. It was a few years ago. $13 million settlement where for a time you could get paid $10 to pretend you were stupid enough to think you would grow wings by drinking bull urine (taurine)
To tie it back into Russia, it was an admission that at least American stupidity can get an easy $10.
Taurine is fake cow urine. I didn't even know we had fake cows.
It must be what the automatic milking machines practice on
...when the dairyman gets to feeling "drained".
Impossible burgers
That's disgusting... ;)
Impossible cows...
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