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10/26/2015 7:23 pm  #11


Re: Russian Reaction to Facebook's Virtual Gay Pride Parade

kantus wrote:

Apologies if this counts as thread necromancy, though I hope that two-and-a-half-weeks isn't quite dead. I just wanted to chime in and ask what people think about Russia. I, for one, am reserved. I appreciate their conservatism and their attempt to encourage Christianity in society, but I dislike a lot of other things (their lack of political freedoms, or the widespreadness of abortion, or their much-too-harsh treatment of homosexuals). Do we have any other opinions on the matter?

I share your views, or at least those expressed above. I can't help but admire - though do not necessarily agree with - the way how out all European countries Russia has reverted to a 19th cultural situation. If that trend continued, and isn’t drowned in a sea of sabre-rattling and Putin worship it could well become, a new seat of First World Culture (we just need a Slavophil literary revival).
 
Culture does not always imply morality however. Practically I think the Putin administration will crumble under Westernising pressure; practically I think that if it were not to it would just end up as another quasi-fascist state – note I would like to be proved wrong here. What was good in the mature Slavophil movement as represented by Silver Age thinkers and artists such as Vladimir Solovyov, Sergei Bulgakov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Vyacheslav Ivanov and, retrospectively, Dostoyevsky himself, was the belief in Russia’s pertinence not as a worldly national power (these figures had vastly different theories of government, some being believers in Christian Socialism or Anarchism) but as the bearer of a great destiny, that is to herald a new intellectual dawn and spiritual regeneration of Man. Unfortunately, and I fully admit my wide-scale ignorance in this case, I know of little similar in modern Russia: the closest would be Solzhenitsyn, and even he was tainted by parochial concerns towards the end of his life.
 
Aleksandr Dugin, founder of the Eurasian Movement and one of the chief ideologues behind Russian Nationalism, is one of the most dangerous men alive, all the more so because, unlike virtually all political ideologues of the Right and Left, he has an half intelligent grasp of what the true problem of Man is. However his proposed philosophical solution - to combine the critiques of Post-Modernism, most notably Heidegger and Foucault, with Guenonian Traditionalism (and Orthodox Theology) - coupled with his proposed practical solution - to unite disparate powers e.g. European Nationalist organisations, the theocratic Middle East and Communist China in an ideological alliance against ‘Westernism’ - is a truly apocalyptic recipe for disaster.

In case anyone's interested here is a book length debate between him and Olavo de Carvalho, a Brazilian Catholic philosopher I used to be very keen on.
 
The USA and the New World Order

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11/05/2015 2:11 am  #12


Re: Russian Reaction to Facebook's Virtual Gay Pride Parade

Russians amaze me.  I suppose since I never lived in Russia, I will never really understand.


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