TRUST: WHY DOES DUGIN SEEK A NEW PHILOSOPHY FOR RUSSIA? (easy answer that applie

TRUST: WHY DOES DUGIN SEEK A NEW PHILOSOPHY FOR RUSSIA?
(easy answer that applies to every civilization)

1) The principle difference between civilizations is the degree of trust: meaning the trustworthiness of each individual in personal, private, social, economic, and political life.. Russia is a low-trust civilization. China is a lower-trust civilization. India is an even lower-trust civilization. The middle east (MENA) is a much much lower-trust civilization. Sub Saharan Africa is a trustless civilization. The Japanese, South Koreans, and the Europeans (mostly northern Europeans) are the only high-trust civilizations.

2) Russia is a low trust civ. Duggin is looking for a justification for Russian imperial authoritarianism that is necessary for a low-trust population to maintain a geographic extreme of eleven time zones, when there is no means of political, social, economic, and cultural, competition against competitors. In other words, (just like Canadians virtue signal over Americans) Russians need a means of excusing their untrustworthiness and not developing trustworthiness.

3) Those civilizations that experimented with communism and socialism ‘blew the window’ of modernizing, where they hade but a century to seize their share of incentives to create a majority middle-class society, before market differences between civilizations eliminated any chance of an advantage. Now they have built up consumption, but they have no capital to use to transform, and no market means of transformation. So most will choose like Dugin to double down on ideology religion or authority to compensate. Some others will knuckle under (India) and develop quickly. Others more slowly.

-Curt Doolittle