ITS ABOUT LYING BY RUSSIANS AND UTOPIANISM BY AMERICANS
I don’t disagree with Russian strategy in the sense that more civilized peoples should both protect themselves from less civilized people, support strong rulers if they must, rule them if they must, and reduce them to servitude or barbarism if they must.
I disagree that Russians are more civilized than eastern europeans – they’re objectively not: the degree of suppression of free riding (imposed cost, parasitism) is the objective measure of the inferiority or superiority of any people.) By this measure Russians regress civil societies.
And even more, I disagree with their constant lying about themselves, and what they’re doing. Lying is not a sign of strength. It is an admission of weakness. It is an admission of failure. The strong need not lie.
If Russians came out and said the truth: that they are surrounded on the south and east by vast numbers of barbarians even less civilized than themselves, and that they must either rule them or parent them into modernity, then most of us would agree with them – it’s just true by every single objective measure. I don’t understand why Russians shouldn’t parent their neighbors into modernity or at least contain them through strong rule.
If they came out and said the truth: that western democracy has handed over civilization to barbarians both old and new, due largely to the destructive impulses of women, then that also would be true. If they came out and said that they must create a diverse economy, increase their native population, expand rule of law and crush corruption, and that they need oil revenues captured by the state to do so, we would understand.
But, they lie. If Russians are really strong and brave and in the right. then why are all the lies necessary? Because they know the opposite is true: Russia is weak, has always been weak, and Moscow has overstretched its capabilities beyond those of its population, economy, and institutions – just like the Mongols did. Russians still are the product of mongol invasion. They never developed a militia, a middle class, professional managers, chivalry, rule of law, or the enlightenment, or the dream of an aristocracy of everyone.
Conversely, westerner’s don’t lie you know. We vary from the Continentally optimistic, to the anglo idealistic, to the american christian utopian. Americans actually believe their utopian ideology and its marxist and christian origins. That’s what is wrong with America and the west. They believe the fallacy of equality.
The truth is in the middle: between Russian Paternalism and Western Truth Telling. And exclusive of Russian nihilistic lying and Western utopianism. And it is the truth that will unite us.
Source date (UTC): 2015-09-24 05:01:00 UTC