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When we talk about compassion, we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up.
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I've lived and worked with Russians over the years. People who have experienced the transition from the USSR to the Russian Federation. It is interesting to hear the different views of society, of their military and their religion.
Most of those people have a strong 'faith' and believe that the best thing Vladimir Putin did when he took power was to re-institute the Orthodox Church which was banned under Bolshevik rule.
Only one of them miss the old ways because he was told what to do and he knew how many rubles he was getting at the end of the month. All the others are quite happy to expand their horizons and take what they can from hard work, but not one of them is selfish.
Individualism is good so long as it is tempered with altruism or it just becomes selfish greed.
Man is always born as an individualist, and with age he develops theme and altruism.
It happens when he realizes that he does not exist alone in the world.
This is true for individuals as well as for entire nations.
Such a person perceives these issues as completely impractical and unnecessary. Such a person believes that the meaning of existence is procreation, survival, and in better conditions the conformism that results from it.
Only a person who realizes his mortality, comes to the conclusion that certain actions do not make sense.
Only then does the path of altruism or empathy begin.
Very well said and very true. Thank you!
It seems that in the case of people living in America, the first question to consider will be the desire to have anything superfluous.
This seems to be the most difficult to date.You should ask yourself what do I want to collect, have anything for?
To achieve this, you must see YOUR WHOLE LIFE.
From birth to the present day ... to the day of death.
A later topic for the people of America is a question.
Why fight for survival?
"individualism produces a self doubting conformist antagonistic anxious people". Tolcqueville
"amerikans love big because they feel so small...amerikans poorly understand that individualism produces uniformity". Philip Slater (Parsonian)
"only in amerika do people act like machines are treated like machines and only in amerika are machine metaphors used to describe human behavior". Geoffrey Gorer
"what unites the slavophiles, Alexandr Herzen, PeterKroptkin and the Marxists is the belief that western individualism is an enemy of individuality". Vladimir Golstein
"individuality has disappeared in United States". Horkheimer/Adorno...they described all north amerikan conversations, "shallow, bombastic fatuous"
David Riesman--liberal describes amerikans---"over conformist semi-auto-matons"
Richard Sennet and Istvan Meszaros describe north amerikans the same
the virulent anti communist Arthur Koestler compared amerikans to 5th century Romans, "a similarly contactless society populated by automatons...a similarly soulless, politically corrupt everybody for themselves society"
You can survive in shackles.
You can be free sitting in jail.
Children are taught in school that life is meaningless and everything is by accident. Children are taught that people, including them, are killing the earth and should be eliminated. Children are taught that their sexual identity is meaningless. Children are taught that family is not important. Children are taught that God does not exist, is only a fable.
Only people who are not yet automatons and who are conscious can still help.
You can fight to survive when you are free. But here comes my original question ... for what?
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"Larry C Johnson; veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism, claims the Ukrainian Army has been defeated up and all that’s left is “mop-up”. The veteran who provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years sat down with Mike Whitney to explain why."
I can't help that sinking feeling when people are compartmentalized into a homeland "type" and find it outrageous when a land and the entirety of it's people are epitomized by the anemic shadow of one individual.
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For me Russia is a question. What is our relationship to Russia and its people? In our lifetimes, the USSR and now Russia have been the dreaded totalitarian enemy that aimed to overthrow democracy everywhere. The McCarthy era of communist witch hunting in the 50s was especially damaging to our Democracy and individual freedom as anyone who had any socialist background was blacklisted. This led to a blacklisting of Russia/USSR science and history. We have grown up with the idea portrayed in the media that the KGB are the ruthless murderers while the West CIA and MI6 are defending Democracy. With this as our programming it is difficult to be open to the Russian cultural heritage.
The time of Perestroika opened the West to experience the great art of Russia, including ballet, opera, music, theater, and literature. The best ballet composers and ballet stars derived from the Bolshoi and Marinsky theaters. Stanislavski revolutionized theater. The opera Eugene Onegin and the plays of Chekov give insight into the highly emotional Russian people. The literature of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky was epic in exploring the meaning of human life. The Orthodox church, which was not under the sway of the Catholic church, has been a foundation for the revival of Russia under Putin. The Russian icon paintings are a testimony of Christianity in Russia. The Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim are high spiritual literature.
Traveling is the best way to get out of an us/them mentality. St. Petersburg with its canals, its Hermitage museum, Marinsky theater and "white nights" is a romantic city. Moscow with the red square, gilded architecture, Bolshoi ballet, is a more Western like city, and therefore not pretty. Since I went there with my wife at that time, who is Russian speaking, I met many Russians casually who were friendly and open to Westerners. They do not see us as an enemy. They have more distrust of government than we, even though we have so many false flags like 9/11 and the JFK assassination. Interestingly, the Russian people with the exception of the oligarchs, view Putin favorably, and see the West/NATO as the threat to civilization and freedom.
In my view, one of the key elements of the globalist agenda is "divide and conquer". This is the basis of the "color revolutions" where Soros NGOs fund revolutionary agents to undermine and create conflict, leading to the Western coups like the Ukraine. From this point of view, Russia and China have resisted this globalist led "divide and conquer" initiative. In other words, Putin and Xi have been pressured into protecting their countries from this threat, and this may have led to some authoritarian actions; we need to see the context and history. Russia and China have been surrounded, hegemony, by Western military bases, and to expect them to be completely open societies would be allowing the overthrow. This also means we have to examine Democracy in the West and realize it is programmed totalitarianism. Maybe a better term would be Demon-crazy ideology.
I agree with Scott there, but only if we are to continue looking at peoples governing 'their own' in the classical sense, from the traditional pov as we have done for millennia. But we now stand at a crossroads of the 'realizing' of One Human race in this jarring age of technological expediency and digital djinn traps juxtaposed with the widening, splitting apart of geopolitical realities - both within and without in each of our nations and against another's. If we are to reconcile justice wherever it needs to be reconciled, then those of us who recognize the universality of "right vs wrong" should start thinking more universally, looking to help each other heal regardless of who is from where, or whose ancestors are responsible for what. A cleansing of intergenerational karmas and the joining together of like minds is called for.
It doesn't matter to me anymore who brings justice from where, whom is standing judgement over which country/continent, commanding governance over which peoples. So long as good is greater than bad is the net result: I'm all for a more-righteous European peoples standing in judgment over a less-righteous African peoples, just as much as I am a more-righteous African peoples standing in judgement over a less-righteous European peoples. I'm so tired of all the races and nations holding onto their own identity. The world is global now. And the war on Earth is spiritual. Doing the right thing is singular, like Truth - with or without context - which transcends all geographical borders and cultures of all the tribes of Man.
RIP Rowan Cocoan
In the meantime:
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." -Rudyard Kipling
Thank you for invoking our friend's name... 🙏
"Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted." ~ Rudyard Kipling