Svetlana Lourié was a pronounced idealist, and not only in the sense of her ardent devotion to the Orthodox Christian faith, but also in terms of her philosophy of history. For her, the most important thing in an ethnos – and in general, the most important thing in any socio-historical community -- was its religious component …
Read More… Tsymburski’s vision differs markedly from that of both Dugin and Solovyov. If Dugin wishes to return, in a certain respect, to the norm that endured from the reign of Peter I until 1991 (namely, that of an empire within Eurasia), and Solovyov wanted to reunify the Roman and Byzantine halves of Christendom, Tsymburski’s vision, as outlined in a volume called Island Russia, describes as its ideal a Russia within the far narrower borders that preceded Peter I, and that, as it happens, closely match Russia’s present-day outlines.
Read More… even just cars and highways can destroy a civilization. What is your sense of how to tell which technologies are destructive, and which not? More importantly, how would you define technological civilization, what it is?
Read MoreThough there has never been a human culture that is anything but flawed, all lasting human cultures in history have been rooted. That is to say, they have been tied down by, and to, things more solid, timeless and lasting than the day-to-day processes of their functioning …
Read MoreMan is a beautiful but also a dangerous creature. Like atomic energy, he possesses both a creative and a destructive power. Controlling this energy, limiting its destructive while also encouraging its creative forces – all this is a lofty task. It is the task of building a complex civilization based on the complexity of man …
Read MoreA fortnight ago, Russian theater director Konstantin Bogomolov published an essay in Russia’s leading liberal (“anti-Kremlin”) newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, arguing that contemporary Europe had been “raped” or “abducted.” The progressivism of the “Me Too,” gay rights, BLM, and transgender movements, says Bogomolov, is transforming a European civilization that had once prized liberty into a post-human dystopia with an all-pervasive form of mind control at its center …
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