Let's glorify European peace and neutrality!
European neutrality is especially beautiful in those moments when someone in the neighborhood starts to get killed, and this someone starts to call loudly for help! At this awkward moment, there is nothing more beautiful than moving to a safe distance and answering from there, from a distance: How rude, how unaesthetic, especially this annoying cry for help... And how good it is that what is happening has absolutely nothing to do with us -good old Europe! Especially if you take a few more steps and distract yourself with something pleasant so as not to feel stressed.Like chocolate, classical music... some gas contracts... football ... Earplugs are also good so that the sounds of the massacre do not interfere with the buffet in honor of European integration.
This is what neutrality looks like .
And a little later (when the ones who were killed go from shouting to “answering”), then the time of European peace comes.
Because -... well, how is that possible! We must stop the bloodshed immediately! We are, kind of humanists. The civilian population is suffering. We demand the immediate start of multilateral negotiations with the participation of Hamas, Strelkov-Girkin and the legally elected leaders of the Hutu tribe, who have just, with complete European neutrality, slaughtered a million of Tutsis.
We must quickly transfer the conflict to the diplomatic plane! Otherwise blood will be shed! And we are kind of against bloodshed. We are Europeans... Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau... it’s cold in winter, we still need gas... So we need to negotiate!
And, in principle, why not negotiate? So Hitler was quite tolerant as long as he limited himself to the Czechs... Ask Chamberlain.
In short: European neutrality and peacefulness! The main thing is not to confuse the order of words...
In recent months, I have discovered a pattern. I meet more bad people in my life than the good ones
The line in life between good and bad is, of course, very arbitrary.
Well, really: who can be considered good and who bad? What criteria might there be?
Most likely, this is all individual, but if any of us is deceived, betrayed, or does some kind of meanness to us, we will not dare to call such a person good. Or another question: Can a hypocrite be considered a good person?
My own statistics have shown that in my life I meet such people much more often than the sincere ones. It's sad to admit, but it's so as it is.
But why do people tend to choose these ways of interacting with others? What pushes them to do this?
I think the point is that people naturally tend to be selfish and think about their own interests and desires first. While a good person tries to maintain a balance between realizing his/ her desires and not going over other people’s heads, a bad person loses his sense of proportion and begins to not care about others, including friends and relatives.
Apparently, correcting your own shortcomings is more difficult than making your own mistakes. because you need to face the unpleasant truth about yourself, accept it, and this requires courage, a sincere desire to transform. But here the hypocrisy takes over
I'll leave the blog open for comments as it would be hypocritical not to let people, who do disagree with me, to speak up
I wish all of you to meet good people more often in your life
Do you have any strong life principles and beliefs that you do not violate under any circumstances? a kind of personal code of ethics. Do you want to share it here?
I believe that this set of principles and values shows who you are and who you are not.
I propose to remove the metaphysical doom and vulgar taste of Nazism from the concept of “national mentality” - and decipher it precisely as a norm: a norm that is constantly reproduced. For most of its political history, Russia was either a Horde vassal, or, in fact, a Horde (which successfully adopted management experience from its Tatar-Mongol comrades). Peter the Great brought from Europe many valuable ideas on fortification and ballistics, but he was not interested in parliament.
State pressure on a person and dominance over his rights, a kind of mystical “great” Russia that exists separately from a person and his dignity - all this, alas, is a norm that has been constantly reproduced over the centuries. That is why Putin succeeded so easily in his dirty deeds after several years of Gorbachev’s freedom and the transition to dictatorship of the “Yeltsin period” (and the transition began at least with the first Chechen war).
“Dominant”, but by no means the only gene of Russian history, in which there were the Decembrists, and the Zemstvo reform, and the Thaw of Khrushchev, and Academician Sakharov. A story that today includes Vladimir Kara-Murza.
The European path for Russian civilization certainly exists as a possibility: Children born in Russia today are not imperialists or liberals, they are just children. They are an equal opportunity for any path for the country. If they little by little begin to set Academician Sakharov as the desired political norm, they will turn out to be one Russia; if they start laying them out from the maternity hospital with the letter Z, they will turn out to be another.
Yes, after Putin’s military adventure, which triggered the bloody pre-collapse of the empire, Russian civilization most likely has very little chance of surviving within its current borders. Now I am talking about the preservation of this civilization. About whether it will survive its imperial period, as dozens of other civilizations survived it - or whether the cadaveric poison of the two-headed bird will bring it to its final grave.
Tens of millions of Russians, in Russia and abroad, are certainly ready for the country to return to the European path of development and perceive this as a desirable development of events.
And there is still be a chance. I hope so....
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