Granted you have a much better insight and understanding than I do, but I think there's no way in hell they'd arrest Dugin, that would be about the equivalent of arresting Tucker Carlson over here, shit would come apart at the seams. This was a good piece young man.
Dugin of course is on the right side in the scheme of things but I feel like the line from people like Murz and Artรซm that the current power arrangement in Russia has no mechanism for saving itself is correct. The problems are simply too systemic. The mass importation of central Asians and covid hoaxary are the most blatant symptom but stuff like this is also very telling:
The same people that took credit for killing Daria. It's literally more risky to get indignant about this stuff than openly support it.
Of course Dugin should post more stuff like the above in the article but asking the members of a traitorous sold out elite to please save themselves for the sake of the country indicates that someone is still on the denial phase of the grief chart. Also lol@dugin rightfully getting mad about the Kremlin policy of replacement migration targeted at Russians while still promoting 3rd worldism.
He is correct of course that repression is the only thing that can save the current order in Russia, but it's so, so obvious now that no repression of the correct people will be allowed. Furthermore for every person that should be repressed and is something like 2-3 patriots will be repressed in turn. That kind of dynamic will only create more human material for Zog to work with inside Russia. Patriots will be teaming up with the liberals again etc. That is if you wanted to make an army of foot soldiers for Zog West in Russia you would do what the Kremlin is doing now, make absolutely everyone in Russia hate you.
Rolo doesn't this seem like a re-run of when the Kremlin created an army of Patriots that teamed up with the liberals and than moved to Ukraine to fight against Russia? Dugin saying "repress me if you need to but at least repress the liberals too" is in theory alright but in practice how is this going to be any different than last time the Kremlin went after the Patriots? Also everyone knows that the Patriots dont have the funding and support networks that the liberals have. That means repression is generally going to hit them way harder. That's not even factoring in that the judicial system is already generally more hostile to Patriots than open pro Ukrainians.
To avoid serious troubles like after Ivan Grozny died Russia needs Patriots but being the poorest, most under resourced and feared people in Russia they are accordingly the only people that the authorities are comfortable abusing. The authorities are very wary of cracking down too hard on the liberals because the liberals have tons of friends in the media, judiciary, and Kremlin itself. The Patriots have nothing like this. And what are the liberals really arguing with the Kremlin about? Well the liberals are basically saying "we agree with you on everything, but you aren't doing it fast and hard enough".
That is the Kremlin isn't surrendering in Ukraine fast and hard enough, they aren't replacing the Slavs in Russia fast and hard enough, they aren't asset stripping Russia fast and hard enough. They aren't repressing Patriots fast and hard enough. If we play the "repress those guys at least and I'll go to jail" strategy than the liberals are in a much stronger position.
This isn't too say Patriots should do nothing, just don't ever expect anything good from the current authorities, expect massive instability and troubles, and just try and get your message and plans out. This made me smile a little:
The ะดััะณะฐั ะ ะพััะธั guys doing a banner drop in Peter saying "fight the hohols not Patriots". Not that I would ever expect the Kremlin to do that and neither should anyone else, but starting a conversation about why is useful.
You should blog as well. I canโt cover all this on my own. Clearly I agree that Dugin is whistling into the wind. He writes all these โRussian ideaโ manifestos on his telegram but it isnโt like the Kremlin reads them. Heโs been saying this same thing for years. When will the Kremlin listen? Dugin canโt say.
the thing is the Kremlin never intended to actually support or fund the Patriots (and they never did come through) who were set up by the Kremlin itself to go into Ukraine and fight for separatist republics. (2014 etc); that was about controlling true Patriots domestically and giving them something to do, fight for 'separatist' movements in Ukraine while they domestically controlled Russian patriotic impulses at home. at every turn the Patriots were thwarted as the Kremlin changed its ideas about what it really wanted in Ukraine.
Putin was elected once. But no matter that, he is the president to whom Dugin is swearing fidelity. Putin is a compromise president, neither a patriot or a liberal but a compromise between liberals and patriots. Or at least that's what he was. Now maybe, domestically, they see no need for patriots (are patriots really necessary to 'win' a war as Dugin insists?). Does anyone know Russia's object? Does Russia? Maybe as Rolo says, it's marking time as it scrambles to figure out how to make lemonade.
Dugin seems worried. His suggestions how things should be seem out of touch with current realities. But I might disagree that the Kremlin isn't reading what he writes. That he has come under the roof of Malofeev is interesting, since Konstantin is entirely pro-Kremlin and whatever it wants, he will do. As Dugin's confessor, he seems perfect for the job.
Very interesting article about Dugin, Rolo. Keep up your truly great and informative work.
over on simplicius' blog, my internet stalker Frantic says that I stole my subs' money and ran for the hills. idk, is your wallet still in your khakis? do you feel stolen from?
also they claim that repression isnt happening and that it is all in my mind.
and then they pivot and say, "it is a good thing that these traitors are being arrested!"
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It is not a disorder- it is their moral order, it is people like them who called Jimmy Savile a national treasure but when the shit hit the fan they said oh we always knew he was a necrophiliac
"The modern West has thrown off its masks and openly appears in its true form - it has long declared war on God, the Church, as well as the political and cultural foundations of traditional society, and today it directly challenges man himself. Modern Western civilization destroys families, legalizes and even aggressively imposes perversions, gender reassignment, transgender operations, the victims of which are even children."
Russia could be seen as the last bulwark in the defense of Christianity if it wasn't for the fact its government seems exactly the same as ours in the USA. It is reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 that we have supposedly ideological enemies fighting in remote areas with only the corrupt government media telling people lies about the conflict.
Putin has drawn a line in the sand, saying he will protect every inch of Russian soil while cluster bombs and drones demolish parts of Crimea and Moscow itself.
It is looking more and more as if the fascists have won the current conflict; but it is only a matter of time before the ancestors of ancient America (Russians) demand reparations.
The news is becoming more and more irrelevant and seems like fiction. I continue to mourn for Dugina and am shocked to consider that Russians might have been responsible for her murder.
Alternative sources in the US, including Scott Ritter and former CIA "guests" seem completely unaware of the Moscow drama. Thankfully, Rolo gags up the missing fur.
have you noticed that literally all commentators on this except for a handful are all spooks? literally all of them have been involved in some intelligence agency or other at some point.
The are 2 words w/ different meanings. I don't consider them synonyms, tho most people probably would. Suppression is a conscious defense mechanism or strategy. We swallow our pride in order to save face or maintain composure in a situation. We have to delay releasing true feeling until later when it's socially acceptable or we cry/vent alone if necessary.
Repression otoh is Freud's notion of an unconscious yet long-term successful attempt at suppression. There will be no memory of the traumatic event thus suppressed. Clearly, Dugin or his translator, is using repression when he means suppression. One suppresses an ideology. Everyone then knows the score. It's official policy.
What's happened is that the 2 meanings have been conflated. Suppression has very nearly dropped out of common parlance. Only Freud's term denoting a damaging neurosis survives. I believe this is deliberate as part of linguistic dumbing-down and an elimination of recourse to rational restraint.
That one should not repress sexual urges is now a maxim of pop psychology. Greater harm will be done by repression than giving rein to impulse. Isn't that what the African immigrant accused of raping a German woman recently claimed? He said (or his lawyer said) he was experiencing a sexual emergency. We don't want the poor boy to repress his need, do we? If we lose the word that indicates conscious restraint (suppression) we won't think there's much choice when you're faced w/ unruly desires.
Another great post. Can you shed some light on the putin body double situation? I remember some low quality jpegs from years ago showing how many there were.
I doubt they are going after Dugin (but as you said -who knows). Dugin is like Marx in a way. Zero original thinking, made famous by the system, everybody claims to see some groundbreaking truth in Dad Capital or Fourth political theory but can't explain what it is. He lies a lot fabricating philosophical gibbershing on the fly to make sure he doesn't make his point clear but you get the impression that he said something extraordinary. And said that covid was sent by God to punish the open society and consumerism and tell us that we must embrace multipolarity. Clever. Like reading the CNN.
I want to like Dugin. I cannot imagine losing a daughter, I simply can't. But I'm with you- I've read enough of him to sort of assume he is just saying "nyet" to modernism, but doesn't have a path other than anti-postmodernism. Its just negation. Maybe I'm missing something but yeah he reminds me of Hegel, something for everyone, a Rohrshacht test. A projection screen.
I really want to see him come up with something that is transferrable to other countries. It seems like Slavic superiority with a side dressing of thirdworldism. Myself not being mostly Slavic or Orthodox I don't know how does it translate?
gonna take me some time to digest all of that. much of it quite bewildering to me: uneducated in the techspeak, the jargon, the language of the trade? like I mean all the political ideological stuff - all that. Everything from shades of communism, lenin, stalin, trotsky to recent stuff: liberals and whatever... It's all 'trade talk', we outsiders are excluded. And one always has to think when that happens: by design?
But one impression I get: drama. Even melodrama. Now this is strange for I know there's every reason for drama: people in the world of which you speak - Russia itself and the Ukraine thing - are involved in life and death and worse, horrors, torments and tortures for certain sure.
So how can I see unnecessary or inappropriate drama even to the extent of 'melodrama' in that context?
I don't know. But I do. It's the impression i get.
Perhaps a bit like we imagine an Italian will always speak heavily accented and will throw his arms around everywhere - a kind of theatrical embellishment to the most mundane of things that will carry over we imagine to the command centre tents in a real war - but still embellishment, still theatrics.
Perhaps something after that style is what I'm imagining I'm seeing.
It crossed my mind that perhaps you ought to take a spell in Australia and sample the water.
We have a completely different take on it all. Not the same as the USA. Nor the same as the British. Nor as the Russian, apparently. Can't comment further. Don't know.
But we don't give a f*** essentially. About anything or anyone. We've got a hero: Julian Assange, about to be crucified by the Americans. F*** him, that's his problem would perhaps be a good summary of our national attitude.
Perhaps swimming in these waters for a while might be soothing, healing and give you some perspective, put you in a place where you could better observe your own nation and its problems.
For it occurs to me as I write: you don't seem to have a solid line of attack for making things better. You're good at finding the problems. I think it's well established by now the problems are there.
So now Russia needs solutions.
And Russia will never be in the future what it once was. I know bugger all, I'm no guru and my political ignorance is as I've said. But that's common sense. We never go back. Ask any expatriate. There is no returning. Progress to a future facsimile maybe. But no going back.
AND - while I'm running hot (or lukewarm anyway) all bets are perhaps off in the light of the fact that the human race today is as it never ever has been up until this time. Now any one of us can potentially broadcast to all the rest so that my thought, my words can be known across the planet within a day, within an hour! That makes us much, much more like one organism. It is a game changer.
So predications of the future need to take into consideration that fact: the future the prophesy is not for the human race that was but for the human race that will be.
Wow. Was that fine enough ( or dumb enough ) words for your august columns?
Hope so.
Great post, Rolo, thanks. Damned if I know what it all means but I like it anyway and will try get my head around it all. I feel a bit like a dumb country bumpkin suddenly finding himself inside a roomful of bomb carrying radical revolutionaries or something.... a bit out of his depth.... care for a hayseed?
Are you going to put your faith in the people or in the government? Once you institutionalize repression in the name of the people, you're giving the government power to suppress the people. How about using the government to give the people room to grow and letting them take care of themselves?
One the question of a national spirit versus the cities. Cities are usually hubs of technology and science, and technology trumps national spirit. Look at the US Civil War or the Anglo -Zulu War of 1879. I'm not discounting national spirit. I support Russian nationalism because Russian nationalism gives breathing space for American nationalism, which is what I'm really interested in. Nationalism is not imperialism.
There is the matter of the genetic deterioration of populations. The most successful nation will have the fastest genetic deterioration. The miracles of medicine, food and shelter production allow individuals to survive who would be unfit in any sort of adverse conditions. Religion actually does encourage genetically fit individuals to procreate, so a religious orientation is extremely functional for a society. I'm not saying to enforce religion, but some encouragement would definitely be warranted, along with a non-coercive encouragement for individuals unable to support themselves to not procreate.
Can you fill in why religion encourages genetically fit individuals to procreate? That seems like a non sequitur. I think most religious beliefs just encourage procratiin in general. At least my understanding of Christian belief does not cast one way or the other. Is this an Orthodox interpretation? Honest question.
Hi Dieter. Thanks for your question. I absolutely do need to be questioned on any assertions I make.
Ed Dutton of The Jolly Heretic is probably one of the most prolific bloggers on intelligence and genetic influences. I think you'll find this video interesting: it shows how high religious feeling encourages intelligent individuals to have children. He references a book he wrote which undoubtedly gives more specific references.
Specifically, leftist and atheist philosopy tends to be more hedonistic and encourages people to seek their own pleasure. Traditional religious dogma emphasizes sacrificing your immediate pleasures for the goal of having more children. The Chrisitan philosophy emphasizes having more children to spread Christianity. But non-Chrisitan, highly religious communities like Orthodox Jews also have a very high childbearing rate.
Why Fundamentalist Christian Wombfare Is Going to Take Over What Remains of Western Civilization
On the specific question of why religion tends to promote genetic fitness, one answer is that among high-IQ people, religiosity does predict fertility. There are other reasons why religious movements tend to attract and hold genetically-fit people, but I'm not going to spend the time finding the references right now. My own fault for being so lazy.
I watched it. Its interesting. He actually states intelligence and fertility are inverse. Intelligence and religiosity are also inverse. How correlated are these things? Ish. I don't think the biological variables are as strong as he makes them, culture is king. There is no way I know to explain the trans explosion except as a cultural infection. All other factors pale. Religious people and early unreligious caught up.
Well, to get into the nuts and bolts, a constant thesis, backed by research, is that it is the Darwinian selection of the fittest, that maintains the quality of a population. For example, I take my dogs running and occasionally, in spite of trying to be alert, they'll catch (and kill) a baby rabbit. As sad as the event is, it tends to cull the slowest rabbits from the population. This keeps the bulk of the rabbit population ready to run at a second's notice.
Prior to technology, in general, a baby (human or otherwise) who is genetically damaged will die early, and the damaged genes will go out of the population. Once technology arrives, babies with damaged or mutated genes have a greater chance of survival and the population gets a higher proportion of damaged genes than would otherwise be the case. This shows up in a (documented) steady decline in IQ and general measures of fitness. Part of the deterioration of the genetic quality of a population is the appearance of dysfunctional behaviors, such as sexual identity. There's a detailed description of the phenomenon is Dutton's book "Spiteful Mutants". He also has multiple videos describing the "spiteful mutant" phenomenon.
I think there is a definite link between religious beliefs and having children. That is well proven. There is a link between affluence and childlessness, and maybe a link between fitness and affluence (tenuous). I'll be honest I haven't had time to watch the video but I will try!
The concept ofChristians having children to spread Christianity I don't think is accurate. If you have children you are to bring them up properly but that is not the same thing. Judaism yes "multiply", that is in a few places in my reading. To the degree that Christianity is Judaism-based? There is actually a stronger concept of abstinence and unmarriage in the new testament and early church.
Towards the end of the video, Dutton stated that research shows within the high IQ band, religiosity predicts fertility. As I mentioned, I recall his other videos stating that the less fit tended to be less religious. However, the higher-IQ people also had lower fertility on the whole than lower-IQ. My impression is that by and large religious groups tended to be a major factor maintaining a population and keeping it more fit than it would otherwise be. As I say, I don't have a reference for that. But for sure, the fitness and IQ of the population of the world and of advanced countries is going down. You can see that in almost any of Dutton's books. "At Our Wit's End" carries that specific theme.
Granted you have a much better insight and understanding than I do, but I think there's no way in hell they'd arrest Dugin, that would be about the equivalent of arresting Tucker Carlson over here, shit would come apart at the seams. This was a good piece young man.
Dugin of course is on the right side in the scheme of things but I feel like the line from people like Murz and Artรซm that the current power arrangement in Russia has no mechanism for saving itself is correct. The problems are simply too systemic. The mass importation of central Asians and covid hoaxary are the most blatant symptom but stuff like this is also very telling:
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ "๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐บ", ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐บ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ. ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ช๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ, ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ณ - ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ 35 ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ด๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐๐ฌ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ป๐ช ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ช-๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ญ .
๐๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด๐ฌ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐บ๐ข ๐๐ญ๐ฆ๐น๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฏ๐ข ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฃ๐บ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข , ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข, ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ข๐ฏ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ, ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฌ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ "๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ฌ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ", ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ท๐ช๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ค๐ฉ๐บ๐ฏ๐ข, ๐ช๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ข๐ป๐ช๐ด๐ฎ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ช๐ด, ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง "๐จ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ, ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฌ
https://t.me/riakatysha/26932
Supporters of Ukraine have more rights in Russia than Patriots.
Some pop artist from Lvov displaying the flag of the Russian volunteer corps on the big screen at a concert in the middle of Moscow:
https://t.me/t_artm/841
The same people that took credit for killing Daria. It's literally more risky to get indignant about this stuff than openly support it.
Of course Dugin should post more stuff like the above in the article but asking the members of a traitorous sold out elite to please save themselves for the sake of the country indicates that someone is still on the denial phase of the grief chart. Also lol@dugin rightfully getting mad about the Kremlin policy of replacement migration targeted at Russians while still promoting 3rd worldism.
He is correct of course that repression is the only thing that can save the current order in Russia, but it's so, so obvious now that no repression of the correct people will be allowed. Furthermore for every person that should be repressed and is something like 2-3 patriots will be repressed in turn. That kind of dynamic will only create more human material for Zog to work with inside Russia. Patriots will be teaming up with the liberals again etc. That is if you wanted to make an army of foot soldiers for Zog West in Russia you would do what the Kremlin is doing now, make absolutely everyone in Russia hate you.
Rolo doesn't this seem like a re-run of when the Kremlin created an army of Patriots that teamed up with the liberals and than moved to Ukraine to fight against Russia? Dugin saying "repress me if you need to but at least repress the liberals too" is in theory alright but in practice how is this going to be any different than last time the Kremlin went after the Patriots? Also everyone knows that the Patriots dont have the funding and support networks that the liberals have. That means repression is generally going to hit them way harder. That's not even factoring in that the judicial system is already generally more hostile to Patriots than open pro Ukrainians.
To avoid serious troubles like after Ivan Grozny died Russia needs Patriots but being the poorest, most under resourced and feared people in Russia they are accordingly the only people that the authorities are comfortable abusing. The authorities are very wary of cracking down too hard on the liberals because the liberals have tons of friends in the media, judiciary, and Kremlin itself. The Patriots have nothing like this. And what are the liberals really arguing with the Kremlin about? Well the liberals are basically saying "we agree with you on everything, but you aren't doing it fast and hard enough".
That is the Kremlin isn't surrendering in Ukraine fast and hard enough, they aren't replacing the Slavs in Russia fast and hard enough, they aren't asset stripping Russia fast and hard enough. They aren't repressing Patriots fast and hard enough. If we play the "repress those guys at least and I'll go to jail" strategy than the liberals are in a much stronger position.
This isn't too say Patriots should do nothing, just don't ever expect anything good from the current authorities, expect massive instability and troubles, and just try and get your message and plans out. This made me smile a little:
https://t.me/rusjuche/5898?single
The ะดััะณะฐั ะ ะพััะธั guys doing a banner drop in Peter saying "fight the hohols not Patriots". Not that I would ever expect the Kremlin to do that and neither should anyone else, but starting a conversation about why is useful.
You should blog as well. I canโt cover all this on my own. Clearly I agree that Dugin is whistling into the wind. He writes all these โRussian ideaโ manifestos on his telegram but it isnโt like the Kremlin reads them. Heโs been saying this same thing for years. When will the Kremlin listen? Dugin canโt say.
the thing is the Kremlin never intended to actually support or fund the Patriots (and they never did come through) who were set up by the Kremlin itself to go into Ukraine and fight for separatist republics. (2014 etc); that was about controlling true Patriots domestically and giving them something to do, fight for 'separatist' movements in Ukraine while they domestically controlled Russian patriotic impulses at home. at every turn the Patriots were thwarted as the Kremlin changed its ideas about what it really wanted in Ukraine.
Putin was elected once. But no matter that, he is the president to whom Dugin is swearing fidelity. Putin is a compromise president, neither a patriot or a liberal but a compromise between liberals and patriots. Or at least that's what he was. Now maybe, domestically, they see no need for patriots (are patriots really necessary to 'win' a war as Dugin insists?). Does anyone know Russia's object? Does Russia? Maybe as Rolo says, it's marking time as it scrambles to figure out how to make lemonade.
Dugin seems worried. His suggestions how things should be seem out of touch with current realities. But I might disagree that the Kremlin isn't reading what he writes. That he has come under the roof of Malofeev is interesting, since Konstantin is entirely pro-Kremlin and whatever it wants, he will do. As Dugin's confessor, he seems perfect for the job.
Very interesting article about Dugin, Rolo. Keep up your truly great and informative work.
Thanks a lot for your toils and for calling out the lies by these so called pro Russians
over on simplicius' blog, my internet stalker Frantic says that I stole my subs' money and ran for the hills. idk, is your wallet still in your khakis? do you feel stolen from?
also they claim that repression isnt happening and that it is all in my mind.
and then they pivot and say, "it is a good thing that these traitors are being arrested!"
what is the cure for such disorders?
It is not a disorder- it is their moral order, it is people like them who called Jimmy Savile a national treasure but when the shit hit the fan they said oh we always knew he was a necrophiliac
"The modern West has thrown off its masks and openly appears in its true form - it has long declared war on God, the Church, as well as the political and cultural foundations of traditional society, and today it directly challenges man himself. Modern Western civilization destroys families, legalizes and even aggressively imposes perversions, gender reassignment, transgender operations, the victims of which are even children."
Russia could be seen as the last bulwark in the defense of Christianity if it wasn't for the fact its government seems exactly the same as ours in the USA. It is reminiscent of Orwell's 1984 that we have supposedly ideological enemies fighting in remote areas with only the corrupt government media telling people lies about the conflict.
Putin has drawn a line in the sand, saying he will protect every inch of Russian soil while cluster bombs and drones demolish parts of Crimea and Moscow itself.
It is looking more and more as if the fascists have won the current conflict; but it is only a matter of time before the ancestors of ancient America (Russians) demand reparations.
The news is becoming more and more irrelevant and seems like fiction. I continue to mourn for Dugina and am shocked to consider that Russians might have been responsible for her murder.
Sometimes you make too much sense. I'll try not to be depressed all weekend.
Alternative sources in the US, including Scott Ritter and former CIA "guests" seem completely unaware of the Moscow drama. Thankfully, Rolo gags up the missing fur.
have you noticed that literally all commentators on this except for a handful are all spooks? literally all of them have been involved in some intelligence agency or other at some point.
Excellent article, thank you !
The are 2 words w/ different meanings. I don't consider them synonyms, tho most people probably would. Suppression is a conscious defense mechanism or strategy. We swallow our pride in order to save face or maintain composure in a situation. We have to delay releasing true feeling until later when it's socially acceptable or we cry/vent alone if necessary.
Repression otoh is Freud's notion of an unconscious yet long-term successful attempt at suppression. There will be no memory of the traumatic event thus suppressed. Clearly, Dugin or his translator, is using repression when he means suppression. One suppresses an ideology. Everyone then knows the score. It's official policy.
What's happened is that the 2 meanings have been conflated. Suppression has very nearly dropped out of common parlance. Only Freud's term denoting a damaging neurosis survives. I believe this is deliberate as part of linguistic dumbing-down and an elimination of recourse to rational restraint.
That one should not repress sexual urges is now a maxim of pop psychology. Greater harm will be done by repression than giving rein to impulse. Isn't that what the African immigrant accused of raping a German woman recently claimed? He said (or his lawyer said) he was experiencing a sexual emergency. We don't want the poor boy to repress his need, do we? If we lose the word that indicates conscious restraint (suppression) we won't think there's much choice when you're faced w/ unruly desires.
Another great post. Can you shed some light on the putin body double situation? I remember some low quality jpegs from years ago showing how many there were.
i mention it here : https://roloslavskiy.substack.com/p/putin-begins-the-purges
I doubt they are going after Dugin (but as you said -who knows). Dugin is like Marx in a way. Zero original thinking, made famous by the system, everybody claims to see some groundbreaking truth in Dad Capital or Fourth political theory but can't explain what it is. He lies a lot fabricating philosophical gibbershing on the fly to make sure he doesn't make his point clear but you get the impression that he said something extraordinary. And said that covid was sent by God to punish the open society and consumerism and tell us that we must embrace multipolarity. Clever. Like reading the CNN.
I want to like Dugin. I cannot imagine losing a daughter, I simply can't. But I'm with you- I've read enough of him to sort of assume he is just saying "nyet" to modernism, but doesn't have a path other than anti-postmodernism. Its just negation. Maybe I'm missing something but yeah he reminds me of Hegel, something for everyone, a Rohrshacht test. A projection screen.
I really want to see him come up with something that is transferrable to other countries. It seems like Slavic superiority with a side dressing of thirdworldism. Myself not being mostly Slavic or Orthodox I don't know how does it translate?
Very much appreciate the comments on here.
gonna take me some time to digest all of that. much of it quite bewildering to me: uneducated in the techspeak, the jargon, the language of the trade? like I mean all the political ideological stuff - all that. Everything from shades of communism, lenin, stalin, trotsky to recent stuff: liberals and whatever... It's all 'trade talk', we outsiders are excluded. And one always has to think when that happens: by design?
But one impression I get: drama. Even melodrama. Now this is strange for I know there's every reason for drama: people in the world of which you speak - Russia itself and the Ukraine thing - are involved in life and death and worse, horrors, torments and tortures for certain sure.
So how can I see unnecessary or inappropriate drama even to the extent of 'melodrama' in that context?
I don't know. But I do. It's the impression i get.
Perhaps a bit like we imagine an Italian will always speak heavily accented and will throw his arms around everywhere - a kind of theatrical embellishment to the most mundane of things that will carry over we imagine to the command centre tents in a real war - but still embellishment, still theatrics.
Perhaps something after that style is what I'm imagining I'm seeing.
It crossed my mind that perhaps you ought to take a spell in Australia and sample the water.
We have a completely different take on it all. Not the same as the USA. Nor the same as the British. Nor as the Russian, apparently. Can't comment further. Don't know.
But we don't give a f*** essentially. About anything or anyone. We've got a hero: Julian Assange, about to be crucified by the Americans. F*** him, that's his problem would perhaps be a good summary of our national attitude.
Perhaps swimming in these waters for a while might be soothing, healing and give you some perspective, put you in a place where you could better observe your own nation and its problems.
For it occurs to me as I write: you don't seem to have a solid line of attack for making things better. You're good at finding the problems. I think it's well established by now the problems are there.
So now Russia needs solutions.
And Russia will never be in the future what it once was. I know bugger all, I'm no guru and my political ignorance is as I've said. But that's common sense. We never go back. Ask any expatriate. There is no returning. Progress to a future facsimile maybe. But no going back.
AND - while I'm running hot (or lukewarm anyway) all bets are perhaps off in the light of the fact that the human race today is as it never ever has been up until this time. Now any one of us can potentially broadcast to all the rest so that my thought, my words can be known across the planet within a day, within an hour! That makes us much, much more like one organism. It is a game changer.
So predications of the future need to take into consideration that fact: the future the prophesy is not for the human race that was but for the human race that will be.
Wow. Was that fine enough ( or dumb enough ) words for your august columns?
Hope so.
Great post, Rolo, thanks. Damned if I know what it all means but I like it anyway and will try get my head around it all. I feel a bit like a dumb country bumpkin suddenly finding himself inside a roomful of bomb carrying radical revolutionaries or something.... a bit out of his depth.... care for a hayseed?
Are you going to put your faith in the people or in the government? Once you institutionalize repression in the name of the people, you're giving the government power to suppress the people. How about using the government to give the people room to grow and letting them take care of themselves?
One the question of a national spirit versus the cities. Cities are usually hubs of technology and science, and technology trumps national spirit. Look at the US Civil War or the Anglo -Zulu War of 1879. I'm not discounting national spirit. I support Russian nationalism because Russian nationalism gives breathing space for American nationalism, which is what I'm really interested in. Nationalism is not imperialism.
There is the matter of the genetic deterioration of populations. The most successful nation will have the fastest genetic deterioration. The miracles of medicine, food and shelter production allow individuals to survive who would be unfit in any sort of adverse conditions. Religion actually does encourage genetically fit individuals to procreate, so a religious orientation is extremely functional for a society. I'm not saying to enforce religion, but some encouragement would definitely be warranted, along with a non-coercive encouragement for individuals unable to support themselves to not procreate.
Can you fill in why religion encourages genetically fit individuals to procreate? That seems like a non sequitur. I think most religious beliefs just encourage procratiin in general. At least my understanding of Christian belief does not cast one way or the other. Is this an Orthodox interpretation? Honest question.
Hi Dieter. Thanks for your question. I absolutely do need to be questioned on any assertions I make.
Ed Dutton of The Jolly Heretic is probably one of the most prolific bloggers on intelligence and genetic influences. I think you'll find this video interesting: it shows how high religious feeling encourages intelligent individuals to have children. He references a book he wrote which undoubtedly gives more specific references.
Specifically, leftist and atheist philosopy tends to be more hedonistic and encourages people to seek their own pleasure. Traditional religious dogma emphasizes sacrificing your immediate pleasures for the goal of having more children. The Chrisitan philosophy emphasizes having more children to spread Christianity. But non-Chrisitan, highly religious communities like Orthodox Jews also have a very high childbearing rate.
Why Fundamentalist Christian Wombfare Is Going to Take Over What Remains of Western Civilization
https://www.bitchute.com/video/6T8fhrMAHkoG/
On the specific question of why religion tends to promote genetic fitness, one answer is that among high-IQ people, religiosity does predict fertility. There are other reasons why religious movements tend to attract and hold genetically-fit people, but I'm not going to spend the time finding the references right now. My own fault for being so lazy.
I watched it. Its interesting. He actually states intelligence and fertility are inverse. Intelligence and religiosity are also inverse. How correlated are these things? Ish. I don't think the biological variables are as strong as he makes them, culture is king. There is no way I know to explain the trans explosion except as a cultural infection. All other factors pale. Religious people and early unreligious caught up.
Well, to get into the nuts and bolts, a constant thesis, backed by research, is that it is the Darwinian selection of the fittest, that maintains the quality of a population. For example, I take my dogs running and occasionally, in spite of trying to be alert, they'll catch (and kill) a baby rabbit. As sad as the event is, it tends to cull the slowest rabbits from the population. This keeps the bulk of the rabbit population ready to run at a second's notice.
Prior to technology, in general, a baby (human or otherwise) who is genetically damaged will die early, and the damaged genes will go out of the population. Once technology arrives, babies with damaged or mutated genes have a greater chance of survival and the population gets a higher proportion of damaged genes than would otherwise be the case. This shows up in a (documented) steady decline in IQ and general measures of fitness. Part of the deterioration of the genetic quality of a population is the appearance of dysfunctional behaviors, such as sexual identity. There's a detailed description of the phenomenon is Dutton's book "Spiteful Mutants". He also has multiple videos describing the "spiteful mutant" phenomenon.
I think there is a definite link between religious beliefs and having children. That is well proven. There is a link between affluence and childlessness, and maybe a link between fitness and affluence (tenuous). I'll be honest I haven't had time to watch the video but I will try!
The concept ofChristians having children to spread Christianity I don't think is accurate. If you have children you are to bring them up properly but that is not the same thing. Judaism yes "multiply", that is in a few places in my reading. To the degree that Christianity is Judaism-based? There is actually a stronger concept of abstinence and unmarriage in the new testament and early church.
Hello.
Towards the end of the video, Dutton stated that research shows within the high IQ band, religiosity predicts fertility. As I mentioned, I recall his other videos stating that the less fit tended to be less religious. However, the higher-IQ people also had lower fertility on the whole than lower-IQ. My impression is that by and large religious groups tended to be a major factor maintaining a population and keeping it more fit than it would otherwise be. As I say, I don't have a reference for that. But for sure, the fitness and IQ of the population of the world and of advanced countries is going down. You can see that in almost any of Dutton's books. "At Our Wit's End" carries that specific theme.
And thanks for the thoughtful comments.