I read Berdyaev’s “The Russian idea” and realize that our pro-Western mindset after the collapse of the USSR was madness. With all my love for Western pre-WW2 culture and my admiration for Kant, Jaspers and Husserl, I realize that we had poisoned ourselves with the West.
The West doesn’t understand Russia, otherwise they would know that the more we are attacked from without, the more we are consolidated from within. The West’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine is becoming our Great Patriotic War akin to those we fought with Napoleon and Hitler. The West must understand that Russia would rather end the world than let the West end Russia. Time to come to your senses, Russophobes.
The damage done in Ukraine to our relationship with the West will last for centuries. Russian blood on Western hands won’t be easily forgiven. Our civilizations will co-exist, but it will not be a friendly co-existence. Only the fall of either civilization will end the conflict.
I read Berdyaev’s “The Russian idea” and realize that our pro-Western mindset after the collapse of the USSR was madness. With all my love for Western pre-WW2 culture and my admiration for Kant, Jaspers and Husserl, I realize that we had poisoned ourselves with the West.
The West doesn’t understand Russia, otherwise they would know that the more we are attacked from without, the more we are consolidated from within. The West’s proxy war with Russia in Ukraine is becoming our Great Patriotic War akin to those we fought with Napoleon and Hitler. The West must understand that Russia would rather end the world than let the West end Russia. Time to come to your senses, Russophobes.
The damage done in Ukraine to our relationship with the West will last for centuries. Russian blood on Western hands won’t be easily forgiven. Our civilizations will co-exist, but it will not be a friendly co-existence. Only the fall of either civilization will end the conflict.
It is impossible to objectify adequately in any form that which constitutes/projects all objectifications and the world as a whole—transcendental (inter)subjectivity. Hence, all scientific models of “nature” are forever doomed to remain incomplete and transient. A final “Theory of Everything” is impossible.
Plus: “Assuming that materialism is true, one wonders how physicists can suppose that they are on the verge of a grand unified Theory of Everything when they have absolutely no account of how experiential … phenomena are possible.” (Galen Strawson)
There are no two worlds — saṃsāra and nirvāṇa (individual existence and supraindividual Being) — but one Consciousness experiencing itself in two relative ways. The One of Being and existence is absolutely inconceivable, hence all self-contradictions and logical inconsistencies in our transcending thought about it. God is unthinkable.
“The unthinkable identity of Substance and its modifications, so definitively separated for our thinking, becomes Transcendence for the thinking that founders on it.” — Karl Jaspers
Noema as a unity of phenomenon and meaning for which in Buddhism there is a misnomer “name-and-form”. Name is a linguistic symbol of a certain meaning, whereas every form is phenomenal (e.g., visual), hence phenomenon-and-meaning.
The body is a noematic self-representation of transcendental subject—freewill and causal structures (“karmic seeds” in Yogācāra Buddhism). Should you begin to see this truth, you’ll begin to read the body as a “hieroglyph” of the soul. Just open your eyes and you’ll read many beautiful and scary tales.
“[W]e can see in the human face what correspondence is like. In a face that has not been taught to dissimulate, all the affections of the mind manifest themselves visibly in a natural form, as though in their very imprint, which is why we refer to the face as ‘‘the index of the mind.’’ This is our spiritual world within our natural world.” — Emanuel Swedenborg
The pseudoscientific mythology of materialism (physicalism) is a metaphysical blinder, and there are Māra’s useful idiots and intentional agents who are blinding mankind with this mythology to break our conscious connection with divine Transcendence and hide Māra from our sight. We must fight them with truth. Never give up.
Отношение России к Западу циклично. Очарование/разочарование. Мир/война. В самом нынешнем конфликте нет ничего нового, кроме разве что угрозы ядерной войны, а также крайнего духовного упадка западной культуры, который в значительной степени передался и нам благодаря нашему бездумному западничеству. Поэтому наш нынешний разрыв трагичен и опасен, но весьма своевременен — остановить гангрену культуры еще можно успеть обращением к российской/советской традиции и ампутацией заимствованной у Запада гнили. Вопрос в том, что мы отрастим вместо ампутированной части нашей культуры, ведь на одной ноге традиционных ценностей далеко не ускачешь. На этот счет у меня есть понимание истоков гниения Запада (прежде всего, псевдонаучной метафизики материализма, которая определила ложные ценности и цели, неявно подперла собой капитализм и консьюмеризм) и возможных путей лечения этой болезни: путь онтологического идеализма, путь веры в Трансценденцию (в любой форме, прежде всего в традиционных для нашей нации религиозных) и путь марксизма (в этот раз очищенного от извращений ленинизма/сталинизма и ошибок самих Маркса и Энгельса). Важны и новые культурные заимствования, на этот раз на Востоке/Юге. Спланировать здесь ничего невозможно, ренессанс российской культуры не гарантирован. Можно только личными усилиями, кто как умеет, приближать новый рассвет. Все теперь, как и всегда, зависит от каждого из нас.
The political game—the game of power—is inherently cursed. The only solution is to end the game. No matter how many decades or even centuries it will take, we have to see the problem clearly and get rid of the game wherever it occurs, we have to decentralize everything.
The EU must be dissolved before it is too late — before the European Commission becomes so powerful that it becomes impossible to escape its dictatorship. The EU was supposed to be a federation but it is gradually becoming an empire controlled by a bunch of unelected autocrats such as Ursula von der Leyen submissive to the US.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-american-president-paradox-ursula-von-der-leyen/
Humanity doesn’t need a global Empire, whatever “liberal” it might proclaim itself, for it will inevitably result in a perpetual global dictatorship stabilized by terror and AI-panopticon. Humanity needs a global Federation of in(ter)dependent states, and ultimately a global decentralized order of self-governed communities — communism.
The UN must be established anew as the Forum of the Federation with no single great power point of decision, but with all great powers rationally and respectfully balancing their interests for the sake of common good.
This is the only way to peace and prosperity.
First the US created a refugee crisis in Europe by bringing chaos to the Middle East and Ukraine. Then they created an energy crisis in Europe by sanctioning Russia and blowing up the Nordstream. Then they intensified the deindustrialization of Europe by the IRA.
Europe’s irrational Russophobia and corrupt political elites who put the interests of their US imperial masters above the strategic interests of Europe are its real enemies. Will this realization come to the Europeans? Will they rise up? Or will they let Europe be destroyed?
https://michael-hudson.com/2022/02/americas-real-adversaries-are-its-european-and-other-allies/
The world is a transcendental phenomenon — an intersubjective mental construct constituted/projected by transcendental intersubjectivity, aka ālayavijñāna in Buddhism. The world is karma. We will not change the world unless we change ourselves. We will not defeat the Enemy unless we see that the Enemy is us, and some of us are its intentional agents.