The lesson we, Russians, are learning the hard way in #Ukraine and indirectly in #Gaza is that Western elites can never be trusted again unless there is a revolutionary overhaul of the entire political system of the West and a complete change of elites.
Scumbags.
#Gaza is the Warsaw Ghetto of our time.
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Progress is a pure illusion, it occurs only in the sphere of matter, but the spirit undeviatingly degrades. What our contemporaries consider as achievements are actually shameful vices… The end of the modern world is just the end of an illusion.
— René Guénon
[W]e are oppressed by one nightmarish idea: if a dictatorship in Hitler’s style should ever rise in America, all hope would be lost for ages. We in Germany could be freed from the outside. Once a dictatorship has been established, no liberation from within is possible. Should the Anglo-Saxon world be dictatorially conquered from within, as we were, there would no longer be an outside, nor a liberation. The freedom fought for and won by Western man over hundreds, thousands of years would be a thing of the past. The primitivity of despotism would reign again, but with all means of technology. True, man cannot be forever enslaved; but this comfort would then be a very distant one, on a plane with Plato’s dictum that in the course of infinite time everything that is possible will here or there occur or recur as a reality. We see the feelings of moral superiority and we are frightened: he who feels absolutely safe from danger is already on the way to fall victim to it. The German fate could provide all others with experience. If only they would understand this experience! We are no inferior race. Everywhere people have similar qualities. Everywhere there are violent, criminal, vitally capable minorities apt to seize the reins if occasion offers, and to proceed with brutality.
— Karl Jaspers
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I cannot understand why it [ #Israel] is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded... I believe it is bad.
— Albert Einstein
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If Russia had killed civilians in the same way as Israel does, Nazi Ukraine would have been finished last year. But Russia is "bad" and Israel is "good". Fucking hypocrites.
I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.
— Albert Einstein
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel
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Should we be unable to find a way to honest cooperation and honest pacts with the Arabs, then we have learned absolutely nothing during our two thousand years of suffering and deserve all that will come to us.
— Albert Einstein
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza
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Why Did Einstein Refuse the Presidency of Israel? | Princeton Alumni Weekly
".... as a political entity, #Zionism is a form of fascism, and no political party of #Israel can ever be truly democratic if it furthers Zionist ideals."
#Gaza #Palestine
https://paw.princeton.edu/inbox/why-did-einstein-refuse-presidency-israel
At the beginning of the [XXth] century, the poet N. Minsky expressed such an objection: that #Zionism is the loss of the universal measure, that it reduces the universal cosmopolitan scale of Jewry to the level of ordinary nationalism. ... It is interesting to compare with this the remark of the Orthodox Christian thinker S. Bulgakov, also made before the Russian revolution: "The greatest difficulty for Zionism now consists in the fact that it is unable to regain the lost faith of the fathers and is forced to be based on a national or cultural-ethnographic principle, on which no truly great nationality can be established."
— Solzhenitsyn, "Two Hundred Years Together"
Most people are not ready to die for a just cause, for they don't believe in Transcendence and eternal life. Their fear of death is the main condition for the triumph of evil, which meets little or no resistance. They wanted to be free from God, but ended up in the power of demons. The Shadow triumphs.
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Unfortunately, the mad have thrown away the only cure for their madness — the Eleusinian Mysteries and other traditions of transformative experience of Transcendence. Without the experience of the Divine, man gradually lost his faith in God and got lost in meaningless existence.
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Progress is a pure illusion, it occurs only in the sphere of matter, but the spirit undeviatingly degrades. What our contemporaries consider as achievements are actually shameful vices… The end of the modern world is just the end of an illusion.
— René Guénon
The world in its bottomless groundlessness, devoid of any meaning, will become unbearable to man. For some time, despite the consciousness of utter meaninglessness, the exploration of the limitless will continue, feeding on the aspiration for truth preserved from past centuries, but this transitional period will not be able to last long. When godlessness becomes a reality, all interest in the truth will die out. Disappointment and lack of a fulcrum will push more and more towards nihilism. For the longest time, perhaps, a purely technical interest in the existent will remain, but it will also run out — it will not stand on its own.
— Karl Jaspers
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Never forget where we are and why.
The real conflict behind all seemed conflicts is always the same. And the Enemy has not ceased to be victorious.
Evil remains evil even when done as retribution.
— Karl Jaspers
#GazaGenocide #PalestineGenocide
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There exists a solidarity among men as human beings that makes each co-responsible for every evil and every injustice in the world, especially for crimes committed in his presence or with his knowledge. If I fail to do whatever I can to prevent them, I too am guilty. If I was present at the murder of others without risking my life to prevent it, I feel guilty in a way not adequately conceivable either legally, politically or morally. That I live after such a thing has happened weighs upon me as indelible guilt. As human beings, unless good fortune spares us such situations, we come to a point where we must choose: either to risk our lives unconditionally, without chance of success and therefore to no purpose—or to prefer staying alive, because success is impossible. That somewhere among men the unconditioned prevails—the capacity to live only together or not at all, if crimes are committed against the one or the other, or if physical living requirements have to be shared—therein consists the substance of their being. But that this does not extend to the solidarity of all men, nor to that of fellow-citizens or even of smaller groups, but remains confined to the closest human ties—therein lies this guilt of us all. Jurisdiction rests with God alone. ... The metaphysical guilt results in a transformation of human self-consciousness before God. Pride is broken. This self-transformation by inner activity may lead to a new source of active life, but one linked with an indelible sense of guilt in that humility which grows modest before God and submerges all its doings in an atmosphere where arrogance becomes impossible. ... Metaphysical guilt is the lack of absolute solidarity with the human being as such—an indelible claim beyond morally meaningful duty. This solidarity is violated by my presence at a wrong or a crime. It is not enough that I cautiously risk my life to prevent it; if it happens, and if I was there, and if I survive where the other is killed, I know from a voice within myself: I am guilty of being still alive.
— Karl Jaspers, "The question of German guilt"