Von einem fb-Freund:
When Was the Unified Socially Enforced Conformity The Sign of Truth?
When the crowds and city elders demanded Socrates to take one for the team?
When the crowds were screaming "crucify him" and Peter has denied his acquaintance with the ostracized dissident, joining the crowd rather than his teacher?
When Stalin was conducting show trials enforcing his view of history and socialism upon the whole country.
When Germans marched like sheep, demonstrating the Triumph of the Will, and great movie makers were recording it to posterity?
When Brits went insane with their hatred of all things German and plunged the world into WWI, which wiped the whole generation of young men off the face of the earth?
When Chinese Red Guards were fighting the Four Olds, getting rid of their magnificent culture and anyone who preferred to retain some rudiments of it.
Or was it during endless witch hunts and lynching, exercised in these blessed lands by the upstanding citizens?
We all know that this initial stages of public euphoria are later followed by civil wars, strife, violence, economic and political collapse, and bitter, bitter hangover.
I would add further, that only the society that actually absorbs all sorts of strains, and disagreements is on the right track of history. Uniformity kills, or reveals the already dead social construct. We see the anti-war protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Good for Russia. People take a stand and argue even at the risk of being arrested. Protests in London or Germany? Paris, which is always burning is silent?
The recent Ukrainian crisis was long in the making. Western society became unified in their hatred of Putin and Russia. Then in the States, this unification reached another level with Trump deranged syndrome, when rational educated people have turned into cultists overnight. And now we have reached the levels of idiocy, hardly reached even to the Red Guards of China.
The confidence of people who foment it is mind boggling. They are wholeheartedly relying in their reports on Ukrainian fantasies, they are introducing sanctions that are wrecking economy and sinking the market, they are militarizing the countries that were rather neutral recently, like Sweden or Germany. Do they really know what they are doing? Or are they acting like the British ruling classes circa 1914?
Germany has become unified. Does anyone remember the last time they did it? If there should be one law on German books, it should be the one that specifically forbids unified opinions, in the country intoxicated by law and order, this is dangerous.
OK. US founding fathers understood that, and insisted on all sorts of separations. Branches of government, different parties, church from the state and so on. Do we observe this now? Just the other day, I am driving and listening on NPR (the public station which is supposed represent the public) to the Ukrainian priest from some American city, who goes on and on about his church and how he welcomes everyone (fine) but then he adds and "yes, everyone is welcome to our church, you are welcome to make contributions, but most importantly we want everyone to call their senators and congressmen, demanding more anti-Russian actions." To which the anchor nods in unison, clarifying that the service starts at 8:30. Will this Scott Simon or whatever his name is, do the same to some conservative Catholic priest that encourages his parishioners to write to senators and demand the ban on abortions? Ye, let the church dictate the public officials how to run the world. That's exactly what the church is expected to do according to US constitution. And while we at it, let ban everything that challenges our opinion, including the Constitutional amendment, of course.
So let this bacchanalia of the Ukrainization of the West goes on. We know very well how the euphoria of Maidan of 2014 has ended. The economy was in shambles, nationalist thugs terrorized peaceful population, which has shrank from 50 to 42 millions, corruption exploded. (And that's all before the current war with Russia, which will surely be used as the excuse for previous economic and political failures. The same thing in US, of course, but that's the subject of a different discussion, obviously).
In any case, as Tolstoy had observed long time ago, "together we can do only evil, all good things are accomplished on one's own."
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