1/ Some food for thought: you all know how modernity is (or was rather) the age of reason, aka "enlightenment". The idea was that there is an objective reality that could be understood by the subjective mind...
... It came about, not because some wise people suddenly woke up and decided that "oh my God, its so simple, all we need to do is observe the universe and think and btw we don't actually need God for that". Although that is how the story goes in the history books...
...it came about for a reason unknown and the idea spread like a virus. People didn't suddenly get convinced, no. They started to believe for whatever reason people believe in stuff. A lot of people never knew they became "enlightened" they just were...
... but here's the thing: that belief system is behind us now. Where and how we abandoned a firm belief in an objective and knowable universe is kinda lost in time (but if I were you I'd blame the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Theory), abandon that belief most did...
...the new paradigm, if you are inclined to use that ugly word, states that there is NO objective reality only the subjective self that experiences... something. This is the individual turning all its attention inside, abandoning all significance attributed to the outside..
... And this is how you get men who declare themselves women and criminals who declare themselves the victims and an expectation that you should accept their inner world as valid...
...This new age is called postmodern, but what it truly is, is an endarkenment. A fading of the light and reason. An age where emotion thinks it can create.
But it can't. Now, you should try and go out into objective reality and try to stop this madness. I'll walk with you.
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The most important things abt #Putin's speech and the executive orders (his and Shoigu's):
- #Russia will recognize the "referenda"
- Russia is at war with #NATO in the #Ukraine
- Partial mobilization of reservists
- Shoigu orders the mobillization of 300K conflict veterans.
- Reservists that are called up will have the status of "serving under contract" -> can be deployed outside Russia.
- The nuclear threat verbatim "if Russia's territorial integrity and her people are threatened, we will use all available means to" This is not new.
Analysis: this is a calculated escalation. So far, a relatively minor escalation, but opens the door for further rounds of mobilization, up to about 2 million men (roughly the number of reservists who can be said to have combat experience). Shoigu will have to order each round.
Many of you asked me to explain why #Hungary doesn't buy into the #Ukrainian "hero epic". I'll try to explain in this thread.
The issue is multifaceted, it'll take several posts. I'll be describing the general mood, individuals can and will have different views. Let's go.
Two elements stand out, in no particular order. We have a more complex picture of the issue. The closer you are to a problem, the less "black and white" it looks. If you object to this, stop reading now.
Hungarians do not hate the Russians more than Ukrainians.
A person in Portugal will (justifiably) just think that Russia attacked the Ukraine, therefore they are the bad guys, and Ukrainians deserve our help. Living here, right next to the biggest war in Europe since WW2, this is more complicated.
A🧵on why last month's Peace March in #Budapest was so important. Half a million #Hungarians marched through the streets of the capital in support of the #Orbán government, and against the #Left. Frantic phonecalls followed from western embassies to their capitals. Here's why:
They will deny this, but both #Brussels and #Washinfton are at the very least thinking of interfering with the outcome of the #HungarianElection. Since the government's performance is generally good, and the opposition is a rather farcical bunch prone to make unforced errors...
they are very unlikely to win in a fair fight, even with #LiberalGlobalist support. That leaves the technology called a "Color Revolution". Both Brussels and Washington will of course deny that they employ this tactic, but at this point that is just laughable...
Ten Shades of the Far-Left, prt 1: Universities.
Today no American college graduate goes thru his university years without coming face to face with #CriticalTheory and the postmodern – aka #CulturalMarxism. (THREAD) mandiner.hu/cikk/20200930_…
#CriticalTheory arrived in the USA when the #Marxist professors of the Institute of Sociology of Frankfurt were forced to flee Nazi Germany. They brought with themselves the barely disguised ambition to bring down the democratic order based on capitalism.
They believed that “In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches, and the media by transforming the consciousness of society.” (Antonio Gramsci)
In the introduction to our multi-part series on the ideological background of the postmodern revolution that has gripped the USA, my esteemed collegue @EParkanyi
and I identify #CulturalMarxism as the core of the problem. (THREAD) mandiner.hu/cikk/20200929_…
The series is titled "Ten Shades of the Far-Left" because we examine 10 levels of American society that Cultural Marxism has infiltrated and where it has caused great damage by undermining the pillars of American society...
We define Cultural Marxism as an amalgamation of the neomarxist #CriticalTheory first proposed by the Frankfurt School and the postmodern philosophies that aim to deconstruct all barriers to selfish wish fulfillment - be it social, institutional, legal or natural...