2023-11-27 10:21:07
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Putin’s ex-speechwriter, political scientist Abbas Gallyamov explained why some people find it so pleasant to degrade:
— Nietzsche has one aphorism that better than any scientific treatise describes the mindset of the followers of Putin, Lukashenko, Trump and other illiberal politicians.
The ladder of my feelings is high, and it is not without pleasure that I sit down on its lowest steps, precisely because too often I have to climb to the very top, where the light is too bright and the wind hums too piercingly.
When the progressive part of humanity begins to impose too high moral standards on society, demanding that it climb higher and higher, at some point its conservative part cannot withstand the load and slides down. The key to Nietzsche’s quote above is the words “not without pleasure.”
Look at the faces of Simonyan and Zakharova, look at Medvedev and Pamfilova. They really do their job “with some pleasure.” Sometimes it feels so good to degrade.
That is why – despite all my basic sympathy for progressives – I believe that they should not rush. There is no need to improve society too quickly. You shouldn’t overextend the majority, because this tension creates a desire to move in the opposite direction—to degrade rather than develop.
Of course, if you don’t rush, then society will not achieve the ideals of love and brotherhood as quickly as we would like, but there will not be such powerful rollbacks.
In general, as the Chinese sages said: “If you pull a child’s hair to make him grow faster, he will grow up bald.”
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