"Do not confuse philosophers with so-called ‘public intellectuals’! A public intellectual is a beast of wholly different colour, and I cannot say I like that colour or think it to be a true, honest colour. There is, of course, a connection between philosophy and public intellectualism: philosophy, like a great wise serpent, sheds its skin with every grand forward movement; this discarded skin is then colonised by a host of parasites, who grow fat and famous feasting on its dead remains. This, in a nutshell, is the connection between philosophy and public intellectualism. I cannot say that this is an honest or indeed wholesome connection. Hence, my warning about not confusing the one with the other."
(c) A quote from my upcoming book, which by the way has not been vetted, let alone praised by any LLM chatbot 😂Somehow, I don't feel the need to consult a machine when I write about humans...
To the 27 million Soviet citizens who were killed in the war against Germany, to the Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Armenians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, Tatars, Bashkirs, Dagestanis, Chechens, Ossetians, Tajiks, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Buryats, Yakuts, and all the other peoples of the Soviet Union: Happy Victory Day! 🌹
The Russians are wondering why millions of their Grandfather's and Great Grandfathers gave their lives to save Europe from the Nazis
They recall the great Russian Marshall Zhukov's prophetic words-
"We have liberated Europe from Fascism, but they will never forgive us for it"
So, the truth of the matter is that while people and pundits alike were preoccupied with political circus, picking through the laundry boxes of various come-and-go "leaders", the good ole' machine churned along, faithful to its prompted purpose... Heh.
That's why, when real big-brain aliens land on Earth, they won't say "bring us to your leaders!"
Nah, they'd say something along the lines of "shalom! We're here for our friend's bar-mitzvah party..." 🤣
@BowesChay Or, rather, regained its old ways. Postwar liberalism was temporary, the natural state of modern, atheistic European "elite" had always been Nazism, mixed as it is today with wokery, perversion, and abject satan worship. A horde of cannibals and assassins, that's what they are.
Остап подошел к Воробьянинову вплотную и, оглянувшись по сторонам, дал предводителю короткий, сильный и незаметный для постороннего глаза, удар в бок.
— Вот тебе милиция! Вот тебе дороговизна стульев для трудящихся всех стран! Вот тебе ночные прогулки по девочкам! Вот тебе — седина в бороду! Вот тебе — бес в ребро!
Ипполит Матвеевич за все время экзекуции не издал ни звука.
@old_soviet «А большой бы здесь начался шухер», — подумал Остап, оглядывая аукционную публику, — «если бы они узнали, какой огурчик будет сегодня продаваться под видом этих стульев» 😂😂😂
💯 Given that every gadget we own is connected to the internet and has built-in backdoor access, I wouldn't be surprised at all that if one day those "elites" simply turn those devices against us. In a way, they already did that through orderly propaganda, but the chaotic scenario is always on the table.
About Professor Dugin's "meltdown" on Twitter... All rhetoric aside, I think this proved (once again) a very important point: a good deal of those so-called "conservative friends of Russia in the West", who were subscribed to Dugin and fawned over him mere days ago, are just so many wolves in sheep's clothing.
The moment Dugin said something that "rubbed them wrong", the moment he showed what even to me appeared as human weakness - they bared their teeth and tore at him like so many mad hyenas. Dugins mistake was showing his wounds in public: the smell of Russian blood drove his "conservative friends" crazy.
And not one of those "conservatives" thought, even for a moment, that maybe in this "meltdown" Dugin was more like King Lear, screaming in despair on a blasted heath. For Dugin, too, had his Cordelia murdered. And yet those "friends" struck at him and hounded him like so many Gonerils and Regans.
What can I add? As a Russian philosopher myself I say - lesson learnt.
@Nnefariousjack As an average euroid, I bet you know everything about men, though not of straw, but swarthy middle-eastern men who are even now busy swivelling your 'aryan' wives 😂