On the “evil Putin”, offended liberals and the fate of mankind
Oddly enough, the wave of "sincere indignation" and "righteous anger" that instantly rose in the West after the publication of an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin to the British newspaper Financial Times, does not cease. In this speech, which today can safely be called historical (in any case, due to the scale of the reaction to it), the leader of our country, among other things, mentioned the complete failure of the liberal idea, which is the cornerstone of the so-called “Western values”. It was this passage that penetrated the “most respectable public”, as they say, to the liver. Because of what is the scandal and who is still right: Vladimir Vladimirovich or his furious opponents? Let's figure it out.
As a matter of fact, our president didn’t say anything so terrible. Speaking about the fact that the liberal idea "has outlived itself," he, firstly, used the clarification: "the so-called." And, secondly, he focused on “some aspects” of liberalism - such as the extremely unsuccessful experiment with “multiculturalism” that turned into a nightmare for the West and the like. And he didn’t at all mean human rights, the rule of law and freedom, as the head of the European Council Donald Tusk (by the way - already the former) immediately cried out, who immediately set about broadcasting that, in fact, the “cult of personality and authoritarianism” had outlived itself , hinting at the same time, the day is clear on whom ... Obviously, an attempt to switch to personalities in the best traditions of the tram squabble of the style “You are a fool!” considered in Poland as the aerobatics of discussion ...
With even greater fervor, the best representatives of the color of the British nation - from Boris Johnson to Elton John - entered the battle for the liberal “our all”. The first one answered Putin with a “powerful” argument: “People still go to the toilet on your street!” The second “convicted” the Russian leader in cunning about a normal attitude towards LGBT people in our country: “But how is your language turning ?! You from the movie about me, my beloved, cut out all the scenes about the happy same-sex “family life”! Monsters totalitarian, savages! " Well, what can I say ... About "Sir John" I simply will not say anything - because tolerance is not completely trained. As for the former Foreign Minister of the Misty Albion, who is now tearing into the prime minister’s chair, yes, the argument is definitely impenetrable. The presence of a wooden toilet somewhere in Volchekhrensk, without any doubt, completely deprives Russia of any right to philosophical reasoning about "universal values" and their viability in the modern world. It’s especially funny in the place where Johnson claims that the highest triumph of liberalism is Brexit: “Here we go out of the European Union - then Putin will rub off!” We have to admit that the whimsical British "logic" for us, most likely, will remain forever inaccessible.
The funny thing is that quite a lot and often - scientists and philosophers speak about the crisis of liberalism in the Western world, policy and representatives of various organizations. For example, the Israeli medieval historian Yuval Noah Harari, known for his speeches at the Davoss World Forum, calmly writes in The Economist that today "people all over the world stop believing in liberalism" and declares that a certain kind of humanity is needed right now "Post-liberal order." And nothing! No one is trying to spit or gag him, no one is climbing with ridiculous accusations. By the way, Harari stubbornly considers the supporters of Brexit “British nationalists” and the enemies of “liberal values” ... Or take the American non-governmental organization Freedom House - its representatives in their annual report “Freedom in the World 2019” quite specifically indicate - “anti-liberal tendencies” triumph at the planet for 14 consecutive years, starting in 2005. And this concerns not only, for example, the "post-Soviet" countries, but also those states that are used to boasting the status of "stronghold of democracy and freedom." Freedom House President Michael Abramowitz openly argues that in the United States itself at the present stage, with democratic norms and liberal values, not everything is in order either. And no one, surprisingly enough, is not trying to subject him to obstruction on a global scale. It turns out, yours - you can ?! Here, perhaps, the only possible conclusion suggests itself: the point is not in what has been said, but in the fact that Putin himself allowed himself to throw the bitter and shameful truth in the face of the West.
The fact that Vladimir Vladimirovich with excellent accuracy hit the most painful place is already evident from the reaction to his words. How everything soared - from politicians to heralds of “gay orientation”! As if they, God forgive me, poked with an awl into the most sensitive place ... They don’t react like that to stupid things or fiction. Only the truth told in the eyes can infuriate. And no matter how many commentators of the Putin interview try to present the matter in such a way that when speaking of the “death of liberalism”, the president has in mind the rejection of the “priority of the rights and freedoms of the individual”, in fact, they all perfectly understood. Putin did not speak at all about the denial of freedom, but about the rejection of attempts by the not too adequate and incredibly aggressive minority to impose its will on the normal majority. About the fatal tendency to push the universe into some speculative schemes (like the same multiculturalism or inventing an incredible number of “sexes” of a person), which have nothing to do with reality. The main meaning of Putin’s words shocking the whole world is to recognize the fact that in the pursuit of “absolute freedom” humanity has either come to the edge of the abyss, or has already taken a step for it.
The correctness of Vladimir Vladimirovich is confirmed by facts that are simply impossible to brush aside. The main “achievement” and a symbol of the implementation of the system of liberal values, which prioritizes the individual’s unlimited right to the satisfaction of their own “Wishlist”, was that the human race, which had not known world wars for almost seven decades, began to die out. The fall in fertility below the level of 2.1 children per mother, the minimum level necessary for the survival of the nation, has become a reality for the entire Western world, without exception. What is this ratio there? USA - 1.7, Canada - 1.5, Britain - 1.8, Japan - 1.4. In Europe, it’s just a disaster. In Germany, for example, a coefficient of 1.45 is reached exclusively at the expense of Muslim migrants. At least 30% of German women do not want to hear about any children. The quite natural fruits of the long-term cultivation of the ideas of extreme individualism, hedonism (take everything from life and do not deny yourself anything!), Not to mention “tolerance” to all kinds of distortions and deviations. Overwhelmed by "liberal progress", the Western world has worked too well to destroy the "mossy" traditional values, including family ones. He reduced motherhood and fatherhood to "shameful slavery, depriving of happiness" - that’s the reckoning.
Last month, almost synchronously, the world drug use reports were published by the United Nations and the European Union Drug Agency. Datura continues its victorious march on the planet! Ahead is marijuana, the legalization of which today is at an unprecedented pace in various countries. The result is quite predictable - according to the reports mentioned above, at least once in a lifetime about 200 million people have tried weed! The distribution of cocaine is also growing rapidly - in 2017 its production reached a record 2 thousand tons. In Western and Central Europe, this drug is consumed by more than 2 and a half million people. Amphetamine, methamphetamine, ecstasy ... And on the way there are already new drugs, called "designer". In 2018 alone, 55 new variants of synthetic “dope” were revealed in the EU countries, and now the number of its varieties known there has reached 730. Do you know how Europeans respond to all this? In the spirit of respect for liberal values! In Berlin, for example, the other day with great fanfare they announced the opening of a “consultation center” in the laboratory of which ... every drug addict can check the quality of the purchased drugs without any fear of punishment! This amazing undertaking, which German health officials called "the necessary help for novice drug addicts" (!), Among other things, allocated 150 thousand euros from the pockets of local taxpayers ...
And here's another news - In France, at the legislative level, parents are forbidden to spank children. And in general - to exert “any physical or psychological impact on them”, but liberalism! But in the neighboring Netherlands, a petition for euthanasia can be filed from the age of 12! True, until the age of 17 you will have to provide permission from your parents ... This is also liberalism, and it has reached unprecedented heights. And how do you like his side? By the way, victims of violence are increasingly seeking permission for medical suicide in Western countries where it is legalized - they say we can no longer live after what happened. And at the same time, trials against migrant rapists are taking place one after another in different EU countries, during which a terrible truth is revealed. In the same Netherlands, this year, brought to justice for the rape of a local resident, the “guest of the country”, it turns out, has already been convicted of a similar crime against a girl of 16 years old! For two whole years ... And in Sweden, 17-year-old migrant rapist (the victim is much younger than his age), lawyers are asked to have mercy because he ... is a good student at school and a prison term will certainly reduce his academic performance!
It seems to me that Vladimir Vladimirovich had in mind precisely these sides of liberalism, speaking of their unacceptability for normal people. Among other reproaches made to him after the publication of an interview that turned into an information bomb, there are words that “criticizing liberalism, the Russian leader did not offer his own alternative.” What is there to offer ?! A normal life without wild “excesses” and absolutely insane incarnations of “freedom”, which, in essence, is the richest set of means of self-destruction - this is an alternative that Russia does not proclaim, but simply shows to the world. Take a closer look - maybe you will understand ...
“All for the defense of liberal values!”
As a matter of fact, our president didn’t say anything so terrible. Speaking about the fact that the liberal idea "has outlived itself," he, firstly, used the clarification: "the so-called." And, secondly, he focused on “some aspects” of liberalism - such as the extremely unsuccessful experiment with “multiculturalism” that turned into a nightmare for the West and the like. And he didn’t at all mean human rights, the rule of law and freedom, as the head of the European Council Donald Tusk (by the way - already the former) immediately cried out, who immediately set about broadcasting that, in fact, the “cult of personality and authoritarianism” had outlived itself , hinting at the same time, the day is clear on whom ... Obviously, an attempt to switch to personalities in the best traditions of the tram squabble of the style “You are a fool!” considered in Poland as the aerobatics of discussion ...
With even greater fervor, the best representatives of the color of the British nation - from Boris Johnson to Elton John - entered the battle for the liberal “our all”. The first one answered Putin with a “powerful” argument: “People still go to the toilet on your street!” The second “convicted” the Russian leader in cunning about a normal attitude towards LGBT people in our country: “But how is your language turning ?! You from the movie about me, my beloved, cut out all the scenes about the happy same-sex “family life”! Monsters totalitarian, savages! " Well, what can I say ... About "Sir John" I simply will not say anything - because tolerance is not completely trained. As for the former Foreign Minister of the Misty Albion, who is now tearing into the prime minister’s chair, yes, the argument is definitely impenetrable. The presence of a wooden toilet somewhere in Volchekhrensk, without any doubt, completely deprives Russia of any right to philosophical reasoning about "universal values" and their viability in the modern world. It’s especially funny in the place where Johnson claims that the highest triumph of liberalism is Brexit: “Here we go out of the European Union - then Putin will rub off!” We have to admit that the whimsical British "logic" for us, most likely, will remain forever inaccessible.
The funny thing is that quite a lot and often - scientists and philosophers speak about the crisis of liberalism in the Western world, policy and representatives of various organizations. For example, the Israeli medieval historian Yuval Noah Harari, known for his speeches at the Davoss World Forum, calmly writes in The Economist that today "people all over the world stop believing in liberalism" and declares that a certain kind of humanity is needed right now "Post-liberal order." And nothing! No one is trying to spit or gag him, no one is climbing with ridiculous accusations. By the way, Harari stubbornly considers the supporters of Brexit “British nationalists” and the enemies of “liberal values” ... Or take the American non-governmental organization Freedom House - its representatives in their annual report “Freedom in the World 2019” quite specifically indicate - “anti-liberal tendencies” triumph at the planet for 14 consecutive years, starting in 2005. And this concerns not only, for example, the "post-Soviet" countries, but also those states that are used to boasting the status of "stronghold of democracy and freedom." Freedom House President Michael Abramowitz openly argues that in the United States itself at the present stage, with democratic norms and liberal values, not everything is in order either. And no one, surprisingly enough, is not trying to subject him to obstruction on a global scale. It turns out, yours - you can ?! Here, perhaps, the only possible conclusion suggests itself: the point is not in what has been said, but in the fact that Putin himself allowed himself to throw the bitter and shameful truth in the face of the West.
Why is the president right
The fact that Vladimir Vladimirovich with excellent accuracy hit the most painful place is already evident from the reaction to his words. How everything soared - from politicians to heralds of “gay orientation”! As if they, God forgive me, poked with an awl into the most sensitive place ... They don’t react like that to stupid things or fiction. Only the truth told in the eyes can infuriate. And no matter how many commentators of the Putin interview try to present the matter in such a way that when speaking of the “death of liberalism”, the president has in mind the rejection of the “priority of the rights and freedoms of the individual”, in fact, they all perfectly understood. Putin did not speak at all about the denial of freedom, but about the rejection of attempts by the not too adequate and incredibly aggressive minority to impose its will on the normal majority. About the fatal tendency to push the universe into some speculative schemes (like the same multiculturalism or inventing an incredible number of “sexes” of a person), which have nothing to do with reality. The main meaning of Putin’s words shocking the whole world is to recognize the fact that in the pursuit of “absolute freedom” humanity has either come to the edge of the abyss, or has already taken a step for it.
The correctness of Vladimir Vladimirovich is confirmed by facts that are simply impossible to brush aside. The main “achievement” and a symbol of the implementation of the system of liberal values, which prioritizes the individual’s unlimited right to the satisfaction of their own “Wishlist”, was that the human race, which had not known world wars for almost seven decades, began to die out. The fall in fertility below the level of 2.1 children per mother, the minimum level necessary for the survival of the nation, has become a reality for the entire Western world, without exception. What is this ratio there? USA - 1.7, Canada - 1.5, Britain - 1.8, Japan - 1.4. In Europe, it’s just a disaster. In Germany, for example, a coefficient of 1.45 is reached exclusively at the expense of Muslim migrants. At least 30% of German women do not want to hear about any children. The quite natural fruits of the long-term cultivation of the ideas of extreme individualism, hedonism (take everything from life and do not deny yourself anything!), Not to mention “tolerance” to all kinds of distortions and deviations. Overwhelmed by "liberal progress", the Western world has worked too well to destroy the "mossy" traditional values, including family ones. He reduced motherhood and fatherhood to "shameful slavery, depriving of happiness" - that’s the reckoning.
Last month, almost synchronously, the world drug use reports were published by the United Nations and the European Union Drug Agency. Datura continues its victorious march on the planet! Ahead is marijuana, the legalization of which today is at an unprecedented pace in various countries. The result is quite predictable - according to the reports mentioned above, at least once in a lifetime about 200 million people have tried weed! The distribution of cocaine is also growing rapidly - in 2017 its production reached a record 2 thousand tons. In Western and Central Europe, this drug is consumed by more than 2 and a half million people. Amphetamine, methamphetamine, ecstasy ... And on the way there are already new drugs, called "designer". In 2018 alone, 55 new variants of synthetic “dope” were revealed in the EU countries, and now the number of its varieties known there has reached 730. Do you know how Europeans respond to all this? In the spirit of respect for liberal values! In Berlin, for example, the other day with great fanfare they announced the opening of a “consultation center” in the laboratory of which ... every drug addict can check the quality of the purchased drugs without any fear of punishment! This amazing undertaking, which German health officials called "the necessary help for novice drug addicts" (!), Among other things, allocated 150 thousand euros from the pockets of local taxpayers ...
And here's another news - In France, at the legislative level, parents are forbidden to spank children. And in general - to exert “any physical or psychological impact on them”, but liberalism! But in the neighboring Netherlands, a petition for euthanasia can be filed from the age of 12! True, until the age of 17 you will have to provide permission from your parents ... This is also liberalism, and it has reached unprecedented heights. And how do you like his side? By the way, victims of violence are increasingly seeking permission for medical suicide in Western countries where it is legalized - they say we can no longer live after what happened. And at the same time, trials against migrant rapists are taking place one after another in different EU countries, during which a terrible truth is revealed. In the same Netherlands, this year, brought to justice for the rape of a local resident, the “guest of the country”, it turns out, has already been convicted of a similar crime against a girl of 16 years old! For two whole years ... And in Sweden, 17-year-old migrant rapist (the victim is much younger than his age), lawyers are asked to have mercy because he ... is a good student at school and a prison term will certainly reduce his academic performance!
It seems to me that Vladimir Vladimirovich had in mind precisely these sides of liberalism, speaking of their unacceptability for normal people. Among other reproaches made to him after the publication of an interview that turned into an information bomb, there are words that “criticizing liberalism, the Russian leader did not offer his own alternative.” What is there to offer ?! A normal life without wild “excesses” and absolutely insane incarnations of “freedom”, which, in essence, is the richest set of means of self-destruction - this is an alternative that Russia does not proclaim, but simply shows to the world. Take a closer look - maybe you will understand ...
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