This article is a brief version of the Russian
one.
What is
one of the great paradoxes of progress?
The West, the cultural, scientific and economical center of our world,
it’s political and power leader, has a strange rudiment oedipus complex of hate
and scorning for such ordinary and slave-minded country, as Russia .
If this
gigantic empty snow-covered areas with bears, vodkas and balalaikas, which are
inhabited poor and glum creatures, with some technical and mechanic skills, which
caused definite space and nuclear success, why such inadequate reaction? What
is the real difference between Russians and other amiable savages of Africa and many tropic islands?
In other
hand all human history did not have examples of meaningless sacral greed, as it
showed western custom. Pharaohs and any tyrannies of Asia, China or antic Rome
and Greece
don’t have such desire to have different material assets. If in earlier times wealth
means power and pleasure, in our time wealth means only possibility of it.
So epicureans
and sybarites of Antic world wished first of all for pleasant feeling, our
contemporaries wished only for money, i.e. for nothing.
In this refer
you can read story about many rich mans, who in different way make their neighbors
suffering and anguishing, not exclude themselves. So if Croesus was rather an exception of
antic tradition, now it is the common principle.
How it
is possible?
Ere yet
give the answer, let me remind the story about Tom Sawyer, who was not only troublemaker,
but successful entrepreneur too. He was not contented ordinary boy jokes, but
tricky cheated his friends, made their do his job for him and made their pay
for this job. And as result he found treasures, his dreams come true. Very odd
dream for a little boy, isn’t it?
Same
things wrote many of classics of English literature. Jack London, O’Henry, Theodor
Dreiser. At last Indians aphorism:
So, this
greed began from remarkable times of geographic discoveries of New World , Indians and pirates. Before this romantic and
legendary times took place dark and hopeless times of Middle Ages.
Let’s dig deeper. What is the reason of these
terrible ages? The answer is simple. The wonderful belief in Jesus Christ was
perverted to his antithesis. Times of
Jesuits, obscurants and inquisitors, horrible punishment of witches and scientists
started when Catholic Church was born with institute of Pops
and his main principle: “the end justifies the means” or “exitus acta probat”.
If you
want an omelet, you would crash the eggs.
So tiny perversion of Christ’s teaching led to
such disgusting consequences. When even Protestantism and Puritanism looked
reasonably good, in spite of essentially degraded meaning of God, which was replaced
by new meaning of people dignities and goodness.
The
next changes were soon. The God was become odd in new times. From Volter to Nietzsche
the western world made long way to sentence: “The gods are died”.
But idea
of overman, i.e. physical and internal perfection, was not attractive. Who want
to work, to learn and not too much to eat and to entertain? A much more attractive become “American
dream”, the possibilities only comforts and pleasure pastime without any moral
liabilities.
Thus,
we have arrived to initial point. The goodness of Puritanism and Evangelism
caused endless greed, as well as Catholicism caused obscurants of dark ages.
And this
insatiable greed is the inexhaustible source of West hate to Russia . Because
of it distortionless belief in Jesus Christ and immaterial and material stores.
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