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| Putinism and the Anti-WEIRD Coalition |
| 2014-05-05 |
| h/t Jerry Pournelle ...This is simply because we are WEIRD. That's social science shorthand for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic -- and nobody is WEIRDer than Americans. In the last several decades many Americans, and essentially all our elites, have internalized a worldview based on affluence, individualism, and secularism that makes us unique, globally speaking. So much so that we seem unable to comprehend that there actually are opposing viewpoints out there. ...Simply put, Vladimir Putin is the stuff of Western progressive nightmares because he's what they thought they'd gotten past. He's a traditional male with "outmoded" views on, well, everything: gender relations, race, sexual identity, faith, the use of violence, the whole retrograde package. Putin at some level is the Old White Guy that post-moderns fear and loathe, except this one happens to control the largest country on earth plus several thousand nuclear weapons -- and he hates us. Cliven Bundy ("my family used this land for 300 years") with nukes |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 I imagine it's very easy to believe all the marketing crap about Putin if you don't live in one of his colonies. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-05-05 22:29 |
| #1 I would not say he hates us. Rather he sees a country doing so many things wrong. With the right people here we could have been a good team. Now with no respect or influence what can we bring to the table. Now at this time our leadership is outclassed. |
| Posted by: Dale 2014-05-05 18:41 |