Posted on 10/31/2013 9:04:46 AM PDT by marshmallow
Moscow, October 31, Interfax - Russia should choose aspects consistent with its traditions when borrowing world experiences, Russian Presidential Administration head Sergey Ivanov said.
"Russia cannot and will not copy alien models blindly and thoughtlessly. We do not accept the absurd degree of Western-type political correctness and multiculturalism or the narrowly liberal market devoid of special mutual commitments," Ivanov said at the opening ceremony of the 17th meeting of the World Russian People's Council.
"When borrowing international economic and political experiences, we should choose [the aspects] which do not disagree with but develop our traditions and national identity," the chief of the Kremlin administration said.
He added it must be remembered that Russia's civilization was based on the values of its traditional religions, culture and worldviews of all peoples populating the country.
"These are the values of family, social morality, kindness, nobleness and charity; these values are the spiritual pillar of not only Orthodoxy but also of Islam, Judaism and Buddhism. We cannot move them to the background or, the more so, forget about them, because these values have always constituted the internal strength of our multinational people," Ivanov said.
Russia should improve its development model, fight social injustice and seek self-actualization of every person, he continued.
"We are also well aware of the need to improve the social and public development models," Ivanov said.
"We will be unable to move on if the society is disconnected, if we lose our moral pillars and the feeling of solidarity, if egoism, mutual mistrust, the principle of "every man for himself" and the primitive logic of prospering at any cost, even with immoral methods, come to dominate, if social injustice grows, and if social lifts and self-actualization opportunities for every person, especially the young, work poorly," he said.
These fundamental issues require a broad debate, he said.
"I expect the World Russian People's Council to make a weighty contribution to the discussion of these issues," Ivanov concluded.
Why would they?
They created PC because they knew it would weaken the West.
***Russia cannot and will not copy alien models blindly and thoughtlessly.***
Interesting. American scholars from top universities do exactly that, and expect the commoners to do likewise.
Until We the People have had a belly full (that time is soon coming).
It’s an ironic twist when the “backward and oppressed” Russians can give us “enlightened” Westerners a lesson in liberty.
I said 40 years ago when PC really started to rear it’s ugly head that it would eventually destroy America. Apparently I was right. I fought against PC then and continue to fight the good fight now. Sometimes I feel like an army of one but I still do what I can.
Exactly. They know we have been culturally demoralized. Like Yuri Bezemenov understood, once it was set in motion, it was like a top. Only could be stopped if someone stopped it. No one here, had the guts or understanding to stop it. Now it is too late. Every institution has been corrupted and demoralized.
In Russia, most of us would be in gulags for protesting the government.
We so need American equivalents.
Yeah, if it was 1953.
Coming soon to a nation near YOU.
Or 2013, where, in Russia, you have a nationalized oil industry & media, rampant corruption, rigged elections & the imprisonment of political opponents.
What you’re calling “PC” has beeen a tool of tyrants for centuries. Certainly, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Che, and their ideological heirs — Pelosi, Sharpton, Alinsky, Obama — have wielded it very effectively. But it would be wrong to say they invented it.
Russia is the only major power which is interested in defending Christians and Christianity. It's transformation from a militantly atheistic state to an unashamedly Christian one is the religion story of the moment, IMHO.
Point taken. I was thinking more in terms of the perverse mental conditioning of all or a substantial portion of a population, which we have been able to observe and verify during our lifetime.
Stalin's use of the device, of course, predates all of those you listed. Obama is not quite there, he has not yet conditioned the average man to unhesitantly repeat his lies as a means of survival or even just improving his lot in life.
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