DoomsdaysCWHear hear, @LetsRoc !!! 💯
AdeptVeritatisSo you are part of those? Why do you criticize it then?
I've been an anti-war activist since the 1980s, @AdeptVeritatis . I've spent most of my life criticizing the US.
Trump saying, Iran needs regime change, is the same as you saying, US needs regime change.
(I know, there are A LOT of differences.)
But if _we_ cannot break that cycle, how do we want to tell others how to break the cycle?
The disruptive regime change itself is wrong. The whole idea. Even for us.
I fall for it again and again.
Russia? Regime change!
US? Regime change!
How can _we_ break that cycle?
>How can _we_ break that cycle?<
The term "intelligentsia" emerged in my head yesterday. I read the wiki page and 🤯 it explains a lot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligentsia
Especially revealing were the different views about the intelligentsia at different times from different people.
The "See also" section directly answered my next question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism
And again 🤯. It is not only about 3rd Reich, Russia and China. The section about the US is huuuge!
That is one of our problems.
Wanted to add @taatm to the discussion, because I am interested in similar Wikipedia articles like in the post above.
If you have some interesting terms to read about, I would like to know.
back to intelligentsia:
"The phenomenon [...] is, I suppose, the largest, single Russian contribution to social change in the world. The concept of intelligentsia must not be confused with the notion of intellectuals."
"the tsars did not recognize "progress" as a legitimate aim of the state, to the degree that Nicholas II said "How repulsive I find that word" and wished it removed from the Russian language."
Putin: "when revolutionary—not evolutionary—changes come, things can get even worse. The intelligentsia should be aware of this. And it is the intelligentsia specifically that should keep this in mind and prevent society from radical steps and revolutions of all kinds. [...] We need decades of calm and harmonious development."
Russia has a deep conservative and anti-intellectual backwards mentality.
Same probably for the US. The education system is broken and their universities are billion dollar companies, gutted from any intellectualism to make money.
But I might need to correct myself. Putin is afraid of revolution. I was convinced, the evolutionary way is better. But maybe revolution has its use cases.
Disruptive changes like a regime change from the outside seem to be a bad option.
But revolutions from the inside? When Putin is afraid of, they must be effective.
(thx for reading)
The Animal and the Machine@AdeptVeritatis @DoomsdaysCW
I think the starting premise misses the point. Non-democracies should be regime changed but only forcibly so when the cost is lower than not doing so.
Judging regime change itself is like judging a hammer. 🔨
The real question is what is the hammer used for?