I read all the interview with Alexander Dugin, Russian political analyst. Interview is pretty long, and got to say that I don't agree with all his views, but there was one part, worth even to share. So I hope you will like it and maybe even learn something from it.
"I think that the West is becoming stupid in front of our eyes. It can’t even deal with itself, can’t describe itself correctly, and its attempts to describe others are even more comic. Western people weren’t always like that. I have researched very carefully when it was that the mental collapse of Western society began. Europe and the West weren’t always as idiotic as they are now. This idiocy grew very gradually in the 70s, and the 1980s were the turning point. When we read scientific literature written in the 70s, liberal, left, and right, we’re immersed in a world of openly honest people."
"They can be mistaken, say untrue things, but they are all genuinely dedicated to the logos. And then there’s some kind of frontier, when they all started to lie, which in my opinion is connected to a shift of liberals to the left. Suddenly, Western society began to become very stupid; it became narrower and narrower. Formally it continued along the same lines as before, but something had changed. It’s the same thing with rock music.
Society decline started in 70s
My friends who are specialists tell me that you can listen to a certain band up to 1975, but after that you can’t, and it’s the case with all of them. It’s what Jung called ‘abaissement de niveau mental’, a lowering of the mental state. The decline of Europe about which Spengler wrote took place in the 1980s in the consciousness of Western people. Westerners were open, free, liberal; they allowed many points of view; they were critical; they listened to one another.
And suddenly, this all changed. One has the impression that the spirit of totalitarianism and stupidity transferred from us to you. We had a totalitarian ideology, the Germans were fascist. And now, liberal ideology turned into a totalitarian one. Political correctness – the idea that one can’t call things by their proper names – has created a situation in which the things Westerners say have been deprived of any meaning. Westerners’ evaluations have ceased to correspond to any rational procedures. We experienced this in the 30s, when people were accused of just about anything, without giving them any right to speak, and on this basis, sentence was pronounced. This is how the American education system now works." - Interview taken from Irrusianality website
Dugin is for internal use (for Russians, and especially those who still can not make up mind with the fact that they are neither an empire nor USSR any more, but just a country with 1.5% of world economy).
May be. But most things he said about EU and western society (I live in south-central EU) are pretty correct. But as I've wrote, some of his views (not in this article - but on the whole interview) are putting Russia way higher as it really is.
I would have to say that it started much earlier than the 1970s. The 1970s is only when the real damage from the 1960s started to become apparent. The totalitarian infiltration in our mentality was planted back then, and then carefully groomed for decades until it exploded into what we have now.
Interesting. But I didn't come across this subject matter. Yet. I'll try to find something useful. Thanks
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