Society

Authoritarian democracies, as ours proved to be during the Covid flu epidemic, as well as tyrannies, deliberately instill fear in their subjects to keep them in a state of awe. Fear is a primary reaction common to all humans and animals, with an indispensable function of adaptation to the environment.

It is said that history does not know the subjunctive. In reality, it is the bad historians who do not know it. In history there is always a set of options - if this were not true, it would have to be considered a destiny, a super-determined mystical process in which there is neither subject nor free will. History is a clash of wills and a competition of options: as soon as one of them wins, the other options simply fall away. But, as long as there is no winner and there is a struggle, history has a probabilistic character.

Today, hardly anyone would say that in the last 30 years, since the 1990s, the world has clearly been in a state of degrading evolution, but it started earlier, in the 1970s, under the cover of the leap into the future that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. This degrading evolution can be seen as one side of the terminal phase of the systemic crisis of capitalism.

As the clock strikes midnight, today marks two years since Daria Platonova Dugina became the name of a generation, a turning point, an explosive revelation whose waves are still unfolding.