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Essence of Time. Volume II

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This is the translation of the ten chapters from Volume II of the book Essence of Time. Each one of them contains Sergey Kurginyan’s thoughts about the essence of our time, about its metaphysics, its dialectics, and their reflection in the key aspects of relevant Russian and global politics. The central theme of the series is the search for paths and mechanisms to escape the systemic and global dead end for all humanity in all of its dimensions: from the metaphysical to the gnoseological, ethical, and anthropological. Thus, to escape the sociopolitical, technological, and economical dead end.
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Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David, 1784

Essence of Time. Chapter 20

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)

June 14, 2011.

 

PART ONE. ACTIVITY

 

In the beginning, I want to discuss our organization and its activity.

If we are only talking, if we are educating one another, and even if we have  intelligent discussions on forums or at conferences, then there is no organization. An organization means activity. Activity, which needs to be planned. Activity, which needs organizational and intellectual support.
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Calm before the storm by Jules Dupre, 1870

Essence of Time. Chapter 19

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)

June 7, 2011.

 

PART ONE. ACTIVITIES

 

I begin each program in this cycle with the subject of our activity.

Let us begin with its specific aspects. We decided to conduct a second public opinion poll. A more detailed and deeper one, the results of which will help us answer a number of questions. This is a large project that will once again require great effort from us. Sociologists agreed to participate in this project. They have already finalized a questionnaire and created a group that will conduct a mathematical analysis of the survey results. More than one and a half thousand volunteers have also said they agree to conduct the survey.
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Seeing the unit of workers to the front by Konstantin Yuon, 1928.

Essence of Time. Chapter 18

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)

May 31, 2011.

 

PART ONE. ACTIVITY.

 

We have already agreed to begin by discussing our activity. And because many questions are being posed about this activity and activity in general, we must try to give clear answers… This is very important.
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Portrait of Stakhanov by Leonid Kotliarov, 1938.

Essence of Time. Chapter 17

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)

May 24, 2011.

Today the residents of Donbass awarded me with the Miner’s Glory of the I degree badge. Meanwhile, I again peered intently into the very aged faces of those who had once managed separate branches of the Soviet economy and the Soviet economy as a whole.

These are amazingly pure faces; these are people on whose faces it is written that they didn’t steal, that they did not derive unparalleled joy from grand larceny. It is written so clearly on their faces; and especially now, with age taking its toll, it becomes even scarier, for it is very clear what has come to replace them.


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Capitulation by P. Krivonogov, 1946.

Essence of Time. Chapter 16

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

May 17, 2011.

 

ACTIVITY AND RELEVANT POLITICS

 

I would like to once again start with our activity; and for this purpose, I will read part of a transcript titled “Meeting with Great Patriotic War veterans and representatives of military-patriotic organizations” found on the Russian President’s official website.
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The Forge by Francisco Goya. 1812-1816

Essence of Time. Chapter 15

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13, 14)

May 15, 2011.

During the previous program, we had to discuss the results of the work already done on the AKSIO program [abbreviated Russian: Agency for Cultural and Social Studies of Society] in great detail, which took a considerable amount of time. This gives us the opportunity today to discuss, without stopping on the Activity portion, the issues of relevant politics, political philosophy and political theory which are also of extreme importance to us.
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Vision by Odilon Redon. 1879.

Essence of Time. Chapter 14

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12, 13)

May 3, 2011.

PART ONE. ACTIVITY.

In this program, I will return to the activities of AKSIO, the Agency for Cultural and Social Research of the Society, because the survey that we have discussed in our previous programs has been completed. Not only has it been completed, but it has already been processed. And a group of sociologists led by Yulia Sergeevna Krizhanskaya has presented the survey’s results. The people who conducted it now all know that this work did not sink into oblivion, that it did not evaporate, but brought about a certain practical result. I will discuss this result discussed in the first part of our program: Activity. Because this is important, because it is not every day that we get results like these, and because these results are rather significant.
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Entry of St Aleksandr Nevsky into Pskov After the Battle on the Ice by Valentin Serov

Essence of Time. Chapter 13

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(Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I and Chapters 11, 12)

April 26, 2011.

PART ONE. ACTIVITY

We have conducted a sociological study as part of “AKSIO” (Agency for Cultural and Social Studies of Society), the second area of activity out of the twelve that we are engaged in. Here are the intermediate results.
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