14.08.2022, Aleksandrovkoye.
Forming an integral perception of surrounding events in Man takes a great effort, while throwing him in the abyss of secondary barbarity is much easier, political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on August 8 in his original program Destiny published in the movement’s YouTube channel.
Commenting the regressive trends in Russia today and their effect on public life, Sergey Kurginyan indicated how easily entire communities have been thrown into regress in the 20th century.
“Man is not born with such a perception. It is formed in him with a great effort. It is very, very difficult to raise Man to the capability for this perception of what is happening around him. Throwing him down from the achieved heights into the abyss of barbarity is much easier,” the political scientist said. “It is no problem at all to throw him into barbarity and post-humanity. Besides, the entire 20th and 21st centuries have demonstrated that it is an extremely thin and fragile film that coats all that totally lacks the achievements that we call systemic, cultural, including the achievements of civilization.”
The political scientist proposed the concepts of “progress” and “regress” to describe the ascendance and the descent of Man, respectively. The scientist warned against equalizing progress per se to the idea of a linear progress or to the scientific and technical progress. He reminded that if Man fails it zeroes his scientific and technical capabilities.
“A Dostoevsky’s hero rightfully said that ‘if you turn into rudeness you will never invent even a nail.’ Therefore, instead of indicating various drawbacks of the theory of progress or looking into false modifications of this progress, let us just acknowledge that progress should be understood as the movement from simplicity, which almost makes Man equal to beast, towards certain complexity, which can enrich him and encourage him to ascend,” Kurginyan explained.
To explain the concept of regress, the political scientist suggested that a healthy person should be compared to a person after a stroke.
“Go to a hospital and look at the result of e.g. a stroke or another damage to the part of the brain that formed in the human being at the latest stage of his ascension. Look at a patient in whom this sphere is damaged, and look at a healthy person in whom it is intact. The difference is obvious, isn‘t it?” Sergey Kurginyan asked.
Further, he suggested that a similar damage could happen because of different factors, including social ones.
“If you see that a healthy person, due to a brain disease, has suffered simplification and loss of certain complexity, why cannot you call this regress? And of you see that a healthy person, for reasons other than a disease (alcohol abuse, a loose way of life, drug abuse, social degradation) demonstrates the disorder that you previously saw in a patient, why cannot you call this regress, i.e. a secondary simplification of the productive complexity that Man had first achieved and then lost for some reasons?” the political scientist extended his thesis.
According to the expert, such loss can be rightfully called regress.
Sergey Kurginyan also indicated the obvious difference between primitive societies and societies that have passed certain stages of development.“One can have all reasons to admire the so-called primitive societies and find an impressive complexity in their primitiveness. But the difference between a society that has passed the stages of slavery, feudalism etc., and a society that remains in the stone age is obvious. You can express regret for the bitter fruits of civilization, but still you see that complexity is complexity. And that achieving this complexity, i.e. writing, advanced culture, printing, technology, is what progress is,” Kurginyan concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
