04.04.2025, Moscow.
Absolutization of pragmatism and technocracy is dangerous because it ultimately leads to perceiving human either as a beast or a machine, political scientist, philosopher, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan wrote in his analytical article “On the Verge of Catastrophe,” published in The Essence of Time newspaper, issue 624.
“It is not pragmatism and technocracy themselves that are dangerous – they allowed to create the nuclear shield, a colossal economy, victories in space exploration, the military-industrial complex that won the war along with the Red Army (one cannot exist without the other) and much more. It is precisely the absolutization of this pragmatism and technocracy that is dangerous,” the philosopher said.
Kurginyan explained that such absolutization creates an imbalance between absolute concentration on the material sphere and what can be called humanitarian barbarism. “Being dangerous in itself, this imbalance also gives rise to something completely terminal,” he added.
With some reservations, this something can be called a relative equating of human either with a machine, or with a beast, or with both, the philosopher explained.
“If such an equation takes place, the only thing Russia could rely on disappears: faith in the uniqueness and infinity of everything that is given to Man in the form of his so-called hidden potential,” Kurginyan emphasized.
In the coming decades, this potential must be put at the forefront, the philosopher stated. Otherwise, “the actual collapse of the Homo Sapiens species and its transformation into ‘a dry branch on the tree of evolution ‘ is guaranteed,” the political scientist explained.
“While it is important to discuss which foreign scenario will be used to implement THIS, what matters far more is ensuring that THIS does not happen at all. Especially since THIS will definitely not be implemented within the framework of the Russian tradition, no matter how you understand it,” Kurginyan emphasized.
“THIS will not speak in Russian. And it should not. Something ELSE should speak in Russian. But THIS can only participate in the destruction of Russianness as such. Because Russianness and THIS are incompatible for many reasons. The main one is that Russianness is a product of the systemic rejection of THIS and the conviction that THIS can be resisted,” the philosopher explained.
If such rejection and conviction disappear, then Russianness as such will disappear. First and foremost, culturally, and later in the integral humanitarian sense, and then in general, Kurginyan concluded.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
