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Essence of Time. Chapter 24

4 years ago

Major challenges exist. They are formidable, unambiguous, and obvious. The consciousness mobilizes quickly against them.

There are also challenges of a diffuse kind. Some diseases are like this… For example, multiple sclerosis. These challenges are like dots on a certain board: one square has one figure, and another square has a different one. The squares are ambiguous, and so are the pieces… and all you need is for a certain composition to take shape. The very moment when that composition finally takes shape, you die. But before the composition takes shape, nothing happens. That is the danger.

Essence of Time. Chapter 23

4 years ago

1 (Links to previous Chapters are available here: Volume I, Volume II, and Chapter 21, 22) July 5, 2011. The great twentieth-century German…

Essence of Time. Volume II

5 years ago

The translation of the ten chapters from Volume II of the book Essence of Time is published. Each one of the chapters 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.

Essence of Time. Chapter 20

5 years ago

Perestroika is a global phenomenon. This is not one perestroika, but a plurality of perestroikas. The chain of these perestroikas is supposed to build an entirely new and unprecedentedly inhumane order.

Essence of Time. Chapter 19

5 years ago

“Save yourself, and around you thousands will be saved.” We have to say today that the consciousness and the worldview have sustained serious damage. The essence of this damage lies in a severe historical inferiority complex imposed on our people.

Essence of Time. Chapter 18

5 years ago

The regress began with the fall. The fall began the moment when the historical path, the historical ideal was abandoned. The people’s brains were then subjected to a shock. And the people, having lost their minds, were defeated at this moment of temporary insanity.

Essence of Time. Chapter 17

5 years ago

Perestroika was an abomination, during which the authorities were consciously destroying the country. But then we need to give a complete explanation about how exactly they destroyed it…

Essence of Time. Chapter 16

6 years ago

The point of “de-Stalinization” is the key point of the global process. Nobody cares about Stalin; everyone cares about revising the results of World War II, and about building a new type of world on this foundation, in which Russia, if it allows this revision, will not have a place.

Essence of Time. Chapter 15

6 years ago

Modernity voiced its main thesis: life is hopeless. You want to believe in something? Fine, that’s your own private business. But we (Modernity) are building everything on the basis of inconsolability. We all live and die here. Our fate is death!

The Russians ask (and now, the whole world with them, for this inconsolability managed to live for a century, but then everything stopped), “Why then? Why do we need all these riches if we are all going to die? Why do we need all this?”

Essence of Time. Chapter 14

6 years ago

The de-Stalinizers looked pale, very sad and depressed, precisely because they knew perfectly well that I was not lying. I am not bluffing, I do not create myths, I am not engaging in manipulating consciousness – I want to know the state of affairs in our society. And not just myself alone, but all those who joined this poll. And we found out. This is the most objective data to be obtained over many, many years.