On Popes and Punks
An excerpt: The Pope failed to mention that the Enlightenment, the emergence of reason and rights (including freedom of religion) except in the arts, never reached Russia. Russia has been politically totalitarian, a champion repression and mass murder throughout its history: from pre-Communism to Communism to post-Communism.
China, to me, fits that description. But they are NOT post-communism at this point.
My amazement with Russia... After many visits... Is that the Average Russian is more American than MODERN Americans. (part of that is a BETTER education system, that would gladly EXECUTE a teacher teaching what passes for school in America)...
Personally, I would swap our current president to have Putin... As he would do a better job! Watch the machine guns at the border change things in HOURS...
All of this is aimed at achieving Ellsworth Toohey’s penultimate goal “…Haven’t you been able to catch their theme song – ‘Give up. give up, give up, give up.’?” One Planet, One Government, One Concentration Camp. A downsized human population of a size necessary to produce enough to satisfy what they, the Elites, need to live in the style to which they have become accustomed. For the rest of us; no sunshine, no happiness, no freedom.
If given the choice of living in misery in the knowledge that the Elites were dead, I’d take it in an instant.