I’ve been thinking about U.S. and Russian culture lately, and have been wondering if Russian culture isn’t superior at the moment. That’s on the border of acceptable thought — Can we see that one culture is superior to another? Certainly cultures go awry due to faulty institutions. The U.S., where I’ve spent most of my 70 years, has a strong culture but is corrupted as the imperial center of power. The wannabe unipolar military intelligence complex reaches into every corner of the world in increasingly Orwellian fashion. Russia is drawing the line and putting Russian lives on the line.
UPDATE:
My view is that Western "culture" is becoming more Orwellian in the sense that certain dystopian viewpoints are becoming accepted without question by the vast majority of the citizenry. Thus, that any country would dare to oppose the U.S. militarily is insane by definition on even the anti-establishment fringes. The most extreme antiwar public believes that Western culture is just lost in corrupt fervor (keeping one's job) rather than the victim of an Orwellian "conspiracy". At what point is such a distinction meaningless?
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