Russian culture is pretty much the embodiment of might makes right. If you inflict harm on someone weaker than you to prove a point, you’re manly. If you had the opportunity to inflict harm on someone and get away with it, but chose not to, you’re a coward. The military recruitment and hazing process only servers to turn this up to 11.
This has been the basis of Russia for the last 3 centuries if not longer, and its how they think the world should work, but can’t figure out why everyone hates them, especially those both geographically and culturally close to them.
When in Russia, rule as the Russians do, right? Crazy how much influence someone like Ivan the Terrible can have on culture and broader world events from such a distance.
The fact that a culture of extractive economies and strong-man leaders inculcated by a sociopathic nobleman hundreds of years ago can culminate in war crimes, an attempted coup, and the demographic collapse of two countries does not engender in me a profound appreciation for moral relativism. You can pump the brakes and put that one right through the fucking windshield.
Russian culture is pretty much the embodiment of might makes right. If you inflict harm on someone weaker than you to prove a point, you’re manly. If you had the opportunity to inflict harm on someone and get away with it, but chose not to, you’re a coward. The military recruitment and hazing process only servers to turn this up to 11.
This has been the basis of Russia for the last 3 centuries if not longer, and its how they think the world should work, but can’t figure out why everyone hates them, especially those both geographically and culturally close to them.
When in Russia, rule as the Russians do, right? Crazy how much influence someone like Ivan the Terrible can have on culture and broader world events from such a distance.
Puts into perspective that right or wrong are a social construct don’t ya? What we should consider is in what is based our right and wrong.
The fact that a culture of extractive economies and strong-man leaders inculcated by a sociopathic nobleman hundreds of years ago can culminate in war crimes, an attempted coup, and the demographic collapse of two countries does not engender in me a profound appreciation for moral relativism. You can pump the brakes and put that one right through the fucking windshield.