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THE LIFE AND FATE OF ALEKSEI NAVALNY OR THE FATE OF A RUSSIAN SOUL

Posted on March 16, 2024 by Colton Treadwell
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>  
> 
> «Говорят, что в конце концов правда восторжествует, но это неправда.» – А.П.
> Чехов [2]

 * The Russian Soul [3]

In Tucker Carlson’s interview with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president
discusses the Russian soul in contrast with the Western soul. As he puts it, the
Russian soul is concerned with matters of Truth and eternity while the Western
soul is concerned with matters of practicality and the here-and-now. As the
interview continues, it becomes clear that, if this is really the core of the
Russian soul, an obsession with eternal Truth, Vladimir Vladimirich Putin is
most certainly not a true representative of the Russian soul. Almost without
skipping a beat, he goes on to talk about why he would never invade a NATO
country such as Latvia, and he presents his reasoning in terms of the practical
‘national’ interests of today rather than eternal Truth. Now, it is far from
clear whether Putin is being entirely honest here, but either way, the point is
moot. If Putin is being honest, his actions on the world stage are motivated by
cynical calculations of national interest rather than by any sort of Truth. If
he is lying, he quite clearly has very little regard for the Truth.   Either
way, it is clear enough that Putin is a piss-poor representation of the Russian
soul as he describes it. A much better representation of the Russian soul and of
the moral complexities found therein can be seen in the opposition leader whom
Putin recently murdered, Aleksei Navalny. Continue reading →

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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO MEAN?

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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Think about the word meaning. What the fuck does it even mean to mean anyway?

The English verb to mean is weird, even for an English word. In a sense, this
verb is ambiguous. 

Its ambiguity comes down to the fact that, being used in broadly the same
grammatical context, there are two distinct but seldom differentiated meanings
of the verb to mean.  Continue reading →

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ПОБЕДА (РЕМЕЙК КРИНДЖСКОЙ КАНАДСКОЙ ПЕСНИ SONS AND DAUGHTERS)

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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Свободен кто-нибудь? 

Когда люди же рабы

Рабы государств 

террористов 

 

Свободен кто-нибудь? 

Когда есть такие случаи 

В нашем ужасном мире 

Нет знака света  Continue reading →

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ТЕЛО ДЖОНА БРАУНА (РЕМЕЙК АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ НАРОДНОЙ ПЕСНИ ГРАЖДАНСКОЙ ВОЙНЫ JOHN
BROWN’S BODY)

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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Тело Джона Брауна лежит в могиле 

Тело Джона Брауна лежит в могиле 

Тело Джона Брауна лежит в могиле 

Душа ходит дальше 

 

Звезды выше на небе ласково смотрят вниз 

Звезды выше на небе ласково смотрят вниз

Звезды выше на небе ласково смотрят вниз 

На могилу Джона Брауна  Continue reading →

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ЮЛЕНЬКА (РЕМЕЙК СОВЕТСКОЙ НАРОДНОЙ ПЕСНИ КАТЮША)

Posted on October 2, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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Расцветали поля Украины 

Обстреляли российские черти 

Выходила на берег Юленька 

На широкий берег у Крыма 

Выходила на берег Юленька 

На широкий берег у Крыма 

 

Выходила, песню Заводила 

Про свободного соловья 

Про того, которого любила

Про того, чьи письма берегла

Про того, которого любила

Про того, чьи письма берегла Continue reading →

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CHANGE IN RUSSIA, INEVITABILITY, AND THE BURDEN OF HISTORY

Posted on August 11, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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In 1986, Victor Tsoi, the frontman of a Russian band called Kino, declared that,
“We await change!” Within just 6 years, the people of the Soviet Union would
receive that long-awaited change when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, but it
was a change which many of them would live to regret ever having taken place.

Across the eastern block, the transition from the command economy which the
Soviets implemented at home and advocated abroad towards the market economy was
a tough process involving the effective ‘thievery’ of the party’s capital (the
results of the labor of the people, most basically) by a handful of oligarchs
who could set the prices of the products of this capital (or degrade the capital
itself), constrained by nothing but the imprecise and untrained hand of the
market. This produced unprecedented inflation and impoverishment. Throughout,
they faced the choice between a path of freedom (further change, further reform,
and further Democracy) and one of falling back into despotism. 

Continue reading →

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THE WAGNER GROUP AND THE PROBLEM OF THE FAILURE TO TRANSLITERATE

Posted on June 25, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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In Russian-occupied Ukraine, there is currently this private terrorist group
which was recently fighting with its Russian-state-led terrorist comrades. They
are called the Vogner Private Military Company, or simply the Vogner Group. Even
if you’ve been following the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine quite closely, you
might be confused right now. After all, in English media, we spell it like this,
so Anglo-Americans often will call it “Wagner” while Anglo-Brits call it
“Wogner,” because people naturally sound out the letters and pronounce the word
how their accent dictates. You see, the group was named after a German composer
called Wilhelm Richard Wagner, appropriately, one of Hitler’s favorite
composers. You’ve certainly heard his music at one point or another. In Russian,
the name is appropriately transliterated as «Вагнер,» but because it is a proper
German noun and German ostensibly uses the same Latin alphabet as us, we use the
German spelling, “Wagner,” even though it inevitably produces improper
pronunciation.  Continue reading →

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NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY OVER LAND AND THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Posted on June 22, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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> “The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of
> saying ‘this is mine,’ and found people simple enough to believe him, was the
> real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from
> how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by
> pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows:
> ‘beware of listening to this imposter; you were undone if you want forget the
> fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the Earth itself to nobody.'”

Thus Jean-Jaques Rousseau described the origin of property rights: as an
unmitigated tragedy. However, Rousseau was far from the opinion that property
rights should be abandoned. Whether or not they were a tragedy, they still
remain, in Rousseau’s view, the foundational principle of civil society which
should be ultimately respected to one extent or another, but it is up to the
sovereign to determine exactly how property should be arranged. Continue reading
→

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NOAM CHOMSKY, AMERIKA, HYPOCRISY, AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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At first glance, especially if one only understands the Anglo tongue,
Rammstein’s “Amerika” might seem like a bizarre tribute to American culture: the
culture that brought us Coca-Cola, Mickey Mouse, Santa Claus, and the Wonderbra.
In truth, though, it is anything but. If you’re at all familiar with Rammstein,
this should come as no surprise as Till Lindemann doesn’t unironically offer
tribute to anything but Dicke Titten. The song is actually about the tragedy of
American cultural and geopolitical hegemony in the aftermath of our bloody and
indefensible invasion of Iraq which took place in 2003, just a year prior to the
song’s release. 

Now, if you have more than two brain cells to rub together, you’ll be struck by
the difference that 20 years can make: committing villainy against Iraq 20 years
ago versus helping Ukraine fight back against Russian villainy today. However,
if you’re Noam Chomsky or Hasan Packer (Buzzfeed call him Woke Bea), then you
know for realzies that nothing has changed because America bad. For reasons that
seem beyond comprehension, Noam Chomsky, possessing the moral and political
instincts of a developmentally delayed Toddler as he does, even emphasizes that,
aktually, America worse than Russia because casualty figures. Of course, there
are many problems with this assertion. You can’t just quantify suffering
abstractly, for one, but beyond all of the problems with this argument, even if
it is obviously true, that doesn’t make it any less morally repugnant. 

Continue reading →

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EMPATHY, ANALOGY, AND MORAL REASONING IN CULTURE WAR POLITICS

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Colton Treadwell
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In Vasya Oblomov’s “Chelovek khoroshii” (roughly translated, “The Person is
Good”), the artist describes everyday acts of kindness that make a person
‘good:’ providing aid to one’s family, strangers, and one’s fellow creatures in
general for its own sake. This raises the question: are people fundamentally (or
even usually) good? In order to avoid an elaboration of Nietzsche’s anti-semitic
tirades as Jordan Basketball Peterson might insist, I will avoid exploring what
‘good’ even means for the time being. Instead, I will rely on the great moral
philosophers of the 18th century (namely Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith)
in concluding that to be good is to be kind and beneficent, and that there is
something which naturally makes humans, to some extent, a socially beneficent
species: empathy. 

However, just as empathy helps humans to engage in socially beneficent behavior
and to build up community cohesion among us, the modern society in which we live
often seems anything but beneficent and cohesive. I would argue that the
failures of empathy (especially its incompleteness) are likewise at the root of
his societal dysfunction.  Continue reading →

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