Evil abstraction: the psychology of totalitarianism

[Lou Gold]

Also, for anyone interested, here is Alexander Dugin, a prominent Russian Slavianophilist philosopher.

Slavianophilists really gotta come up with a cooler name for that fixated separate identity notion if they want anyone to join in

The only '-ophile' I can relate to is being a musicophile, and with that I think I'll chime out of the rhetorical quagmire, with not even one POV I can ponder without feeling despair, and let the pentup woundup windup dressup doll of this politico persona wind down, returning to a state of quietude to the tune of this Warrior ...

Dana, I grok your good-natured, light-hearted and soulful desire to get out of the insanity but your preference for a "cooler name" than "Slavianophilists" clearly reflects your status as an Anglophile. I mean no criticism. At some level we are all some version of an "-ophile" and the challenge of transcending self-and-other tension remains.

[Soul_of_Shu]

Dana, I grok your good-natured, light-hearted and soulful desire to get out of the insanity but your preference for a "cooler name" than "Slavianophilists" clearly reflects your status as an Anglophile.

You're imagining this.

[Lou Gold]

Dana, I grok your good-natured, light-hearted and soulful desire to get out of the insanity but your preference for a "cooler name" than "Slavianophilists" clearly reflects your status as an Anglophile.

You're imagining this.

For sure, I'm imagining. Got a suggestion for a cooler name not in English?

[Soul_of_Shu]

For sure, I'm imagining. Got a suggestion for a cooler name not in English?

Can a joke just be a joke? But hey, I'll see if my poetic sensibilities can be so inspired.

[Lou Gold]

For sure, I'm imagining. Got a suggestion for a cooler name not in English?

Can a joke just be a joke? But hey, I'll see if my poetic sensibilities can be so inspired.

Of course, but I wanted to stimulate your most creative poetic skills.

[Soul_of_Shu]

For sure, I'm imagining. Got a suggestion for a cooler name not in English?

Can a joke just be a joke? But hey, I'll see if my poetic sensibilities can be so inspired.

Of course, but I wanted to stimulate your most creative poetic skills.

Someone already came up with Slavisimo! As I'm into learning spanish these days, how about amanteslavos, which kinda rolls lovely off the tongue ... Just realized, duhh, that the words slav and slave have the same derivation, sclava, meaning captive. Rather speaks volumes about why those folks might feel some very deep grievances, and crave a more superior self view.

[Lou Gold]

Can a joke just be a joke? But hey, I'll see if my poetic sensibilities can be so inspired.

Of course, but I wanted to stimulate your most creative poetic skills.

Someone already came up with Slavisimo! As I'm into learning spanish these days, how about amanteslavos, which kinda rolls lovely off the tongue ... Just realized, duhh, that the words slav and slave have the same derivation, sclava, meaning captive. Rather speaks volumes about why those folks might feel some very deep grievances, and crave a more superior self view.

Yeah, the scars and scares run so deep. One understandably seeks refuge in music. With the pull of events drawing one toward Europe, I'm immersed in Spiegel im Spiegel of Arvo Pärt, which somehow goes very deep into my heart. May its peace spread.

[Soul_of_Shu]

Of course, but I wanted to stimulate your most creative poetic skills.

Someone already came up with Slavisimo! As I'm into learning spanish these days, how about amanteslavos, which kinda rolls lovely off the tongue ... Just realized, duhh, that the words slav and slave have the same derivation, sclava, meaning captive. Rather speaks volumes about why those folks might feel some very deep grievances, and crave a more superior self view.

Yeah, the scars and scares run so deep. One understandably seeks refuge in music. With the pull of events drawing one toward Europe, I'm immersed in Spiegel im Spiegel of Arvo Pärt, which somehow goes very deep into my heart. May its peace spread.

Now wondering what the russian term for 'slavic' folks is, what they call themselves, as opposed to a name imposed upon them. Google translate comes up with славянский, which when pronounced comes out as slavyanskiy, so seemingly still the same derivation. But perhaps Eugene knows another more colloquial term?

[Eugene I.]

Now wondering what the russian term for 'slavic' folks is, what they call themselves, as opposed to a name imposed upon them. Google translate comes up with славянский, which when pronounced comes out as slavyanskiy, so seemingly still the same derivation. But perhaps Eugene knows another more colloquial term?

славянский is the only term I'm aware of, or another grammatic form of it is славянe
It's not a coincidence that "slavic" and "slave" has the same root, slavery is in our genes and culture, as Anton Chekhov said “Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.” All history of Russia is attempting to rebel against slavery once in a while only to quickly snap back into some other form of it.

[Soul_of_Shu]

Now wondering what the russian term for 'slavic' folks is, what they call themselves, as opposed to a name imposed upon them. Google translate comes up with славянский, which when pronounced comes out as slavyanskiy, so seemingly still the same derivation. But perhaps Eugene knows another more colloquial term?

славянский is the only term I'm aware of, or another grammatic form of it is славянe
It's not a coincidence that "slavic" and "slave" has the same root, slavery is in our genes and culture, as Anton Chekhov said “Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.”

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