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Characteristics. 1. Indifference ... fits most people around the world. 2. Avoidance of taking any individual responsibility. Sounds very western to me, but i

Characteristics. 1. Indifference ... fits most people around the world. 2. Avoidance of taking any individual responsibility. Sounds very western to me, but it's not the state that's supposed to provide. It's everyone else who's expected to accept demands and wishes. 3. Chauvinism. The dominant cultural influence in the EU is the US. News are biased towards the west and rarely ever contain anything substantial from outside, unless it's to bash someone. No matter how much people travel to other countries, they're still the same domesticated apes when they've returned. 4. Obedience. Oh boy, europe got plenty of that and people don't even realize. 5. Heavy drinking. Well, that's actually typically Austrian. Though "heavy" is relative, of course. Someone drinking three beers daily might not be drinking vodka, but it's still alcohol and it's still daily. They'd not be considered a "heavy drinker" there, yet, of course they are. This submission is just mindless bashing. There's no point in attacking the russian people like this. You should look at how stupid and degenerated your own people are. I can assure you that, without knowing where you're from, you're living in a massive blob of them.

throwaway0a5e 5y ago
>This submission is just mindless bashing. There's no point in attacking the russian people like this. You should look at how stupid and degenerated your own people are. I can assure you that, without knowing where you're from, you're living in a massive blob of them. I can't speak to the USSR or Europe but having lived and worked in about half a dozen US states I assure you the authoritarianism is not evenly distributed. In my observation it seems to track with government ability to enforce whatever its whims are (which correlates strongly with wealth), ability of people to cater to those whims and jump through those hoops (also wealth correlated) and inability of the people to affect said government whims they disagree with or are hurting them without the blessing of those currently holding power.
MichaelMoser123 5y ago
I think there was this theory of concergence between capitalism and socialism. It was a thing back in the seventies. I still think that the authors of this theory were on to something.. The link to an article from the soviet encyclopedia (they didn't like the idea, actually) https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Convergence+Theory#:~:text=a%20modern%20bourgeois%20theory%20according,convergence%E2%80%9D%20was%20taken%20from%20biology https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Convergence+Theo....

throwaway0a5e 5y ago

>This submission is just mindless bashing. There's no point in attacking the russian people like this. You should look at how stupid and degenerated your own people are. I can assure you that, without knowing where you're from, you're living in a massive blob of them. I can't speak to the USSR or Europe but having lived and worked in about half a dozen US states I assure you the authoritarianism is not evenly distributed. In my observation it seems to track with government ability to enforce whatever its whims are (which correlates strongly with wealth), ability of people to cater to those whims and jump through those hoops (also wealth correlated) and inability of the people to affect said government whims they disagree with or are hurting them without the blessing of those currently holding power.

MichaelMoser123 5y ago

I think there was this theory of concergence between capitalism and socialism. It was a thing back in the seventies. I still think that the authors of this theory were on to something.. The link to an article from the soviet encyclopedia (they didn't like the idea, actually) https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Convergence+Theory#:~:text=a%20modern%20bourgeois%20theory%20according,convergence%E2%80%9D%20was%20taken%20from%20biology https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Convergence+Theo....