Ideology in SRussia (Soviet Russia) and Bushmerica (America according to Bushmericans)
12 May
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4th Letter to the Readers (Ideology as a weapon of power elite in SRussia [Soviet Russia] and Bushmerica) One of the topics elaborated in my new book “Ideological Superstitions and Political Misperceptions in 20th-21st Centuries” is the question of the similarity between the psychological postures of power elites in both countries toward their own ideologies. [...]
3rd Letter to the Readers To think mainly/only about making profit or making a living is for adults a condition similar to that of a tiny baby with one desire – to suck mother’s breast. When adult people in our country are seduced/forced to think mainly/only about making bucks and using it for consumption and multiplication they [...]
2nd Letter to the Readers I was born in Soviet Russia and emigrated to US with the hope to live in and participate in Democracy. For me it is especially painful to see when nominally democratic authority figures think in semantic constructions or express themselves in an emotional code, which are both isomorphic to totalitarian sensibility. [...]
1st letter to the Readers For the past eight years we, Americans, were ruled by people who shared with each other the feature that can be named as a fundamental psychological defect – the armored self. You could see this deep psychological infirmity in their facial expressions, in their pantomime; hear it in their intonations. These people [...]
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- 1. Obama, Bush and the 'Armoured Self'
- 2. Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism
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