06-26-2021, 11:45 AM
(06-26-2021, 07:49 AM)Captain Genet Wrote:(06-25-2021, 01:31 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: My suggestion is that Russia has never had a saeculum. It is just too primitive. A country in which the people never have any voice, nor any law other than tyranny, can scarcely have a saeculum.
You need to get over your anti-Russian racism. I'm familiar with Russian philosophy, poetry and cinema and they're anything but primitive, though I agree there is little interest in activism or political participation among the general public outside Moscow and Petersburg.
You seem rather free with your use of the word racism. Since I am Caucasian, and the Caucasus is near Russia, and since slavic peoples are white, I'd have to be racist against myself.
It is exactly the "political participation among the general public" being so slight that leads me to think there is no Russian saeculum. There might be some sort of cycle, and I know Russians have achieved a great deal in many fields in spite of their rulers, but I can't discern anything like the kind of saeculum that we have in the historical record of Russia. Russians don't have access to the kind of popular culture and media that creates social moods either, especially awakening and 3T moods. Russia seems like it is in either 4T or 1T all the time. I could grant that the 500-year cycle of civilization has shown itself in Russia, though.