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Forbes: “it holds 65% of the world’s total arable land, 30% of the world’s mineral reserves, 8% of the world’s natural gas and 12% of the world’s oil reserves.” That includes “40% of the world’s gold” and the “largest reserves of diamonds, cobalt, platinum and uranium” on the planet. Compound that with a population of 1.4 billion people, with many people soon entering the workforce (the median age is 19)"
Politics is not the pursuit of the perfection, but the art of the second best.
Napoleon: There are only two powers in the world – the power of the sword and the spirit… In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.
Kamil Galeev: Putin’s grandfather worked at Lenin’s canteen as a cook Kirilenko’s great-grandfather headed this canteen In a country like Russia they had the highest privilege one can have. The Access to the Body and: Serving at the table = recipe for the upward social mobility
Kamil Galeev: According to Ibn Khaldun, an assabiyah typically lives for four generations: from the conquest to the downfall. It very, very rarely outlives this span. If I remember correctly, Ibn Khaldun himself could name only one single exception to the rule.
Four generations is one human life …
Sorprenderse, extrañarse, es comenzar a entender. Es el deporte y el lujo específico del intelectual. Por eso su gesto gremial consiste en mirar al mundo con los ojos dilatados por la extrañeza. Todo en el mundo es extraño y es maravilloso para unas pupilas bien abiertas. Esto, maravillarse, es la delicia vedada al futbolista, y que, en cambio, lleva al intelectual por el mundo en perpetua embriaguez de visionario. Su atributo son los ojos en pasmo. Por eso los antiguos dieron a Minerva la lechuza, el pájaro con los ojos siempre deslumbrados.
– Ortega y Gasset Jose, La rebelión de las masas.