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Kamil Galeev: 34. Our social hierarchies select for high ambition low curiosity people. Productive, socially intelligent, people on the top tend to be shockingly narrow minded. They can’t think out of the box, because they don’t have out of the box knowledge. They never had time to acquire it.
Distraction & destruction
Ianto Watt: Slaves are equal, citizens are free.
Kamil Kazani: “Problematic” is the most powerful rhetorical weapon ever. Just call them problematic and you won. What are they gonna do? Denying you are “problematic” amounts to claiming you are “non-problematic”. You see, it already sounds stupid. NB: Do not add any specific details of why they’re problematic. If you add just a grain of substance into your accusations, you are giving them an easy way out. They may change the topic of conversation to the specifics and escape the trap.
- Russian expansion is often described as a story of hard-won battles. But it was most importantly a story of hostile takeovers. Step by step increase our influence, push in our representatives and so on. There could pass a century between the establishment of actual control and formal annexation.
- Somehow many observers presume that we can ignore the economic context of Russian expansion. They ascribe it to ideological, historical, religious motives. That might not be wrong. But this expansion is critically dependent upon technological import and thus can not proceed without a constant flow of export goods.
- Therefore, maintaining these export flows is a matter of first and foremost importance for the Russian leadership. Their priorities are: to secure the extraction of natural resources, and secure their export to the West. Without taking this into account we can’t understand either Oprichnina, nor Putinomics. Basically we can summarise priorities of the latter as building seaports, railways and pipelines. Everything to secure the continuous export of natural resources.`
Kamil Kazani: When discussing Soviet/Russian policies we tend to focus on irrelevant crap, like which ruler is “liberal”/“democratic” (no one). But the oil prices are a much more important factor behind Kremlin’s policy. Expensive oil -> Aggressive. Cheap oil -> Docile
Kamil Kazani: Russia is not self-sufficient and it never was. It’s not so much an evil empire as a Trade Federation, dependent on technological import from the West and export of natural resources. That’s why every major war without Western allies ended in catastrophe like Crimean or Livonian.
Rovnosť v duchu vyvažuje všetky nerovnosti sveta.
- 20-30: find a good boss
- 30-40: try to do something yourself
- 40-50: do things that you’re good at after 20y or learning
- 50-60: spend the time among young people
- 60+: spend with your grandchildren