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Kamil Galeev: The media and the academia are obsessed with the unimportant.
Western discourse in Russia is mostly a projection of Western intellectuals. They project their fears, of course. But also their hopes and dreams
Being the King’s Philosopher, a brain behind the tyrant, has been a wet dream of intellectuals at least since the days of Plato.
The King is in no need of a “philosopher”. What the King needs is a jester.
“Emotional intelligence” is like “dry water”.
Glubb: “The heroes of declining nations are always the same, the athlete, the singer or the actor”
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 …
