Obama Presidency Marks ‘End of Western Civilization’: Argumenty i Facty, Russia
In an article the starts out with the following startling assertion: “You and I are living at a turning point in world history. The only time in the known past to compare it with, is the first century B.C.”, Russian columnist Victor Trostnikov traces Western civilization from the fall of the Roman Republic to the present in order to illustrate why, in the year of our Lord 2008, Western civilization in general and the Protestant ethic that the U.S. is based upon in particular, came to an end.
For Russia’s Argumenty i Facty, Victor Trostnikov writes in part:
Two thousand eight years after the birth of Christ will for many centuries to come be written in big letters. We are contemporaries during this grand tectonic shift in the fate of humanity, which have been the result of two factors, simultaneously at work. … First of all, a new crisis within the liberal economy has struck on a global scale, having been let off its leash after the disappearance of the communist threat. Second, there has been an unexpected psychological rejection by the American people of the last remnants of the ancient protestant self-reliance.”
Later, portraying Obama as a kinD of modern-day Super-Uncle Tom, Trostnikov writes in part:
“What kind of person Obama is, we don’t know. Americans don’t know either. But the biracial Obama is associated with the kind, soft, personable Uncle Tom. And the people chose to make the White House his cabin, having exiled Anglo-Saxons from it for making such an incredible mess. What will emerge in place of Western civilization is not yet known. But it’s obvious that this civilization, in its current form, came to an end in 2008. Like the Roman Republic, the West is clinging to life, and in doing so may make an even greater mess.”
By Victor Trostnikov
Translated By Yekaterina Blinova
January 21, 2009
Argumenty i Facty – Russia – Original Article (Russian)
It seems that you and I are living at a turning point in world history. The only time in the known past to compare it with, is the first century B.C. – the fateful hours, as Tyutchev put it in his poem Cicero.
Amid internal strife and clinging to life, Republican Rome left history’s stage, and with it the entire ancient world. In its place an empire was about to emerge – the cradle of new, Christian civilization.
In the year 395, the Roman Empire was divided into West, with capital in Rome, and East, with its capital in Constantinople [Byzantium]. Each went its own way.
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6 Responses to “Obama Presidency Marks ‘End of Western Civilization’: Argumenty i Facty, Russia”
What an idiot. (I say that in a very moderate way.)
The old Communist style was a lot like this: sort of your grandfather's generation's idea of name-calling seeming aimed at getting a rise cheaply. I wonder if it's safer to write negatively about the US from Russia, as the Russian secret thugs seem to literally murder any journo or newspaper editor who writes negatively about Putin's preening and his purposely cutting off of natural gas supplies for heat to Europe in the dead midst of winter, freezing the vulnerable elderly and the very young and the ill. I kinda can imagine why its safer to try to strafe the US; sort of a double header: be safe, and win Putin's approval. In the end, not safe. Not safe at all for the writer's soul.
dr.e
Yeah, the Russians have beaten down their own populace so much, and ironically they themselves have been without challenge so much that they are as ridiculous as the emperor with no clothes when it comes to spinning propaganda like this.
It's so obvious and apparent to onlookers outside their country.
I've met a few russians in recent years. They all share a common bond in their personaities: the women are timid, timid and fearful of authority in any form, even in one on one with other people they almost always see as dominant. The men are also timid but express it in latent anger and chronic complaining…the type of thing you'd expect from a passive-aggressive man. They've done no service by their country pressuring their populace this way.
The idea of communism is a good one, as long as morality accompanies it. The idea of capitalism is a good one, as long as morality accompanies it. But either type of government without morality is doomed to failure because of the inevitable and nearly irresistable lure of people aspiring to tyrannical positions of power and influence.
The thing about Obama is that he isn't a tyrant. He's not a perfect person. No one is. He's made some real blunders and stepped on some toes on the way up. But where Putin and Bush seem utterly recalcitrant in the pursuit of self-reflection, introspection and self-improvement, Obama is thoughtful, repentant and open to new ways of doing things that improve the common condition of mankind as a whole and not just himself (as maybe he started out doing).
The russians underestimate the inner core of Americans. We will return to morality. Perhaps not puritan, protestant, christian or other religious dogmatic professed-but-not-actualized morality, but instead a real and actualized one…more practical…realizing we must all get along to make things flow smoothly. An elective communism so-to-speak.
I'd like to see Russia back off it's people and allow the same thing to blossom.
dear silhouette
I'd like permission to quote from your comment in an article at TMV. May I have your permission, please?
dr.e
Mr. Kern:
After reading Trostnikov's piece, my only reaction is: Are you kidding. This is no more an alternative point of view than Intelligent Design. Trostnikov seems to lack even minimal understanding of either American politics or American culture. I've read other pieces by this fellow and have generally had the same reaction.
Isn't he the one who predicts that the U.S. will be split into 4 or 5 nations by 2012?
It's important that we see ourselves as others see us, but, for pity's sake, please insure that the “others” are looking through clear lenses.
Richard York
Probably he is right, but it will take a couple of decades. In a couple of decades whites will be a minority in America and there will NEVER again be a white President in America. A permanent affirmativa action coalition (afro-asian-indian) will share Power and hold the oval office.
I am European and I think Western Civilisation in America has come to and End. It is evident.