Ruslands vanærekultur

På hhv. Twitter og Threadreader.

Vanære forklarer faktisk mange observerede træk godt.

"This is a culture that views acting in good faith as merely the last resort of "psychologically weak" people. It respects only consequences, personal consequences."

Fra anden (og snusket) kant:

"The first thing people ask you is, ‘What do you do? Where are you?’ Everybody in this town has a book deal. In Russia, nobody thinks about that shit! You get together, everybody gets shitfaced, and everyone assumes nobody has anything going on because who does? Nobody.”

Thread by @Bunnyrabert on Thread Reader App

@Bunnyrabert: Several complementary pillars, of the russian phenomenon, continuously recreate the kind of societal dysfunction, that gives us its genocidal tendencies, its intolerance, its corruption, its imperialis...?

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