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Passion on Kipling

February 14, 2011 Ivan Starikov

(Thinking the day before
Presidium of the State Council by
national issue)

Oh, the West is the West,
The East is the East,
And they will not come from places,
It does not appear yet
The sky with earth on
The terrible Lord is the court.
But there is no east, and there is no West,
that the tribe, homeland, clan,
If strong with a strong face
Does the edge of the earth get to the face?

Redyard Kipling

The postulate attracts, and the theorem requires.

In the widely known quote from Kipling - three parts, three statements, each of which is worthy of a separate consideration.

To begin with, "the West is the West, the East is the East, and they will not come from places ...".

We came together. Globalization is to blame. It all starts with the transformation of productive forces. Just-they borrow a machine and adopt technologies. No one longs for changes in production relations, especially in the highest superstructure: in terms of ideology, politics, ideals, morality and basic values ​​of being. But, as cockroaches brought with furniture, they live a new kitchen, and samples of a different culture dissolved in everything that lies with the imprint of human activity, invade national consciousness.

When borrowing any forms of life, everyone else is inevitable, because they make up a single system. In other words: Fry Fugu - drink sake.

No one dances the folk dancing of Guinea-Bisau and does not sink the songs of the coast of ivory. But the whole world has long been engaged in karate, reads and watches stories about geisha, honor the Code of Samuraev, is afraid of Yakuza, knows who Hokusai is, and shows his children cartoons about Totoro. You don’t want Yakitoria to appear instead of the dining rooms - do not go to Toyota, go to Moskvich. Yes, do not forget to abandon land and Basabi.

The world is doomed to unity and merger.

A completely fantastic, unimaginably huge role in this inevitable merger is played by the Internet. Born in the depths of the Pentagon, he escaped to freedom and today led to the formation of a single planetary brain. On an optical fiber, each of us is associated with the rest of the world. The whole planet is a single brain. The case is small - the unity of the planetary body. So, nevertheless, contrary to the forecast of Kipling, the East and the West is destined to converge. Like a lithospheric slabs, the reduced movements of magma, cultures of the West and East move towards each other. But in this case, earthquakes and volcanoes are inevitable. It is also important which of these tilt cultures will be from above, and which will go into the non-existence of the melt.

Already today the world speaks in one general language, and it is not by chance that this language is English. Well, since the language is a soul, is it necessary to continue this sad story for 9/10 of the world?

And do you believe that the world, the one who is just mastering English, dutifully accepts its fate? Or do you think that the third world war, a war of cultures, may assume a peace agreement? If so, what can a peace agreement of Christianity and Islam look like? How can I reconcile European culture with the culture of the East? Is it weak to imagine how, grimacing and twisting in tasks, will the gay march will go through the streets of Tehran? And after them, Topless and with the banners of a feminist woman? Behind them with syringes - drug addicts shouting slogans about freedom? Next are the columns of pedophiles in cassocks, the last nightmare of the Holy See. Weak ... That's it.

But if “Ivanes who do not remember kinship” are said about us, then the Caucasus remembers kinship. And the mullahs, who honor the traditions of Sharia and knowing the Koran by heart, will not allow the penetration of emancipation ideas into the thoughts and feelings of the ward of the flock. The tolerance of the Democratic West also exhausted itself, which was said at the recent meeting of European leaders in Munich. Cultural assimilation of the Arabs and Turks was expected, but it came out the other way around. Not ready for assimilation, keeping their culture, rapidly multiplying representatives of Islam in Europe are about to elect their president, chancellor, prime minister.

The globalization, which is drawn by the magmatic course of globalization, adjusted to the Internet, the lithospheric slabs of cultures of the West and the East came together. Faced with foreheads in the informational, economic and resource space, they were absolutely not ready to accept the values ​​of each other's being, not even ready for the idea of ​​the essential transformation of their worldview foundations. And if in the upcoming bloody battle the West, who had lost his passionarity among the syringes, is not ready for action, then the East has long been walking in the belts of the Shahids.

Is Kipling so wrong?

Not at all.

Read on: "Until the heaven and earth appear to the court of the Lord."

Ahh ... so it has already begun? Busy researching prices for beach sun loungers in Hurghada, we missed ... the end of the world? So long the expected apocalypse has already begun?

It may well be. The poles moved from their seats, the ozone bedspread broke out, volcanoes and earthquakes are shaking the planet, the three -dimensional sun demonstrates the languages ​​of the proofs, the Mayan calendar counts its last days, and the aphiza is unauthorizedly approaching the Earth and is already visible in telescopes.

What are we doing?

We pretend that nothing happens. The upper decilled group is living, building palaces and yachts. Who is larger, longer and wider? The longer all of Abramovich. Putin's most of all. The worst of all - Khodorkovsky: everything is and there is nothing. Fourteen years old - the stink of pairs, hands behind him and grow old without a wife and children. "The thief should be in prison"? But we were all made with thieves! In addition to our will. We are all with you - thieves! Or yet, not everyone runs away from taxes with gray envelopes? Well, wait a little more, and here they are 47% of taxes on wages in a poor country with destroyed production, and then certainly - everything is excessively. Why is one and not the one who should sit?

“Get up! The court is coming! "

Time to reconsider the attitude to the basic human rights. Time to introduce the category of "sin" into worldly space. To begin with, based on ideas about natural expediency. Time to start repentance and dialogue. Time to create a planet parliament. Bicameral. Superfantic. So that even Somali pirates have their own faction. Boris Moiseev, God forbid him health, with Elton John will agree who they will lead the faction. Ayatollah Khamenei side by side with Pope. Ahmadinjad next to Netanyahu. And around the clock, on the air, without abysses, to directly and consistently turn the rules of being in the new global world. Otherwise, the conflict of the two civilizations cannot be avoided, and this will be more terrible than all world wars and many.

How is Kipling?

If strong With strong face To face u edges Earth Get up .

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