Russia is never just a nation — it is an idea, a riddle, a continent unto itself draped in contradictions and steeped in centuries of turbulent metamorphosis. To understand it is to accept complexity, to resist the temptations of caricature, and to meet myth with method. In this essay, we plunge beneath the headlines and the hardened rhetoric to confront the Russian enigma head-on.
Tag: narrative
The world we live in is shaped more by perception than reality, often curated by those in power to serve their interests. Whether through education, media, or entertainment, narratives are crafted to influence public opinion, stifle dissent, and justify authoritarian policies. One of the most persistent myths – overpopulation – has been weaponized to create fear, justify restrictions, and manipulate human behavior.
It behooves us to become aware of the many compromises we are making in our day-to-day living. It is harmful and spiritually depressing to carry on as if everything is alright, relying on coping and adapting to get us through. The world around you is doing it’s best to push you toward uniformity and conformity, and that’s why you’ll feel unhinged, edgy, frustrated, confused, alone, and directionless. That’s the point, so you will forever choose to defer to their authority, their priorities, and their values rather than sitting quietly a few times a day and discerning your own. It’s tyrannical, if not clever. Just pause more often and have a good look at what you’re being, doing, thinking, accepting, integrating, and acting out.
It’s August 2024. This is a watershed moment in Canadian history, and for Western nations in general. For example, consider Bill C-63. It is introduced, in part, under the guise of an amorphous, ambiguous concept such as “online harm,” but, in practice, it will result in increased censorship, social unrest, and further instills and legitimizes communist sociopolitics in the future. When a law is intentionally left unclear, ill-defined, and open to interpretation based on the politics of those involved, it’s a dangerous, slippery slope that will put the “Digital Safety Office,” their enforcers in the police services, and the unwitting judiciary in hot water.
A society will eventually destabilize and collapse as a result of this overly simplistic and yet predictable agenda in which anyone can be fined, arrested, tried, or imprisoned for simply speaking up and sharing their opinion, whether online or not. Heaven forbid you ever criticize or insult our era’s foolish, narcissistic, corrupt, captured, and cowardly politicians.
I am grateful to have been born a few decades before the woke, race, gender, DEI, and medical-industrial psychological operations, among others, were in full swing. I’m grateful, too, to have always had a different way of looking at life in general — not that it has made the journey any easier. Quite the opposite, in fact. The hearts and minds of the young today are under constant assault from all directions, and as tech devices of perpetual surveillance and screens of all sizes are ubiquitous and omnipresent, it requires a truly awake and aware, consciously deliberate choice to limit your exposure to the persistent mind control, indoctrination, and propaganda inundating everyone, all the time, everywhere, all at once.