On the Other Side of the World
Published in Izvestiya
(Russia) on 23 March 2011
by Alexander Dugin (link to original)
(Russia) on 23 March 2011
by Alexander Dugin (link to original)
Translated from
by Abigail Faust.
Edited by Amy Wong.
War in Libya, complete rebellion in the Arab countries, an irreversible global change that will soon affect all of us.
Everything that is happening in the world is happening beneath our windows. “Yesterday” is over, and the real “today” is beginning. There are a few points of reality that are already clear.
The End of the Economy
The global economic crisis has not been overcome, and there are unconquerable inertial methods. The new bubble of the fictional financial economy isn’t growing, and the myth of the sustainability of democratic society has collapsed. Neither the U.S. nor Europe has emerged from the 2008 crisis. Abandoning the world, nothing secured with green paper will be able to continue. No one even has a long-term plan of possible alternatives. All bets were made on that which has crumbled. This means a global market crash. An economical person will continue to live. He will turn out to not be at the top of this virtual scheme and will come into opposition against them.
The End of Democracy
We have arrived at the limits of the globalization of liberal democracy. It was extremely effective in a certain historic time in the full context of definite geographic regions (Europe and America) and also in several colonial zones. When attempting to transfer liberal democracy to the rest of humanity, some unexpected effects have occurred. It either doesn’t work, releases non-democratic forces (which happened in Europe in the 30s) or slips into chaos. The more they insist on global democracy, the more they undermine even those countries where it was previously effective. Migrants bring with them powerfully destructive social attitudes. Today, even the most cautious of the European leaders are talking about the multicultural crisis.
The End of America
It turns out that the U.S. is not in a position to manage the burden of world supremacy. Today, no one directly disputes its power, but under the weight of this power, it degenerates into rashness. Acting quickly and forthright, in contrast to the shrewd and wary British empire, America acts before it thinks, and over and over again it’s too late. Today, the U.S. is engaged in three interventions even though there is no hope that in the future there will be some sort of agreement with American standards. If you add its involvement with the chain revolution in the Arab countries, it’s possible to say that it has entered into its latest imperial campaign. All of the objectives of the United States have two outcomes: Either to break down and receive kickbacks from the surge of “mimetic weapons” (which it launched into action through the Twitter-revolution) or to drop out of the global conflict in the spirit of the entire Third World. Only in the course of this war will it be possible to write off all previous failures and thus reset the balance.
The End of the Known World
Carrying out a simple operation and adding in the three factors: The end of the economy + the end of democracy + the end of America results in the end of the known world.
Here, a screen with an expert’s face pops up (you can supply the correct name yourself) and says, “Discard these catastrophic forecasts, for it stands to reason that everything will be regulated and the economic machine will start to work (Capitalism isn’t the first to face such challenges; all systems here work from crisis to crisis and are only stronger because of them). Democracy will be victorious (we only have to reject Islamic society with its corrupt dictator regimes), and the U.S., stronger than ever before, will be ready to carry the world of progress, technological development, freedom and democracy. We won’t talk about the third world war, and there is no suicide in the world. It does not happen in today’s civilized world.”
This head is simply fulfilling orders, and maybe it’s not only lying to us, but also to itself. There are different kinds of heads, among them the mostly empty.
The crisis of capitalism in the 20th century led twice to world war. In the course of the democratic elections in Germany in the 1930s, representatives of civil society elected the Nazi Party. The U.S. has been forced into a dead end; they can’t be the world hegemony, and they can’t not be. It’s unresolvable.
The expert’s head disappears, and the screen grows dark.
Everything that is happening in the world is happening beneath our windows. “Yesterday” is over, and the real “today” is beginning. There are a few points of reality that are already clear.
The End of the Economy
The global economic crisis has not been overcome, and there are unconquerable inertial methods. The new bubble of the fictional financial economy isn’t growing, and the myth of the sustainability of democratic society has collapsed. Neither the U.S. nor Europe has emerged from the 2008 crisis. Abandoning the world, nothing secured with green paper will be able to continue. No one even has a long-term plan of possible alternatives. All bets were made on that which has crumbled. This means a global market crash. An economical person will continue to live. He will turn out to not be at the top of this virtual scheme and will come into opposition against them.
The End of Democracy
We have arrived at the limits of the globalization of liberal democracy. It was extremely effective in a certain historic time in the full context of definite geographic regions (Europe and America) and also in several colonial zones. When attempting to transfer liberal democracy to the rest of humanity, some unexpected effects have occurred. It either doesn’t work, releases non-democratic forces (which happened in Europe in the 30s) or slips into chaos. The more they insist on global democracy, the more they undermine even those countries where it was previously effective. Migrants bring with them powerfully destructive social attitudes. Today, even the most cautious of the European leaders are talking about the multicultural crisis.
The End of America
It turns out that the U.S. is not in a position to manage the burden of world supremacy. Today, no one directly disputes its power, but under the weight of this power, it degenerates into rashness. Acting quickly and forthright, in contrast to the shrewd and wary British empire, America acts before it thinks, and over and over again it’s too late. Today, the U.S. is engaged in three interventions even though there is no hope that in the future there will be some sort of agreement with American standards. If you add its involvement with the chain revolution in the Arab countries, it’s possible to say that it has entered into its latest imperial campaign. All of the objectives of the United States have two outcomes: Either to break down and receive kickbacks from the surge of “mimetic weapons” (which it launched into action through the Twitter-revolution) or to drop out of the global conflict in the spirit of the entire Third World. Only in the course of this war will it be possible to write off all previous failures and thus reset the balance.
The End of the Known World
Carrying out a simple operation and adding in the three factors: The end of the economy + the end of democracy + the end of America results in the end of the known world.
Here, a screen with an expert’s face pops up (you can supply the correct name yourself) and says, “Discard these catastrophic forecasts, for it stands to reason that everything will be regulated and the economic machine will start to work (Capitalism isn’t the first to face such challenges; all systems here work from crisis to crisis and are only stronger because of them). Democracy will be victorious (we only have to reject Islamic society with its corrupt dictator regimes), and the U.S., stronger than ever before, will be ready to carry the world of progress, technological development, freedom and democracy. We won’t talk about the third world war, and there is no suicide in the world. It does not happen in today’s civilized world.”
This head is simply fulfilling orders, and maybe it’s not only lying to us, but also to itself. There are different kinds of heads, among them the mostly empty.
The crisis of capitalism in the 20th century led twice to world war. In the course of the democratic elections in Germany in the 1930s, representatives of civil society elected the Nazi Party. The U.S. has been forced into a dead end; they can’t be the world hegemony, and they can’t not be. It’s unresolvable.
The expert’s head disappears, and the screen grows dark.