"Your dedication to the adventure of proving yourself cleverer than me is paying off!"
I wouldn't like to imply your statement (from a comment on a post I made 15/01/24) indicates a uncomfortable degree of self-interest or even obsession BUT, please rest assured, Mr Hampton, I have no interest in proving myself cleverer than you (or anyone else). Really, I just want to tell my story, to get it online as accessible and interesting as I can. It would be wrong for me to say I don't care what anyone thinks of it, obviously, because that's not true BUT the story, and it's accuracy are more important to me than others' opinion of it. But that's all about me.
About you, quite honestly, I don't believe I could hope to 'prove myself more clever than you' because I believe you are more clever than me. I wouldn't say I'm in awe of the way you collate and report because the word 'awe' is so... Bollocks! BUT I have the deepest admiration for the way you work and wish I could do something similar, rather than going on and on about myself.
For example, you are the only person I know who has made one of the most important observations about the way our world is run in the 21st century: "Yeltsin would go on to see something profound in Putin that no one else had." The importance of this statement can't be overestimated. Without it, there is no understanding of how or why we are where we are. As I've already said, you are the only person, as far as I'm aware, who has recognised that. To do so without having had the first hand experience of Russia and developed a deep love for its language, people and culture as I believe I (quite profoundly) have, that makes you far more clever than me.
I win the argument because I only follow smarter folk.
I'm a realist, or trying to be, but I do have admiration for Russia. Not blindly, for I have caveat dislikes, but they have been given the rotten end of the carrot. Our world would be a happier place if they had been accepted as European instead of fake daemons to be eaten.
Or, if you insist there is, please feel free to win (it).
Our world will be, and is quickly becoming, a happier place because they ARE European (with a lovely little drop of spice, which has enabled them to develop the world's first (and, so far, only) successfully harmonious multi-ethnic society) and ultimately lies, willful misunderstanding and deliberate misperceptions get eaten by themselves.
Mike,you've out done yourself again. I'll have to spend a couple of days watching this. It's really interesting to see into a world I didn't know before.
It was a deeply rewarding journey of understanding for me. Knowing the suffering of a country teaches us who they are. In this case, that's different to what American neocons are telling us. If schools taught both sides, foreign policy would not exist in its current poor state.
Adam Curtis is exceptional. His approach was different here, but again he builds a jigsaw who final picture is deeply psychological. If you want more, try 'Hypernormalisation' next. That's a single documentary that should be watched in the dark with no distractions as if it were a horror movie. Actually, maybe I'll steal my own comment and post the link next week.
I've set it for next Sunday, May 12 2024. Although what you're watching now will give you sympathy to the plight of Russians and the necessity of Putin, 'Hypernormalisation' will show you that it doubled as the perfect state for mass manipulation.
And compare these circumstances to those in the West which have never known strife and pestilence in nearly 100 years. To think that the West will prevail against people this tough is foolish.
Thanks for these videos.
A portrait of pain and perseverance.
"Your dedication to the adventure of proving yourself cleverer than me is paying off!"
I wouldn't like to imply your statement (from a comment on a post I made 15/01/24) indicates a uncomfortable degree of self-interest or even obsession BUT, please rest assured, Mr Hampton, I have no interest in proving myself cleverer than you (or anyone else). Really, I just want to tell my story, to get it online as accessible and interesting as I can. It would be wrong for me to say I don't care what anyone thinks of it, obviously, because that's not true BUT the story, and it's accuracy are more important to me than others' opinion of it. But that's all about me.
About you, quite honestly, I don't believe I could hope to 'prove myself more clever than you' because I believe you are more clever than me. I wouldn't say I'm in awe of the way you collate and report because the word 'awe' is so... Bollocks! BUT I have the deepest admiration for the way you work and wish I could do something similar, rather than going on and on about myself.
For example, you are the only person I know who has made one of the most important observations about the way our world is run in the 21st century: "Yeltsin would go on to see something profound in Putin that no one else had." The importance of this statement can't be overestimated. Without it, there is no understanding of how or why we are where we are. As I've already said, you are the only person, as far as I'm aware, who has recognised that. To do so without having had the first hand experience of Russia and developed a deep love for its language, people and culture as I believe I (quite profoundly) have, that makes you far more clever than me.
I win the argument because I only follow smarter folk.
I'm a realist, or trying to be, but I do have admiration for Russia. Not blindly, for I have caveat dislikes, but they have been given the rotten end of the carrot. Our world would be a happier place if they had been accepted as European instead of fake daemons to be eaten.
We both win because there's no argument.
Or, if you insist there is, please feel free to win (it).
Our world will be, and is quickly becoming, a happier place because they ARE European (with a lovely little drop of spice, which has enabled them to develop the world's first (and, so far, only) successfully harmonious multi-ethnic society) and ultimately lies, willful misunderstanding and deliberate misperceptions get eaten by themselves.
Agreed, except for verbal jousting (a sport without end).
Fair enough.
Mike,you've out done yourself again. I'll have to spend a couple of days watching this. It's really interesting to see into a world I didn't know before.
It was a deeply rewarding journey of understanding for me. Knowing the suffering of a country teaches us who they are. In this case, that's different to what American neocons are telling us. If schools taught both sides, foreign policy would not exist in its current poor state.
Adam Curtis is exceptional. His approach was different here, but again he builds a jigsaw who final picture is deeply psychological. If you want more, try 'Hypernormalisation' next. That's a single documentary that should be watched in the dark with no distractions as if it were a horror movie. Actually, maybe I'll steal my own comment and post the link next week.
I've set it for next Sunday, May 12 2024. Although what you're watching now will give you sympathy to the plight of Russians and the necessity of Putin, 'Hypernormalisation' will show you that it doubled as the perfect state for mass manipulation.
And compare these circumstances to those in the West which have never known strife and pestilence in nearly 100 years. To think that the West will prevail against people this tough is foolish.