Given this post among many, the state of "journalism" in Russia, which makes even Fox News look good by comparison, and the apparent inability to think critically that is even worse than the average West Texan, I find it no surprise the former Soviet Union essentially lost the Cold War.
I think the time to get your shit together is long overdue.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen