CrossTalk on the Great Clash: Culture vs Ideology?
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests if the world is drifting into a clash of civilizations and whether culture has surpassed ideology as a source of conflict.
On this edition of Peter Lavelle’s CrossTalk, he asks his guests if the world is drifting into a clash of civilizations and whether culture has surpassed ideology as a source of conflict.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Fuck culture think for yourself and use you own common sense not tradition.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Islamic culture rule the world!…………allah hu akhbar!
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
“Culture is not your friend.”
- – Terence McKenna
Pay heed, fellow hominids: Shedding belief in all forms is the noblest act we can commit whilst here on Earth.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
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I wouldn’t call current world affairs as “Crash of Civilizations”, instead, I would call it as “Renormalization”, or “Multipolarization”; they are actually the same thing. Throughout human history there have been only a few occasions the whole world was dominated by a single power, e.g. Mongol Empire, Anglo-American Establishment. Majority of time we had a multipolarity, e.g. Republic of Rome, Sasanian Persia, Xiongnu Empire, Han Dynasty are contemporary to each other.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
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Huntington is a dinosaur. His ideas come from an old relic such as “Social Darwinism”. It’s always about “power struggle between two or more forces”, “wars (or conflicts) are contests of nations (or cultures, or races).
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@lastpoet1
Putin is loved not by ppl only, he is loved by Jesus. Jesus watches Putin all the time. Putin is his favourite unit in this world of warcraft. More importantly though, Putin is loved by United Russia. Thanks to United Russia, Russian ppl live now in a better prosperous society.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@XBionic1955 why u think plp wont be safe and why wouldnt his family be safe if he is loved by his country and the east if it came to the west and east going to war they would win easily china has the biggest army and russia is just as invanced as the usa now thats why the usa has to fight behind the scene’s
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@lastpoet1
Yeah, I mean this man should think more about the future of his own family after he’s gone. If he carries on like that, noone is gonna be safe for sure.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@XBionic1955 every leader has to have plp run day to day operations or it would break down and the propaganda is hope that not all leaders are about money u got to remeber he is getting old with that every leader wants to be remembered in a good light russia has been demonized 4 decades its there time now and the usa isnt helping there cause they been at that games 4 so long and now its unraveling and there true colors r showing
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
religion is for brainwashing the stupid masses. Has any of you beleivers critically examined your religion using different sources? Probably not. And yeah GOD loves money.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
The eternal parasite causes and uses the clash of cultures to their own end. RESEARCH!
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
I hope Russian people understand that someone who’s run their national economy in the last 2 years has to take responsibility for 2 disasterous years of Russian history. Noone is satisfied with Mr Putin still being in power. He has to resign!
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@lastpoet1
Absolutely. Instead Mr Putin allows Gazprom, Rosneft and Sberbank to run his country. I guess, this is what they call National Treasure in their propaganda
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@Dyhalto10
So you wish Mr Putin to share Julius Caesar’s destiny then?
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@vladimir2277
Your obsession with the idea of controlling everything is just another proof of Mr Putin’s internal policy failure
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
its ideology…
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@XBionic1955
Julius Caesar was proof that a benevolent dictatorship could be more beneficial to the whole than a corrupted republic.
It’s far, far too early to say, but could Putin be Julius Caesar II? History will decide when our time is just that.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@XBionic1955: I am not saying it’s the best idea, but it works for Russia. And it’s not “everything and everyone”, just the stuff that others use to try and make Russia weak. If others try to export money from Russia, you don’t say “that’s business”, you take care of it. That’s in part what Putin does. Get over it.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@XBionic1955 mr putin is doing a great job he doesnt let the banks run his country and when there is problems he goes there to see 4 himself and fixes the problem ,he kicked the bankers out of his country 4 god sakes he made the billionairs pay 4 the dame that broke down they wouldnt fix that should tell u something and if ur lookin at the past thats the past he has shown himself in a new light and its hope
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
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August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Mr Putn gotta resign ASAP
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@vladimir2277
I think you are out of mind with the idea of controlling everything and everyone.
You gotta check with the doctor, pal.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Conflict is coming from unconscious cultural differences. A secularist still lives in a predominantly Christianized culture. Idealogy like communism, socialism, and democracy are fabrications, because the reality is we have oligarchy and totalitarianism. Christians, Jews, and Muslims come from the same Abrahamic source.
What do you call those fried potatoes? chips, pommes, or freedom fries. In the end they are still potatoes. The question is, which cultural meme is going to prevail.
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@XBionic1955: Whoa, don’t get intense here, just an opinion. Nobody is talking about whether there is democracy in Russia or not. I am talking about what’s best for Russia. Democracy in Russia is being pushed for by the United States, because that way they can back a candidate they can control. The US cannot control a strong leader like Putin, and that upsets them.
As long as Putin is in power, it is guaranteed that Russia’s interests are pursued. Again, why fix something that is not broken?
August 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
@vladimir2277
That’s the problem that Putin eliminates any potential alternative candidates. This is not the way democracy works. You get it, moron?