Sunday, May 01, 2011
No word for "family" in English.
Cute feature on NPR tonight about the resilience of Russia, though they didn't phrase it that way.
Yeah, Lenin himself thought it was necessary to equalize and dehumanize Russians. He tried it for a few years, then gave up. Wasn't gonna happen.
Lenin's evil disciples (eg Betty Fried[m]an, Saul Alinsky, Norman Lear, Phil Rosenthal) then exported the same methods to the West to weaken us for ultimate conquest, and they succeeded magnificently. Completely equalized, diversitized and dehumanized. When the conquest was cinched up by Rezident Bush The Father in 1989, there was no resistance.
But why? Why has the Russian family remained strong, with clear lines of authority and clear division of labor, through 70 years of hell?
Was it the down-to-earth Orthodox Church? Was it the ethnic purity? I dunno! ¶ 4:57 PM
Writer Phil Rosenthal thought he knew how to create a successful sitcom.
After all, he'd built Everybody Loves Raymond into a nine-season sensation on CBS. So when he was asked to help adapt the show for a Russian audience, he jumped at the chance.
"When I got to Russia, they said to me, 'Real life is terrible, why would we put that on television'?"
Even the costume designer had trouble.
I'm saying, 'Look at this character right now in front of us.' She's wearing a cashmere sweater, fancy pants, high heels, jewelry. I said, 'You understand she's cleaning the house, right?' And she said 'But she's cleaning the house on television.'
Mostly, the Russian crew found the show boring, not funny, with characters they couldn't relate to, including the show's title character, who they thought was weak and emasculated.
"I was told that the Russian men are way more macho than American men. And no way does the wife rule the house. And I thought just listening to this that this was baloney," Rosenthal explains. "I think you could be the most macho guy in the world and as soon as you get in the house, the wife is telling you to pick up your socks."
Yeah, Lenin himself thought it was necessary to equalize and dehumanize Russians. He tried it for a few years, then gave up. Wasn't gonna happen.
Lenin's evil disciples (eg Betty Fried[m]an, Saul Alinsky, Norman Lear, Phil Rosenthal) then exported the same methods to the West to weaken us for ultimate conquest, and they succeeded magnificently. Completely equalized, diversitized and dehumanized. When the conquest was cinched up by Rezident Bush The Father in 1989, there was no resistance.
But why? Why has the Russian family remained strong, with clear lines of authority and clear division of labor, through 70 years of hell?
Was it the down-to-earth Orthodox Church? Was it the ethnic purity? I dunno! ¶ 4:57 PM
