Friday, January 05, 2018
We need a Soviet daily devotional
Finally pinned down a point that has been semiconsciously itching me for a while.
RT does what it's supposed to do. RT tries to weaken Russia's enemies. It serves the nation where it lives, which is what an international propaganda source is meant to do. Each nation that can afford such a source does the same.
Nature likes it this way. Each creature minding its own business, trying to weaken and confuse and deter its opponents so it doesn't have to fight them.
But an ethnic Russian news source could actually help Americans. A Russian writer who had lived through the Stalin and Khrushchev times could teach us how to preserve our sanity in a crazy tyranny.
Orlov provided the 'old testament', the basic guidelines, for this approach, but he isn't writing a daily news analysis.
This service would be akin to the daily devotionals provided by churches and ministries. Take today's big idiotic story, look at it from a Soviet fatalist viewpoint, with due regard for the real constants and variables, the real permanent and ephemeral pieces. Show the best path to walk your soul through this toxic dump without too many thorns or stings.
¶ 11:20 AM 
