Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Karlin on mental spaces
Anatoly Karlin, in a brief piece on an obscure dispute among obscure intellectuals, brings up a large and non-obscure point that's worth remembering. I don't understand the obscure dispute. I do understand the large point:
The one saving grace of these inexplicable bouts of insanity that afflict various major civilizations across history (1917, Cultural Revolution, etc.) tend to inoculate against future ones.
He cites his earlier article about the time-capsule effect of the Soviet system. Natural Law culture remained strong in the Soviet zone, and after Stalin's death the leaders stopped trying to break Natural Law and took full advantage of the natural culture.
The time capsule was already obvious in the '80s. US feminists were trying to bring the Russians up to speed on the latest "enlightened" insanity, but the Russian women steadfastly refused. Even though all Soviet women were expected to work for pay, they insisted on maintaining traditional sex roles and traditional marriage.
More proof of mental spaces. When people are forced to function in anti-natural ways and assent to anti-natural evils, they develop a strong internal immune response. The internal preservation of Natural Law gets stronger as the external craziness increases.
Labels: defensible cases, defensible spaces, Natural law = Soviet law
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