Take a look at this clip from Bombast’s body language ghost YT channel. The whole thing is really good, so I suggest you watch all 18 minutes, but if you only want the pivotal point, then start at 14:02.
In his interview with Tucker Carlson, Victor Orban is asked why he is not so well-liked in the USA. He had first explained that the war in Ukraine cannot be won by the West and that the main difference between the West and Russia is that the West says freedom is important (they lie, of course, keeping themselves in power at your and my expense is what matters to the parasitic pedovores in power) while Russians believe keeping their country together is the top priority, with freedom being a secondary or even lower issue.
This initial point, earlier in the interview, is also a key one to grasp, not only in order to understand Russia, but to understand reality.
I have often said that I really like Russian culture, because it is probably the one I most think deals with reality as it is, not as any wishful thinking might wish it to be.
And the reality is that if you actually begin to understand reality itself, what its rules and laws and truths are, you become immediately aware that your own ego, is almost entirely a noxious and negative thing. That your selfish obsession with your happiness, feelings, erroneous ideas unhinged from reality, and so on, are in fact getting in the way of your life having any real worthwhile meaning.
And when your life has no real worthwhile meaning, guess what? Paradoxically you are NOT happy, you DON’T feel good, and you become more and more demanding with diminishing returns.
The way Orban explains it, in the last few minutes of this interview, is entirely correct. And he does so very politely indeed.
The bit where he says “And maybe in your country too, but certainly in Europe…” made me laugh. The problem is a probably a couple of orders of magnitude worse in the USA of course.
But in essence it is this, and this is the real war between peoples going on:
On one side, you have those people who think their ego is the most important point of all.
Me. Me, me, me! I, me, I, I, I!
On the other side you have people who believe they are NOT the most important thing. They value other things above themselves. Among which: God, family, nation, tribe, even friends.
So I ask you two questions; between these two types of people:
1. Who would you rather have as a neighbour?
2. Who would you rather be?
> deals with reality as it is
Yes. Trying to fix or improve this world, a.k.a. activism, just seems wrong. At worst it means bloody revolution. At best one is building a Star Trek set: not very harmful, but a comical distraction from how the actual future will be.
Things may get better on their own if we simply try to understand them as they are.
Or is this binary thinking on my part? Is a certain amount of activism OK?
Eventually, either you fight back, or you perish. Exactly what form that takes differs at various times and places, but history tells us that in the end, human disputes that go beyond a certain point get resolved one way or the other by violence.