TASTE:
Alexander Dugin: What matters is that the West rots without us. There’s a torture called “the Etruscan Bride” — tying a corpse to a living person so the rot seeps into the living flesh. Westernism, liberalism, globalization, digitalization — the desire to imitate the West — that’s the “Etruscan Bride.”
The West is dead, and the closer we are to it, the more dangerous it becomes. Whether it decays fast or slow doesn’t matter. The key is decoupling — cutting ties with this toxic monster. The West has always tended towards degeneration, but now it has reached the terminal stage of irreversible decay. If it rots faster — perhaps that’s even better. The main thing is to fence off this plague barrack called “enlightened Western society” with an impenetrable wall.
Humanity must save itself from the West. Whoever stays tied to this rotting “bride” is doomed — the poison will spread, fast or slow, but the sickness is inevitable. The decoupling should have happened a hundred, two hundred years ago. We keep delaying, thinking the West isn’t rotting, or that its decay is somehow pleasant. Elites infected by short-term thinking chase instant pleasure, ignoring consequences. The contagion has entered our culture and bloodstream. The question isn’t whether a fast or slow decay benefits us — it’s that it must happen without us. We’ve done much to detach ourselves, but there’s more work to do — the infection runs deep.
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Alexander Dugin: What matters is that the West rots without us. There’s a torture called “the Etruscan Bride” — tying a corpse to a living person so the rot seeps into the living flesh. Westernism, liberalism, globalization, digitalization — the desire to imitate the West — that’s the “Etruscan Bride.”
The West is dead, and the closer we are to it, the more dangerous it becomes. Whether it decays fast or slow doesn’t matter. The key is decoupling — cutting ties with this toxic monster. The West has always tended towards degeneration, but now it has reached the terminal stage of irreversible decay. If it rots faster — perhaps that’s even better. The main thing is to fence off this plague barrack called “enlightened Western society” with an impenetrable wall.
Humanity must save itself from the West. Whoever stays tied to this rotting “bride” is doomed — the poison will spread, fast or slow, but the sickness is inevitable. The decoupling should have happened a hundred, two hundred years ago. We keep delaying, thinking the West isn’t rotting, or that its decay is somehow pleasant. Elites infected by short-term thinking chase instant pleasure, ignoring consequences. The contagion has entered our culture and bloodstream. The question isn’t whether a fast or slow decay benefits us — it’s that it must happen without us. We’ve done much to detach ourselves, but there’s more work to do — the infection runs deep.
Trump, Decoupling, and the Etruscan Bride
Fragile peace, the rot of the West, and Russia’s need to break away
www.multipolarpress.com