Poison or Treatment? Dose and Doctor Matter

In a way, the West denied people in the Global South and in the former USSR the right to protest. I mean, whenever people in those countries are unhappy about a specific(!) problem and start protesting against this specific thing, there are western NGOs ready to help them balkanize and fail the motherland. See also Ian Kummer‘s recent post on the matter: We Are At War With Eurasia. We Have Always Been At War With Eurasia.

Of course, no person in their sane mind would protest in a situation like that. Thus with the sword of Damocles hanging over their heads, that is the threat of your country being destroyed, colonized and robbed, people are forced to tolerate obsolete traditions, suboptimal economic and political approaches and practices that would otherwise be timely dropped, corrected, revised etc.

Remember the quote: “All things are poison and nothing is without poison. Solely the dose determines that a thing is not a poison”. It is very true about protests. In moderate amounts protests can improve the system, they are actually PART of a healthy system. But when protests are weaponized they become a sort of an autoimmune disease when healing mechanisms start destroying what they are supposed to heal. So, the dose and the doctor matter. Never trust a doctor hired by anyone expecting to inherit your property.

The same is true for opposition, healthy opposition is patriotic in nature and would never advocate sanctioning, balkanizing, colonizing, etc. the motherland. But more often than not opposition is used as a crowbar to destroy an disobedient country.

So, western practice of weaponized protests turns countries into failed states when successful and stymies their development when not. Win-win?

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Maria Kondorskaya

Linguist, [very] professional Content writer, Russian (and even Soviet), Muscovite, patriot, internationalist. Passive aggressive, vivacious pessimist, optimist with a morbid sense of humor. Made in the USSR in 1982.