ELEISON COMMENTS DXLVI (30 December, 2017) : CULTURE’S IMPORTANCE II
Let us resort again to the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, for some politically incorrect common sense on the notion of culture, which he is taking in its broadest but real sense as the values, standards and way of life of different peoples at the national and international level. The enemies of man and God wish to homogenise all nations in a global mush which it will be that much easier for their Antichrist to dominate in the worldwide tyranny of which they dream. Almighty God, on the contrary, establishes an astonishing variety throughout His Creation, because the ordered variety of creatures best reflects His own fullness of being. But any ordered variety means a higher and a lower, in other words inequality. That is why His enemies wish to level everything down in the name of equality Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, for example. Catholics on the contrary must wish for all creatures to be as varied and as unequal as their Creator meant them to be. Putin is in this respect on the side of Almighty God.
He was here talking to an international group of youngsters attending the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Sochi, Russia, last October. See http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/55842
India, our neighbour totheleft, has apopulation of1.2 billion, andChina has apopulation of1.5 billion. As for theUnited States, it continues toreceive more andmore immigrants; and, asfar asIunderstand, its White Christian population has recently become a minority, less than 50 percent of the total US population. What Imean to say is that theworld is going through dramatic, global change. Iam not saying this is good orbad, just that global changes are taking place.
You have said Russia is avast territory indeed. But from its western toits eastern borders, it is aEurasian space. Asregards culture, even language, language group andhistory, it is all undoubtedly aEuropean space insofar asit is inhabited bypeople ofEuropean culture. This I say because it is what we have to preserve if we are toremain asignificant centre intheworld andIdo not mean that inthemilitary sense orany other such sense. We should not divide peoples according to theirethnicity, and we should not look back in history, thinking, say, ofthewar between France andRussia from1812 to 1814, rather we should look tothefuture forways tobuild acommon future andfollow a common path.
This is how we can preserve Russia andits people asaglobal centre that is significant forrelations with Asian countries andtheAmerican continent. If we fail to preserve Russia, it will be divided into minor quasi-national associations ofStates that would eventually lose their significance intheglobal sense asindependent centres. If we do preserve Russia, this will be agreat advantage forthe development of all mankind aswell, because Russia is amajor part oftheglobal culture andit certainly has tobe preserved.
Indeed. A leading part of men’s culture has always been their literature, visual arts and music, because human beings of all times and in all places stand especially in need of stories, pictures and music to express and share what is going on inside them. That is why theatre and cinema which can combine all three are so influential, especially cinema today. In literature Russia boasts a number of world-famous authors: Pushkin,Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Solzhenitsyn, etc.; in music, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, etc.; in cinema, Eisenstein and Tarkovsky have international reputations. Putin is right thanks to Russia’s long winters and deep thinkers, his country has much to contribute to world culture that is far superior to the heap of democratic trash presently expressing what is going on inside men.
Pray for Putin not to be assassinated, because God’s enemies hate him, not without reason he is leading his country towards its Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will put off, at least for a while, the Antichrist. May She protect him.
Kyrie eleison.
From God alone comes culture that is best.
In trash must wallow the God-forsaking West.