Comments On Evolutionary Economics. Volume Iv, No. 8. April 24, 2022. Russian Honor: An Oxymoron

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Published by Athena Press, Pasadena, Ca, 2022

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The Assumption Of These Papers Is That The Justification For Government Is To Provide For The Common Welfare. Historically, Russia, With Its Highly Centralized, Top-Down Rule Of A Monarchy, A Tiny Autocracy, Some Miserably Powerless Estate Officials And Freeman, A Small Middle Class, And Overwhelmingly Large Masses Of Slave-Like Serfs, Escaped The Informal Rules Of Chivalry Which Set The Cultural Basis Of The Rules-Based Order That We Call Modern Civilization. It Is The Only Great Military Power To Do So; North Africa And The Near And Middle East Had A Religious-Based Social Order, China Had A Law-Based Social Order And Strong Societal Behavioral Norms Although It Was An Otherwise Absolute Monarchy, Smaller Countries Had A Family-Based Political System Which Included Family-Based Norms Of Behavior. The Russian Case Is Unique. One Cannot Deal With Russia As One Does With Other Humans. They Have Evolved From A Feudal Monarchy To A Purely Militaristic State Whose Most Notable Invention In The Past 1000 Years Has Been The Russian Orc, The Thoughtless Soldier Of Unparalleled Willingness To Fight And Die. The Tiny Minority Of Independent And Culturally Innovative Russians? They Fill The Rolls Of The Prematurely Deceased And Exiles. There Is No Cultural Concept Of Personal Honor, Beyond National Honor, Outside That Tiny, Mostly Dead, Minority. As Almlost The Only Employment In Russia Is Service To The State Or Its Contractors; There Is No Complete Concept Of Personal Honor Beyond Loyalty To That State.…

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Comments On Evolutionary Economics. Volume Iv, No. 8. April 24, 2022. Russian Honor: An Oxymoron
Author
Clauser, Stephen Michael
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Athena Press, Pasadena, Ca
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2022
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