Society

We have all learned that the “natural state” of the world seems to have always been war. But we also know that the natural state of humanity is not and can never be that because if it had been, the human species would have disappeared from the planet centuries ago.

Antonio Gramsci is one of the greatest thinkers that Italy (and the world) has ever seen come to life. A thinker who could be called by dozens of additional titles, such as politician, philosopher and writer.

The attitude of world leaders towards the biological fixation of social differences down to life expectancy and the derivation of various human species specialised in services is reminiscent of H.G. Wells’ novel The Time Machine. Wells” novel The Time Machine, where society is divided into two socio-biological species - Eloi and Morlocks, and to Ivan Efremov’s novel The Hour of the Bull, where people of two categories - “ji” (“long-lived”) and “kzhi” (“short-lived”) - live on the planet Tormance, as well as Frank Herbert”s novel Hellstrom’s Hive (Hellstrom”s Hive, 1973), not very well known in our country (at least compared to his “Dune” cycle).

The series of programs by M. L. Khazin and K. A. Gevorgyan (“Economics in Russian” and “The CUP meeting on January 11, 2024”) was devoted to an important and interesting, but still little addressed aspect outside of Eurasian, traditionalist or theological discourses: the aspect of the sacred. Let us reflect on this theme from a Eurasian perspective.