Putin is competent. He sees that it is bad for peace prospects if he appears to support Trump, the candidate of peace who might win, so he makes statements to the effect that business-as-usual is preferable, so Russia prefers Biden/Harris/etc.
This statement is fairly neutral for Trump, and minimally harmful for Harris et al, so it is the best statement for Putin to make, and he made it with a slight smile.
John, I think what must acknowledge that superpowers, like Anglo-America or Russia, do not maintain their superiority and superpower status by maintaining peace…
In other words, they are just the wings of the same bird… they need each other to survive and spread fear to accomplish their dirty goals…
There is more than one way to thrive, and I would argue that Russia has historically supported underdogs, rather than engaging in the conquest of colonies, as did the English, French, Spanish, Germans, Americans, Portuguese, etc. They do not take the "Anglo-Saxon" approach, and Americans were reluctant at first, and always of two minds about it.
Russia is so big that it does not need colonies, just defenses.
I think another paradigm shift of global power relationships is dawning on our world, following financial-imperialism, which succeeded overt-imperialism.
In each case, the reduction of tyranny increased system-efficiency as a driver of change.
As you know I grew up under the communist Soviet tyranny. So I’d disagree with some of your statements about the light approach to the conquest. I’d agree that within the last 40-50 years and definitely since the collapse of the communist block, the priority (s) have shifted a bit… I’m not sure if you know this, but Putin relies heavily on the support of the Orthodox Church.
You may have heard what happened right before the war with Ukraine. The Ukrainian and the Russian Orthodox churches separated… I don’t have to tell you why…
They had lost 23 million Russians in WW-2, and there was "Operation Unthinkable" to nuke something like 50 Russian cities, so the threat was very high. The "Iron curtain" developed, but the USSR was very nice in Africa and Cuba, so a mixed bag...
The war with Ukraine began in 2014, after the US-driven coup. My understanding is that the Ukrainian Orthodox church split from the Russian Orthodox because of the political stresses and threats which developed from the coup and the war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
Putin seemed to be a devout Russian Orthodox Christian, who even had a "guru" priest and would do a yearly week-long retreat, when I read up on him around 2008-2010, when things like that, less politicized, were available.
It is different from "using the church" if he is a true believer and sees himself as a historical figure, like Peter the Great, which he apparently does.
If you look back at the time before WWIl two major elements can be identified that lead to Hitler’s rise to power: the exclusive oil deal for Germany signed in 1933 that financed Hitler rise to power and the Catholic Church support for the Nazis signed the same year - the Concordat.
Without those two elements, but especially the latter, many historians agree Hitler wouldn’t have had the needed support to attack mainly Catholic Poland.
The Russia vs Ukraine conflict has similar roots. As you know, under the Soviets all religions were suppressed. At one point the USSR was claimed to be 60% or more atheistic. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990 the power struggle wasn’t only political but also religious. 2 major religions emerged the winners in Russia that formed a coalition, or a mutual tolerance. When Putin was appointed as the president of Russia in 1999, he quickly realized that his support wasn’t sufficient to stay in power. He was a former KGB agent and KGB was known to be not only anti-religious but also anti-Christian. So, Putin quickly “found his faith” in the most powerful and influential church in Russia - the Russian Orthodox Church. Since the Ukrainian Church was also tolerated, Putin began building his image as “a Miracle defender of Christianity”.
All religious groups that called themselves Christian were tolerated in Russia until 2014, when the coup in Ukraine happened. After that, it was clear that sooner or later the official war between Russia and the West (because Ukraine is just a puppet) in the eyes of the world would have to take place. So, there was no way that in the looming official war, interrupted temporarily by covid-19, the two churches could stay as one because of the nationalist tensions. From 2014 on the other Christian minorities became the target of the Russian state in exchange for the political support of the largest Russian church - the Orthodox Church. Religious groups that remained politically neutral or wouldn’t support Putin, were persecuted and banned by the state, under the pretext of extremism, like Jehovah’s Witnesses, or terrorism, such as non-mainstream Muslim groups.
So, religious hypocrisy was and still is at the forefront of fueling wars in exchange for special privileges or power. During WWII religious leaders of the Catholic Church, German and Polish, were blessing the troops on both sides of the conflict in the name of nationalism. After the split of the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches the fuelling of nationalism took over the 6th commandment. So, not much has changed in over 2000 years, IMO.
Again, we must realize that while there are “chess games” going on between superpowers and their leaders, those are still the wings of the same “bird of prey”… and you know very well who the prey are…
Those are not new games. They have been going on for decades or even centuries…
Once, or if, you realize who really is behind those puppets, your whole prospective changes not only on politics but also on life…
While I disagree with few thing’s James Corbett wrote or writes on this subject, I think he really nailed the idea how the world is structured when it comes to the bird of prey, which is global - Globalism in its many forms…
This article is on Russia vs Ukraine conflict dating back to 17th century or beyond…
He has the opinion that the globalists control Putin, and I disagree with that view.
He has put a lot of effort into detailing historical events of recent and distant past to press his case, but in the world of diplomacy and large-organizational-management, such as the Russian Federation, Russia has a history of engaging all parties. Vladimir Putin is very engaging and sees subtlety, nuance and organization, which has enabled him to work through the vast and corrupt Russian bureaucracy to improve Russia, and the standard of living, against global neoliberalism, which killed 10% of Russians in the 1990s and ruined their economy and much of their industry, until he came to power.
Putin is a bureaucrat of the same order of mastery as Otto Von Bismarck, in my estimation. Benjamin Disraeli was similarly talented.
Yes, globalism is the manifestation of the enemy. Putin and Lavrov say they know who the enemy is, but how do we name that enemy?
"Compound Interest"? "City of London"? "BlackRock & friends"? It is the global banking function which arose to fund wars and then extract repayment with interest, because kings could not fund big enough wars without external finance. The Roman Catholic Church was instrumental in setting this up to expand the inquisitions and to solidify the power of Rome by funding new kings, "loyal" to Rome, who would overthrow independent kings. There was a Michael Hudson piece a few weeks ago that detailed that.
The arrangement of global-capital-wit-usury-to-fund-wars is the key mechanism which needs to be eliminated, as I see it.
Going back to Corbett's assessment of Putin and Xi as simple tyrants, I disagree there, also. They are very different human beings, very competent heads of state, of very different states, with different histories and institutions, who come from very different personal backgrounds, and have a wide convergence of national interests now. They both have a commanding view of history, and of their roles as historical national leaders. They are far from being anybody's puppets, though all politicians need to negotiate to get things done efficiently.
I did not see that Xi video. Is it AI-generated? Xi is very serious about being taken very seriously. He is a "princeling", so he had a big head-start, but he made his way to the top through competence and ruthlessness.
He is much more rigid than Putin in that way.
If you look at their subtle body language together, when not 100% formally scripted, it looks like Putin takes the lead, but graciously and engagingly.
Rare, but interesting glimpses.
I disagree with those who assert that Putin is Xi's water-boy...
This is one of the parades. They are all more or less the same. In one of them Xi has so much lipstick on I found it baffling they would show it to the world as the Chinese wanted to ban lipstick all together…
I wouldn’t be surprised if Xi developed the same anxiety of being assassinated as Stalin and Brezhnev have. They often refused to be shown in public and drove in bulletproof vehicles nobody knew to the last second in which one they would be…
Putin is former KGB monster but still human apparently…
It's only madness to work against your own interests, to follow these "many false teachers". They are not "mad" merely evil-with-bomb-shelters-and-well-paid.
“So with object-oriented ontology, we’re dealing with the real truth, not with a lie. For the first time, modernity has told the truth about itself. What was before was a lie of modernity. Modernity lied to everybody. “Oh, we’re in favour of humanity. We’re in favour of life. We are trying to liberate human beings and nature from the transcendental fascist God”. That was a lie and not in favour of humanity but against humanity and God. The main idea was to liberate the Devil from the chains with which he was fixed in Hell. This was the liberation of the Devil, not of man, and now comes the moment to liberate the Devil from humanity and life. And that is object-oriented ontology that clearly, openly, explicitly affirms that, and they are object-oriented philosophers. They are closer to us traditionalists because we always saw in modernity this devilish, demonic aspect.
So for traditionalists, modernity was not neutral. Modernity from the very beginning was a satanic creation, and that is the main traditional line. Now there appear among the most progressivist philosophers schools of thought that say the same, but in favour of Satan. It is not “masses or LaVey — the real black magic is modern science and modern culture. Modern civilisation is a kind of preparation for the advent of the Antichrist, and Islamic tradition identifies it as Dajjal. Christians see it as the Antichrist. I think that this appeal to Lovecraft, to black magic and to the extermination of mankind and nature is disclosed by Nick Land as the real nature of science and modernity as well, and this is why it serves the Great Awakening.
Object-oriented ontology is the other side of the Great Awakening, when our consciousness is awakened to the fact what progress in reality is. It mobilises our spiritual power, which awakens the rest of our human dignity, and that is the real fight. But it is much better to deal with people who tell the truth about their negative purposes and principles than with liars. So, inside of the lie, there appears the most radical truth about life. That is why I could not condemn it the same way that I hate analytical philosophy, positivism or the natural sciences of Newton or Galileo, which were a pure catastrophe and a lie about nature and humanity. For example, I hate Biden and Kamala Harris, but I could not hate Reza Negarestani or Nick Land or Harman who are real and conscious Satanists. So better to deal with the reality as it is than with all these lies. If, for example, a progressivist in the United States would declare that they serve Satan, and Satan should return, it’s much easier for us to deal with him. So I always prefer the truth, even when the truth is very dark and very terrible. I always prefer the truth to the comfortable lie that tries to seep into our thoughts. The evil helps to awaken because it’s terrible, and I think that what Americans are now experiencing with Kamala Harris and the Democrats is the real horror. The more horror, the better, I think.”
Excerpt From
Great Awakening Vs the Great Reset (9781914208492)
He just says a lot of stuff like it's true and he's the authority.
He should read some Frank Herbert and work on subtlety, insight, nuance and gentle persuasion; painting landscapes of the truth he sees, stuff like that.
We alone was the face of our Time. Through us the horn of time blows in the art of the world.
The past is too tight. The Academy and Pushkin are less intelligible than hieroglyphics.
Throw Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc., etc. overboard from the Ship of Modernity.
He who does not forget his first love will not recognize his last.
Who, trustingly, would turn his last love toward Balmont’s perfumed lechery? Is this the reflection of today’s virile soul?
Who, faint-heartedly, would fear tearing from warrior Bryusov’s black tuxedo the paper armor-plate? Or does the dawn of unknown beauties shine from it?
Wash your hands which have touched the filthy slime of the books written by the countless Leonid Andreyevs.
All those Maxim Gorkys, Krupins, Bloks, Sologubs, Remizovs, Averchenkos, Chornys, Kuzmins, Bunins, etc. need only a dacha on the river. Such is the reward fate gives tailors.
From the heights of skyscrapers we gaze at their insignificance!...
We order that the poets’ rights be revered:
To enlarge the scope of the poet’s vocabulary with arbitrary and derivative words (Word-novelty).
To feel an insurmountable hatred for the language existing before their time.
To push with horror off their proud brow the Wreath of cheap fame that You have made from bathhouse switches.
To stand on the rock of the word “we” amidst the sea of boos and outrage.
And if for the time being the filthy stigmas of your “common sense” and “good taste” are still present in our lines, these same lines for the first time already glimmer with the Summer Lightning of the New Coming Beauty of the Self-sufficient (self-centered) Word.
Putin would like nothing more than to end the war with Ukraine.
Trump will end the war Ukraine if he wins the election.
But, Putin says he wants Harris to win 2024 election.
Why? Harris wants war with Russia. Doesn’t Putin know that?
Putin clearly does know the war in Ukraine will escalate to war of the WEST with Russia… and doesn’t mind…
Because he thinks of war as a game of chess…
Those who are naive enough to think that politicians care about human lives and their suffering should seek a psychiatrist asap…
Putin is competent. He sees that it is bad for peace prospects if he appears to support Trump, the candidate of peace who might win, so he makes statements to the effect that business-as-usual is preferable, so Russia prefers Biden/Harris/etc.
This statement is fairly neutral for Trump, and minimally harmful for Harris et al, so it is the best statement for Putin to make, and he made it with a slight smile.
John, I think what must acknowledge that superpowers, like Anglo-America or Russia, do not maintain their superiority and superpower status by maintaining peace…
In other words, they are just the wings of the same bird… they need each other to survive and spread fear to accomplish their dirty goals…
There is more than one way to thrive, and I would argue that Russia has historically supported underdogs, rather than engaging in the conquest of colonies, as did the English, French, Spanish, Germans, Americans, Portuguese, etc. They do not take the "Anglo-Saxon" approach, and Americans were reluctant at first, and always of two minds about it.
Russia is so big that it does not need colonies, just defenses.
I think another paradigm shift of global power relationships is dawning on our world, following financial-imperialism, which succeeded overt-imperialism.
In each case, the reduction of tyranny increased system-efficiency as a driver of change.
This is interesting…
As you know I grew up under the communist Soviet tyranny. So I’d disagree with some of your statements about the light approach to the conquest. I’d agree that within the last 40-50 years and definitely since the collapse of the communist block, the priority (s) have shifted a bit… I’m not sure if you know this, but Putin relies heavily on the support of the Orthodox Church.
You may have heard what happened right before the war with Ukraine. The Ukrainian and the Russian Orthodox churches separated… I don’t have to tell you why…
They had lost 23 million Russians in WW-2, and there was "Operation Unthinkable" to nuke something like 50 Russian cities, so the threat was very high. The "Iron curtain" developed, but the USSR was very nice in Africa and Cuba, so a mixed bag...
The war with Ukraine began in 2014, after the US-driven coup. My understanding is that the Ukrainian Orthodox church split from the Russian Orthodox because of the political stresses and threats which developed from the coup and the war against ethnic Russians in Ukraine.
Putin seemed to be a devout Russian Orthodox Christian, who even had a "guru" priest and would do a yearly week-long retreat, when I read up on him around 2008-2010, when things like that, less politicized, were available.
It is different from "using the church" if he is a true believer and sees himself as a historical figure, like Peter the Great, which he apparently does.
If you look back at the time before WWIl two major elements can be identified that lead to Hitler’s rise to power: the exclusive oil deal for Germany signed in 1933 that financed Hitler rise to power and the Catholic Church support for the Nazis signed the same year - the Concordat.
Without those two elements, but especially the latter, many historians agree Hitler wouldn’t have had the needed support to attack mainly Catholic Poland.
The Russia vs Ukraine conflict has similar roots. As you know, under the Soviets all religions were suppressed. At one point the USSR was claimed to be 60% or more atheistic. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990 the power struggle wasn’t only political but also religious. 2 major religions emerged the winners in Russia that formed a coalition, or a mutual tolerance. When Putin was appointed as the president of Russia in 1999, he quickly realized that his support wasn’t sufficient to stay in power. He was a former KGB agent and KGB was known to be not only anti-religious but also anti-Christian. So, Putin quickly “found his faith” in the most powerful and influential church in Russia - the Russian Orthodox Church. Since the Ukrainian Church was also tolerated, Putin began building his image as “a Miracle defender of Christianity”.
All religious groups that called themselves Christian were tolerated in Russia until 2014, when the coup in Ukraine happened. After that, it was clear that sooner or later the official war between Russia and the West (because Ukraine is just a puppet) in the eyes of the world would have to take place. So, there was no way that in the looming official war, interrupted temporarily by covid-19, the two churches could stay as one because of the nationalist tensions. From 2014 on the other Christian minorities became the target of the Russian state in exchange for the political support of the largest Russian church - the Orthodox Church. Religious groups that remained politically neutral or wouldn’t support Putin, were persecuted and banned by the state, under the pretext of extremism, like Jehovah’s Witnesses, or terrorism, such as non-mainstream Muslim groups.
So, religious hypocrisy was and still is at the forefront of fueling wars in exchange for special privileges or power. During WWII religious leaders of the Catholic Church, German and Polish, were blessing the troops on both sides of the conflict in the name of nationalism. After the split of the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches the fuelling of nationalism took over the 6th commandment. So, not much has changed in over 2000 years, IMO.
Lavrov announced that Putin was, indeed, joking, that presidents don't matter much in US policy, so Russia has no preference.
John,
Again, we must realize that while there are “chess games” going on between superpowers and their leaders, those are still the wings of the same “bird of prey”… and you know very well who the prey are…
Those are not new games. They have been going on for decades or even centuries…
Once, or if, you realize who really is behind those puppets, your whole prospective changes not only on politics but also on life…
While I disagree with few thing’s James Corbett wrote or writes on this subject, I think he really nailed the idea how the world is structured when it comes to the bird of prey, which is global - Globalism in its many forms…
This article is on Russia vs Ukraine conflict dating back to 17th century or beyond…
https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-crisis-what-you-need
If you read it, please let me know what you think.
Best, T
I read the Corbett article in full.
He has the opinion that the globalists control Putin, and I disagree with that view.
He has put a lot of effort into detailing historical events of recent and distant past to press his case, but in the world of diplomacy and large-organizational-management, such as the Russian Federation, Russia has a history of engaging all parties. Vladimir Putin is very engaging and sees subtlety, nuance and organization, which has enabled him to work through the vast and corrupt Russian bureaucracy to improve Russia, and the standard of living, against global neoliberalism, which killed 10% of Russians in the 1990s and ruined their economy and much of their industry, until he came to power.
Putin is a bureaucrat of the same order of mastery as Otto Von Bismarck, in my estimation. Benjamin Disraeli was similarly talented.
Yes, globalism is the manifestation of the enemy. Putin and Lavrov say they know who the enemy is, but how do we name that enemy?
"Compound Interest"? "City of London"? "BlackRock & friends"? It is the global banking function which arose to fund wars and then extract repayment with interest, because kings could not fund big enough wars without external finance. The Roman Catholic Church was instrumental in setting this up to expand the inquisitions and to solidify the power of Rome by funding new kings, "loyal" to Rome, who would overthrow independent kings. There was a Michael Hudson piece a few weeks ago that detailed that.
The arrangement of global-capital-wit-usury-to-fund-wars is the key mechanism which needs to be eliminated, as I see it.
Going back to Corbett's assessment of Putin and Xi as simple tyrants, I disagree there, also. They are very different human beings, very competent heads of state, of very different states, with different histories and institutions, who come from very different personal backgrounds, and have a wide convergence of national interests now. They both have a commanding view of history, and of their roles as historical national leaders. They are far from being anybody's puppets, though all politicians need to negotiate to get things done efficiently.
I really like how you portray Putin as both the West and Russia would like it…
I’m afraid I can’t change that…
BTW: Have you ever seen Xi’s fake. propaganda videos driving in the car with the lipstick like a he is a woman?
I did not see that Xi video. Is it AI-generated? Xi is very serious about being taken very seriously. He is a "princeling", so he had a big head-start, but he made his way to the top through competence and ruthlessness.
He is much more rigid than Putin in that way.
If you look at their subtle body language together, when not 100% formally scripted, it looks like Putin takes the lead, but graciously and engagingly.
Rare, but interesting glimpses.
I disagree with those who assert that Putin is Xi's water-boy...
This is one of the parades. They are all more or less the same. In one of them Xi has so much lipstick on I found it baffling they would show it to the world as the Chinese wanted to ban lipstick all together…
https://youtu.be/vQ9AwVrM9pU?si=m-ngbYGIvWLZ2tmy&t=74
I wouldn’t be surprised if Xi developed the same anxiety of being assassinated as Stalin and Brezhnev have. They often refused to be shown in public and drove in bulletproof vehicles nobody knew to the last second in which one they would be…
Putin is former KGB monster but still human apparently…
Wow. Thanks for the compilation. All this is meant to promote war with Russia. The folk who are responsible for this situation should be . . . gone.
Do what you can without mass-killing, Sister.
;-}
On the brink of total madness
It's only madness to work against your own interests, to follow these "many false teachers". They are not "mad" merely evil-with-bomb-shelters-and-well-paid.
Is there some psychology trickery going on ?
Two "failed attempts" to assassinate Trump have stoked fears They
wont stop till They succeed...
Now, if i was a solid Trump supporter i might be thinking 'i dont want
to see Trump assassinated, so i wont vote for him, wont vote at all, so
They'll stop trying to assassinate him.'
All eyes are on 'the security failures', but honestly, both 'failed attempts'
come across as having had failure built into them...
"They" must take Trump/Kennedy/Vance/Gabbard out or lose power... The battle is NOW.
Dugin
“So with object-oriented ontology, we’re dealing with the real truth, not with a lie. For the first time, modernity has told the truth about itself. What was before was a lie of modernity. Modernity lied to everybody. “Oh, we’re in favour of humanity. We’re in favour of life. We are trying to liberate human beings and nature from the transcendental fascist God”. That was a lie and not in favour of humanity but against humanity and God. The main idea was to liberate the Devil from the chains with which he was fixed in Hell. This was the liberation of the Devil, not of man, and now comes the moment to liberate the Devil from humanity and life. And that is object-oriented ontology that clearly, openly, explicitly affirms that, and they are object-oriented philosophers. They are closer to us traditionalists because we always saw in modernity this devilish, demonic aspect.
So for traditionalists, modernity was not neutral. Modernity from the very beginning was a satanic creation, and that is the main traditional line. Now there appear among the most progressivist philosophers schools of thought that say the same, but in favour of Satan. It is not “masses or LaVey — the real black magic is modern science and modern culture. Modern civilisation is a kind of preparation for the advent of the Antichrist, and Islamic tradition identifies it as Dajjal. Christians see it as the Antichrist. I think that this appeal to Lovecraft, to black magic and to the extermination of mankind and nature is disclosed by Nick Land as the real nature of science and modernity as well, and this is why it serves the Great Awakening.
Object-oriented ontology is the other side of the Great Awakening, when our consciousness is awakened to the fact what progress in reality is. It mobilises our spiritual power, which awakens the rest of our human dignity, and that is the real fight. But it is much better to deal with people who tell the truth about their negative purposes and principles than with liars. So, inside of the lie, there appears the most radical truth about life. That is why I could not condemn it the same way that I hate analytical philosophy, positivism or the natural sciences of Newton or Galileo, which were a pure catastrophe and a lie about nature and humanity. For example, I hate Biden and Kamala Harris, but I could not hate Reza Negarestani or Nick Land or Harman who are real and conscious Satanists. So better to deal with the reality as it is than with all these lies. If, for example, a progressivist in the United States would declare that they serve Satan, and Satan should return, it’s much easier for us to deal with him. So I always prefer the truth, even when the truth is very dark and very terrible. I always prefer the truth to the comfortable lie that tries to seep into our thoughts. The evil helps to awaken because it’s terrible, and I think that what Americans are now experiencing with Kamala Harris and the Democrats is the real horror. The more horror, the better, I think.”
Excerpt From
Great Awakening Vs the Great Reset (9781914208492)
Dugin, Alexander
Florid, dramatic, inflammatory, not particularly loving or compassionate...
Hates natural sciences, Newton and Galileo?
Is this projection?
He was considered a voice of resistance to the West. Not too many years ago at that. Today, in this hour, another side is discussed. https://canopyforum.org/2024/08/22/the-illiberalism-of-aleksandr-dugin-romantic-anti-capitalism-occult-fascism-and-the-war-in-ukraine/
I probably won't read any of his books...
Oddly I just encountered a few moments ago his Substack. https://substack.com/home/post/p-149006477?source=queue
He just says a lot of stuff like it's true and he's the authority.
He should read some Frank Herbert and work on subtlety, insight, nuance and gentle persuasion; painting landscapes of the truth he sees, stuff like that.
1917! David Burliuk, Alexander Kruchenykh, Vladmir Mayakovsky, Victor Khlebnikov 1917
A Slap in the Face of Public Taste
Source: http://www.unknown.nu/futurism/.
To the readers of our New First Unexpected.
We alone was the face of our Time. Through us the horn of time blows in the art of the world.
The past is too tight. The Academy and Pushkin are less intelligible than hieroglyphics.
Throw Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc., etc. overboard from the Ship of Modernity.
He who does not forget his first love will not recognize his last.
Who, trustingly, would turn his last love toward Balmont’s perfumed lechery? Is this the reflection of today’s virile soul?
Who, faint-heartedly, would fear tearing from warrior Bryusov’s black tuxedo the paper armor-plate? Or does the dawn of unknown beauties shine from it?
Wash your hands which have touched the filthy slime of the books written by the countless Leonid Andreyevs.
All those Maxim Gorkys, Krupins, Bloks, Sologubs, Remizovs, Averchenkos, Chornys, Kuzmins, Bunins, etc. need only a dacha on the river. Such is the reward fate gives tailors.
From the heights of skyscrapers we gaze at their insignificance!...
We order that the poets’ rights be revered:
To enlarge the scope of the poet’s vocabulary with arbitrary and derivative words (Word-novelty).
To feel an insurmountable hatred for the language existing before their time.
To push with horror off their proud brow the Wreath of cheap fame that You have made from bathhouse switches.
To stand on the rock of the word “we” amidst the sea of boos and outrage.
And if for the time being the filthy stigmas of your “common sense” and “good taste” are still present in our lines, these same lines for the first time already glimmer with the Summer Lightning of the New Coming Beauty of the Self-sufficient (self-centered) Word.