Victory Day is a great holiday! A celebration of victory over the most evil forces in the history of mankind. In their desire to enslave the world, they even tried to adjust religion to their criminal ideology. The brown plague stopped the normal life of an entire continent for years.
But what our fathers and grandfathers had to endure has no analogue even in the history of mankind – they experienced the nightmare of Nazism. And we must not forget that.
Immediately after that war it seemed to people that a repeat of such horrors was impossible, that humanity would not allow it to happen again. But we face the same problems today as we did many years ago. Evil forces triumph in the world, just as before.
The source, the root of this phenomenon lies in human nature, that is, in selfishness, in the desire to enjoy at any cost at the expense of others. This desire is present in everyone and is constantly growing, determining our behavior: the desire to enjoy, to dominate, to develop, to take over everything for ourselves.
This desire is inherent in all people, but, of course, it grows faster in some societies and peoples and slower in others, taking different forms and nature. If we consider human society as a whole, we can see that its most advanced, technologically and economically developed part is Europe. Everyone looks at Europe and America, realizing that what happens there today could happen to them tomorrow.
The philosophy of liberalism now prevails in the world: everyone cares only about his own good. Out of desperation, we establish laws between us that bring some kind of order and prevent us from using our selfishness rudely and openly. We set standards of behavior, we build prisons as punishment, and on the other hand, schools, the educational system, the culture.
The whole hierarchy is determined only by the amount of money. If a person is clearly not harmful to society, then he is free to do whatever he wants. The liberal idea promotes the success of the middle class, the idea that everyone can get rich. That is, egoism is given complete freedom of action. And then it becomes unclear what to do next.
But eventually capitalism also exhausts itself, because exponential growth has its limits. There is a crisis in industry, the financial system, culture, and education. Everything is falling apart before my eyes. All that is left of education is vocational training, but no one educates a person. Culture is degrading, parent-child relationships are crumbling, young people do not want to marry and build a family, and mass unemployment is increasing due to automation and robotization.
It is as if we have lost all the necessary connections that once connected us to each other. Today a person owes no one anything and can do whatever he wants. It’s not that we’re at a crossroads, we don’t see a way in front of us at all; that’s the problem. And then it turns out that in our society, fascism is revived again.
The fertile ground for the formation of fascism is the ideology of liberalism as a philosophy of free power of capital and unlimited enrichment. Liberalism is based on social Darwinism, a view of society as a society living according to the “law of the jungle” or the principle of “man to man is a wolf,” according to which immoral behavior in the marketplace of conflicting private interests is the norm.
Hitler came to power democratically. He is a prime example of the power of the majority to deny morality and spirituality. God forbid, tomorrow his role may be taken by someone else, eager to save the power of the elites.
Why is this so? Is this a natural developmental trend?
Our world reaches full freedom for everyone to conclude that the proper form of human society is unification. In this case, we become like an integral nature, in which flora and fauna are interconnected, and only man remains unconnected–to allow him to make this connection himself consciously, with understanding.
But if our nature is selfish, then our association is selfish. We are uniting on the basis of our selfishness, and this turns out to be a fascist regime that is already looming on the horizon just as it once did in Germany….
The world erroneously considers fascism to be a product of Germany, whereas it is a consequence of democracy and socialism left without morality, morals or spirituality.
People have suffered enough to prevent fascism from returning the world to the same vicious circle. May 9th should be for us not only the day the big and terrible war ended, but also a reminder of the need to prevent possible future wars.
