Poutine certainly lives on the same continent as us, but are we sure we live at the same time as him? “Not all are present in the same present time. They are only there on the outside. They carry with them a past that interferes. This is what the philosopher Ernst Bloch wrote in an attempt to explain the perpetuation, in Germany of the 1930s, of centers of “non-contemporaneity” and irrationalism. This mental retardation explained why, in his eyes, some of his fellow citizens had been as easily deceived by Nazi propaganda as some of ours are by conspiratorial legends.
The USSR embodied a form of modernity alternative to ours. Better: proclaimed holder of the meaning of History, she claimed to embody its inevitable outcome…
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