Transformation of Authoritarian Myths Through Archetypal Reprogramming

About the Project

In our project, we want to challenge one of the most fundamental theses of modern political science and social philosophy. The idea that one cannot interfere in the life of a society with the aim of changing its development vector. The collective opinion of political scientists and anyone who reflects on this topic goes something like this:

"To a political scientist, the idea of ​​transferring progress from outside seems extremely dubious, if not colonialist. There's no point in intruding on people with your ideas about how they should live, unless you've already, from within that society, realized with your own mind that life must be different. Societies change, but it's impossible to organize this from the outside. I'll say it in the boring voice of a political scientist: it's impossible to change a regime from the outside. The only way is through an occupation administration. But it's expensive and short-lived."

"This is what the pharaoh (political scientist) said." E. Shulman

We say: look at the history of China, look at the history of India, look at the Islamic countries. Their vector of development does not change. China's history spans five millennia. And where is it, our China? Always in the same place. From where there is no return. Outside of history. Countries do not return from there on their own.

Most people and most researchers believe that society is like the ocean. The ocean is an element, and society is an element, and it should be treated as such.

A natural state is when a system lives on its own, develops naturally, and tolerates no outside interference. However, both empirical facts and logical conclusions tell us that a society left to its own devices, a society that develops naturally, inevitably turns into a dictatorship and something terrible and grunting.

Destructive changes in society have become especially evident in recent years. The dominance of democratic countries has ended. The fate of peaceful people on the planet has come to depend on a group of out-of-control autocrats. Democracy, a once highly effective tool, an instrument that had enabled society to achieve unprecedented prosperity, has begun to crumble before everyone's eyes. Regression, recession, erosion, entropy—these are the key words that describe the state of old democracies.

On our website, we will try to show that society is not an ocean, not a force of nature.

Society is an artificial entity, and it must be structured according to humanistic and rational considerations, not according to the laws of the elements.

There is no such thing as human nature.

There is social nature.

And it is artificial.

The demand for a multipolar world, insisted upon by autocrats, means a war of all against all.

Cultural diversity cannot be treated with the same reverence as biological diversity.

Biological diversity is beneficial for nature, but categorically unsuitable for humanity, for society.

In the biological world, organisms are created by nature, and nature itself destroys or transforms them.

In the human world, in the symbolic world, everything is different. The symbolic world is created artificially, and destroying organisms is unacceptable, and creating systems in which people perish is unacceptable.

In the biological world, nature creates natural inequalities. In the symbolic world, humans must correct what nature has wrongly created.

Nature is unfair. It creates people physically unequal. A symbolic world based on ideas of justice assumes that people are equal before God and have equal rights. Social structure must be carefully constructed, and its construction cannot be based on the negative traits inherent in certain cultures. Culture must be an object of construction, not an object of fawning over cultural diversity. Organisms are not to be pitied, but humans are. Humans are an invented construct. And society is also an invented construct. Although the longevity of individual societies gives them the appearance of naturalness, this is not the case. The symbolic world is an invented world. And the time has come to reimagine it. To reinvent it. Because today, what the symbolic world has become evokes horror and fear.

Our Approach

Traditional tools - propaganda, soft power, economic pressure - have shown their limitations. Neither the concept of "end of history" nor theories of democratic expansion worked. In these conditions, a fundamentally different approach is required.

Our project proposes a strategy of deep cultural transformation. Its basic principles:

This is not propaganda or ideological struggle in the traditional sense. We are talking about ontological work - a war of meanings, not bodies; transformation of cultural codes, not political institutions.