{"id":12759,"date":"2015-12-24T20:56:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T01:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=12759"},"modified":"2015-12-24T20:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T01:56:45","slug":"infantilism-as-russias-official-ideology-free-russia-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/24\/infantilism-as-russias-official-ideology-free-russia-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Infantilism as Russia&#8217;s Official Ideology | Free Russia Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.4freerussia.org\/infantilism-as-the-russias-official-ideology\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"291\" width=\"525\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thepatientinvestor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/d09fd183d182d0b8d0bd_d0bfd180d0b5d0b4d0bbd0b0d0b3d0b0d0b5d182_d181d0bed0b7d0b4d0b0d182d18c_d09ed09dd0a4_6_d0bcd0b0d18f_2011-1038x576.jpg?resize=525%2C291&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From Russian independent journalist Arkady Babchenko:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you asked me to characterise the \u201cRussian World\u201d (Russky mir) in one word, I would not hesitate to call it infantilism. This term best describes the current state of Russian society.<\/p>\n<p>Infantilism is, first and foremost, the inability to take responsibility for one\u2019s own actions; the inability to draw causal links and to understand that such-and-such actions lead to such-and-such consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;The absolute lack of understanding of the value of life is just as infantile.<\/p>\n<p>It is not acceptable for adults to inflate a frog with a straw, to decapitate a puppy, to pound residential neighbourhoods with weapons of indiscriminate destruction, or to shoot down passenger jets with surface-to-air missiles&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;All I can say is that we can confirm that the experiment of dumbing down a whole nation has been brought to a successful completion.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4freerussia.org\/infantilism-as-the-russias-official-ideology\/\">Infantilism as Russia&#8217;s Official Ideology | Free Russia Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Russian independent journalist Arkady Babchenko: If you asked me to characterise the \u201cRussian World\u201d (Russky mir) in one word, I would not hesitate to call it infantilism. 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