November 7, 2017
A Hundred Years Since the Bolshevik Revolution
The seventh of November. Today we commemorate a hundred years since the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Itself a perverse and criminal effect of another historical calamity, greater and more disastrous in scale and in consequence: the French revolution of 1789.
A hundred years since Western man believed that his short sight, his self-sufficiency and his stupidity were enough to set himself up as God, to renounce the sacred and tradition.
A hundred years since the social dregs believed that power ennobles them; since the muzhiks took power from the great bourgeoisie, itself a usurper of the true nobility.
A hundred years since the freedom to think and to speak became the supreme act of courage a man can undertake before the mob, ready to tear him apart for his daring, and before the state, ready to crush him for his disobedience.
A hundred years since the victory of quantity over quality; since we became convinced that quantitative accumulations can produce qualitative gains; since we began hoping that more would bring us better.
A hundred years since the victory of the gut over the spirit.
A hundred years since the victory of the fist over the pen.
A hundred years since the victory of the masses over the elites.
A hundred years since the victory of reason over the heart.
A hundred years since the victory of nothingness.
A hundred years in which we have been sliding inexorably down the slope of history towards the ideologised void of the modern, post-revolutionary world.
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