Art and Why Beauty Matters - Roger Scruton

The Truth about Pussy Riot

The information war, unleashed by Pussy Riot's desecration of the Church of Christ the Savior in Moscow (2012), targets the Byzantine model of government—an alliance of the spiritual and temporal power, which existed in Russia for centuries.

Putin openly opposed Western "humanitarian interventions" in the Arabic world and is not contributing to the war against Assad, where the CIA and Britain have been arming terrorist groups. Now Western powers are stepping up the cultural war on the residual Western culture that exists in Russia. The Byzantine church survived Soviet Communism and has slowly been reasserting its position in the spiritual domain of Russian society. It hardly poses a threat and yet liberal Westerners blindly support Pussy Riot, who have previously been involved in disgraceful public demonstrations including an orgy in a museum and a woman masturbating with a dead chicken in a supermarket. Each of thse were carried out without regard for the effect this might have on any children who could have been present.

The arming of rebel groups in the Arabic world is only a part of the international war against any rival political and ideological systems that exist besides liberal consumer capitalism. The rest of the war is cultural, it is a war of information and ideas and Westerners are totally compliant, accepting their role in the war and passing judgement on any culture in the world which does not correspond to their new ideals. This is now called "the international community" and its pressure groups have the power to destroy culture.

The West has destroyed its own culture and is now doing the same around the world.

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