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Homo Sovieticus

Homo Sovieticus (Dog Latin for "Soviet Man") is a sarcastic and critical reference to an average conformist person in the Soviet Union also observed in other countries of the Eastern Bloc. The term was popularized by Soviet writer and sociologist Aleksandr Zinovyev, who wrote the book titled Homo Sovieticus.

Michel Heller asserted that the term was coined in the introduction of a 1974 monograph "Sovetskye lyudi" ("Soviet People") to describe the next level of evolution of humanity thanks to the success of Marxist social experiment.

Characteristics

Lack of initiative and avoidance of taking any individual responsibility for anything. Jerzy Turowicz wrote: "it's a person enslaved, incapacitated, deprived of initiative, unable to think critically; he expects – and demands – everything to be provided by the state, he cannot and doesn't want to take his fate in his own hands".

Obedience to or passive acceptance of everything that government imposes

According to Leszek Kolakowski, the Short course history of the CPSU(b) played a crucial role in forming the key social and mental features of the Homo Sovieticus as a "textbook of false memory and double thinking". Over the years, Soviet people were forced to continuously repeat and accept constantly changing editions of the Short course, each containing a slightly different version of the past events. This inevitably led to forming "a new Soviet man: ideological schizophrenic, honest liar, person always ready for constant and voluntary mental self-mutilations".

The "Soviet man" is characterised by his tendency to follow the authority of the state in its assessment of reality, to adopt an attitude of mistrust and anxiety towards anything foreign and unknown, and is convinced of his own powerlessness and inability to affect the surrounding reality; from here, it is only a step towards lacking any sense of responsibility for that reality. His suppressed aggression, birthed by his chronic dissatisfaction with life, his intense sense of injustice and his inability to achieve self-realisation, and his great envy, all erupt into a fascination with force and violence, as well as a tendency towards "negative identification" – in opposition to "the enemy" or "the foreigner". Such a personality suits a quasi-tribal approach to standards of morality and law (the things "our people" have a right to do are condemned in the "foreigner").

— "Conflict-dependent Russia. The domestic determinants of the Kremlin's anti-western policy", Maria Domańska

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This inevitably led to forming "a new Soviet man: ideological schizophrenic, honest liar, person always ready for constant and voluntary mental self-mutilations".

Self-deception, voluntary and involuntary mental mutilations, must be common for a species existentially estranged from REALITY (or the state of the whole universe as it happens NOW and not as it appears before information biases. As you know, humans, being present, exist as a limited form of awareness and therefore navigate information biases and produce SELF-fulfilling myths sourced from such biases.).

Idolatry and dogmatic fervor seem to favor such characteristics. Perhaps the tenacity of these characteristics are instinctive and enable men to build and maintain hive-mind tribes. Is it not the history of humanity, refined and repackaged by cunning propagandists, opportunists, and natural born leaders?

Better question, how does a natural born leader manifest WILL? Is he or she naturally born?

How can there be a leader without followers?

How many somnambulists inhabit space and co-generate time?

How many are awake and fully realize this one moment?

Perhaps such questions surround the act or process of telesis. On one hand, as far as life dictates daily toil, somnambulists or followers swing the pendulum of time and help set in motion human activities. On the other, awake individuals or leaders that have the ability or capacity to exert WILL and power over other people instigate and motivate the motion of human activities. Both follower and leader become one under the scrutinizing lens of history. Furthermore, we must address innate tendencies or the natural biological processes which imbue human thought and action. Does a tribe or society form in response to the WILL of people or is it an unconscious evolutionary feature of the energy that composes the posture of both follower and leader?

The "Soviet man" is characterised by his tendency to follow the authority of the state in its assessment of reality, to adopt an attitude of mistrust and anxiety towards anything foreign and unknown, and is convinced of his own powerlessness and inability to affect the surrounding reality; from here, it is only a step towards lacking any sense of responsibility for that reality.

The noospheric programs promulgated throughout the ages affect the mental faculties and actions of humanity. Any man, Roman, Catholic, Muslim, Soviet, etc; is in-fact a conceptual process living out a life that is in a state of cybernetic (psycho-social-biological feedback loop) interplay with its environment. A human isn't a human, a human is an extension and expression of space. The movement of energy defines the dimensionality of space, be it mental or physical. The description provided (concerning the soviet man), describes any person living in society.

His suppressed aggression, birthed by his chronic dissatisfaction with life, his intense sense of injustice and his inability to achieve self-realisation, and his great envy, all erupt into a fascination with force and violence, as well as a tendency towards "negative identification" – in opposition to "the enemy" or "the foreigner". Such a personality suits a quasi-tribal approach to standards of morality and law (the things "our people" have a right to do are condemned in the "foreigner").

Language is not the expression of any single individual. Language is defined by experience (resonant interval of perceived constructs), cognitive gestalts (symbolic edifice), and dialectical tension (binary opposition). The individual, while in pursuit of a tribal idealogical framework, must be a working part of the total state of humanity, the sum of past and present expressions which are defined by the nature of time and the illusion of things occurring separately instead of simultaneously.

The Soviet man doesn't exist independently from the whole of humanity, and although the Soviet man did exist as an extension of what space-time can express, it is in no way something new... Rather another form of the same thing that is continuously redefining itself through itself as we unfold in ONE unfolding moment called NOW.



-Death by an infinite mirror