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Originally Posted by Gonzalvus
I just cannot see how will european nations be able to survive on their own.
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They have to.
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Originally Posted by Gonzalvus
On the other hand, a common identity for all that nations should be defined,
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No, thanks. I prefer special national identities with European Christendom as a meta-identity.
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Originally Posted by Gonzalvus
and it is not a good starting point when you have to define your identity out of abstractions --it should be something spontaneous.
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Not only that it is not a good starting point, but it is impossible, nor desirable. The only possible ways to achieve something like that would be: 1.
homo Sovieticus (once tried, it does not work); 2.
homo Americanus Europaeus (an average "citizen" of the EU, consumerist-capitalist, using broken English, it means death of European culture and transformation of Europeans into euro-gringos); 3.
homo Machometanus (mass conversion to Islam, according to Jamal Gaydar's wishes; it can forge a cultural identity and unity, but I don't think that anybody on this site considers such an option seriously; it would also be the death of European culture).
It is impossible to "invent" solid identity. You can either play with artificial identities based on the ideological premises of the modern West (1. and 2.) or accept a totally alien identity (3.) In all these cases you are not yourself any more.
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Originally Posted by Gonzalvus
TIt's the strength of Russia what makes me fantasize about that Euro-Russian project. They are the last proud europeans, the ones that have been less corrupted by modern temptations. At least that's what I percieve from outside.
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Grassroots nationalist movements must come from different European nations, based on their concrete identities and the sense of nationhood.
Putin on a white horse? No, thanks. Nor he or the Russians want something like that. Every nation must rediscover her own soul by herself, shake off the tyranny of the liberal capitalism-marxism, maybe through a national revolution. It is futile to wait for some Messiah from the outside.