[ SECRET POST #3182 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3182 ⌋

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Comments

OP

[(Anonymous)]

I'd reply in Russian but your comment has me seriously doubting whether you're even capable of reading in Russian by this point if my reality is so strange and foreign.

In post Soviet Russia, It's the default ideal that everybody must strive for the same level of education (highest education). How else can we evolve?

Where I'm studying (which is probably the circles you speak of) we are all familiar with the classics which were mendatory for the nobility in the 19 th Century and then for the common man in the Soviet Union.

And newer works, modern works are always accepted into the cultural inventory if they are deemed a modern classic.

They shouldn't define a generation and make them feel like these are the new classics and the heck with history. Yes, they can be considered modern classics but they can't stand alone without older works or they lose all cultural value.

I agree, our country is rather stagnant artistically at the moment but we were always eager to read foreign works. A Russian's culture/education includes almost all European, Asian and American works of value.

I've always observed that the average Russian reads himself into being a literature major as a hobby.

Speaking of class, my father is a welder and my grandparents grew up in mud holes (a Russian hobbithole of sorts, made by farmers too poor to build huts) before moving to the city.

All have soaked in knowledge as far as the bookshelves would hold, all the while appreciating things like Harry Potter and whatever else has emerged in recent years.

Re: OP

[dreemyweird]

Holy shit, anon, the sheer arrogance of your tone is astounding. "The average Russian reads himself into being a literature major as a hobby". Seriously? This is manifestly untrue. There isn't a nation where your average citizen "reads himself into being a lit major", and Russia is no exception. And have you actually ever had any proper friendships with educated foreigners? Just as there's intelligentsia in the RF, there's one in every other country.

No, it's not the default Russian ideal that everyone must strive for the same level of education. What kind of rainbow world have you grown up in? I went to a Moscow state school where half of the pupils were lower- to lower middle-class kids, many of them from dysfunctional or semi-dysfunctional families, and they were good children and good friends to me, but the notion that we all "must strive for the same level of education" would've been completely foreign to us back then.

And it's like you didn't read anything of what I said. Knowing classics and having generation-defining pieces of media are not mutually exclusive things. You can be a -'90s kid- because you love the Spider-Man animated series, for example (a generation-defining piece of media), AND you can read Tolstoy and Kafka and, idk, Joey Heller at the same time.

>>A Russian's culture/education includes almost all European, Asian and American works of value.

The same is the case for most Eastern bloc countries... And LOL @"almost all Asian works of value". Name one Japanese or Chinese work of fiction included in the Russian HS syllabus.

Regardless of whether I'm "even capable of understanding Russian" (which I assure you I am, given how much I love both the language and the country), by the way, it's forbidden by the f!s rules to post in foreign languages.