Day 916
Disappointed lovers
The assertion that historical guilt is individual guilt per se is nothing more than the subterfuge of a guilty and lying conscience. This does not mean that one can put off the problem of historical guilt with easy generalizations.
Stupidity, i.e. inability to understand the mechanism of events, can cause tremendous suffering. In this sense, the president who told us to dream about barbecues in May 2022 is guilty of stupidity, and his guilt has an individual character1.
Historical guilt, however, is different. This weighs upon Z's six (оr seven) potent (потужный) managers, who in January 2022 refused to acknowledge the obvious — not out of stupidity, but, on the contrary, out a full understanding of "historical processes," i.e. a correct evaluation of the invasion our CIA director told them was both unavoidable and imminent2.
This word game reminds me of the субъектность (subjectiveness) vs сувернность (sovereignty) confusion still clogging the heads of people who pou…
