To effectively confront the West in the war of civilisations that Russia is already waging, it is necessary to take into account the hierarchy of plans.

The highest level is identity:

1. What is the identity of the enemy? (Who, by and large, are we fighting?)
2. What is our own identity?
3. What is the identity of the remaining civilisational actors?

We must start with such a civilisational map. Already at this level we will be faced with a problem: the enemy has penetrated so deeply into our own civilisation that he has partially intercepted, like a hacker, the control of meanings and mental structures to determine who is who — not only from outside Russia but also from within it. Therefore, we must start with clearing the mental field and sovereignising consciousness.

Here is the next problem: the so-called civilisational approach. The enemy managed to impose on Russian socio-humanitarian science that the civilisational approach is either incorrect, marginal, or optional. However, rejection of the civilisational approach automatically means only one thing: full recognition of the universality of the paradigm of Western civilisation and consent to external control of the consciousness of Russian society by those with whom we are at war.

In other words, anyone who questions the civilisational approach automatically becomes a foreign agent — in the most literal sense. It does not matter whether it is intentional, out of stupidity, or out of inertia. But now it is just one way and nothing else. Only a civilisational approach allows us to talk about sovereign public consciousness and therefore about sovereign science and sovereign education.

This is the last call for Russian humanities: either we are rapidly moving to the position of a civilisational approach (Russia = sovereign civilisation), or we are writing a letter of resignation. Sometimes the increase in scientific knowledge is achieved by subtraction, not by addition — if one subtracts nonsense, toxic algorithms, subversive epistemological strategies, in a word, the liberal virus of Westernism.

Translated by Constantin von Hoffmeister

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