There is a fairly intense and seemingly healthy spiritual substrate to Russian culture/society. It's unutilized outside of physical culture type movements at the moment, and more obvious problems currently cover it over. I've seen some really innovative stuff in martial arts from there, that unfortunately never seems to make it west. There is a thriving occult underground that the church, hilariously, seems more wary of than opposed to. The culture is already distinctive enough that some people are willing to argue they aren't "really" European; so it isn't difficult, for me at least, to imagine that as the basis of a new civilization.
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Date: 2021-05-21 03:56 pm (UTC)There is a fairly intense and seemingly healthy spiritual substrate to Russian culture/society. It's unutilized outside of physical culture type movements at the moment, and more obvious problems currently cover it over. I've seen some really innovative stuff in martial arts from there, that unfortunately never seems to make it west. There is a thriving occult underground that the church, hilariously, seems more wary of than opposed to. The culture is already distinctive enough that some people are willing to argue they aren't "really" European; so it isn't difficult, for me at least, to imagine that as the basis of a new civilization.