Comments by "k98killer" (@k98killer) on "How to Think About Russians" video.

  1. Estonia is a great example for the whole world with the way it used computer systems to automate the processes of government. Lower taxes than any other European nation while still supplying all the same public services with a small fraction of the wait times. Inspirational.
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  2. ​ @nickstone3113 in the USSR and China, they had a religion of worshipping the leader, replete with daily rituals of speaking to and blessing photos of the leader. Belief in a transcendental world is not necessary for something to be a religion -- there are many religions without any aspect of transcendence. Atheism is not a lack of religion per se; it is merely the lack of belief in the unseen/immaterial.
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  3. While transcendentalism is often part of religion, the two are not inseparable. There are many who believe in transcendentalism without subscribing to any religion, and there are religions that do not include any transcendental aspects. In the USSR, the state religion was the worship of ideology, Lenin, and then Stalin; there was no transcendence, but there were rituals, veneration, and publicly proclaimed virtues of self-sacrifice to the state.
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  4. Maybe I don't understand the concept, but the example did not sound like active indifference -- it sounded like active partiality. If the goal of active indifference is to actively reject having a preference, then acting upon a preference is not it.
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