Tried alternative way of socializing. Went into some philosophical club in local library. The theme of discussion was the changes in educational system.
Before everything started, tried talking with some guy about, how stuff usually goes here, what are the usual topics, etc?
This dude suddenly changed discussion to : do you feel joy rising in you about war in Syria and our motherland showing off military might and reshaping the monopolar world into bipolar one? And that it would be pretty nice for our jets to shoot down some nato planes, preferably french. ( and it turns out this warloving guy is professionally teaching people history and has phd in philosophy, and he did spend 30 years in military )
Then the event started :
- this same dude opens the discussion with how everything is awful and then moves to telling, that marxism and christianity are the same thing, as teachings of Marx are less about politics and more about spiritual growth, and god exists, and quantum mechanics are just the proof of that. And the factory workers were getting 5 times more then army officers in imperial russia and communists ruined everything.
The room blows up with thunderous applauding.
- then is the turn of history teacher, he starts with neolitic revolution changing the human life( well, that is pretty right), tells about pyramid of Maslow as wrong concept in context of russian culture, as russian civilization is actually all about spirit and not that much about matter, then goes blaming western consumeristic society for enforcing its consumeristic values on our nonconsumeristic 500% spiritual culture - applauding
- third speaker is some female student who instead of speech reads some patriotic poetry about proudly carrying the flag of motherland now matter what. However, everyone is applauding, despite the fact, that she just cheated them by reading one verse instead of giving the speech about changes in education.
- stuff goes on in same manner, during opening discussion said philosophy doctor and history professor uses his phd and job status as proof of him being right.
Really wtf?