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The Arctic Fox Cometh
We don’t know when it will come.
We don’t know what it will be like.
But we do know that it will come
and that we won’t like it
at all.
There arise occasions in the course of human affairs that cannot be properly characterized without resorting to the strongest possible language. In situations when nothing can be made to work and all has come undone the term “collapse” tends to get a lot of use, but it is too abstract and too technical to do justice to the visceral experience of the event. The need to be vivid and evocative yet polite when referring to financial, commercial, political, social and cultural collapse forces people to resort to euphemisms. Referring to collapse, the Russians tend to make references to “the white furry animal,” thereby indirectly referring to the arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus . Take this white fluffy animal into your heart, and you will no longer have to wanly banter about collapse; instead, you can now harness the full depth of the sacred and the profane and refer to it as “the advent of the arctic fox” or, if you want to be coy and use a euphemism, you can instead obliquely mention “a certain furry animal.”
We don’t know what it will be like.
But we do know that it will come
and that we won’t like it
at all.
There arise occasions in the course of human affairs that cannot be properly characterized without resorting to the strongest possible language. In situations when nothing can be made to work and all has come undone the term “collapse” tends to get a lot of use, but it is too abstract and too technical to do justice to the visceral experience of the event. The need to be vivid and evocative yet polite when referring to financial, commercial, political, social and cultural collapse forces people to resort to euphemisms. Referring to collapse, the Russians tend to make references to “the white furry animal,” thereby indirectly referring to the arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus . Take this white fluffy animal into your heart, and you will no longer have to wanly banter about collapse; instead, you can now harness the full depth of the sacred and the profane and refer to it as “the advent of the arctic fox” or, if you want to be coy and use a euphemism, you can instead obliquely mention “a certain furry animal.”
317 pages, Paperback
First published May 22, 2021
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October 24, 2021
Humorous blunt talk from Russian-American writer on the collapse of the American Empire, the COVID, climate change, geo-politics and cold winter coming!
Part of the prepper doomscroll narrative but framed with any humor to make the medicine easier to shallow.
Still can't tell if this is a black or white pill though...
Part of the prepper doomscroll narrative but framed with any humor to make the medicine easier to shallow.
Still can't tell if this is a black or white pill though...
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