Dimitri_Venkov
Before the times of momentous change, when the resources of rationality are in crisis and categories considered common sense are being deconstructed, the transformative energy of the peoples fury and despair bring into play charismatic characters who operate with the dark forces of irrationality. At the dusk of empires renegades, adventurers, conspirators, and quasi-religious leaders seek to instrumentalise imperial symbolism while perverting its very essence. Tyrants, in fear of these peoples attempts at the status quo, respond by repressing them. Such are the cases of Pussy Riots prayer and a Yakutian shamans march on the Kremlin to cast Putin out of it: Pussy Riot being sentenced to a two-year jail term and the shaman forcefully placed i...