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The evolution of human communities over millennia follows its unchanging civilizational path, which is also its essential civilizational code:
From Tribe to Nation and...
Then comes a bifurcation point — a moment of strategic branching:
– either toward Society,
– or toward the Mob (a gray mass, a depersonalized whole made up of atomized individuals).
This movement is not linear.

A Nation may, at a certain point, regress back into a Tribe.
A Society may, at some point, degrade into a Mob.
• A Tribe needs a Chieftain.
• A Nation needs a Ruler.
• A Society needs a Leader.
• A Mob needs a Führer.
What do Putin’s Russia and Trump’s America have in common?
In the past 30 years—and especially in the past 15 years—both countries have seen:
– in the USA: a triumphalist arrogance stemming from their self-perceived victory in the Cold War;
– in Russia: a hysterical, irrational grief over the collapse of the Soviet Union, viewed as a national tragedy...
…a gradual, regressive transformation of Society into the Mob.
And the Mob, by its very nature, demands a Führer.
Of course:
In Russia, the Mob has already become the established (malignant) quality and overwhelming quantity of the state.
The Mob in Russia is not only the backbone of Putinism, but Putinism itself is shackled by and subordinate to the will of the Mob.
Of course:
In the United States, there are still islands of institutional resistance to the transformation of Society into the Mob — the judiciary, the states, respected public figures, and the still-liberal-minded part of the middle class.
But America has long ceased to wage battles to perfect its own democracy, and its entire record of foreign interventions is a string of defeats and strategic misadventures with bitter ends.
Thus, the U.S. now suffers from a deep, internal lack of will to fight for its Society and its principles; it lacks the character to defend its role as a global superpower; it is bereft of democratic determination for social and institutional renewal — in other words, Americans have spent so long sailing on yachts and cruise ships that they’ve forgotten how to swim.
America reminds me of the film The Roman Aristocrats — where well-fed gentlemen and long-legged, perfectly proportioned young ladies dine, drink, flirt, and enjoy themselves on a luxurious yacht, then jump into the sea for fun and games — but forget the ladder (which Trump has now pulled away).
And when they try to get back on board, there’s no way up — they scratch at the hull with their nails, but the great ship keeps sailing on, drifting away…
For any Society, its transformation into the Mob is a mortal danger.
In Russia, the disease is in its terminal phase.
In the U.S., it's pre-terminal — but the window for chemotherapy or surgical intervention is closing fast.
Society and the Mob are like eggs and an omelet:
It’s easy to make an omelet from eggs,
but it’s almost impossible to turn an omelet back into eggs.
Yet in human communities, this “almost impossible” still holds a note of hope — because “almost” is not “entirely” impossible.
So yes, it is possible. Very difficult — but possible.
With this clarification:
– If Putin is a slowly progressing, methodical cancer, attacking Russia’s vital organs one by one on its way to becoming the Mob,
– Then Trump is a fast, aggressive cancer, devastating the entire organism of American Society in its collapse into the Mob.
This is the oncology of states.
With one crucial difference:
– In non-democratic states, the cancer of Society becoming the Mob is an irreversible and final death sentence.
– In democratic states, thanks to the higher quality of "medicine" (social characteristics) and stronger institutional immune systems, this cancer, though severe, is not a death sentence.

March 21, 2025