Why most #Russians don’t protest, don’t leave… and, instead, just go and do whatever they are told to do, including to die “to defend their country from the #Ukrainian threat.”
youtube.com/watch?v=K4O3D7…
So far the best short video I’ve found for you… although lacking a bit of nuance and detail.
An interesting take on why #Russians have been stuck in a submissive / aggressive loop for centuries by Robert Sapolsky, who privileges the nurture (culture) component rather than the nature (#DNA) factor.
youtube.com/watch?v=9YYZQA…
I’d disagree somewhat: the negative selection pressure has expunged the country of its brightest and most creative, especially men, through repeated revolutions, purges and wars.
The Russian poets, scientists and filmmakers so admired by the West have been systematically expelled and killed since the 18th century.
Also… a surprising critique by Sapolsky of @sapinker’s “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”. 😉
How #Russians are born (for me it was even more explosive, I had a #CERN proton collision nearby) pic.twitter.com/8y6NRJGrwB
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