Russia - The Ideal of National Purity Enforces a Regressive Moral Order

Event Baseline: A Russian regional governor banned abortion and shut liquor stores, aiming to impose traditional values and boost population as a model for national glorification.

The governor's actions are a textbook case of the self identifying with an ideal—the 'glory of Russia'—and violently forcing 'what is' to conform. This is the mechanical mind, projecting a fantasy of national purity and using state power to crush individual autonomy. The belief that banning abortion will strengthen the nation ignores the reality of women's lives, creating a conflict between the imposed 'should be' and the actual. It is the tyranny of thought, detached from the living fact.

The regional self, inflated by nationalist fervor, sees itself as a savior. But this is just another fragment imposing its conditioned program. The result is not unity but fragmentation: a society divided between those who obey and those who suffer. The state self, in its quest for a mythical past, will breed covert resistance and resentment, further eroding the social fabric.

This is the danger of the ideal: it blinds the mind to the actual. The only outcome of this mechanical enforcement is a deepening cycle of suppression and reaction, leading to systemic collapse. The body of society cannot thrive under such a rigid, fearful order.