Dictators do not want to die. East versus west. Fight for freedom and immortality
In the book “Homo Deus” the Israeli visionary Juwal Noach Harari described a process that changed the horizons of humanity: having overcome hunger, illness and war, man for the first time dared to set himself a goal not to survive, but prolonging life and even immortality. This goal ceased to be a metaphor and became a new arena of competition.
This is indicated by the fact that the behind-the-scene conversation between XI Jinping and Vladimir Putin, “accidentally” overheard by journalists, did not concern a nuclear war or arms, but life expectancy: “70-year-old is still a boy”, “you should live 150.” As Peter Sauer writes, Dictators have long thought about endless governmentswhich is deeply rooted in Chinese tradition, as well as in European tradition – Silvio Berlusconi was not alone in his pursuit of extending his life and also dreamed of 150 years.
It is symbolic that the military parade of deadly equipment and conversation about immortality were next to each other as two support points for future confrontation: One hand treats by pressing the nuclear button, the other tries to capture longevity. Our present has become a non -abstract dream of the philosopher, but a political field in which two approaches collide: the right pole, through technology, humanism and knowledge; Left pole, through control, transplantology and the use of other people's bodies.
The Parade of victory in Beijing on September 3, 2025 clearly emphasized the change in geopolitics. XI Jinping, in the company of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Una, was at the head of the parade, which presented two billions of viewers with full nuclear triad, the latest hypersonic missiles, drones with artificial intelligence, laser and microwave weapons, fighting works … The parade became a symbol not only China's military power and readiness for future warsas the former US Navy head emphasized, Admiral Mike Studman, but also a demonstration of the logic of the new world order.
In the Kabbalistic tradition, the difference appears where the properties spread: as long as they overlap, there is a community; When they diverge, duality arises. China demonstrates such properties: discipline, control, harmony through submission and fear. The West, on the contrary, still exudes opposite features – openness, creativity, scientific research, humanism.
Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un during the military parade. Beijing, September 3, 2025EPA/XINHUA/RAO AIMIN/PAP
Poles are formed not because of geography or military arithmetic, but because of opposing features And this is what makes the Beijing parade more than a show. It is a ritual act of left pole consolidation, a line of strength and limitations, against the right pole of humanism, knowledge and freedom.
Russia, one of the many countries invited by the “emperor” XI to the new global pole, has just ended the journey from old sovereignty to the vassal dependence. Currently plays the former role of Eastern Germany, the key proxy USSR in the Alliance of the Warsaw Pact. The former global pole called the USSR shared the fate of the former global pole called Prussia: Most of the territory (currently Russia, formerly East Germany) has become a performer of the geopolitical projects of the new pole.
The USSR was a center of true attractiveness not only because of its nuclear arsenal, but also because of the “double lane” – 15 republics and the Warsaw Pact. Moscow was the capital of the “second world”, an alternative to the first, free world, i.e. the West. Today's Russia does not have an external contour, it has no ability to dictate or export the rules. The attempt to create such a contour from Ukraine left Russia in the position of at most a representative, depending on Beijing's support.
At the same time, Russia became similar to Iran. Both countries are resource centers that supply the Chinese center, and both are a source of the irritation of the West. Harari's allegory is more than appropriate: Mucha is not able to destroy the store, but when he gets into the bull's ear, it drives him crazy, and the bull destroys the shop. In this way, terrorist regimes operate and this way Russia and Iran are set today in China's strategy – they create noise, provoke the West to devote energy to fire fighting (in the case of Iran, these are his proxies, such as Huti and Hamas), diverting attention from the future and the real threat of China. This is what this parade was important.
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There is a fundamental idea in Kabbalah: everything in the world is based on two lines – right and left. These are two sides of the same coin, two paths that are manifested in each phenomenon. The right line is related to creating, giving, striving for harmony and knowledge; The left line is associated with power, control, egoistic possession.
When we talk about today's bipolar in the world, we see the same structure at the political level: Western world embodies the properties of the right line, building technology for health and happiness, while authoritarian regimes reach on the left line, where fear, strength and use of people as resources dominate.
They also have different logic: Western rights Line is a path of knowledge, technology and humanismwith Ray Kurzweil and his “peculiarity”, Google and Calico researching aging, crispr and regenerative medicine laboratories, an epicurean tradition for which the highest good is to reduce suffering. The “eastern” left line is a path of violence: extending life through other people's bodies, transplantation without ethics, forced removal of organs, control as a goal in itself and introducing self -control.
In Western tradition, man remains a subject, even when his body becomes the subject of research; In the Chinese-authoritarian tradition, it becomes a resource, spare part, a means. This is where the breakthrough moment “Homo Deus” passes: who will become God and who will remain unnecessary for someone's immortality. And it is not a fact that the right line wins today because there is no unity among those who lead it.
Sad illustration: September 4, 2025, talks took place between Donald Trump and European leaders – including Zelanski, Macron and von der Leyen – and they revealed serious misunderstandings. Europe has no strength to stop Russia alone. What's more, the United States will gradually withdraw security programs in the field of Eastern European countries.
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This means that Washington will cease to finance training and army equipment projects next year, especially in the Baltic countries, which will be on the front line in the case of armed conflict with Russia. Europe now wants to explain from Washington what it will all look like – especially since the threat is growing, Considering a fourfold increase in the number of Russian attacks on European infrastructure (data from 2024)! Confusion is also supported by the prompts from Beijing: China uses this moment to attract Hungary, Slovakia and Serbia with the initiative of one lane and one way, promising these countries “stability” and investments – instead of freedom.
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The cracked future reveals the main philosophical question: why are technologies created? In the West, they are created for health, happiness, freedom from pain and anxiety, to reduce sufferingwhich Epicurus and Jeremy Bentham postulated. In China and their dawn, in the name of stability, loyalty and endless control, for a substitute for happiness in the form of silence and submission.
The symbolism also spread. The parade with iron toothed wheels, marches and baritons of announcers are the language of the past, theater of fear and discipline. The laboratory, conferences, databases are the language of the future. It is the hopeless boredom of the protocols that allows you to live longer without receiving life for others. And now the concept of Harari's “date”, in which control over information equals superiority, is embodied in the Chinese strategy and practice.
The robotic precision of the parade and call XI to the “common future” emphasize exports by Beijing supervision systems, social loan mechanisms and “sovereign” social networks (at least) to Russia and Iran and ensure loyalty, creating a block of inconsistent with the democratic ethos of the West.
Russia, fighting in Ukraine with the help of North Korea and Chinese troops for drones, and Iran with its Islamist proxies increase the influence of China through the economic lever and the extraction of resources that China needs, by duplicating the ideological power of the last USSR, but with unprecedented power of 21st technology in. China is the main production plant of this power, which is emphasized by Admiral Stavridis, paying attention to the decision of the Shanghai Summit Organization of Cooperation to create a coordination center for the development of artificial intelligence.
The world at the crossroads. Which pole attracts more?
The right pole, the West, is unfortunately in disarray, in a state of suspension, and the longer it lasts, The more so the left pole will pusher in the new world. As America is retreating, Chinese technopol is growing by designing Homo deus algorithmic domination, and America's withdrawal from global proactivity only worsens the situation.
One pole lives from constant investments in knowledge, institutions, principles and values - and with trust; As soon as this energy weakens, a vacuum is created that is Immediately filled from the second pole by military parades, censorship, substitute wars – and fear. The left axle strengthens its future role faster, although it does not offer a positive picture of the future, but only blocks other people's capabilities.
The presence of two poles is not determined today by leading analysts. For example, Władisław Inoziemcew believes that it is premature to discuss the bipolarity of the new world. However, it seems to us that Harari's question – “Who will be God and who will be a mortal?” – It takes on an urgent character today.
Juwal Noach Harari, an Israeli historian, during a press conference in Seoul, March 20, 2025.EPA / Yonhap / PAP
China has long been exporting the idea (and technical means) of centralized control, supervision and extraction of resources to their satellites and proxies. The metaphysical structure that gives priority to the systemic features of brutal strength is also visible in Chinese management through social credit systems, monitoring artificial intelligence and economic dominanceensuring that their proxies accept authoritarian standards incompatible with Western openness.
Trump's bitter laments that India and Russia are actually in the “darkest” orbit of China, they are the undisputed record The greatest defeat of the American administration led by incompetent and unstable leaders.
In our time, it is a Chinese technological pole, not an American, it shapes the cracked, authoritarian future of the world. Will this vision of China seduce the global noon, or will the cracked Western humanism be able to survive?
The world is at a crossroads. There are many flags, but as we mentioned earlier, there are only two sources of gravity, and each of them attracts those who recognize “their” properties in it. The question is whose properties will be more attractive to the world – the creation line or the control line, and whose immortality will be true, and whose only an extension of the life of tyrants will remain at the expense of the bodies of dead and living people gained during their barbaric wars.
