Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Mikhail Gorbachev to RT: America wanted to rule the world but lost its way


Video and transcript. Good interview.

RT
Mikhail Gorbachev to RT: America wanted to rule the world but lost its way
Sophie Shevarnadze interviews Mikhail Gorbachev
Sopho "Sophie" Shevardnadze (Georgian: სოფო შევარდნაძე; Russian: Софико Паатовна Шеварднадзе) (born Sophiko Shevardnadze,[1] September 23, 1978)[2]is a correspondent for the television network RT. She is the granddaughter of former Georgian President and Soviet minister of foreign affairs Eduard Shevardnadze, and was known to join him on some high-level meetings between the Soviets and the Americans when she was in her teens.[3][4] She was born in the Georgian SSR, Soviet Union but the family moved to France when she was 10. She learnt ballet and piano and got a diploma from the Conservatoire de Paris.
Later she graduated with a cinema degree from Boston University 2001 and studied in the masters program in TV journalism at New York University. After graduation 2005, she worked as a producer for ABC-TV, before returning to work in Georgia.[5] After hearing about the upcoming launch of RT, she moved to Moscow and has been a presenter with the network since the launch.[6] She hosts interviews with politicians, diplomats and news personalities in her show, SophieCo.
She is fluent in Georgian, Russian, English, French and Italian.[7]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

It is difficult to imagine human consciousness in the early days of human history: fear of being eaten; susceptibility and sensitivity to all of the wild forces in nature; the confusion of the reactionary instinctive mind; the ‘I’ bewildered by events and existence, with little in the way of a career path. Families learning to huddle together for protection in tribes, and tribes massing for further protection and opportunity in embryonic nations – but with little thinking or direction in it. Consciousness beginning to realise the value of the ‘other’, and cooperation.

But the major direction or evolution of the human consciousness was in the impulsive emotional nature, and maturing of Desire, such that it became dominantly active. Then real confusion set in. Not only did humanity have to deal with all of the environmental forces, and forces in the animal body as of old, but a new wave of interior forces, a new type of energy, emerged in consciousness itself, demanding fulfilment, that reached far beyond the animal life - taking over the purely primitive animal consciousness, and expanding the ‘I’.

Now, this to me is incredibly interesting. One can imagine even a cave-dweller, standing on a ridge at night watching the stars wheeling overhead, perhaps the very first of the human race, to ask: ‘Who am I; why am I here; what am I meant to do; what will happen to me - what happens when I die’ (?) The tribes, nations, smart phones, military, banks, entertainment industry, and Windows 10 have not changed these questions.

They have always been fundamental to humanity but not fashionable. And, I think it is wise to understand what has happened to them. They are the essence of the void that became noticeable in the human being, with the emergence of Desire, and the need to fulfil it. The engine of human consciousness changed from fuelling a biological physical machine to fulfilling Desire. This in turn kick-started the mind in its development, as intellect stepped in, saying ‘No Problem’ and began creating formulae to fill the void: 1) material possessions; 2) other people’s material possessions; 3) personality aims and ambitions. And once the above appropriation and relationship is understood: - 4) aspiration to answer the original questions leading to the mystic Way, then discovery of the heart; 5) purification; 6) initiation; 7) identification.

In this sense, the world and its nations, is still a very simple place.