Three main tasks are posed as obstacles to our development and will have to be resolved by the coming crisis, whatever form it takes (from elections to a Maidan\/coup):<\/p>\n
Behind them, like shadows, stand two fundamental problems<\/strong> that led to this situation:<\/p>\n They have led and will continue to lead again and again until they are resolved.<\/p>\n Behind these two fundamental problems lies one tragedy<\/strong>, without resolution of which the situation will repeat itself again and again, as it has for four hundred years already:<\/p>\n One gave rise to two, two gave rise to three, three give rise to everything else.<\/p>\n Self-identification is not an intellectual construct.<\/strong> Self-identification is something felt with one\u2019s entire being; it cannot be faked. Self-identification is a consequence of accessing a living source. Ukrainians are a people cut off from their living sources.<\/strong> A people with a well\u2011defined self-identification would never have given up the largest military grouping in Europe that we had in 1991 \u2014 they would simply have known what they were defending and where the true boundaries of their collective personality lay.<\/p>\n The highest level of self-identification available to us collectively (that is, to everyone) right now is:<\/p>\n Certain social groups may have a higher self-identification, but we are talking about the country and the people as a whole. Another clear marker:<\/p>\n These are powerful things, but they are completely insufficient for a national self-identification. If we want to survive and succeed, we need the sense of a common people not only at moments when we are being shelled, but constantly.<\/p>\n You can now imagine, as a very useful mental exercise:<\/p>\n This self-identification must be above<\/strong> regionalism, above the traditions formed by the long\u2011term presence of Ukraine\u2019s regions within different states, above historiosophical schools, above differences in religious denominations, above sectoral egoism.<\/p>\n If you appreciate the scale of the task facing us, a complex, divided people cut off from its living source, you will understand the magnitude of the challenge \u2014 and the answer:<\/p>\n The \u201cFifth Project\u201d and \u201cRus\u2011Ukraine\u201d did not appear by chance \u2014 but in precise recognition of the level of the task before us.<\/p>\n However, I can tell you: if this monumental task is solved, the world will be shaken to its foundations by the strength and beauty of what emerges.<\/strong> You say \u2014 impossible? No particular task being addressed in Ukraine will be satisfactorily resolved without resolving the issue of a common self-identification.<\/strong> Three Obstacles and Two Fundamental Problems Three main tasks are posed as obstacles to our development and will have to be resolved by the coming crisis, whatever form it takes (from elections to a Maidan\/coup): the enslavement of the economy and the impoverishment of the people, the insufficient level of defense effectiveness and warfare in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-future-of-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2385,"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions\/2385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lamedgroup.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Self-Identification: Essence and Scale of the Task<\/h2>\n
\nNot an ideological concept, no matter how true it may seem.
\nAnd certainly not a political technology construct.<\/p>\n
\nIt is what I felt when, at the age of five, I first saw the mosaics of Kyivan princes at the Golden Gate \u2014 there it is, mine, ours.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the tasks of self-identification is to define oneself within the \u201cfriend \u2014 foe\u201d system.<\/p>\n
\nOur connection to the sources has been replaced by political technology and ideological trash \u2014 a mess beyond cleanup.
\nHence \u2014 all our problems. All of them \u2014 including imperfect legislation, corruption, and the lack of funds for defense.<\/p>\nOur Current Level of Self-Identification<\/h3>\n
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\nMoments of mass shelling are moments of temporary common unity.<\/p>\n\n
\nBecause this is a self-identification of negation.<\/strong>
\nWhat we need is a self-identification of affirmation.<\/strong><\/p>\nA Thought Experiment: What Kind of Self-Identification Will Unite All of Ukraine?<\/h3>\n
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\nA downtrodden people will unleash such a level of creativity and transformation that it may become the brightest light in its history.<\/p>\n
\nHow can it be impossible, when we all saw it, experienced it, participated in it \u2014 at the beginning of the war.
\nIt is possible. It is necessary. A matter of survival, by all means.<\/p>\n
\nMain Conclusion<\/h2>\n
\nAnd it is precisely there, first and foremost, that the main efforts of any authority that truly wishes well for the country and its people must be directed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"