(03-14-2022, 03:39 AM)Vasilisa Wrote: Yin Yang
Thank you for the hint about the book by Edward V. Said "Orientalism", very interesting.
And yes, I have seen from my own experience how rational and irrational ways of thinking can conflict with each other. The progressive West is more characterized by a rational way of solving pressing issues, the east (in my opinion) was more irrational.
It seems to me that such a difference in world perception is described most interestingly in N. S. Leskov's story "Lefty"
You're welcome Vasilisa, all these works are unfamilar to me, but after reading this opinion piece, I'm definitely going to start adventuring into Russian literature.
I started reading Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina recently, and then life got busy again and I had to abandon it.
Intestingly, Gogol's Taras Bulba is considered "fiction", but not according to Ra. He's the only one of the three negative musketeers Ra mentioned that I know almost nothing about, but given what I know about the other two, he must have been quite a gem!