ilhancan
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The following passage is from John Gray's The New Leviathans. I don't understand the bold part. Can someone explain it to me? Thanks.
"Yet Russia is far from being what its Orthodox guardians would like it to be. In its ethical life it is like the West, only more so. Family breakdown, drug addiction, suicide and anomie run at higher levels than in most Western countries. The military, the intelligence services and the economy are rotted through with corruption. If Russia is a quasi-theocracy, it is also a full-blown kleptocracy. Common on the European far right and among American conservative culture-warriors, the idea that Russia is ethically superior to the West is a decadent fever-dream."
"Yet Russia is far from being what its Orthodox guardians would like it to be. In its ethical life it is like the West, only more so. Family breakdown, drug addiction, suicide and anomie run at higher levels than in most Western countries. The military, the intelligence services and the economy are rotted through with corruption. If Russia is a quasi-theocracy, it is also a full-blown kleptocracy. Common on the European far right and among American conservative culture-warriors, the idea that Russia is ethically superior to the West is a decadent fever-dream."
