![]() ![]() This is the question that we seek to answer in today’s episode, because some of the same forces that were operational in the late-Soviet Union and in early post-Soviet Russia are at work in Western societies today. ![]() And he began to ask himself the question, “Why did the future arrive first in Russia?” It was not long after that experience and the publication of his first book “ Nothing is True, But Everything Is Possible” that he began to notice some of the things that he wrote about in that book-the cynicism, the sense of surreality, the nostalgia, and what he described as an “aggressive apathy”-showing up in Western countries. Peter was early in his diagnosis, having first experienced this phenomenon during his time living and working in Russia. In Episode 229 of Hidden Forces, Demetri Kofinas speaks with Peter Pomerantsev, a Soviet-born British journalist, former TV producer, and author about the break-down in belief systems and shared mythologies that we are experiencing in the West and why this has left so many people feeling increasingly cynical about the world and indifferent towards the future. ![]()
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