Friday 24 October  2008

My Response to Svetlana (Australia)

Doug R. (England)

The ‘bread’ article can be summarised as follows:

Although bread is fundamental for life, capitalists leave its distribution to entrepreneurs.
Leaving such an important matter to such people demonstrates the difference between capitalist and centralist systems, and the importance of entrepreneurs in our culture.

I explained why and how entrepreneurs are essential to all progress.
I emphasised how their essential characteristics make them unpopular with most people.

Their disruptive attitude makes them uncomfortable people to work with.
Other characteristics make them uncomfortable to live with.

They operate by opening a business enterprise. These enterprises have a high loss rate.
Entrepreneurs starting them will experience economic peaks, valleys and maybe failure.

This is not attractive to most married women. Thinking of their family, they prefer a settled reliable and steady income as received when their husband has a job.
A job is anathema to an entrepreneur.

This is why I claim an entrepreneur needs a special sort of wife.
She will need to support him during bad times, and enjoy the benefits as they arrive.
This is not anti women. It points to the importance of the right woman for this man.

Concerning the matters raised by Svetlana of Australia.

1.
Why does the entrepreneur culture work in the west and not in the east?
Not so and I didn’t say that.

Western established organisations, as any other centralist culture including Russia, do not welcome disruptive questioning entrepreneurs.
French traditional dirigist attitude has always been a French economic weakness.
My attitude is not anti Russia. It is against centralised control wherever found.
This why I used bread distribution as my example.

2.
Svetlana takes exception to my patronising attitude towards Russian women.

I have written several articles on the subject of why Russian women are so popular and sought after for potential marriage partners.

I quoted how the internet allows ordinary people to make personal connections leading to personal relationships.
I also warned how easy it is to tell lies. Why women should be especially wary of their personal security when crossing culture and language differences.

I identified other characteristics attractive to western men.
I quoted how Russian women are a welcome breath of fresh air with their traditional attitude of respect towards themselves, their family and the concept of making a home.
How refreshing it is that they pay attention to their appearance and behaviour.

I pointed out how this is so different from our own ‘laddish’ younger women.
These try to copy and ‘be equal’ with their boyfriends, while betraying their lack of self control and self respect.

Emancipation?
Many feminine aspects no longer exist in so-called modern western women.
On their road to emancipation they have lost a great deal.

Is it patronising to open a door for a woman?
I was recently castigated for doing exactly that.

If this is patronising then so be it. I am happily guilty.

3.
I quoted items from an article by Elena Vedekind whose advice to Natalia was to leave her husband and his debts. None of the details now quoted by Svetlana were available to me.
This may be one of the problems in relying on a simplistic on-line translation system.

After reading Svetlana’ explanation, I agree the Elena Vedekind advice was correct.
I should not, and would not have quoted the case of Natalia, if I had known.

My bread article obviously did not make my arguments with sufficient clarity.
I will try to do better in future.

Sincerely,  

Doug R.(England)