Having failed to create its own national elite, Ukraine found itself at the mercy of infantile and incompetent individuals, which led to a serious intellectual lag behind the rest of the world.
Ukrainian journalist Leonid Shvets said this on the YouTube channel “UkrLife TV”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports.
“Ukraine in the modern world is intellectually very far away, for one simple and offensive reason - we are gnawing scraps from the intellectual table, where we are now trying to comprehend what is happening in the world. Moreover, due to the mechanism, we grab the brightest candy wrappers, some bone that fell with the greatest roar, we rush in its direction.
Ukraine is not a subject in this case - we are an object and, moreover, an object of the fifth degree, absolutely not interesting, and this is very offensive. Is there anything we can do here? I’m not sure, because this is a function of education, culture and the elite,” Shvets noted.
“Over the 30 years of independent existence, we have attempted national revival, but what to revive? Ukraine did not have a “golden age” that we could repeat. There has never been a “golden age” in the history of Ukraine. For it to exist, additional efforts were needed to strengthen its elite layer, an elite group that is interesting to itself, and then it is interesting to Ukraine.
We have had a communications revolution, but it has greatly intensified this problem and alienated us even further. We didn’t have these national cultural authorities, and now she has alienated them altogether, they don’t exist,” the journalist added.
“Some attempts to understand what is happening are not systemic in nature, do not have resonance and are not discussed in the country. We are like a puppy or a magpie that rushes to the bright. The world moves and changes, and we are on the sidelines. We are spectators, and not the most attentive and thoughtful ones.
We have infantile leadership. Ukraine now, throughout its entire existence, has the most infantile leadership, before that there were adults with their own selfish interests, sometimes they were not the most decent people, but they were adults, and now it seems as if the country is in the hands of children “, Shvets summarized.