Existential Threats & Russian Sea Treasures: Absurdities and Truth

Pilot of the Caspian Sea and Treasures of the Чёрное мо́рe are at the command of Russia’s new rules of pipeline engagements. Power of its sea streams of energy are surpassed only by its hypersonic aircraft and weapons.

Existential Threats & Russian Sea Treasures: Absurdities and Truth is a Fictional Presentation of a Dramatic Monologue inspired by my 2011 Magnum Opus, A Toast to Nietzsche, Heidegger and Sartre.

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Act I, Scene I

(Vienna)

~Philosophers and Poet gather in Vienna at the Grand Room in the Academy of Fine Arts, a few kilometers south of The Burgtheater

~ Enjoying glasses of Vodka and Steinhäger, we find Dostoevsky (Dos) and Nietzsche (Che) sitting at a table near a window

~ Kierkegaard (Kierk) quietly enters walking towards their table

Nietzsche: (Looking at entrance and turning to Dostoevsky) Comrade, can it be that a Star has been reborn?

Dostoevsky: (Looking upwards) Why yes. Welcome Kierkegaard! Your presence enlightens us

Kierkegaard: Gentlemen, I, an individual, have left my recluse and am about to engage with “the crowd”

Nietzsche: (Laughing and in a sarcastic voice) Why look Dos, Kierkretained his sense of humor.

Dostoevsky: (Smiling)Seems death agrees with you. Oh, forgive me, you are now reborn

Kierkegaard: Now that your mouths have enjoyed a good laugh at my expense, permit me to humor your ears and minds

Dos and Che: (together respond) By all means. The table is yours

Kierkegaard: Nice to see you both agree on something. Now as I was saying. I present you with a question

Either/Or, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia or Russia against Napoleon?

Dostoevsky: Now tell us Kierk, could this sudden interest in Russia be attributed to the fact that you came into existence the year follow the Campaign of 1812?

Nietzsche: Green is an ugly color on you Dos. Red, now that’s more your color

Dostoevsky: (turning from Kierk to Nietzsche)Che, seems you too haven’t lost your sense of humor. Need I remind you of my flair for crime and punishment?

Nietzsche (laughing): Oh, Dos, you’re killing me!!!

Kierkegaard (looking at Nietzsche): Che, it surprises me you show no interest in the subject. (Redirecting his gaze to Dostoevsky) But Dos, surely you are interested. Russia is after all the favorite daughter of your Motherland, Soviet Union

Dostoevsky (Dos tiring eyes fixated deeply into Kierkegaard’s large round eyes before closing them and lowering his head in silence)

Nietzsche: WellKierk, looks like you hit a nerve

Nietzsche (turning to Dostoevsky): Old man, I thought surely you sported a thick skin. Don’t you see, Kierk sees himself as the star child of war

Kierkegaard: My being born the year after the Campaign of 1812 has nothing to do with it. But as you seem fit on categorizing me as a war child, I’ll do you one better Herr …

Nietzsche: Treadcarefully!

Kierkegaard: As I was saying Che. A century before the World was at War with your Fatherland, you were born. Does that make you the Father of war?

Nietzsche (Standing and pointing his finger at Kierkegaard): You dare strike at me! Well, do your worst, little Danish boy! But let me correct you Kierk. It was Germany, my Fatherland, who brought a long War to the World!

Kierkegaard: Indeed my German friend. But in the end the Thousand Year Reich came to an end

Dostoevsky: (finally speaking after some silence) I think it time to pause and get some air

~Philosophers step onto the balcony overlooking Vienna’s grand operas, museums and parks

Act II, Scene I

(Subjective and Objective)

~ Dostoevsky and Nietzsche reenter the Grand Room commenting on the art pieces hanging gloriously on the walls. Finally they arrive at their table and sit

~ Kierkegaard (Kierk) quietly reenters gazing toward his fellow philosophers. As he nears their table, he carefully assesses their facial expressions. Seeing no ill stares and hearing no scrimmages, be begins to speak softly but determined

Kierkegaard: Gentlemen,if I may. I extend my previous question of Either/Or, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia or Russia against Napoleon. I now wish to apply the matter of subjective and objective truths. → Ukraine, Either Europe/Or Russia

Dostoevsky: (suddenly glancing up towards Kierkegaard) Pray tell my brother, why your sudden interest in Russia?

Nietzsche: (speaking out loud) Ukraine and Russia? Why of course. The absurdity and the truth. Absurdity? We can thank the Germans for the Ruskies’ current victory. Truth? We can thank the Ruskies for Germans’ past defeat

Kierkegaard: Che, you’re getting warm

Kierkegaard: (looking at Dostoevsky) Dos, it is quite simple. Ukraine, Either Europe/Or Russia

Dostoevsky: Ukraine’s choice is clearly either subjective or objective

Kierkegaard: Dos, yes you too are getting warm

Nietzsche: (turning toward Kierk) The truth of the matter is Germany’s objective in invading Europe was to amass power in controlling and subjecting leaders to follow the Fuhrer’ Master Plan   

Kierkegaard: Che, you’re getting very warm

Nietzsche: Why of course Kierk, Ukraine’s objective is to be a subject of “the crowd,” Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique nord, OTAN. Russia’s objective is quite the opposite:  Subject the people ruled by the leaders of OTAN to a dependence of Russia’s energy source, thereby controlling and subjecting leaders to follow Putin’s Master Plan   

Kierkegaard: Uber mann, you are On Fire!

Dostoevsky: Clearly, Putin’s objective genesis traces back to the subject of Crimea. But the genius is in the Either/Or

Ukraine (Black Sea, Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea), Either Europe/Or Russia

Russia → ‡ Double Dagger ❽Checkmate

Kierkegaard: Comrade, you are Red Hot!

Act III

(On Absurdities and Truths)

Dostoevsky:  On absurdities and truth, subjective or objective, we no doubt resemble the characters of my book, The Brothers Karamazov; the soldier, the non-believer and the novice

Nietzsche– There is no real truth for the men who follow the herd. They make up these truths to survive

Kierkegaard: “Truth is obviously not to know the truth but to be the truth.” Gentlemen, I, now bit you good day and part ways from the crowd

Dostoevsky: True to form, as you once departed from this earth, the crowd, you resume to your silence as an individual

Nietzsche: Kierk,“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. Time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star”

Kierkegaard: Gentlemen, “Silence is golden.” Simply enjoy it.

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Politicians and scholars futilely attempt to define VLADimir Putin, Russia’s leader, as “not a liberal democrat, a realist.”  Or, convinced they know how he thinks by listing details of a past Cold War, annexations, number of troops, pipelines……  

Let me enlighten you idealistic, disabled and muddled democracies on the absurdity of what your military does and does not see as existential threats. It is not what he thinks, but in the ONE who ecstatically lays out the path and waterway for HE to simply hunt and dive into.

Kierkegaard notes the comparison of Leporello and Don Juan.  While one is diligent in making a list that details time, place and description of a girl. Don Juan simply seduces and enjoys himself.

Putin simply smiles. Whisper of a kiss will either be an absurdity or truth, making you the object or subject of the “Kiss of Death.” Dare play chess with Death?