There are two fundamental positions to live by:
1. I am ok already, life is not.
2. Life is ok, I am not ok yet.
The first case is the model of developing and improving the environment around a person; the second is the model of developing oneself, and the environment changes as a result of this. We have already tried the first model and came to where we are now; we have not started acting upon the second model yet.
You can take this approach to look at the current state of different countries and parts of the world. From this point of view, the West is a civilization where the main idea is that of financial gains; the East is mainly a civilization of the spirit prevailing over physical life; the South is a civilization attempting to combine the spiritual and financial aspects of life, which, while prioritizing the former, is too focused on its own exclusivity, and is therefore unable to propose an agenda uniting the world; and finally, Russia is also a civilization that combines the spiritual and financial with a focus on the spiritual, but one that has an idea of inclusivity, not exclusivity embedded in its genes.
At previous stages in the society’s development, before we realized the need for a fundamental change in the life order, Russia could not reveal itself and its qualities to the fullest, as other tasks were more relevant for the time: the society was busy building financial gains, something Russia is not very good at. But now Russia’s time has come. Now is the time no one can respond to challenges and threats individually, in isolation. You cannot solve international security problems for any single country, you cannot solve global economic challenges for any single country. Same goes for environmental problems, resource problems, political problems, and so on. In the past, when all countries and nations lived on their own, everyone arranged their lives the way they saw fit. But today the world is technologically and informationally united. Now we all have to get together and answer one question: "How are we going to live together?" The question is non-prejudiced. There is no undoing or eliminating the existing uniting factors. There is no turning time back either. This means we have to build a united world, one way or another. But in order to do this, we need something that will unite us. What idea is fit to rule this world? This is a question we all have to answer.