This is a translation of the article “Nationalism, Modernization and Polylogue Civilizations” by Lithuanian sociologist Vytautas Kavolis. The original was published in English 1991 Comparative Civilizations Review, appeared 1992 journal Proskyna (translated Saulius Spurga). In this Kavolis discusses complex relationship nationalism cultural configurations modernity, postmodernity antimodernist ...

The article contains a number of arguments defending the idea that Russian civilization is independent and separate explains conclusion current confrontation between Western civilizations essentially civilizational conflict.

1 Introduction This talk is about the possibility that the Solar System belongs to the territory of a hypercivilization spanning our galaxy or a large region of it. I will start introducing the Fermi Paradox (why we do not see aliens around?) and some of its solutions. Then I will present my own solution which includes two proposals called the Subanthropic Principle and the Undetectability Conj...