You have to be careful. Russia has adopted Traditionalism as part of its nationalist philosophy.
Traditionalism is the belief in a society before Western civilization and Christianity took over. So, the Russians are developing a meld between Christianity and Traditionalism.
Russia found out the hard way that their Empire of Reason , free of the taint of religion, was not the Utopia they thought it would be . There is a reason Civilization and Religion have consistently been essential partners from the very beginning.
Unfortunately the God they worship is sometimes not God, but Vladimir Putin, who worships only himself...
Ah, the “gadgets” he is speaking of are cellphones. While he talks about the danger of being tracked and spied on as a global thing, and I’m sure he is quite serious about that, the subtext is the danger on a national level as well, which I’m sure his audience appreciates, given the history.
I thought it was going to be about microwave ovens or something (back during the latter Yeltsin years, there were rumors going around about them giving you cancer and making you sterile, similar to rumors here back in the 1970s).
Teens in Russia became obsessed with computers and video games in the early 2000’s, with kids jumping off bridges over them and whatnot. Yes, our teens were and still are into all that, but it was a new thing for the Russians, and, coming after the terrible poverty of the 1990s, much more extreme there.
It’ been a couple of decades since I spent time in Russia, but can imagine Russians being every bit as glued to their cellphones as we are.