Ethnopsychology, although not a science, always makes us “small-minded”
I will tell you quite honestly, about the coverage of the war in our country: if I did not have so much experience in the media, I would almost cry like a little Noam Chomsky – because we largely do not have “media” per se.
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Ie media that ask questions while offering answers. Of course, there are two or three, there are “islands of the current”, but most are divided on the stupid basis of “for or against” – for example, the massacre in Bucha. And other massacres that we have yet to learn about.
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Clearly, in conditions of war, the two opposing propaganda are also at war. But there is also a very human point of view – for example, to that difficult-to-move grandmother who was fleeing the “denazification” in Kharkov.
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Not to be extreme, but Russia has become enchanted once and for all.
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The mythologized image of the Great Patriotic War is the most painful – and as Viripaev said, the veterans of that just carnage are spinning in their graves. It seems to me that there was a symbolic end to this mythology – about that 96-year-old man who survived three German concentration camps nearly 80 years ago and was killed by a rocket of his own in his modest panel house in Kyiv. Within the same life. What feelings would pass through his soul if he could see the traditional “Immortal Regiment” on May 9 from somewhere?
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Time will pass, we will look at it culturally, but I do not see any future for this country as a “brand”, unless some “healthy forces” take appropriate measures? Of course, my heart bleeds for the innocent in Russia – from the aforementioned Viripaev to the last saleswoman in “Birch”.
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By the way, I talked to some sellers in “Birch” – young people who are completely puzzled by what their quasi-imperial power is doing. Most of the people who escaped poverty before the war came to work in the European Union.
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In short, they say: we did what we could, but the central government, even if we rebel against it, decides our fate.
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Heart, not sanctions for all Russians (from culture or not) who are disgusted by this idiotic, but somehow natural war. Alas, in addition to the dry, the raw will also burn.
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By the way, I understand everything (except the senseless, animal cruelty), then my job is to understand everything, this is the duty of every cultural anthropologist, according to Spinoza. I understand that in this huge country it is practically impossible to establish democracy, as a result of which it is behind the “small” South Korea in terms of gross national product. I understand that the elite in the big Russian cities are initially against, but in general it lasts to survive (not for the first time), I also understand that the average baker in Chelyabinsk, for example, is washed away by state propaganda and “knows” that some “Nazis-ukri” almost eat small children there, especially in Luhansk region.
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I understand everything except one thing – why we, as if intoxicated by our wonderful, post-liberal Western fantasy of democracy, allowed this to happen by flirting with the Kremlin freak, handing him the Olympics and the World Cup. And how no European or American politician has been able to see beyond “Russian energy sources and deals” to shed light on the intentions of the eternal Eastern satrapy hidden behind the banner of Orthodoxy.
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Some time ago I had a good acquaintance, a Ukrainian from Kharkov, with a small business, two or three shops, plus some vague tricks for me there with gasoline, and yet something like the middle class. He was on holiday in our country and we joked about “vodka” and “don’t pretend to be Ukrainian because you only speak Russian” – he insisted that Ukrainian vodka brands are better than Russian ones and that there is a Ukrainian language. Yesterday I found out that this friend of mine is gone, along with his two children – 9 and 3, and his sick mother. His father, 84, somehow escaped to Lviv, he wrote to me. And my heart broke.
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He spoke Russian and it was his mother tongue. I speak Russian quite well, as do five others, but now, specifically and symbolically, there is no one in Russian with me – there will be no more “disputes” over whether Nemirov or Moskovskaya.
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I also have friends in Russia, super smart people, who say that – morally and technically – it will be very difficult to live in Russia, after all.
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The big question is that much of the plankton lends itself to propaganda. Understandable.
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As a psychologist, it seems to me that Russian money sent to Ukraine is also a victim – in the case of the instinct for atrocities, the military law of the permissible. This, with an apology, applies to all such 20-year-old boys, including the Germans in 1942 or the Russians in 1945. There is appalling evidence of this.
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The current issue is to shoot people like that because of the “military syndrome” and to rape Ukrainian girls. Just because you can.
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Imagine the average Russian 19-year-old soldier, but really. This is not a built “man” – this is, in general, a brainwashed elemental brain devoted to its animal instinct.
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Now is the time to tell you about my grandmother Buddha, from Sofia: she, God forgive her, knew nothing about geopolitics, but she said that “the Germans, Grandma, were respectful” (this is about the arrival of Reich troops in our country, as a bridgehead to Greece and Yugoslavia), but in 1945, he shouted, “the Russians were like barbarians.” She says we fled to the mountains, just so they wouldn’t rape us.
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She, of course, did not know what a “group intellect” or an “inner group” was, but she instinctively told me that surrendering to the group’s barbaric “noses” did not lead to anything good.
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Because this is actually the learned helplessness – the group cannot get out of itself and organize itself, and the group, in wartime, “gives birth” to monsters.
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Do you remember the failure of the April Uprising? Read Zacharias, he unwittingly sentences the nation. Nobody goes out, nobody even gives bread to our boys, they die for carbohydrates in the Balkans.
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Why do I remember him? Because of our German position, once again in history. And because that’s our typical trembling “just in case,” “let’s not pull the devil by the tail.” And so we leave our rebels without bread. And in the present case, there are even entire political forces that are a disgrace to the nation. Some of them – 130 years of shame.
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That is why we usually reach the well with Benkovski’s head in the Teteven Balkans.
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We, although a collectivist culture, remain as disgusting as group psychology, sorry.
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