Philosopher Alexander Rubtsov about the atmosphere of the militaristic celebrations
In General the creeping militarization of the respectable and attractive
Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti
The words “joy” and “war” in the normal brain is poorly mounted. War is about suffering and sorrow, destruction and death. Happiness is a victory, but the pleasure of the thugs, but in time of peace no joy from the idea to fight there.
Nevertheless in promoting these two lines – glee and militarism – touch. In our new ideological taming visible evolution fast and dangerous: live all fun, and to kill familiar.
So, the first component of this binary mixture is weakly motivated, but always irrepressible joy Central broadcast and response. Continuous casting of happiness, the holiday, which always with you in whatever hole you either drove the organizers of the celebrations. The word “victory” propaganda sprinkles like confetti. Unprecedented in the history of observations, “the feast during the plague”: a few years a half-century norm. Worse than “matter” (with money, food, drugs), the more elevated “the spirit”; the more spreading, the economy and social fabric, the stronger the ties and fly away on ideology. Known what was coming when the atmosphere of celebrations, while in life the trouble, and eventually dead.
At the time of oil abundance and types for upgrades such outbursts of jubilation was not. The leftovers of the resource rent, the society has learned that chewing and digesting quietly, so as not to frighten luck. Seems to have stopped everything until the moment when the happiness will end. Then the economy stalled, the obligation appears to be frozen, with the world conflict, the jug is empty, has run out of ideas for the future – and that’s suddenly the holidays are coming, what the top is not lowered after the Victory! Spill Patriotic enthusiasm, the abundance of mass vigils and social events, parades and marches, competitions, festivals, theatrical performances, public and sporting events, nice dates and occasions, assignments, techniques, awards and awards, celebrations and gifts, including architectural excesses and madness of the city scenery. Light all over the tunnel to a dead end, a continuous gala-concerts, holograms and pyrotechnics. Sublimation of decline in a frenzy of jubilation. As if the father came with flowers and champagne in honor of the fact that he was expelled from work and deprived of pensions.
With the increase in the total elation of gaining strength parallel line, creeping rehabilitation of militarism, wars and murders, including mass. There is one much Smoking pop spoke about it heartily, and no one from officialdom it is not straightened out – no spiritual heresy, nor for political extremism, nor lured “culture”. And this is only a sample, testing the boundaries of unlawful, how about “radioactive ashes”. In General the creeping militarization respectable and aesthetic. The design of the aircraft (albeit previous-generation) – the only thing we are doing is really beautiful. HQs, rockets, and precision bombing – the beauty unearthly. Tank maneuvers, shooting, and biathlon, destroyers and staffs on duty, radars and torpedoes, badges and stars on the epaulets to the shoulder width. War as elite sport and mass entertainment. And wildly spectacular check of combat readiness of the sudden, as scheduled.
All this is very necessary for defense, but the TV looks exactly the setting, costly and useless: even if tomorrow the war, it will be different. And then what to race on peaceful fields in heavy armor next to each other? For raising the General warlike spirit, for the broadcast of iron muscles, the metal in his voice and the beautiful resolve of the authorities. All this armor is symbolic dentures those naked torsos. Hard to believe that such maneuvers now would splurge if I had excluded dramatic messages of higher orders and good reports, if not for the need for day-to-day to show the public the Bouncing tanks and rising in the ranks of the fighters, not to mention the staff collecting in the air.
Men with low self-esteem it excites, raises above them; women, too, like the metal form and nodules. However, now breakup with games in a real war this subject from the news gradually squeezed out. A long time enemy aircraft carriers were not fleeing from one of our racquets medium range. But in toy war games involve children. In Khanty-Mansiysk at the conference on child-rearing authority of the Church was read by the startled congregation “DULLES plan” fake level “protocols of Zion”. Theft and corruption, consumerism and lack of spirituality, the decline of morality and cynicism, neglect the law and, manipulating the past and the emptiness of the future – all this to us is brought out, everything here is purposely infected and indoktrinirovannyi. Listeners puzzled glances, but in the final scene dropped the child in camouflage and with weapons, is quite ready to defend anything and everything from someone say.
Even during the cold war, the enemy was more interesting than now: a lot of Pyros on the other side of the ocean still diluted the native Communists, fighters for freedom, for rights and for peace, Angela Davis and Martin Luther king. Now the West opposes us as a hostile monolith (Berlusconi and Schroeder did not count), and this is another way to change the behavior not just to the enemy but to the world at large, a different ontology of life relationships, including his. Experts know that if a child is undermined basic trust in the world”, the hostility eventually drawn to anyone, including educators. The more primitive the setting, the stronger it is, but the easier it is to deploy. Do not dig another hole – you’re in it and bury it.
It remains to continue in the future of these two lines – happiness and aggression. The logic is known: a small victorious war – tested means of distraction from local troubles. But these measures are good as a one off – then still come out of the problem. Continuation does not work. Already felt the fatigue from what is. Holiday came to us… nothing! Invigorating taste already got.
Moreover, it is difficult to design the amplification of these lines. Optimism add nowhere and nowhere. The militarization of consciousness is also a resource limit – further hysteria. The escalation of the crisis will require a new fuel for the whole machinery of brainwashing, now plowing like a diesel in the Arctic. And to take more nowhere – except out of the war. But then new insulation and new sanctions, and hence the new scale of the collapse, requiring more compensation in ideas and attitude, and this is all if, of course, not entirely without brakes. Or then it is a chain reaction, almost uncontrollable.
The country is now as flat in the occasion. In one room of feast with endless toast in the performance of the authorities, and nearby, Smoking areas, your heat of combat, with live need urgently someone to punch. If these campaigns are suddenly come together in unison, tomorrow there will be war.
The author is head of the Centre for studies of ideological processes
