kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: A wave of military commissariats arsons in #Russia (dozens in different cities) is ...
A wave of military commissariats arsons in #Russia (dozens in different cities) is not an "uprising", as media describe it.[^1]
As opposed to last year, when people actually set them on fire in protests, this wave seems to be result of sophisticated brainwashing conducted over Telegram, mostly against elderly people. As result you have 60+ women throwing Molotov's cocktails at military offices, fully convinced they eradicate evil. No, not the war, but literal spiritual evil in the form of some devil or daemons.
How is that possible? Vadim Shumilin[^2] provided probably the best explanation I saw so far:
> Every single day, new pensioners, teachers, petty officials and average public servants, turned into zombies, rush to burn down military enlistment offices at the behest of their telephones, ostensibly to smoke out criminals, crooks, Satanists, aliens, etc. from the buildings. Some people here and abroad are scratching their heads in bewilderment, not understanding how grown-up people can fall for the wildest nonsense. And because of this lack of understanding they refuse to believe the official versions, building their own, as it seems to them - more plausible.
How they found themselves in such situation? It's not a coincidence or backwardness of Russian society, it has been carefully conditioned into such state — for different purposes of course, but the outcome is same for all:
> And why, in fact, such doubts? For the fourth year in a row, people have been beaten over the head, accustomed to the unbelievable. General house arrest, rubber gloves with muzzles, participation in a risky medical experiment under threat of dismissal from work, denazification with demilitarisation, mobilisation of civilian men in their fifth decade with potbellies and chronicles, the fact that a man is a hero in the evening, a traitor in the morning, and a hero again by lunchtime, to arrests for harmless words, etc., etc.
And here's the most important part: I have written about it a number of times too, as anyone who followed Soviet "dialectical" narratives it's obvious that Russia has wholeheartedly returned to these patterns of destruction of rational thinking:
> In general, in three and a half years, the boundaries between reality and delusion, reason and madness, logic and absurdity have been completely erased. What is surprising is not that there are people who don't find it strange that telephone "cops" ask them to set fire to government buildings. What is amazing is that there are still those who are able to be amazed.
You may be tempted to read his words in a metaphorical way, as outside totalitarian regimes we often speak of "madness" in Parliament, taxes etc. While these are figurative hyperboles, what happens in Russia in this sphere is literal eradication of "boundaries between reality and delusion", where people are literally expected to believe "man is a hero in the evening, a traitor in the morning, and a hero again by lunchtime", and punished if they express their skepticism.
Do this for a few years, and this is precisely how you get a society where a pensioneer can be convinced over telephone to burn an office, believing she fights an evil spirit...
[^1]: https://english.nv.ua/nation/russians-rise-...
[^2]: https://t.me/vshumilin/4022
As opposed to last year, when people actually set them on fire in protests, this wave seems to be result of sophisticated brainwashing conducted over Telegram, mostly against elderly people. As result you have 60+ women throwing Molotov's cocktails at military offices, fully convinced they eradicate evil. No, not the war, but literal spiritual evil in the form of some devil or daemons.
How is that possible? Vadim Shumilin[^2] provided probably the best explanation I saw so far:
> Every single day, new pensioners, teachers, petty officials and average public servants, turned into zombies, rush to burn down military enlistment offices at the behest of their telephones, ostensibly to smoke out criminals, crooks, Satanists, aliens, etc. from the buildings. Some people here and abroad are scratching their heads in bewilderment, not understanding how grown-up people can fall for the wildest nonsense. And because of this lack of understanding they refuse to believe the official versions, building their own, as it seems to them - more plausible.
How they found themselves in such situation? It's not a coincidence or backwardness of Russian society, it has been carefully conditioned into such state — for different purposes of course, but the outcome is same for all:
> And why, in fact, such doubts? For the fourth year in a row, people have been beaten over the head, accustomed to the unbelievable. General house arrest, rubber gloves with muzzles, participation in a risky medical experiment under threat of dismissal from work, denazification with demilitarisation, mobilisation of civilian men in their fifth decade with potbellies and chronicles, the fact that a man is a hero in the evening, a traitor in the morning, and a hero again by lunchtime, to arrests for harmless words, etc., etc.
And here's the most important part: I have written about it a number of times too, as anyone who followed Soviet "dialectical" narratives it's obvious that Russia has wholeheartedly returned to these patterns of destruction of rational thinking:
> In general, in three and a half years, the boundaries between reality and delusion, reason and madness, logic and absurdity have been completely erased. What is surprising is not that there are people who don't find it strange that telephone "cops" ask them to set fire to government buildings. What is amazing is that there are still those who are able to be amazed.
You may be tempted to read his words in a metaphorical way, as outside totalitarian regimes we often speak of "madness" in Parliament, taxes etc. While these are figurative hyperboles, what happens in Russia in this sphere is literal eradication of "boundaries between reality and delusion", where people are literally expected to believe "man is a hero in the evening, a traitor in the morning, and a hero again by lunchtime", and punished if they express their skepticism.
Do this for a few years, and this is precisely how you get a society where a pensioneer can be convinced over telephone to burn an office, believing she fights an evil spirit...
[^1]: https://english.nv.ua/nation/russians-rise-...
[^2]: https://t.me/vshumilin/4022