Russian fate
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After a month and a half after the start of the civil war, Russian special operations on the territory stopped meeting any detainees. The street protest that broke out in the early days is long gone: politicians do not allow themselves to make incautious statements, from blocked social networks they come only with suppressed exclamations – and the news that someone else was fined for posting with a pacifist quote.
Comes to the ridiculous: in St. Petersburg attract a guy who went to the picket with a poster with a quote from Vladimir Putin: “The war brought so much grief that it is impossible to forget it. There is no forgiveness for those who again plot aggressive plans. The President said this on May 9 last year. It turned out that now these words, written on the poster by a pacifist, discredit the army.
Opinion polls have a high level of support for special operations not only from VTsIOM, but even from the independent Levada Center (recognized as an NPO-foreign agent). “Definitely” or “rather” in the aggregate with the population in the region of 80% of Russians.
You can, of course, peer into the details. The level of unconditional support, for example, develops in older age groups. In the 55+ category, it is 2 times higher than among young people. I also had to meet amusing analysis surveys indicating that support correlates not only with age, but also with the habit of watching a lot of TV, as well as occupation. Among employees of housing and communal services, industry or a developed economy, it is observed than among IT specialists, the entertainment sector is higher in the field of tourism or banks (which, however, is not surprising). That is, if you interview more citizens from categories, preferably older, then the ratings of special operations will grow.
But after all, empirical observations are also observed: people who are passionately supported by special operations have enough, including among the holders of higher educations, who are prone to dependence on television news. Moreover, the negative of Ukraine about the army and in Telegram is more than enough.
The ratio of the beginning to special operations is striking, because less than 2 months ago no one found a soldier at the enterprise, and any survey would show his hostility. Both the official media and the authorities themselves assured that there could be no question of any attack. The public, as it were, draws a target around the feeling, immediately supporting what is presented to it.
It turned out to be some kind of blind faith in fate. Vladimir Putin, while visiting the Vostochny cosmodrome, once again answered the question about the reasons for supplying the troops, firmly said: “The collision was unexpected, this is an obvious fact, an obvious thing.” He several times in different conditions repeated the words “obviously” and “inevitably”, as if the effect on the fact that everything happened was predetermined, it was not he, Putin, who ordered the start of a special operation, but some higher powers planned it; Putin was just executing this revolution.
It is difficult, just to say whether this is a manipulation with the aim of driving people into a tunnel with a discovered exit, or the president and his entourage themselves believe in a distant destiny, convinced themselves of this.
Probability, and the expected society is programmed by the same subconscious superstitious fear across fate, karma, God – anything that has already made a choice, and to respond to it means to take risks on the head of the highest authorities, who is not even Putin, he is even for Putin the bosses.
The instinct tells the layman that if this is fate, then it is better to pretend that you yourself wanted just such a fate, so as not to anger her. The deeply hidden psychic mechanism here caused the same thing that it is quite acceptable for enlightened people to spit over the image of a black cat: and it seems to be clear that a cat cannot be a turned witch, but you never know, right?
It is better to relieve yourself of responsibility, to shift it to the elements, because otherwise the revelation of oneself remains completely helpless, and such a beginning is painful.
One can only try to escape from fate, and many have now hastily moved to Armenia, Georgia – and wherever they could, they moved there. But the same opinion polls show that there are fewer people wishing to emigrate in general: subconscious brakes have disappeared, the act of flight is also perceived as a perfect attempt to defy fate, and those who left with regret, expecting a karmic “response” for them in the form of chronic life failures .
So far, voluntary cooperation with fate is also a benefit for all parties discovered. The special operation strengthened the president’s rating, as always happens in the first months. Citizens, on the other hand, acquired a new meaning as a result of the higher share (taking away the former “stability” stool, the authorities immediately helpfully substituted allergic reactions, and it’s not people’s fault that they spontaneously jumped over, because there is no other) and exceptional euphoria from the coincidence of a politically suspicious strange space with cultural, which allows them to endure even tangible everyday trials. These requirements are still perceived as tests.
An existential problem can arise if there is the possibility of a habit of euphoria that can no longer be provided. Already, the words “demilitarization” and “denazification” have become less common in the public rhetoric of the country’s main speakers. There was a sharp irritation, which caused the protest to be extinguished. continue to restrict with US global hegemony. The biggest deep-seated fear associated with the assumption that we do not fulfill the highest will, but on the contrary, we react with all our might.