In the opposition

Shit in the glaze

December 19, 2011 George Satarov

I want to take advantage of the polemic between Viktor Shenderovich and Leonid Radzikhovsky, in order to draw attention to how now in response to a sharp change in public moods, the power continues to apply its traditional tools - lies and manipulations. What is a lie, it is clear to most readers. Manipulations are communicative technologies that allow people who use these technologies to convince the rest that lies are true (of course, this is not the only task solved by manipulations). Let's look at the use of this method on the example of how the revelations from Putin, revealed to us during his “communication with the people”, are introduced into consciousness with the help of regular propagandists.

Putin during “communication”, touching the protests of the people who went to Bolotnaya on December 10, said the following : “Now about honesty or dishonesty. The opposition will always indicate that the elections were dishonest. Always, this happens everywhere, in all countries. The only question is in what form this is expressed. This is a matter of political culture. ”

Awesome alloy of lies and hypocrisy! First - about the manipulation. The presidential candidate states that he will talk about fraud in the elections, but talks about protest. The logic that he offers is as follows: “Since the opposition everywhere speaks about dishonest elections, this topic is insignificant, since the opposition’s conversations do not distinguish honest elections from dishonest.” It contains a straight lies and a lie-substitution. I'll start with the latter. It was not the opposition to Bolotnaya who came out, but people outraged by the dishonesty elections, regardless of who each of them voted for. There were those who voted for United Russia. Therefore, the opposition has nothing to do with it. So, this is an example of one of the most common examples of manipulation - substitution.

Now about a straight lies. It is not true that in all countries the opposition announces the elections dishonest. This happens only in those countries where the elections are dishonest. But, no matter how difficult it is to believe the Chekist, there are many countries in which the elections are honest. And there the opposition does not protest from scratch, because he knows what can become power. Therefore, the authorities and the opposition, regularly changing places, are equally interested in the honesty of the elections and are equally interested in giving the elections in vain, not giving an example to those who, turning from power into the opposition, can do the same - shelter the elections in vain.

I believe that Putin's lie may be a result of a sincere delusion. Indeed, in his simplified picture of the world there is permanent power and the eternal opposition dangling under his feet. Of course, this opposition does not like everything, it does not have a positive program, and she is not happy with the elections, so well organized, with pre -clear interest of winners and losers. Such an order, and they are unhappy! Freely get angry and chew them with indecent words. But we should not bother the cause of the lies. Her evil does not depend on the incentive reasons.

However, the most luxurious pearl at the end. Return to the cited passage, readers, and read the last two sentences. Checky prose! Mr. Putin teaches citizens who are minted in political culture! Have you heard his speech? Read? Great teacher ...

But back to Mr. Radzikhovsky. Here is what he says during his visit to the Echo of Moscow on December 16: “As for the protests, this is generally a joke. Just a joke. This means that all over the world, those parties that expect to get more votes during recounting against the wrong vote count. In Russia, those parties voted against the improper counting of the votes, if they can be called parties (Parnassus and others), which did not participate in these elections at all and did not have a single vote. So?"

I consider the last question to be addressed to me as one of the listeners' radio, and therefore I answer: "Not so."

Of course, journalist Radzikhovsky is smarter and accurately read books besides Mowgli. Therefore, he is expressed more carefully than his client. But the logic is the same. People on Bolotnaya are replaced by the opposition, but about the whole world it is said that the protest is motivated by the hope of increasing the number of votes. In addition, political scientist Radzikhovsky doubts that Parnassus deserves the name of the party, to which he has every right, for this proud title deserves the United Russia organization. Mr. Radzikhovsky is lying, like his client, because everything was on Bolotnaya, I emphasize-all parties in which voices were stolen in the elections, except for the LDPR, which makes the honor of the rally.

But it's not a banal lies. And the point is not whether Putin did not poorly implement the recommendations of thinkers who were emitted by Vladislav Surkov, or Leonid Radzikhovsky himself unsuccessfully tried to soften Putin’s lies with his improvisations. The case is in the used manipulation methodology. It consists in the fact that a certain text is saturated with plausible judgments and even judgments corresponding to reality, and they are all expected by the listeners and are separated by them. And inside the “Trojan horse” of lies is inserted, for the sake of which the well -known truth is said. In its shell, the lies swallow without mental stress and sore throat. If the reader returns to the text of the dialogue between Leonid Radzikhovsky with the host, then he will see how this is done.

Now I want to give a more magnificent example of the implementation of the same methodology, let's call it “shit in the glaze”. To do this, we will use another quote from Putin's communication: “I propose and ask the central election commission to install webcams in all polling stations of the country, we have more than 90 thousand, at all. And let them work there around the clock - day and night - so that the country can see. Bring everything on the Internet so that the country can see what is happening near a specific box. And in order to remove all the falsifications on this subject. ”

I will not discuss the meaninglessness and cost of this proposal - on this subject everyone who is not deprived of common sense has already been mocked.

I am about something else: how this majestic idea was picked up on the “Russian News Service”, how the host of the program was choking with enthusiasm, singing the determination and courage of the prime minister, who will overcome the opposition of the bureaucracy in order to bring his plan to the end, as the question “Who is ready to watch the urns?” There is the same technique of “shit in the glaze”, but placed on the conveyor. This is done like this: a radio station is created, on which acute questions about negligent officials are quite reasonably raised, to which guests are invited, who do not complain the current political regime (he himself was sinful, but more-not a foot), the atmosphere of trust (icing) is created, and at the right time the students are talling the next “shit”, like the idea of ​​webcams as a means of struggle with violations.

And now back - to the discussion between Viktor Shenderovich and Leonid Radzikhovsky. She would take much less time and words, if not resorting to the figures of silence and call things and people with their names. The restoration of the institution of reputation at the level of social and a sense of disgust on the individual is very important. As well as constant work on exposing lies and manipulations.