Dream of reason

In the war, as in war: any military trick by the way, if it leads to victory, any trick is acceptable if it helps to abolish the enemy. The same - and in the information of the information: it is not forbidden to lie. Here each bast in a line, every dream in the hand. And impudent lies in the eyes, albeit the most absurd, if only assertive - so even encouraged. It doesn’t matter if the raised and presumptuous editorial office will be captured by the hand, convicted of conscious lies and misinformation - this is even honorable.

Like, we are such, your laws are not written to us. And the authorities can note zeal. You can always answer the spiteful critics as the director of the Russian television channel did after the BBC convicted him that the same person performs on different screens in many hypostles: "Time, you know, revolutionary. Here the story is not true!"

It turns out that you can not reckon with the truth, it is always relative. Report, for example, that "the falling popularity of Barack Obama is associated with discontent

Never in the eyes of the Americans have looked so disgusting as now

Americans with his policy towards Russia. ”Understand so that ordinary Americans relate to Russia's actions with much greater approval than their unlucky president, and look at him to respect. In general, the ranks of friends are multiplying: not today they should be shoulder with advanced Zimbabvians and Sudanists who voted in the UN against the“ anti -Russian ”resolution, the miners will stand up by the miners Louisiana and Detroit auto builders.

If they are dissatisfied with something in the actions of their president, it is precisely the lack of any action, his usual reaction, devoid of strategic insight. It is boring to repeat that the state lie, built in principle, for a long time undermines trust in international affairs. Indeed, the relationship has been built on the prerequisite that diplomacy could keep silent about something, embellish something, shift the accents in some ways, but to give black for white, the night in a day means to violate unwritten rules on which the world order is kept. Now years and years whenever some Russian politician begins to powder the brains with his Western from international stands-and not Western ones too-colleagues, an emergency bulb will light up in their brain: "We hang noodles on their ears? Well, well ..."

The rules of the international dormitory, and simply the rules of good behavior did not develop as a result of someone’s evil intent, but because only this can live, communicate, trade, build well-being. You can, of course, defiantly abandon value behavioral norms - for example, from tolerance, compassion, from humanism, but then you will have to deal with the same prohibitive cynics that come into contact only in order to inflate, and inflating the claws. Gangster tactics - to fly, rob, sell and drink - nowhere and never became the basis for civilizational heyday. Everyone who has ever achieved success has achieved this by observation, and not a violation of the rules of the hostel and the laws of nature.

China, whose experience is so loved by Russian propagandists, “was timid” only when he recognized the laws of the free market - so far denied them, referring to his unique specialty, its incredible successes were only imaginary. A society that makes a fateful decision to live in a ziperkalie, to live by lies, by definition will be in the red.

Of course, not everyone is able to recognize the reasons, the result of which is the economic and social decline. It is sad when even the rulers do not understand that the degradation that befell their society is a logical investigation not by someone’s intrigues, but by abandoning fundamental value norms. Social solipsism (the confidence that in reality we exist only we, and everything else is the game of imagination, the dream of the afterlife) does not create alternative reality. The dream of reason gives rise to monsters. Orwell’s utopia cannot be realized - not because human consciousness will rise against this, but because the nature of man will oppress this.

By constant fear and washing of a person’s brains, it can still be convinced that night is a day, but no power will make him see in complete darkness. The cobblestone will not become a butter, even if a sore imagination believes in it. And when, after many years of exhausting lies, an ideological veil will fall from the eyes, the same Pushkin finale will fall out of the whole bad fairy tale: "Look, again in front of him, his old woman sits on the threshold, and a broken trough ..."

Efim Fishtein - International Radio Observer Freedom

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