Normal machine gun, normal bullets

I listen to the radio in the morning, and when the first news is not negotiations on gas, but actor Porechenkov, who states that all this was a ponaroshka and they shoot everywhere, this cannot be shot, this cannot be an accident. Since the actor Porechenkov is not by himself, but still a well-known person, one can even say an official (if only because he came to the territory of unrecognized republics to represent the “Poddubny” movie created with state money), a well-known association with the state arises. And the state in this case considered that this is not a very good association. Unnecessary, at least now. And therefore, in the morning, actor Porechenkov speaks in the air of some unimportant things, and we will probably hear the version of “fake shoot” or even several, which will finally confuse everyone.

This is, oddly enough, this will sound - a good sign that Porechenkov is justified. Because there could be another option, relatively speaking, “radioactive ash”. The option, conditionally, if he said: yes, I shot and aimed, and that is how the patriot should behave. But actor Porechenkov did not say that. He behaves as children behave usually in order to avoid punishment: he says that it was all a ponaroshka, not actually, and that it is "generally funny."

And in general, Porechenkov does not cunning when he says so.

When I saw a video with Porechenkov, I remembered another scandal that occurred a year and a half ago, and it was a scandal with Ivan Urgant, who “chopped greens like a red commander - the inhabitants of the Ukrainian village” . This phrase sounded in those already infinitely distant, peaceful times, when there was neither Crimea, no Donbass, nor even the Maidan. This phrase was also pronounced for a joke; And then everyone discussed the act of Urgant in the same way, and he apologized and emphasized that he did not want to offend anyone; And even people appeared who began to say that enough to apologize, otherwise it was already indecent. He was defended by a colleague, a fellow in the workshop: he said that when a person is joking, he sometimes goes beyond the buoys and does not need to crucify the person for this. Since then, Urgant has already managed to joke more than once, and no less successfully. In such scandals, of course, there is a well -known dead end: here a person asks for forgiveness, even several times, although there is nothing similar to repentance, but try to prove it.

Actor Porechenkov is not the fanset of hell, is not some kind of universal evil. Everything is exactly opposite. Porechenkov is a man of norms, and he behaves in accordance with what is currently considered the norm.

The fact is that any joke associated with nationality, or with an entire people, or with someone’s tragedy-it does not arise from scratch. It is the result of a human life, the entire system of values. It is exactly what is fundamental for a person, namely, a common contemptuous, neglect of a stranger - suffering, history, and in general, attitude towards people as toys. In a good way, a person with such a system of values ​​cannot be admitted to a conversation with a multimillion-dollar audience, at least he should be disabled from this audience for some time. But Urgant perfectly understands that most of his jokes like, and the minority that condemns him is negligible and does not have at least some kind of authority. And also - what behind him, behind Ivan Urgant, there is a huge country, which - if it is loyal - will take responsibility for itself. A person in a paternalistic society cannot have his own ethics, conscience or guilt - since unconsciously he converts this to all the state.

For six months, state propaganda has created many well -known formulas that violate the generally accepted ethics: the inhabitants of another country are called “fascists” or the neighboring state - “hunta”, and also hint in every possible way that such a country does not exist at all (this thesis is repeated every day in propaganda media). This, of course, is terrible from all points of view, but the worst of all from psychological - because it completely removes all responsibility from a small person. Offering him to consider “real” only himself, his country. And all the others - fake, non -existent, in the form of plush, toy people who cannot be regarded seriously. This is a feeling of “cinema” - it preceded the terrible that happened this year between Russia and Ukraine and that it would never be forgotten, but it began just like that - never seriously, almost like a game, a game of war, in which, like in the novel by Sorokin, real weapons were handed out to everyone. And only when it turned into real blood, deaths, mutual hatred and cruelty, pieces of meat and bodies, abandoned explosion on wires - only at that moment did the understanding come that, it turns out, all people - real, and not just “their own”.

It seems that this was terrible to serve as called the “tragic lesson of history”: after that it would be worth growing up, free from infantilism-and try to live differently.

However, this is impossible even now - after the terrible has already happened. This is an amazing property of propaganda - to support any, not a slow and heavenly, which, by definition, should be an actor, a person in a special state of “toy”, frivolity in relation to the rest of the world, to the whole “alien”. This is a podium of “peace as toys” - with which we adult children can do whatever we want - it does not pass without a trace for a person. The very situation of the virtual war itself is also strengthened by the very situation of the virtual war, in which you can kill with words, but the feeling is that you are also fighting, and the sensations are quite realistic. And this finally erodes the border between illusion and reality.

All this leads to the fact that a person - in our case, actor Porechenkov - until the very moment of a collision with reality does not understand all the horror of his error, does not understand the boundaries between the game and reality. He does not understand even at the moment when he lowers his finger on the trunple of the machine gun.

At the same time, actor Porechenkov is not the fascination of hell, is not some kind of universal evil. Everything is exactly opposite. Porechenkov is a man of norms, and he behaves in accordance with what is currently considered the norm. And the norm, to horror, is now considered this. To glorify the war, to call on a war, to raise “millions” in the songs and articles. This is today - the norm, regardless of whether the propaganda wanted such a result or not. Thoughts "What are you doing!" At this moment, actor Porechenkov does not arise at this moment - as it does not arise in the minds of millions of Russians. If there was an alternative point of view in society - another opinion about the war - this could already stop the conditional Porechenkov: after all, he was not going to challenge society at all. But it is the lack of an alternative agenda - peaceful ethics, the agenda of humanity, humanism that would repeat the capital truths: that war is bad, that you can’t kill and that you can kill you in this case - this is what deprives Porechenkov of the last remnants of adequacy.

Yesterday, he perceived this as a funny adventure, as a picture, as that which fits into his image, and as a kind of small film - another, where he is with weapons, only now not fake, but real. And - as completely normal. From the point of view of propaganda, this for some reason seemed “too”, and now he is forced to make excuses, but he is unlikely to even now understand what he had done. In principle, he cannot understand this - like most cultural figures in Russia. He is not used to bear responsibility for his actions, and he does not understand what it is; He cannot evaluate his actions on some universal, for example, universal scale, because the main and only ethics there is loyalty to the state. Therefore, when Porechenkov says that it was all “Ponaroshka”, he in a sense does not dissolve: he himself is a person who could be presented with some universal, universal claims-there is no, as there are not most of his colleagues in this sense. There is only one huge Leviathan, in the theater of which they play their small roles.