"Black branch"

In the province is quiet. There are no terrorist attacks in the province. There are no "black branches" of the metro, in a direct and figurative sense. There are no black swans. Fortunately, they do not fly or fly away. Hence, even lazy and slightly impudent ducks do not strive in the warm edges, content with a leisurely course of salmon and neblinka. But there are many black mirrors in the province. These are the screens of numerous devices into which we look (Xia). Phones, smartphones, tablets - black mirrors of the digital world. It is they who tell us about the tragedies, bring sad and bitter news, encourage empathy. These mirrors display information that, for example, Facebook generates through a special service in order to "check security in a terrorist act". We look at the screens and tracks which of the relatives and acquaintances reported that he is safe in a large, non -conservative city in which there is a metro, and now there are also terrorist attacks.

Black mirrors - the continuation of social networks built on the basis of self -organization of individuals. Every day we are observing how the self -izing community of citizens prefers to count on the state. Especially when the state intends to hold mass rallies in all major cities. To hit, so to speak, by terror by a demonstration of solidarity and unchanged fidelity to the previously chosen course. In general, in this logic some contradiction is found. On the one hand, it is important to show that terrorists cannot change the course of socio-political processes, and on the other hand, a situation is created when nothing changes, since nothing would happen. Although, of course, everyone understands that something happened.

Naturally, the post -traumatic experience and the set of options that the authorities use are well known. There are no universal recipes. After all, the state’s responsibility to protect its citizens is distributed. The special services do something, the other is the police. Controllers work in the subway, prosecutor's office and migration service. By the way, a lot depends on the political parties represented in the parliament, since in their strength to change laws, introduce legal norms that can change the circumstances of the functioning of society. And the opposition parties have the possibility of acute criticism of the decisions that are made in power and the proposals of their legislative initiatives, which, if they are adequate, systemic and accepted by the majority, will certainly be supported by future voters.

At the same time, the promotion of street protest is a very peculiar thing. Especially on the eve of the Pervomaisian demonstrations of the Communists, Socialists, Trade Unions and the Massion of the Immortal Regiment, which occupies a special place in the national memory policy. In street protest, the articulation of belonging to "we" is very important: "We are against terror", "We will rally." "We will not give in fear." "We will not let the criminals share us." And, of course, the most important thing that they say in such cases. "Terrorism has no nationality and religion."

However, from insufficiently subtle accents in the information support of the campaign, it begins to be treated with abstractness and pathos, which means - fake. And the point is not even that people are still like fear, and it would be strange not to fear for themselves, for relatives and acquaintances in such conditions. The fact is that the terrorism of the 21st century is not some kind of mystical ethereal phenomenon, which is impossible to say anything except such declarations that indicate its external origin in relation to civil society. The current terrorism is a separation that has a very clear identification foundation. He comes from specific places, and homemade bombs are carried to us by specific people whose group identity is known in Russia to everyone who thinks about the value of human life and about the desire of terrorists to devalue this value to absolute zero.

But talking about this is not accepted. Especially at "events for state employees." The origin of terrorism is fully taboo, and, as the metropolitan publicist put it, "we are obliged to see in dresses from moralistic abstractions that are covered by politicians around the world in dresses." And "otherwise fascism", "otherwise hatred and extremism." And there the 282nd article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for the unnecessarily spoken word. - The flip side of these processes is an almost irreversible rupture of social tissue. Mass manifestation of individualization. Loneliness on the network. Separation through the only possible "dialogue" with a black mirror in a car, rapidly moving along the metro "black branch".

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