From fake to fack

Lies and self -deception are the basis of a social contract between the authorities and the Putin majority

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The Voice of America asks the Armenian radio: "Can a simple engineer buy a car in the USSR?" After a long pause, the Armenian radio replies: "And your blacks are linked."

What do you think about the updated version of the Boeing Capacor MN17? Answer: And the Ukrainians of the Tu-154 shot down and did not pay compensation.

And in general ...

This is called Whataboutism - one of the main tools of domestic (counter) propaganda. By simple speaking, the dialogue in the genre “The fool itself”. True, in the case of Boeing, such an answer means indirect confession of guilt. And when the Ministry of Defense reports that the characters noted in the BellingCat investigation have quit and what they are doing now, no one knows, this is also a de facto recognizing their complicity in the crime - where is their official or non -official status of military personnel? It is known that in the expanses of the Donbass, and in Syria, volunteers-enthusiasts are also fighting-either vacationers, or miners and tractor drivers. And the same volunteers-enthusiasts from patriotic considerations go to hackers and in the name of Russia hacking the entire rotten Western world.

New old public contract

While this will continue, there will be nothing in the country - no modernizations and discharge. While the Putin’s majority prefers not to hear, not to reflect, not to analyze, and with the last forces forces himself not to believe in direct evidence of monstrous guilt in a monstrous crime (one of the many), the nation will live as a vein. And to remain in the status of the deserves of the government that has.

Lies like the truth. These are not even alternative facts, not Fake News. This is a way of the existence of the establishment of an entire country. A method of complacency of a whole nation. This is a public contract - you lie to you, you pretend that you are taking a lie on faith. Like in Soviet times.

The sale of threats. Buying loyalty. Two simple country management methods. But in order for this model to become successful, it is not enough to offer it - you need to agree with the proposal, to accept it. Detect demand

Self -deception - consent to him is the most important point of the social contract of the postcrymist majority with the authorities. Alone, power would not have coped. For love and tango, two sides are needed - also here. In order for the one who deceives is successful, he needs one who is glad to be deceived.

The sale of threats. Buying loyalty. Two simple country management methods. But in order for this model to become successful, it is not enough to offer it - you need to agree with the proposal, to accept it. Detect demand. But then the buyer bears joint responsibility with the seller for what is happening with the country.

A survey of the Levada Center in July 2014, shortly after the Boeing Malaysian was shot down, testified that the Russians did not want to think about themselves poorly. Moreover, it was not they who shot down the plane. But then - they rejoiced at the war, considered the actions of the authorities justified and morally justified. So, deep down, they considered themselves accomplices in crimes: 1% agreed that the Boeing could bring down the Russian military, 3% with the fact that the Donbass militias did it, 2% supported the version of the attack on board. 82% in conjunction believed that Ukrainians did it. April 2017, a survey of the Levada Center about the poisoning of the Skripals: 72% deny the “Russian trace” in the attempt.

What are the claims to Putin after that? He is just a reflection of the average person from the crowd. From the majority. A rather terrible word is the "majority."

"Streams" of friends

Herman Gref apologized to Gennady Timchenko. As Igor Sechin once apologized for the criticism of Rosneft in the analytical report of the Sberbank Cib employee (Sberbank investment unit) Alexander Fek. This time, the same analyst, in his next work, concluded that the benefits of the three Gazprom projects (Turkish stream, Northern Stream - 2, Siberian Forces) were not received by the shareholders of the company, but by the construction contractors Arkady Rotenberg and Stroytransneftagaz, whose shares belong to Timchenko and his family. It is quite logical for the country where the president travels along the Crimean bridge built by Rotenberg, on a KAMAZ collected by Chemezov.

Alexander Fek, said Gref, a journalistic past, that's why he writes bad analytics. FEK 14 years ago three months in The Financial Times, a good school, including the facts to verify the facts. But she teaches another-to write the truth, even if someone does not like it and is able to spoil the relationship of one Putin oligarch with another.

By the way, the team of Sberbank analysts was part of all sorts of prestigious rackings, occupying the first places in them (for example, in the Ranking of the journal Institute Investor). The same Alexander FEK held the first position in the category "Oil and Gas". His chief Alexander Kudrin, who fired (or dismissed) after the story with Gref and Timchenko, was considered one of the best investment analysts for the past one and a half decades. Along with unconditionally the best - Evgeny Gavrilenkov, who has been not in Sberbank Cib for two years.

FEK 14 years ago three months in The Financial Times, a good school, including the facts to verify the facts. But she teaches another-to write the truth, even if someone does not like it and can ruin the relationship of one Putin oligarch with another

Another case confirming the “journalistic assumption” is the system based on lies. This is its salt, the empty ridge, the root essence, the lubrication of all mechanisms.

“It’s easier to reform one analyst than the principles of corporate management of the cows of the Kremlin.” One of this phrase of Max Sedundon from the same The Financial Times on Fack Affairs is enough to undermine the reputation of all participants in this story.

But as I explained not so long ago in an interview with The Financial Times, another oligarch - Vladimir Potanin, he lives in this country - that is, he earns primarily in it - and therefore will play in Putin’s team. Once the same newspaper Oleg Deripaska said that if the state asks, he would give him everything. Years later, it turned out almost that.

And therefore to lie - including each other - more important than maintaining a reputation. It is more important to be in a “nationalized” elite than to conduct business according to universally recognized rules with world players. Standing next to Putin is more important than being free and honest at least in front of himself.

Alexey Kudrin at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum said that Russia is ready to be open to the world. It would be better if it did not open - otherwise it will open, such black depths with a terrible smell that then they will not deal with it at all. Even if the first person gives all the children from the Sirius camp ice cream, and all the “women” - including Frau Merkel and Madame Macron - flowers.