Kirill Martynov: "Authority and lies"

"We usually do not quite understand what the problem with censorship and authoritarianism. Citizens often believe that authoritarianism is when suspicious personalities are pressed to the nail, but the country is developing, the factories give the product. He accepted with a soh, left with a bomb, etc. In this logic, human suffering becomes" a fee for the greatness of the country. "Candies for the Greatness of the country." Candies for the Greatness of the country. But the Caucasus is stability, ”writes the observer and teacher of the Higher School of Economics on his Facebook page.

“But in reality, authoritarianism is not only about violence and censorship, but also about lies. It’s not that it is“ cruel, but effective ”, but that this is a fake. A good example is now connected with the search for economic growth in Russia. The authorities really want economic growth to feel the consequences of the only right choice in 2014. I want to grow, but it is not.

Then they change the leadership of Rosstat, retract him to the Minister -ptimist Oreshkin, and the growth was found . At the beginning of the year, two percent, in a month already more than two. Authoritarianism is so arranged that the main thing in it is to report to the authorities and like it. The Potemkin village is constructively built into it.

Yesterday’s news: the author of the economy for high school students Igor Lipsitsa was offered to rewrite the text so that “questions contribute to the love of the homeland”, and at the end the prospects of the “economic breakthrough” through import substitution were described. In authoritarianism, no one is interested in what is really happening, the main thing is that the authorities are not angry.

Yesterday I watched the meeting where twenty smart professionals tried to somehow ennoble the pile of garbage that Senator Klishas gave rise to a bill on the fight against Fake-Nyuz in the media.

The audience reasoned in the way that the political situation is such that it would not be possible to accept this garbage as a law, but you can try to settle in it in advance and carry out renovation.

Authoritarianism is when everyone understands that they are doing stupidity, but they refer to the circumstances of irresistible power . "