Crisis of reality

“No, brother, the earth - this, you see how round the ball is - you understand? ..” the uncle continued, outlining his hands in the air like a ball.

The man smiled bitterly. "

F. Dostoevsky. "The village of Stepanchikovo and its inhabitants"

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“Did you know that pedophiles rule the world, like Hillary and Biden, who can overcome one Trump?”

-Do you know that he, having put on a mask Bayden, is still in the White House?

- Do you know that the assault on the Capitol is a staging shot in Hollywood?

- Do you know that the inauguration is also a staging shot there? How, by the way, is the raid of terrorists on September 11?

- Do you know that the Jews set fire to the forests in California with the help of a laser in orbit?

“And finally, have you really not seen Hillary drinking the blood of an innocent girl?”

If you have not heard about all this yet, you can correct the situation with one click. Many do so. I personally do not know them myself, but among my friends there can be no such. After all, almost all of Russian America votes for the Republicans, among which 30 percent believe in all of the above, feed on the qanon website and are convinced that Trump won the election. However, not 30, but 70 percent of the Republicans believe in the latter.

“Most,” the experts say, “not that the facts are not true, worse, that reality itself has been bifurcated. Now this is called the “crisis of reality” and is considered the most dangerous challenge of all with which we, people of the 21st century, have encountered.

This is not to say that we did not wait for him. Even before the Internet usurped power over us, postmodernism appeared with his philosophy of relativity. Then-in the 80s-she, including me, seemed to me a liberation revolution, who committed a “great narrative”, which served totalitarian regimes and inevitably led to communism or fascism. Against the backdrop of the history of the twentieth century, the idea of ​​the game, and not the autocratic nature of reality, made it possible to update the scale of values, bring an ironic doubt into it and teach the reality to a multiple number.

So it happened, but - sideways. The Internet easily coped with what the professors suffered with.

He brought his good news to the masses: the truth will make you free - any truth, including one that is not.

Great network democratization awarded everyone with equal rights to the truth. Or a claim to them. Having abolished the editorial hierarchy, ruining the information pyramid, equalizing the vertical of authority with the ground, the Internet equalized all points of view, inviting everyone to choose their own. Without a support for logic and knowledge, he went around our curve to capture the subconscious with its dark complexes.

The point is not that the Internet makes you believe in idiotic rumors, it offers those that they would like to believe in, but shy until the network found millions of like -minded people. A complex divided into a crowd (usually inferiority) does not look like a symptom, but a believable version of anything. So we learn that in fact the earth is flat, Covid is fiction, vaccine is a tool of enslavement, Trump - Messiah, Navalny - an American spy.

In all this, the Internet is no more to blame than the current in an electric chair. Blind, deaf, he, like the whole science, does what we want to achieve from him. Deprived of free will, he knows how to answer questions, and not ask them. But this is enough for us to panic, trying on the victory of artificial intelligence, which controls us with the help of an omnipotent algorithm. It is comforted that he does not act on everyone: some believe in flat land, but others still do not.

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Closest to the masses I went in my student years when I intermitted to study at the Faculty of Philology with a service in the fire department. Judging by the fact that the second I remember incomparably more often than the first, she taught me more and better. And this despite the fact that in two years I only once encountered a fire that the head of the guard of the guard Vaclav Meiirans was extinguished by the head of the guard.

From him I learned a lot of new things about the country where we lived. First of all, that exclusively Jews managed it - Brezhnev, and Khrushchev, and Stalin, and Lenin. This belief was shared by all my Russian and Latvian colleagues (unconditional alcoholism left no place for national growth).

They knew that I was a student, which means they are stuffed with false knowledge that prevented drinking alcohol from drinking and offering to believe in what they show on TV.

For example, in the Ostankino Tower, which all the same Jews actually burned for a long time. I did not argue, because I was fond of folklore at the university and tried to get in a fire that the Propp did not write about. First of all, about Jews.

My firefighters were not even anti -Semites, and they did not take me to Jews, 62 rubles, they received 62 rubles. The Jews for them were real power - from the receiver of the glassotar, who did not accept the bottle with a broken neck, to the general secretary who could do what he wanted, but preferred nasty things, opening vodka stores at 11, and on Sundays - at two.

In other words, the Jews personified the world evil, invincible and so far beyond the limits of pragmatism that their power did not require justification in the form of miserable motives, like profit. Any attempt to find a meaning lowers a degree, which my colleagues could not stand.

3.

Half a century has passed. I have long moved away from the fire craft, but not as far as it seemed to me, if relatively sober, quite adults, knowing the alphabet and those who know how to use it divide about the same faith in conspiracies as Vaclav Meiurans. The Soviet myth did not work for him, he firmly knew that communism would not build him, that the “screen of the socialist competition” would not become his beloved transfer that Brezhnev would not be the father of the peoples.

“But the collapsed myth,” Jung explained, “cannot be replaced by reality.” Also because no one knows what it is and how to find it.

Only his successor - a new myth can bury the deceased myth. One of them was created on the fields of Soviet power.

As soon as evil found a name, it became flawed - obvious, and hope has returned to the world. If we are controlled by Jews, Democrats, pedophiles, CIA or Hillary Clinton, then intent returned to the Universe. Let us not be able to decipher and learn it, he, intent, is, which means that it is not a blind chaos that you can’t wait for mercy, because he doesn’t care, but he doesn’t care, but a rational will, vile, perverted, but intelligible and accessible to demonstrative exposure.

Belief in conspiracy helps from despair, which covers when enemy power replaces the case. Instead of living in captivity, we can take part in the war of good with evil, no matter how incredible these battles seem to be those who, like me, standing over the fight.

The most dangerous in this situation is that the crisis of reality is not treated with facts. On the contrary, the myth will flush from them. Unbelievers are automatically recorded by opponents who protect the secrets of the conspiracy, referring to their absurdity. And the more arguments we cite, the clearer that we have something to hide. The logic here is powerless, for mental life does not know lies. It’s like Pelevin in OMON RA: if someone believes that the Soviet astronauts landed on the moon, then it will, in any case, in the mental space, where communism inevitably defeats everyone who doubts.

The hope is that every myth is exhausted. Especially when he loses his demiurge, who for a long time and successfully created and legitimized the false truths of his troubled time. This was already when in the era of red panic (in many ways similar to today), McCartism quickly came to naught, left without the fuss of Senator Joseph McCarthy. True, he at least drank tightly.