Motherland-matrix

New Year's Lecture Dmitry Bykov

“Matrix” is an object of a cult, and admit that you did not love it and never loved it, risky, but we, sinful, are not used to. Most cults in art - by the way, are not only modern - are created by people whose self -esteem rises sharply from acquaintance with the cult product. You, as it were, are not just watching an action movie (you read an occult romance or alcohol bike), but you join art, go into the category of users of a more prestigious product. The recipe for the “matrix” is simple: this is a game on the feelings of the layman, a completely spectacular and high -quality action movie with intersperses of hints, quotes and associations, which, however, are absolutely arbitrary.

• Nobody, as many have noticed, has nothing to do with the mythological NIBO,

• Trinity (Trinity) is not three

• Bodriyar’s book “Simulakra and Simulation” in the frame only appears, but does not even quote;

• References to Buddhism, Schopenhauer, Lacan are most often the fruit of the imagination of the interpreters -

And, if you approach such a task for any film or text, it is not difficult to see there at least Marx, at least Freud, at least Nietzsche (and, to be honest, the “terminator” is even more suitable for this).

But the “matrix” affected the fashionable theme of the virtuality of everything and everything, and therefore, in the first picture, philosophical symposia began to go through, the glory of the jigs wrote several articles about it (for which, however, it was nothing more than an occasion - this is as always with him), but in addition

This franchise turned out to be the only one that the brothers began, and the sisters finished.

All this created the appropriate background, which today can no longer be known: a person who begins to watch the “matrix” from scratch, without all this train, will find a not too original story about enslaving a person with a car (starting with the “RUR” of Chapek and the “rebellion of cars” Tolstoy). People are supplanted in the caves - see Langa Metropolis, also cult for researchers of the post -industrial society. Sometimes, for the stability of this society, their control programs launch unexpected processes: they begin, for example, to support the opposition, because without it society is not stable enough. As a result of a fanning conflict, the system collapses, collapses and revives - this is the main mechanism of its development. All this is accompanied by a large number of false and many leaning dialogs that boils for the fact that life and death are the same thing. Spectacular fights periodically occur, sometimes removed by rapid, and sometimes, on the contrary, accelerated; Kung fu gives these fights a special entertainment, but since they are fighting, talking, and occasionally they mate mainly computer programs, there is no one to empathize, and the “matrix” does not hurt the audience soul. Actually, the entire trilogy (“matrix”, “reboot” and “revolution”) is not addressed to the audience’s soul: the task was to play on several fashionable topics, scratching the audience’s lunity.

There are three of these fashionable topics, they converged at one point, giving philosophers a reason to talk not so much about the film (he, in his pathos meaningfulness, did not go far from Andromeda’s nebulas named after the author’s wiring itself. The “matrix” set at least three intellectual fashion.

Conspirology

The first is a conspiracy, which is very relevant for the end of the nineties, this primitive religion of the end of the century, which claims, however, to the title of the Third Covenant. The whole world is a conspiracy of some dark, mysterious, mythologized entities; These entities were visited by Jews, Masons, capitalists, Bilderberg club, doctors (especially nutritionists), atomic physicists and, finally, programmers. About Jews, physicists and programmers, nothing really is clear, including themselves, so their activities are especially easily mythologized. In the near future, the world will turn into a set of visuals (especially if you take into account that at the end of the century such mods always arise - we recall the “disappearance of matter” at the turn of the past and the centuries before last).

The townsfolk are now unable to separate their lives from the scenery, because they blindly believe in propaganda,

But there is a way to wake up: you can drink a red pill - and you will open a thoroughly hidden truth. They lied to us all the time; Alas, our vaunted perestroika was approximately the same conspiracy thesis (the Communists deceived us, in reality the USSR was the kingdom of violence, lies and humiliation). Historians also lie: here Fomenko and Nosovsky hurry to your aid, who were believed by very serious people - lemons, for example (only a truly phenomenal non -education could compare with his talent). “Everything is propaganda! The whole world is propaganda! " - Slutsky said about this worldview. It, as shown in the cited poem, was a response to nightmares of the twentieth century, revealing the lie of all teachings, all total schemes and even world religions, which did not save anyone from anything. The “matrix” with her version about the virtuality of all things is no more progressive than the Masonic conspiracy or the holy faith of Russian conspiracy theses in the total influence of the Anglo -Saxons. Add to this that in the nineties conviction of the whole world in the imminent celebration of the virtual over the real place was a common place - almost the same as in the early sixties, as if apple trees would bloom on Mars. Fortunately, all these fantasies have not even come true half, although life without an iPhone is no longer very represented. The Matrix played on the philistine faith that some mysterious scientists involved in world esotericism invisibly manage us; In principle, it is extremely difficult for lovers of conspiracy theory, because their worldview is consistent, and

Unsubility is always a sign of falsehood, but not everyone understands this. If I were Surkov, I would have referred here to the theorem of Gedel, but where are we already.

Opposition - generation of the system

The second - and also conspiracyological, and also deeply philistine - the idea of ​​the “matrix” was that any opposition - consciously or unconsciously - was grown by the system itself, ensuring its stability. As for this thought, by the way, I am not so sure that it is one hundred percent false: all over the world the opposition strengthens the system, and only in Russia it is considered a destabilizing factor. But from here a dangerous conclusion is often made that any opposition lives on top dressing in power, and this is a direct slander; Meanwhile, it is the fans of the “matrix”, people are quite arrogant, they believe that all this of your politics is generally a contractual game, there is nothing to do there, there is nothing to do there,

And Navalny, I suppose, is burning somewhere in the resort, while hamsters are gullibly fighting for his rights.

It is such an underlying thought that the dialogue of neo with Pythia inspires, and even the architect directly assures him that the role of the system of the system is originally laid down in the system. Moreover, it directly follows that good and evil differ little from each other and that they generally have a party in chess, which white magicians and black villains have fun in eternity from endless boredom: “After all, we play not from money, but only to conduct eternity.”

It is curious that this idea was implemented in a series of “patrols”, where daytime with nights are also not much different from each other, and their leaders - Zavolon and Heser - have long agreed on everything. True, the idea of ​​a contractual match generally prevailed in science fiction and thrillers of the turn of the century - the postmodern idea of ​​removing binary oppositions; I think that in this paradigm in the end it would be directly stated that the red and blue tablet do not differ in composition.

Of course, as conspiracyology is a degenerated version of religion, and the idea of ​​the indifference of good and evil is a symptom of fatigue, degradation, “end of history”.

In the "Matrix" opposite theses are constantly expressed, which are indistinguishable; Strictly speaking, the ideological component there is not fundamental at all, because each next reboot leads to a reassessment of values ​​and new permutations of signs. As a plot move, this is acceptable, as a worldview - rustling. However, the very reality of the 21st century shows that no smoothness of contradictions and the removal of oppositions has actually happened: Trump in the States, the danger of the European war, gaping in the place of the Russian future - all this does not have a postmodern irony.

Crisis is needed for rebirth

The third idea embedded in the composition of the Matrix itself is also a hypothesis about regular crises and reboots as the main engine of history very fashionable at the turn of the century. It is also expressed in Armaged Dome Marina and Sergei Dyachenko-the only modern science fiction writers whose prose remains a landfill of historiosophical concepts (the rest also try, but, I'm afraid, do not deal with reality, but with their own speculations). The world, periodically passing through refreshing crises, and apocalyptic, is just a portrait of Russia, which is precisely according to this scheme: first the system reaches radical degradation and breaking, then updated (“rebooted”) and enters a new circle, equally suicidal. In fact, the kick obtained by the system during rebooting allows it to fly away quite far, up to the space, but there is a risk - in each next incarnation the pipe is lower, and smoke is older.

The “matrix” scheme, that is, cyclic development and cyclic self -destruction, would be almost perfect - if it had not led to steadily degradation, to the descending trend in which Russia has been living for the past three hundred years, or even more.

It would seem that it is better: the system grows the opposition, an explosion occurs, everything is refreshed by a thunderstorm ozone and begins from scratch; The victims, of course, are too much, but firstly, everyone will die, and secondly, the cyclicality underlies most natural processes ... However, experience shows that any repetition is just a sign of erroneousness, fundamental irregularity: as Radzinsky formulates, for the second year they leave those who have not learned the lessons.

Anyone in whose life this or that situation is stably repeated knows that this situation is vicious; The steady catastrophes of the Russian political system, into which it drives itself, is just a sign of its viciousness. I’m afraid that the situation in which totalitarianism itself is concerned about the feeding of its graveter is the verdict of totalitarianism, doomed to degeneration; In addition, what was predicted by Dyachenko in Armaged-Dome, cycles are reduced. Judge for yourself:

• Romanov Empire stood 300 years,

• Sovetskaya - 70,

• And Putinskaya - after 20, demonstrates a complete exhaustion of the resource, which makes the external war almost inevitable

(And, add, 1914 and 1980 in this sense did not add survivability to empires).

The article of one retired ideologist about the removal of the crisis outside already justifies the war as the only possible therapy - but the facts do not testify in favor of such treatment. Gorky called it "extinguish the fire of straw."

I am not trying to seriously discuss the conceptual side of the “matrix” - as Alexander Sokurov says for another reason, “who is he to talk about him?” I am only trying to understand the reasons for the success of this franchise, in what painful topics the relatives of Vachovsky spoke out (now they are incorrectly called brothers or sisters). It is impossible to refuse talent and stylistic persuasiveness - it is enough to recall the “inhabited island” of Bondarchuk, on which the “matrix” influenced very strongly, and in general many stylistic finds and techniques migrated from cinema and literature (and their source, by the way, was also Soviet pathetic cinema with its completely fantasy assumptions and claims for social generalization). Fortunately, the authors themselves have outgrown their creation - the “matrix” is partly disavowed by the elegiac, infinitely sad fourth series, which I watched after the lecture. There finally everything was placed in places ... or not? Because

This rearrangement of accents is also not final, and you can safely continue the game to a new reboot.

It is only a pity that in every franchise the main law of the descending trend is triggered, and it can be broken only where totalitarianism does not have a single chance. It remains to understand whether there is such a country in the world, or human nature everywhere requires division into a matrix and zion.