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Kazakhstan and the surroundings: the January revolution of self -deception in social networks and media
Events in Kazakhstan will be comprehended for some time and discussed not only there, but also in the Russian and generally Russian-speaking Internet. It is understandable why: Kazakhstan is a former USSR, and in this part of the world, street protests do not occur so often. And Russia, along with Belarus and other CSTO members, climbed into this story much deeper than one could expect.
There are still many questions around the situation in Kazakhstan, and we can never know the answers to some of them at all. But now it’s worth talking about how the development of events in this country has revealed a long -ripened problem of primitivization and radicalization of political polemics and the formation of a news agenda. Its origins are understandable: social networks have so reduced the requirements for expertise in any question that the position described by the proverb "in the field of every gush-agronomist in the field" was created. At the same time, no criteria that would make sure that the broadcasting knowledge in the subject discussed simply does not exist: the willingness to say or write in our time are already perceived as evidence of awareness. As a result, instead of information about the real state of affairs and the essence of what is happening, we get a stream of whip phrases, loud slogans, memes and hasty conclusions, in which it is often impossible to catch at least some facts and distinguish them from speculation.
As a result, the complex and dramatic processes in the countries unfamiliar to us first seem simple and understandable, and then suddenly everything ends completely differently from us and, as it seemed, followed from the logic of what was happening. At the same time, yesterday’s experts in Kazakhstan are already busy with something else, and the public listens to them with the same attention, not asking uncomfortable questions about unfulfilled forecasts and frankly nonsense constructions.
It would seem that in the way of this muddy stream the media should stand, where it seems like there are editors and editors who are theoretically capable of selecting at least some value from imprisonment that is deprived of any meaning of idle talk. But the media in our time compete for the attention of the public with the same social networks, and therefore they are not up to the checks of competence-commentators are urgently needed, the main requirement for which is to speak confidently and categorically, so on these hot days to get on some degree of Kazakhstan of any degree of meaninglessness was easier than easy.
What was it?
In January 2022, Kazakhstan was especially “lucky”: against the backdrop of the Russian-Ukrainian drama and protests in Belarus, which was protected beyond measure, fell on prepared ground in Belarus. And Russian state propaganda, and Ukrainian, and Belarusian and Russian opposition resources were preparing to cover the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and when excessive excesses occurred in Kazakhstan instead of its exacerbation, everyone ran there-with ready-made blanks about the Maidan, aggression, folk revolution, dictatorship, terrorists, order, confrontation, “Putin Putin again replayed/again replayed/again Lost ", etc.
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