And you, Bright, brother? Kira Merkun - about brotherhood as co -dependence

Supporting the idea of solidarity as a way of a group solution of problems, I propose, finally, to abandon the concept of "Brotherhood" at least in the assessment of Ukrainian-Russian relations, in any option-from the folklore-romantic to abstract humanistic.

We will not insult woe to vulgar images and empty thought forms.

When Stalin turned to the people in the early days of the fascist aggression in 1941 with the words "Brothers and sisters!", It was a manipulation, a mobilization technique, in order to put as quickly as possible under the gun and send tens of thousands of men, "brothers" to the faithful death. An appeal to fraternal feelings, of course, is a bet on patriotism and ideological fanaticism, but even more - on the fatal dependence of citizens on the arbitrariness of the state, built on violence from above to the bottom. The republics-sisters (the female version of the fraternity) still stand at the VDNH with a gold sculptural round dance, like slaves around the fountain, depicting general happiness. So the prisoners roam in a circle on a walk under the sky in a cell. The Soviet ideal to chop all with one chain.

Brotherhood on propaganda channels sounds like an advertising slogan, an archaic cry to the massacre

There is an unprecedented surge of amateur performances, songs about Slavic, officer, and military brotherhood. As a rule, these are variations on the topics of folk songs from the times of military campaigns like “Love, Brothers, Love!”, Crying for so far as living dead, with whom the black raven, of course, will turn off the eyes on the battlefield on the mountain of an old mother. Contactly prison folklore. "And the shore was covered, and the Terek was covered with hundreds of chopped, shot people" - from the same song of the Cossack fraternity, but it could also sing "Wagnerians" after meat assaults. Brotherhood on propaganda channels sounds like an advertising slogan, an archaic cry to the war itself, to Boyn.

Serious experts regularly argue about the brotherhood, as if doubt that it should be canceled. And let's talk about it again! So the psychoanalyst imposes the problem with the client who was ready to forget her as an exposed illusion and, frankly, can no longer hear about her.

We inherited from the French Revolution we got an abstract slogan about freedom, equality, and fraternity. Brotherhood is part of the ideological triad. The slogan is a landmark, sometimes blurry and therefore already vile, like communism that forever disappear over the horizon. It is easier for people to follow Andromeda’s nebula, a mirage than to stop and instrument a concept, to translate it into the language of the rules of conduct, consequences and benefits. Politicians know this. They know how to seduce simpletons. In general, they look like insidious seducers or scammers who know how to blow their heads naive, touch the living, play hopes for love, support and eternal happiness. Putin, too, promised everyone a paradise when “they will die”, and continues to call Ukrainians a fraternal people, and the fraternity - the basis of the state.

And he didn’t say how Bandera’s brother did not, because he does not believe in any brotherhood. "Brotherhood", "love", "friendship", "justice"-in the lips of politicians of the word-agita, durulka cardboard. Brotherhood is a word-archaism, its relevance means that we spoke in the language of archaic. It has long become an important element of criminal and military aesthetics, relations built on violence. In fact, this is a way of forced or forced inclusion in aggressive communities.

Can we afford abstract humanism, calls for brotherhood, a reminder of it when evil is so tangible and specifically? Is it possible to continue to use the formula of relations, which is perceived as offensive and vile by Ukrainians? “Brother” in the context of the war is vile, almost abusive, although there were times when it was used as a synonym for the concepts of “man”.

The depth of differences and hatred between the brothers was more than once reflected in Russian culture in the language of philosophical parables. The same "brothers Karamazov" Dostoevsky. And before him, Gogol in “Taras Bulba” ruined his siblings, one with his father’s hands for apostasy, the other on the corner of the enemy, not bringing fratricide to the sin. Sons, the brothers remained evidence of the father’s strength. Who will she go? According to Gogol, no one.

There is no world in the Russian Brotherhood

The peculiarity of the fraternal "love" is that the fate of mankind is tied to it, such stories are epic and moralizing as in the Bible. After the secret of the birth of Christ, the Brotherhood is the second most important plot, associated with the drama of the continuation of the human race in conditions of competition not with God, but with his own kind. Dostoevsky saw a way out in increased morality. Spirituality saves a believer from apostasy, renunciation of a blood or symbolic brotherhood, from betrayal , if you use an aggressive lexicon of wars and revolutions. In the novel of the Dostoevsky father, sons were killed, so everything is confused, it turns out that all together was ruined. Just like in the Ukrainian ironic proverb "it is easier to beat the dad and the dad." There is no peace in the Russian fraternity. If not for God, then everything would be allowed.

The authorities completely devalue family ties. In Andrey Rublev, Tarkovsky aggravated the story, depicting the brothers, princes of Vladimir and Moscow, twins. The resolution of conflicts and inheritance by seniority in this situation is impossible, they are doomed to eternal struggle. Rus was torn by the ramps at the beginning of the 15th century, the brother went to his brother. "Brother to brother is worse than an adversary" is a proverb from those times. One, according to the plot of the film, blinded the masters-kamenshchiki so that they would not build a Kremlin from the best stone, and the other in turn brought the Tatars to ruin and burn the capital of the “fraternal principality” of the city of Vladimir, in which the Metropolitan held a rite of reconciliation of princes with oaths and kissing the cross. Brotherhood is violated, as soon as it comes to power and dominance. Even before Tarkovsky, Mayakovsky unexpectedly used the image of the twins-brothers, speaking of the party and Lenin. The essence of the cruel co -dependent connections is that one subject is proof of the strength and superiority of another. Therefore, the party’s shell is guards in the mausoleum to prove his power. Brotherhood indicates not only proximity and general history, but also to be inner doom in one bunch until the end of days.

The aggressor torments the victim in co-dependent relationships, but is completely afraid to kill her, not only because of the fear of punishment, God's or human, but because along with the departure of the victim and his absolute power will end. The conflict in human relations is also resolved through a change in roles, when the victim becomes an aggressor, but still remains in co -dependent relations, and through the departure, the escape of the victim, which tries to break all the connections with the hellish past, but then can look for a new patron, getting used to non -freedom, or even plunge into barbarism, use violence as the only true tool for interaction with the world. The fierce resistance of Ukraine, the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the search for support at the international level seems to fit into the picture of the victim’s exit from the destructive co -dependent relations with Russia, a possible exchange of role -ray dispositions, and not just prisoners.

The big question is whether all human moves are possible when it comes to the relations of entire nations. You can’t run away to another planet. But the regression in Barbarism marked the fratricidal war clearly.

Barbarian is a hero of the modern era

Probably, today the cult director of Balabanov would have created not only the diptych of “brother” and “brother-2”, but “brother-3”-about how one brother still kills another. In "Brother-2" Danila Bagrov is not going to Ukraine, but to America. These are the dashing of the 90th, which are now so actively discussed in connection with the release of the film "Traitors".

Balabanov insists that it is the barbarian that is the hero of the modern era.

The hero of Balabanova, just like Conan-Warvar at Howard, has a simple but tough set of principles, will and willingness to act according to the laws of war. In the program "Brother-2", published in the year of Putin’s power, violence becomes the main way to achieve goals, a banner of the new time. The controversial version of cultural development through regression in archaic, when there is no reception against scrap, found an ideological response and became the main version of the state structure.

Danila Bagrov, who never returned from the war, soldiers with tough front -line ideas about morality, his fraternity is the meaning of life, and at the same time the justification of any, most cruel violence without trial and investigation. He is obsessed with kindergarten patriotism and memory of at least some ideal love. In the film, a sentimental children's poem sounds:

I found out that I have a huge family,
And a path and a forest, in the field every spikelet,
River, blue sky is all my dear,
This is my homeland, I love everyone in the world!

When the film was shown on TV for the first time, I worked in the center for pre -conscription. Someone got here to be ranging, and who, on the contrary, achieve permission to serve, despite neuropsychiatric diagnoses. One of the patients was very excited after this poem, climbed onto the stool, like Lenin on an armored car, and read the manifesto of his own composition:

On the barrel, where the kvosok,
The spikelet is drawn,
And so oblivious
The voice of God is heard.

Brotherhood-word-archaism, its relevance means that we spoke in the language of archaic

The film turned out to be contagious, hypnotic in rhythm, musical accompaniment from the repertoire of the most popular groups of that time, while on the video it turned out to be a rather schematic comic book to reach the mind of even a clinical idiot. It used a simple pro -fascist division of people according to the ethnic principle (Fritz, Khokhol, Russian, American). This is how other, more important categories of people are replaced- “patient- healthy”, “peaceful- aggressive”, “stupid- smart”, etc., and thus remove the pressure of high social standards that cause irritation and aggression in people of a primitive warehouse. The old psychiatrist then won and forbade to turn on the TV for two days until the patients calm down. "Patients are always to blame for a psychiatrist! They will beat us." But now the TV does not turn off, the aggressive simplicity of news and talk shows excites the people frightened by the war.

The idea of the fraternity of the peoples remains popular because of the difference that is unconscious between them. When the time comes to scatter stones, these differences need to be articulated. I will name at least three of them. First: in Ukraine a different distance of power and people. Power in Ukraine is criticized and replaced regularly, and anyone can actually lead the country in the potential. This stimulates mobility and creativity. "We’ll come up with something!" - An important Ukrainian saying. Brotherhood is not a panacea, personal responsibility and enterprise is more important. The second: the social structure in Ukraine in structure is more like a different circles of like -minded people with a leader in the center, so that everyone can look into the eyes, and this chapter is selected and endowed with responsibility, temporary right to make fateful decisions, and not just privileges; His behavior is intently controlled, disputed by a huge one. People can freely change the bulk, circles. This is not a rigid pyramidal hierarchy, as in Russia, with the transfer of instructions from top to bottom, absolute power and endless privileges of the once chosen ruler. The Ukrainian family is arranged according to a parity principle, women and men, parents and children have equal rights in the potential. For example, there are many women in the Ukrainian army, they are respected as all defending soldiers. The army is not closed male communities with hard relations inside by the type of fraternity. And this is the third, far from the last, difference.

To pedal the similarity of peoples now means to stay in a blind, Culture-Blind position and impose unity where it is impossible ontologically. Ideological vandalism is another form of violence that in Ukraine feel and despise.

"Brothers, yeah w!" - my leading Ukrainian aunt exclaimed maliciously on the morning of February 24, 2022. In such cases, usually Ukrainian aunts grab onto the broom, grip or poker to expel the devil, behave offensive aggressively and absolutely invincibly. The rear in Ukraine is the second front.

In the Czech film “The Ghost of the Morrisville Castle in Russia, the inspector asks the offender what“ solidarity ”is, and while he tightly applies his palms to portray the connection, quickly slamms handcuffs on his wrists. "An old police trick!" So you need to be sharp with words, the best of them are fatal.

“There are a lot of fools,” they say in Ukraine in such cases. Found fools.

After 33 years of independence and active public discussions in Ukraine, immunity for idiocy, both his own and a stranger, was developed, and not fraternal.

Kira Mercun - Psychologist

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