Reddit owners refuse to publish comment mhlq0wp describing how USA society is engaging in Russian simulacra of resistance, how Twitter-length thinking has wrecked defense of NATO
Reddit owners refuse to publish comment mhlq0wp describing how USA society is engaging in Russian simulacra of resistance, how Twitter-length thinking has wrecked defense of NATO
comment https://old.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1jae7by/this_goes_so_unbelievably_hard/mhlq0wp/
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not really impressed with the aesthetics if they mean nothing
So much simulacra of resistance. People entirely unwilling to fight an intellectual war with more than Twitter-length thinking. We lost so long ago back in 2013 nobody today can seem to find the Franklin Public Library and read a 2014 book explaining everything in 2025. People can't even identify the originators of the technique by name, etc. Pure aesthetics that mean nothing.
“In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, year 2014