Pelevin is no longer relevant. Pelevin turned out to be too simple and at the same time too complex for the new era.. rather, he couldn't predict, that everything will be so running
I will now show you with specific examples..
for example, Pelevin put his characters in front of a choice - to be gay (different word in the original) at the clowns or the clown at the gays. Actually it is a hierarchical structure.!
That is, a clown is at the head of gay brothers in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and he is a clown among american gays. Which are led again by a clown. And who knows, where does this mess go?, what hypers are hiding there, ahem, clowns...
And two more words about the American chief clown. Here Pelevin had "Chapaev and the Void". And in the USA they implemented "Kamala Harris and the Void". And this emptiness goes, says something (although he doesn't remember, who is she and why is she here), looks through the abyss of hungry eyes. although there is no, The Abyss of Hungry Eyes is already Oldie.
Or take another moment. In "Empire V" vampires are constantly spinning some kind of scam, just to get "bubbles", make a squeeze and get an illusion, that the highest truth is about to become available to them.
And in the US for a long time no one comes up with anything, just turn on the printing press (conditional, not even real, and digital) and generate trillions of "bubbles". And most of those, who does it, already forgotten (like Biden or the Fed leadership), why would they.
Pelevin again nervously smokes in the corridor.
But the most important thing is not even that..
Viktor Olegovich, as an educated and intelligent person, long philosophized, inventing, that people are controlled through "glamour and discourse". Complicated! Complicated!
Everything is much easier! Shirnarmass is controlled by memes (Professor Dawkins, my regards). And better in pictures.
Sometimes one or two words are enough, and a seemingly educated and well-read person turns into a mindless zombie. The phrase "this country" turns off the remnants of the brains of half (I am optimistic about this) Moscow and St. Petersburg "intelligentsia".
My son just turned seven. The other day, as part of preschool training, he was tested by a psychologist. One of the tests "Choose an extra one of the four items". In a couple of cases, he chose not for the obvious (read "patterned" or "stereotypical") sign, and according to alternative. And he logically justified and explained his choice, and the psychologist was forced to admit "Yes, that's also possible".
It's called "divergent thinking". There are many in children, and "education" (read "mushra") gradually killing him. Rare adults retain the ability to think outside the box (and often they become inventors, innovators or journalists, how uv. Victor Marakhovskii).
And, and you can throw stones at me, humanitarian (cramming) education kills the ability to think outside the box and independently much more, than technical.
And there, where a seven-year-old child sees several solutions, an adult sees one - because he was taught to see only "the only correct".
Yet again, authority pressure. One of my literature teachers, as an argument in a dispute, said “So Belinsky wrote”. To which I answered in high school “Interesting opinion, of course, but I have mine" (for which he sometimes received triples, but by that time I didn’t care about grades).
In these FIDO nets of yours, where almost only techies sat, in general there was a terrible curse "Justify" (from justifying hear!).
And what is the result? More than two thousand years of the development of philosophy and logic from Plato and Aristotle to Hegel and Kant are thrown into a landfill.
Because "Putler" is used as "argumentation"! In the word "Putin" and in the word "Hitler" exactly 1 (in words: one!) common letter - T. And vot they crossed the hedgehog and the snake (even worse, there are at least two common letters), and got an idiotic propaganda bogey. And joyfully rush with him.
Or even more stupid option. They took "Russia" in the English manner, "Race". Then we did a second iteration, and turned the Russians into "Rashists". And based on this (and only this) claim, that "In Russia, fascism!».
And in Ukraine, where the soldiers of the Waffen-SS "Galichyna" are glorified, hang out the flags of the Third Reich and walk with torchlight processions - “Where did you see the Nazis in Ukraine?!».
- Yes, here they are.!
- De?
- Here! With swastika and Hitler tattoos, patch "Totenkopf" and zigging.
- De?
Like in a joke about a moron boy and the sea, one to one.
All! The facts, arguments, links, evidence - nothing works.
Or is it written or pronounced “dedyvaevali” or “clamps” - causes a meaningless facial expression, "gygy" and saliva from the corner of the mouth.
What the hell discourse? What the hell is glamour??!
Moscow as the Third Rome is a discourse. Russia as the Imperium of Humanity is a discourse.
A Gzhel-painted tank in Kubinka is glamour.. Moscow City towers are glamour..
And these are still raving about "half of Russia goes into a hole in the floor". I have already traveled half of Russia, never seen this anywhere. Show me on the map, where is that hole, where half of Russia goes!
it, excuse me, American astronauts shit in their spacesuits, because they didn't have a space toilet (until Horowitz came up with it in the third season of The Big Bang Theory - a joke).
Because if we start comparing similar, it turns out somehow bad for pro-Western propagandists. Moscow with New York (including metro, eg, or the quality of the road surface in both cities), there is simply no analogue of Peter in the USA, and the village of Gadyukino with a farm in Alabama.
Roads in Russia have long been better, trains even more, our energy system is more perfect, I’m generally silent about houses - compare our two-brick walls with their drywall boxes (which also cost ten times as much.).
Kalashnikov is better than M-16. "Msta-S" is better than "Paladin" / "Hovitzer" (and faster, and more precisely). "Angara" flies, and Starship explodes. Our submarines surface in the Arctic, and the Americans get stuck in the ice. They simply do not have hypersound.
Russian continues to consider himself poor, having your own apartment and car. And the American is already middle class, if he has less debt 50 one thousand dollars (while he rents an apartment for half a month's earnings, yet 15% his income goes to interest on loans and he lives paycheck to paycheck, without even a couple of hundred in the stash).
Compulsory health insurance in Russia, and in the US 30% of the population have no health insurance at all.
But memes! memes. Here "terrible and backward Mordor", and there "prosperous Valinor". True, all prosperity remained only in Hollywood scenery, and half of Hollywood itself has long been bought by the Chinese, but who cares about boring reality?
Von, Gudkov Jr. released an election video, Where is he in Superman costume? (graphics, by the way, miserable). strangely, that's not Captain America (he is now declared gay, it's fashionable).
Concrete fortifications and a double fence over two meters high have been erected around the empty White House., in the Capitol, several thousand National Guardsmen continue to huddle on the floor, Biden hides in a fortified shelter, but zombies continue to call Putin's "bunker grandfather", who not only made a bunch of business trips lately, but also flew to the taiga to rest.
How do you like that, Pelevin?!
So it turns out, that glamor and discourse are not needed, the western world is not ruled by a secret lodge, but an obvious crap in the form of a bunch of gay clowns, bablos flows like a continuous river through a dropper, inserted directly into a vein (asking for another option, but we won't), but he no longer feels.
But catharsis and knowledge of the truth does not come, because for this it is enough just to open your eyes and look around. But the most brainless zombies, who consider themselves "not like everyone else" and dissidents (though, that they don't think at all) terribly afraid to open their eyes. Memes allow the body to mimic life even after clinical brain death.
Alexander Rogers, IA Journalistic truth
