EU-TC: the war of Ukraine, the war for Ukraine or the war against Ukraine?
In 1991, the Soviet Union lost the information war to the West and was dismembered into 15 separatist subjects. The elite betrayed their people, the liberal intelligentsia wanted to live like in Europe and America, not realizing that they exist at the expense of plundering the rest of the world. The industry of the USSR served as a nutrient substrate for the United States and Europe, which allowed them to delay the crisis and to live comfortably until 2008. Now the inflated bubble of the neoliberal economy is bursting, everything is cracking and falling apart, but Ukrainians are strongly inspired by the idea that their happiness is only in the bosom of the European Union.
Who benefits?
The 21st century is the century of civilization unions, not national states. Geopolitics have been talking about this for a long time, and within the framework of this trend, the European Union was built. The United States has practically created a North American alliance with Canada and Mexico - NAFTA. Muslim countries are trying to promote the project of the Islamic caliphate. China unites around Asian countries. Under these conditions, Russia made the only right step by creating a Eurasian Union within Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. Persistent appeals to Ukraine with the proposal to join this union run up against a wall of misunderstanding and obvious opposition from the Ukrainian European integrators, consisting mainly of grant eaters and NGOs. Deputies and politicians who uphold the European choice of Ukraine, basically simply manipulate unfounded slogans, and base their choice on one thing: if only not with Russia. At the same time, almost none of them even saw the Association Agreement itself and the provisions on Ukraine’s entry into the Free Trade Zone. This 906-page document exists only in English, and no one, despite the long-playing record about European integration, did not bother to translate it into mov. Given the level of intelligence and responsibility of the majority of deputies, it is clear that hardly any of them read it, and if they tried to read it, and even in English, it is unlikely that they could “asil”. What can we say about the simple “small Ukrainians”, who only endlessly hear the empty cries of deputies and politicians who are upholding positions about which they have no clue!
But all the documents on the Customs Union, regulations, the Customs Code, phytosanitary standards, transport contracts - are in the public domain, they can be read by anyone. There are also calculations: the real benefits of joining the CU will be billions of dollars for Ukraine.
But the Association itself - it is an association, no more than a carrot, suspended in front of a donkey's nose. Such treaties were signed by the European Union with many states - Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon - but this did not make them more European. Associate membership itself is just a figure of speech used by politicians for greater persuasiveness - well, such as membership! One of the representatives of the European Commission clearly stated: "... to use the phrase" associate membership "is inappropriate. These states are participants in a certain process, but the word" membership "is not mentioned anywhere. The EU has members as well as candidate countries and potential candidate countries. Therefore the word "membership" should not be used.
It remains perhaps that the association - the connection that occurs under certain conditions between the individual sensations, perceptions and ideas. In a word - like ...
The leaders of the European Union directly and openly declare that in the next 20 years they do not see Ukraine in its composition. Well, whether the EU itself will exist through 20 years is also a very, very controversial question. The last country that "joined" the EU was Croatia. And this despite the fact that most residents were against this entry. Mass protest demonstrations and rallies against joining the European Union were held in Zagreb. A little less than 44% of the country's citizens came to the referendum on EU integration, of these 44% voted, two thirds - 66,27% - were in favor of joining. However, the opinion of the entire population turned out to be uninteresting to European integrators, and Croatia was swallowed up by the European Union. At the same time, the head of the European Parliament made it absolutely clear: Croatia is the last country to jump on the steps of a European train, at least for the next decades.
Such small countries with a population of several million people do not pose a serious danger to the EU, even considering that it now has more than enough problems. If the USSR was built according to the principle that backward margins were comprehensively developed and pulled up according to their economic and social development towards a developed industrial center, then the European Union was built on a different principle. Here, not the economy played a major role, but geopolitics played a role - they tried to surround Russia with hostile states with NATO bases located on their territory. Today, economic problems threaten to simply bury the European Union. The industry of underdeveloped countries, such as Bulgaria and the Baltic countries, was simply destroyed in order not to compete with the West, and the land was bought up by transnational corporations. However, the financial and economic crisis and rising unemployment put an end to the prosperity of developed countries. Germany and France, which are donors of the European Union, are no longer able to pull on a heap of problems and feed numerous freeloaders who, having ruined their own economy, are now begging with outstretched hands for more developed countries.
The freed labor force is used in Europe for the most unskilled jobs, since migrants can be paid several times less than their own workers, but gradually the sources of income run low. Government budgets are increasingly losing weight. Millions of migrants living on unemployment benefits suck out all the resources of industrial states.
The middle class is shrinking, the locals are ready to take on the work they used to disdain. Simplification of the visa regime, which is trying to lure in the FTA of ordinary citizens of Ukraine, will not bring them special preferences - work for foreigners is less and less, and the attitude towards illegal migrants is getting tougher. The UK has already announced that it is tightening the rules for providing social and medical assistance to immigrants so as not to overload the social part of the budget, and in Spain, due to the record crisis in the labor market, even a record decline in 17 years occurred in the number of people - the country began to massively leave labor migrants.
But what will the simple Ukrainians bring the signing of an agreement on joining the FTA?
Today, 80% of Ukraine’s population lives on the edge of poverty. They do not even have enough money to pay for utilities, basic products and medicines. To buy the same ticket to Europe, even if there is a visa-free regime, they are simply not able to. Of the 14 million pensioners, two-thirds live on retired at a thousand and me hryvnias. They are this European Union - absolutely to the point. They can only watch Europe on TV. Those who today can afford to travel abroad, and so do it without problems - well, sometimes some people are denied visas, and this happens even with the rich and famous, after which the stars get offended and the media make noise (here’s a nightmare and horror which Irene Karp was not allowed to go to Germany, and Kamaliya was denied a visa to the UK!), but is it really a problem across the country? The overwhelming part of the working-age population, which lives more and more "better" every year, cannot go abroad now, and then cannot, and the matter is not at all in the visa regime, but in banal poverty. For many, and in the neighboring area for a tour go a problem.
Within the country, the transition to European standards will necessarily lead to an increase in utility prices, and Russia will definitely not reduce gas prices. Most likely, it will be necessary, as Yushchenko bequeathed, to drown dung.
Millions of Ukrainian peasants will remain without sources of income after signing the FTA, as they will not be able to sell their products grown on their own plots under European law. All the assurances of officials that these restrictions apply only to the external market are shattered about the realities of life. After the entry of Latvia and other Baltic states into the European Union and the FTA, local farmers were deprived of the opportunity to sell their goods in the bazaars or hand them over to co-operators. Agricultural products are sold only by large firms that have bought up all the land. Peasants simply lose their land and become homeless, as it once happened in Argentina. This will definitely cause a rise in food prices, or we will have to eat garbage from GMOs, which Europe will dump here. And, it is still possible by insects - recently the UN has advised more grasshoppers and butterflies to developing countries (in our case, degrading).
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian workers will lose their jobs, as the remaining enterprises still functioning are integrated into the economies of the former post-Soviet countries and, first of all, Russia, and are focused on trade with them. In the European Union, sales are only found in first-handled products, bringing minimal income to the manufacturer.
The plutocratic model of power that prevails today in Ukraine is oriented towards the West. As a matter of fact, all our deputies, high-ranking government officials, representatives of big business have long been European integration. Their money is in European and American banks, their children study there, families and mistresses live. That is why they are afraid to say a word against Ukraine joining the FTA and lobby this project in every way. Otherwise, their capital is threatened with the prospect of arrest, they may lose their estates if Western financial authorities are interested in the origin of all this good. For all the idle talk about the need to strive for European values, our "elite" is very different from the western one, primarily because everything that "has been gained by overworking" our oligarchs and bureaucrats is actually acquired through frauds, frauds and bribes. That is why they are so persistently supporting the demands of Washington and Brussels, fearing to remain at the broken trough when they have their stash confiscated. And in this issue in a ball of kissing snakes interlaced as representatives of the authorities and the opposition. The only question on which their own interests converge into one point is the mythical entry of Ukraine into the European Union and the actual entry into the FTA, which will finally finish off the Ukrainian economy, but allow them to save their capital and get kickbacks from transnational corporations.
In this plan Ukrainian oligarchs They differ not only from the Western elite, but also from their Russian colleagues. If the Russian oligarchs rely on the resource and industrial potential, then a part of the Ukrainian oligarchs are representatives of speculative capital, who receive income from the trade in Western goods on the Ukrainian market and hide the money obtained in foreign donuts. Those who own industrial enterprises fear the arrival of Russian capital and the loss of their assets. This is what explains the dual position of Ukraine. On the one hand, many enterprises are focused on the market of Russia and former post-Soviet countries, as in Europe, Ukrainian products are not competitive, on the other hand, all their capital lies in the form of dollars and euros in Western banks, and they themselves are afraid of losing them if supported joining the CU. In fact, all Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs are on the financial hook of the West.
And what is the profit of the European Union and the United States, also supporting the European aspirations of Ukraine?
Entry into the FTA will fully open the Ukrainian market for European goods, subordinate Ukrainian legislation to European Union laws, destroy the remnants of competitive enterprises, destroy agricultural production residues, turning Ukraine into a raw material appendage of the West, a market for stale goods and a source of cheap unskilled labor. Compared to Arabs and blacks, who do not even think of integrating into European society or working there, Ukrainians are ready for a beggarly, by European standards, wages, to do the dirtiest work, without making protests, pogroms and not irritating European society alien to him religious and cultural and social traditions.
The US is interested in Ukraine’s European integration on another occasion. It is based on geopolitical interests.
First, it will allow to place on its territory its military bases. Let not immediately, but gradually weakening its relationship with Russia, it will be possible to carry out the Yugoslav scenario and divide the country into several small enclaves.
Secondly, the entry of 40-million Ukraine (by the way, Ukraine is the fifth most populous in Europe) to the EU will further weaken it by undermining the euro, and this is perfectly understood by Germany and France, who will lay bones, but will never accept millions of Ukrainians evil from poverty, into the European Union. They have enough problems with Greece, Bulgaria, Spain and Portugal.
The only ones who hope to receive preferences from Ukraine’s accession to the EU are its most underdeveloped members - Poland and the Baltic States. No wonder they are so courting European commissioners, lobbying the interests of Ukraine. Germany, which together with France actually carries all EU members around its neck, has only 12% of votes in the European Parliament, which makes all decisions. The entry of 40-million Ukraine into the European Union would allow the poorest countries to have a majority in the European Parliament and successfully milk their sponsors.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated at the meeting with the Estonian Prime Minister, “the case of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko is not the only obstacle for signing an already-ready Association Agreement with the EU. This is generally about the legal system in Ukraine and human rights issues and civil liberties. " There is not a word about economics, land, social issues, because there are figures, concrete initial data and consequences. And about human rights and civil liberties can be talked about forever, as about the struggle between good and evil. It's all clear. Ukraine just has to accept the conditions of unconditional surrender to Europe, and then it will be infinitely milked, until it is overwhelmed.
The war continues
Ukraine’s entry into the FTA will mean the actual surrender of national interests to the West and its final transformation into a raw materials appendage, a source of cheap and beautiful prostitutes and equally cheap, though not always beautiful, trenchers. This is indicated by independent experts, who still remained in Ukraine, but their voices disappear in the chorus of grant eaters, imprisoned for drawing Ukraine into an FTA. This will bring a solid negative to Ukraine, but the Ukrainian media, which today have turned into SMRAD (media advertising, agitation, misinformation), and journalists paid by foreign sponsors do everything to make Ukraine citizens believe in the advantages of the Western project and the benefits of entering the Free Trade Zone. A similar situation was observed several years ago, when Yushchenko was persistently trying to draw the country into NATO in five-year plan, and propaganda was choking on us, describing the benefits of such entry. But the NATO leadership was smart enough not to even consider this question. NATO hysteria in the media has subsided, and today citizens do not even remember this abbreviation.
But with a new force, Euro-hysteria sounded. Sociological polls, depending on customers, show different figures of citizens' opinions on the choice of Ukraine, but on average, one can say that opinions were divided roughly in half. Slightly more than 50% are in favor of joining the European Union and the FTA, a little less than 50% prefer the Customs Union and integration into the Eurasian Union. But these figures can hardly be called reasonable; rather, in a society where "sagging of meanings and social amnesia" prevails in the formation of public opinion, a conscious opinion based on real preferences cannot arise - people make their choice based on those hackneyed postulates that politicians give them under the guise of truth MASS MEDIA. The usual manipulation of consciousness. Europe is good, Russia is bad. Point. And why, how, why, what will happen, if and when ... - this is not necessary for people to know.
The basis of modern methods of social management is Operational Research (Strategic and Tactical Methodology, developed by the Military Manual of England during the Second World War). In 1948, the Rockefeller Foundation joined this research, and then the Tavistock Institute and the RAND Corporation, the main centers of the ideological war against the USSR, took part in them. The strategy of a silent or information war was formed, which is successfully used today against the population of Ukraine. In conditions when people are forced to wage a war for survival literally every day - health, work, normal food, communal living, brutality in society, arbitrariness of power, lawlessness and lawlessness - they simply have no strength to participate in the information war, therefore they prefer to sit out on the couch and just listen to the order from the TV - where to go and what to do tomorrow.
"Spiral of Silence"
One of the main principles laid down in the activities of European integrators is the so-called “Spiral of Silence”. For the first time the concept of "Spirals of silence" was developed by the famous German sociologist Elizabeth Noel-Neumann, in connection with the problem of the formation of public opinion. The essence of this theory is that most people tend to avoid sharing those opinions and perceptions that are not dominant in the media. If a person everywhere hears opinions about the advantages of the European Union, about the European choice of Ukraine, then even if he adheres to the opposite point of view, he will try not to advertise it, since a different point of view prevails in society, even if it is persistently imposed. Similarly, his opinion, which does not coincide with the opinion that prevails in the media, will be wary of expressing people around him. Few people want to look like a black sheep, which also needs to defend their point of view. In the end, for those who want to stand out from the crowd, today there are enough ways - from hair and clothing to organizing the most stupid flash mob in the main square of the city. With your own opinion is more difficult - you need to justify it and defend in a crowd of opponents, swim against the current. As a result, a social pressure phenomenon is created in society. A person is afraid to express his opinion if it does not coincide with the opinion of the majority. Thus, a conspiracy of silence is formed around vital problems. Such a spiral of silence will exist until a different point of view breaks through the media, like a sprout from a dried earth, and the number of its supporters does not increase. Only then will indecisive and doubting citizens be able to express their opinions.
That is why in Ukraine, despite the loud cries of politicians about democracy and freedom of speech, despite even several programs with this name, in reality, access to the media is limited to those who make critical statements or provide objective information both in the internal and in the external politics, including those related to the European Union. The most rated talk show, conducted by a foreign citizen Savik Shuster, who was forced to leave Russia at one time and warmed up here by Pan Yushchenko, gathers crowds of supporters of the European choice, despite the fact that people who reflect the opposite point of view are represented by a single communist. The public has the impression that all civilized people around are striving exclusively to the Free Trade Zone, as if they are simultaneously smeared with honey, jam and condensed milk. Beautifully combed uncles in expensive suits and with manicure, beautiful phrases and gestures tell viewers about the virtues of European integration, while the absolute majority of performances of European integrators are reduced to empty demagogy, which does not carry any meaning. Instead of real meanings, people are shoved with simulacra, and they take it for their own coin, which is about to be in their empty pocket.
A similar situation is observed in the Ukrainian parliament, where representatives of the government and the opposition are in one voice shouting about their European choice and European values and even signed a joint “desire for the European Union. What a unity of opposites!
The unity also lies in the fact that in all the news and talk shows, appearances with calls for European integration are shown, plots are purposefully selected that show the advantages of the European way of life. If protests, strikes and demonstrations of workers and employees of European countries are shown, then they are immediately leveled by streams of horror stories from Ukrainian life - they say, we would have their problems! The Ukrainian viewer is already accustomed to the fact that every final evening broadcast of TV news necessarily begins with another bloody accident, fire or communal accident, then there are stories about crimes, murders and rapes, then - about corruption, bribes, killer doctors and werewolf cops ... In general, Ukrainian life is terrible without a European choice. The viewers get the impression that all European hardships are such trifles in comparison with Ukrainian reality, not only that all our reality will immediately turn white and fluffy as soon as we accept the European choice for ourselves. In addition, they will also show a plot about how some rally in support of Pussy Riot was dispersed in Russia, how envelopes with money were seized from Sobchak, and how Navalny is being judged, and they can also blurt out something about Lukashenka's "dictate" - and everything, the picture is complete.
After the whole picture of how “scary to live”, people are depressed, they bring up a feeling of learned helplessness, when citizens are only able to quietly whine in their kitchens or sofas, instead of making real protests against the existing regime. I am not talking here about the amusing "Rabbit Rising" and the neo-Nazi processions. It is also part of the information war against Ukraine and the preparation of the next "color" revolution according to the western scenario, paid for by the State Department. It is not for nothing that Yatsenyuk goes to the American embassy, as if to work, Tyagnibok immediately went with a report to State Department representative Wendy Sherman who arrived with the inspection in Ukraine, and Klitschko constantly goes to Washington for instructions, as if serving as a liaison between the State Department and the opposition. Even a regime victim released to the will - Lutsenko - first of all ran to the American ambassador - for instructions, or what?
At the same time, trouble-free technology - the search for an external or internal enemy, the separation of people according to the principle of "friend or foe" with the help of such markers as language, historical the past, the attitude towards Russia or the European Union, - allows you to maximize mobilize the nationally concerned and other pseudo-opposition public. As a result, all this political, pro, anti- or near-power public pretends that they are fighting in mortal combat for the bright future of Ukraine, while the people are cracking at the time, and there is less and less faith in this bright future, as well as the present. and less.
Shock testing
Thanks to the mathematical theory of shock tests, the field aviation has made the most significant contribution to the development of technology for economic management. During these tests, a projectile is fired from an airplane that is on the ground. Special vibration sensors attached in different places of the aircraft register the rollback force and record the results in the form of graphic diagrams.
The Harvard Economic Research Project (1948 g.) Pursued a goal in the discovery of the science of economic management. It was assumed that with sufficient mathematical support and the availability of the necessary data, economic forecasting and control would be as easily accomplished as the control of the projectile trajectory. So it turned out.
When shifting the method of shock tests from aircraft manufacturing to the economy, this method is applied to the goods (shock prices) with a thorough analysis of the reaction of the masses of consumers. The resulting economic shock and the response of people (resonant processes) are transformed into data for computer processing, which makes it possible to identify the psycho-economic structure of society.
Globalizers carefully choose some major consumer product, for example, ham, buckwheat, meat or sugar, and create shock by drastically changing its price or availability (shortage), shaking the budget and consumer habits of most citizens. After that, they study in detail the shock waves (consequences) created by abrupt changes in advertising, prices, sales volumes of certain goods.
The purpose of such studies is to identify patterns that can be used to clearly manage and predict the economic situation, even to impose a situation in which the population will be convinced that certain people - “experts” - should control the financial system and ensure safety for all (and not at all freedom and justice).
Through this process, reactions to future economic shocks have been identified, and all reactions become predictable, which is used to manipulate society, to turn it into a submissive herd of animals, controlled by a computerized accounting system that controls social energy. In the end, each individual element of the structure falls under computer control, which, among other things, implies the determination of personal preferences — this is ensured by a computer accounting system of consumer preferences (universal product code — bar code on packages), consumer identification (using personal credit cards .
Through shock testing, a direct correlation was found between the amount of cash flow in a country's economy and the level of psychological recovery and the reactions of people in a given country. This allows you to completely subordinate and control society by undermining the economy.
Now pay attention to the results of shock testing in Ukraine. If in Greece, while reducing social benefits and wages, a wave of strikes and clashes of the people with the police has rolled; if in France, raising the retirement age by 2 has led to mass protests; while in Bulgaria, the increase in electricity prices led to demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people and the resignation of the government, then we are calm in Baghdad - peace and quiet in Ukraine, the people are silently silent and not capable of any resistance. From which it follows a logical conclusion that the people turned into a stupid herd and calmly lead to slaughter. 90% of the population is victims, cannon fodder, 9%, possessing versatile information, are able to adequately assess the situation and make the right conclusions, and only 1% is able to produce information and change the situation.
Information war
In fact, Ukraine today has become a springboard of the next information war, which has turned into a consistent war for the consciousness of people. Newspapers, magazines, television are in the hands of several oligarchs and their clans and carry out a massive processing of consciousness, raping and brainwashing the brains of the citizens of the country with the most overt false propaganda. The Goebbels principle is used - if a lie is repeated many times, then it becomes true.
Brainwashing technology is actively used when a person is forced to take on trust what he is taught and substitute for his beliefs. At the same time, of course, not forgetting to recall the "ganebna nonsense of savvy propaganda of the makhin".
Information in the media is carefully filtered and served under the desired sauce. The fact that you do not need to know, just silent. Instead of censorship, there is today a so-called editorial policy (and, understandably, no editorial staff at all, but the media owner) forms it, and what does not comply with this editorial policy will never be aired or printed.
Citizens of the country are attacked by a stream of information noise, in which certain sensible voices drown, telling people another truth.
The Internet, which in Ukraine uses about 35% of the population, while only 1-2% are interested in political and economic issues, also does not save globally, since even there the number of resources giving unbiased objective information is limited. Most of the sites, if not owned by the same oligarchs, exist on Western grants and are fed from Washington or Brussels. Residents of villages, pensioners, this type of communication is practically inaccessible, but in every rural hut, in every Ukrainian apartment there is a “zomboyaschik” telling the horrors about the Customs Union, the fears of the Russian “empire of evil” and painting the charms of European life.
Memotechnology
Another technology widely used in the information war is the introduction of memes into the collective unconscious that reflect the point of view of Western globalists.
The term "meme" was introduced in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, a biologist from Oxford: "Meme is the basic unit of the cultural transmission (transmission)." According to this formulation, everything that we call a culture consists of memes, like matter from atoms. Memes pass from one mind to another just as genes are transmitted through eggs and sperm. Memes shape our basic life priorities, which, in turn, at a more superficial level, affect our behavior and decisions. Memes affect all choices we make in life. The same meme can penetrate stadiums, the media, parliament, offices, cathedrals and student audiences.
Memes are simple, consisting of a single word or concept, and complex, including a multi-level structure. An example of the simplest meme is the concept of "scoops", which was introduced into the minds of most people, especially young people. No one thinks about the meaning of this term. In today's unthinking society, it is customary to call in a good form “scoops” on people who built a great power, created a powerful industrial potential, nuclear energy, a powerful transport structure, an efficient army armed with nuclear weapons. weaponswho defeated fascism during the Great Patriotic War, launched man into space, built an effective education and healthcare system, raised scientists and people of art recognized all over the world. In short, the "scoops" are declared those people who have created all that huge potential that still could not be completely destroyed and plundered during the time of independence.
For the collapse of the Soviet Union, another cunning meme was used - that "the Moskal were our lard" or its Russian-language interpretation "Ukraine is a Moscow colony." Having received considerable financial support from the West, and especially the United States, who slept and saw how to tear Ukraine away from Russia, Ukrainian nationalists began to distribute leaflets in millions of copies explaining where our sugar, meat and grain disappear — it turns out that the Kremlin occupants ". As a result, the people, intoxicated by a powerful propaganda attack, gave their consent to the dismemberment of the USSR. However, if they knew even a tenth of what would happen to them and their country, it seems that the results of the memorable referendum would be completely different ...
But back to the memes. The development of meme technology was particularly developed in the 2004 year during the presidential election. If earlier memes were used in advertising and unstructured management of society, then during the famous presidential race in Ukraine they became the property of politicians. In the flock of sheep there are always several sheep that will lead the whole flock for slaughter, and trained shepherd dogs will guard and guide on this route.
Orange ribbons served as info-signals, identification marks "friend-foe", with the help of which you can mobilize people for mass protests. Further - more: primitive verbal memes "Ganba" appeared - it doesn’t matter to whom and for what, the main thing is that you can sip your throats and announce the ganba to everyone who is not with us. “Kuchmism” - no one can really explain what it is, but, probably, it is something terrible and dangerous, which means that it is necessary to fight it. "Yushchenko Tak!" - this is generally a masterpiece of political technologists: that "so" is unimportant, but still it is, and who is wrong is against democracy. For many, this in general, apparently, was one word "Yushchenko", and most importantly, that this "Yushchenko" didn’t steal anyone’s hands and that it was against the Kremlin’s hand. The fact that these hands and the good created nothing, took part in the destruction of the destructible and opened the Pandora’s box, dividing Ukrainian society into two hostile camps - also not important. The main thing - everyone went for democracy against dictatorship. By the way, democracy is also one of the successful memes, which has been used for quite a long time. We are for democratic democracy in a democratic family of democratic European nations. And the fact that democracy is actually the power of the people, and not a bunch of fat cats - no one cares. Just try to give a hint that you are against such a democracy - instantly a pack of journalists and politicians will declare you an enemy of the people and stick the label of the Stalinist and henchman to the "malicious regime" (also very successful memes).
Representatives of the Party of Regions successfully used memotechnology in the 2009 presidential election. The role of memes was carried out by candidates' campaign slogans. That only costs meme "I will smell skin". Personally, I associate it with a nettle from Viy Gogol - “Raise my eyelids for me”: I just want to exclaim in response - spread my ears. Nevertheless, "People Shaval" and massively knocked to the polls, giving a majority of votes to the representative of the oligarchic clans of the East. Then they said that people have to choose from two evils. But is there really no good in Ukraine then? And read the answer to this question above - there is no good and there is no third, if this third is not on TV. In fact, representatives, or rather owners, of the two main political forces, having taken over all property, the entire financial and economic system of a plundered country, got their hands on both the media and the political system. We closed all possible resources and full power in the country to ourselves. And the impoverished and wiser people are getting into the picture about democracy and an effective market.
Well, and after Victor Fedorovich’s victory, the last round of the struggle for resources began. “Everything has already been stolen before us,” exclaimed the new prime minister in despair and began to search for the stolen. As a result, an event occurred that threatened the existence of the current oligarchic clans. For the first time, representatives of the previous government were in prison, and not just "scapegoats". A similar fate can be expected of today's state leaders, deputies and officials.
Now we are passing the bifurcation point, for which we are waiting for either a complete disintegration of statehood, or the revival of a civilization alliance with our brotherly countries.
Today, Ukrainian politicians and journalists and activists serving them with all sorts of experts have replaced the famous slogan of the era of the orange revolution “ganba” by “bandit” and a new mantra - “associate member”. Meme "European Union" has become a symbol of well-being and the subject of lust for office plankton with Ukrainian nationalists into the bargain. Deputies and political scientists stubbornly talk about this on various TV channels, stubbornly imposing on the image of a wonderful European Union to inexperienced citizens of the country, where asphalt is washed with shampoo, where universal democracy and tolerance prevail, members of parliaments ride bicycles rather than Mercedes, respect human rights and observe laws. There is only one question for these pans - and what prevents to do the same in Ukraine, now, without any associations? Do we really need European overseers with democratic whips? No one is going to answer these questions. Everyone just screams that as soon as we sign the long-awaited agreement on the mythical association and join the FTA, everyone will be happy right there.
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As the experience of history shows, when the political regime begins to crumble, the disintegration virus spreads rapidly everywhere, infecting all institutions, penetrating into all cracks. The fall of the regime is the result not only of the efforts of revolutionaries, but of decrepitude, powerlessness and inability to creatively and constructively work the regime itself. The tops can no longer, although they are still jerking convulsively, the lower classes still want, but they get nothing. Today's Ukraine exists only thanks to IMF handouts. Its entry into the FTZ will mean the final collapse of statehood. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian information space today is filled mainly with pro-Western advocates. Russia, for its part, is not paying enough attention to explaining the benefits of the Customs Union, and this could end negatively for both of our countries. Ukraine will completely lose the miserable remnants of its economy and sovereignty, and Russia will lose geopolitically when NATO bases are located in Galicia.
Who benefits?The 21st century is the century of civilization unions, not national states. Geopolitics have been talking about this for a long time, and within the framework of this trend, the European Union was built. The United States has practically created a North American alliance with Canada and Mexico - NAFTA. Muslim countries are trying to promote the project of the Islamic caliphate. China unites around Asian countries. Under these conditions, Russia made the only right step by creating a Eurasian Union within Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. Persistent appeals to Ukraine with the proposal to join this union run up against a wall of misunderstanding and obvious opposition from the Ukrainian European integrators, consisting mainly of grant eaters and NGOs. Deputies and politicians who uphold the European choice of Ukraine, basically simply manipulate unfounded slogans, and base their choice on one thing: if only not with Russia. At the same time, almost none of them even saw the Association Agreement itself and the provisions on Ukraine’s entry into the Free Trade Zone. This 906-page document exists only in English, and no one, despite the long-playing record about European integration, did not bother to translate it into mov. Given the level of intelligence and responsibility of the majority of deputies, it is clear that hardly any of them read it, and if they tried to read it, and even in English, it is unlikely that they could “asil”. What can we say about the simple “small Ukrainians”, who only endlessly hear the empty cries of deputies and politicians who are upholding positions about which they have no clue!
But all the documents on the Customs Union, regulations, the Customs Code, phytosanitary standards, transport contracts - are in the public domain, they can be read by anyone. There are also calculations: the real benefits of joining the CU will be billions of dollars for Ukraine.
But the Association itself - it is an association, no more than a carrot, suspended in front of a donkey's nose. Such treaties were signed by the European Union with many states - Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, Lebanon - but this did not make them more European. Associate membership itself is just a figure of speech used by politicians for greater persuasiveness - well, such as membership! One of the representatives of the European Commission clearly stated: "... to use the phrase" associate membership "is inappropriate. These states are participants in a certain process, but the word" membership "is not mentioned anywhere. The EU has members as well as candidate countries and potential candidate countries. Therefore the word "membership" should not be used.
It remains perhaps that the association - the connection that occurs under certain conditions between the individual sensations, perceptions and ideas. In a word - like ...
The leaders of the European Union directly and openly declare that in the next 20 years they do not see Ukraine in its composition. Well, whether the EU itself will exist through 20 years is also a very, very controversial question. The last country that "joined" the EU was Croatia. And this despite the fact that most residents were against this entry. Mass protest demonstrations and rallies against joining the European Union were held in Zagreb. A little less than 44% of the country's citizens came to the referendum on EU integration, of these 44% voted, two thirds - 66,27% - were in favor of joining. However, the opinion of the entire population turned out to be uninteresting to European integrators, and Croatia was swallowed up by the European Union. At the same time, the head of the European Parliament made it absolutely clear: Croatia is the last country to jump on the steps of a European train, at least for the next decades.
Such small countries with a population of several million people do not pose a serious danger to the EU, even considering that it now has more than enough problems. If the USSR was built according to the principle that backward margins were comprehensively developed and pulled up according to their economic and social development towards a developed industrial center, then the European Union was built on a different principle. Here, not the economy played a major role, but geopolitics played a role - they tried to surround Russia with hostile states with NATO bases located on their territory. Today, economic problems threaten to simply bury the European Union. The industry of underdeveloped countries, such as Bulgaria and the Baltic countries, was simply destroyed in order not to compete with the West, and the land was bought up by transnational corporations. However, the financial and economic crisis and rising unemployment put an end to the prosperity of developed countries. Germany and France, which are donors of the European Union, are no longer able to pull on a heap of problems and feed numerous freeloaders who, having ruined their own economy, are now begging with outstretched hands for more developed countries.
The freed labor force is used in Europe for the most unskilled jobs, since migrants can be paid several times less than their own workers, but gradually the sources of income run low. Government budgets are increasingly losing weight. Millions of migrants living on unemployment benefits suck out all the resources of industrial states.
The middle class is shrinking, the locals are ready to take on the work they used to disdain. Simplification of the visa regime, which is trying to lure in the FTA of ordinary citizens of Ukraine, will not bring them special preferences - work for foreigners is less and less, and the attitude towards illegal migrants is getting tougher. The UK has already announced that it is tightening the rules for providing social and medical assistance to immigrants so as not to overload the social part of the budget, and in Spain, due to the record crisis in the labor market, even a record decline in 17 years occurred in the number of people - the country began to massively leave labor migrants.
But what will the simple Ukrainians bring the signing of an agreement on joining the FTA?
Today, 80% of Ukraine’s population lives on the edge of poverty. They do not even have enough money to pay for utilities, basic products and medicines. To buy the same ticket to Europe, even if there is a visa-free regime, they are simply not able to. Of the 14 million pensioners, two-thirds live on retired at a thousand and me hryvnias. They are this European Union - absolutely to the point. They can only watch Europe on TV. Those who today can afford to travel abroad, and so do it without problems - well, sometimes some people are denied visas, and this happens even with the rich and famous, after which the stars get offended and the media make noise (here’s a nightmare and horror which Irene Karp was not allowed to go to Germany, and Kamaliya was denied a visa to the UK!), but is it really a problem across the country? The overwhelming part of the working-age population, which lives more and more "better" every year, cannot go abroad now, and then cannot, and the matter is not at all in the visa regime, but in banal poverty. For many, and in the neighboring area for a tour go a problem.
Within the country, the transition to European standards will necessarily lead to an increase in utility prices, and Russia will definitely not reduce gas prices. Most likely, it will be necessary, as Yushchenko bequeathed, to drown dung.
Millions of Ukrainian peasants will remain without sources of income after signing the FTA, as they will not be able to sell their products grown on their own plots under European law. All the assurances of officials that these restrictions apply only to the external market are shattered about the realities of life. After the entry of Latvia and other Baltic states into the European Union and the FTA, local farmers were deprived of the opportunity to sell their goods in the bazaars or hand them over to co-operators. Agricultural products are sold only by large firms that have bought up all the land. Peasants simply lose their land and become homeless, as it once happened in Argentina. This will definitely cause a rise in food prices, or we will have to eat garbage from GMOs, which Europe will dump here. And, it is still possible by insects - recently the UN has advised more grasshoppers and butterflies to developing countries (in our case, degrading).
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian workers will lose their jobs, as the remaining enterprises still functioning are integrated into the economies of the former post-Soviet countries and, first of all, Russia, and are focused on trade with them. In the European Union, sales are only found in first-handled products, bringing minimal income to the manufacturer.
The plutocratic model of power that prevails today in Ukraine is oriented towards the West. As a matter of fact, all our deputies, high-ranking government officials, representatives of big business have long been European integration. Their money is in European and American banks, their children study there, families and mistresses live. That is why they are afraid to say a word against Ukraine joining the FTA and lobby this project in every way. Otherwise, their capital is threatened with the prospect of arrest, they may lose their estates if Western financial authorities are interested in the origin of all this good. For all the idle talk about the need to strive for European values, our "elite" is very different from the western one, primarily because everything that "has been gained by overworking" our oligarchs and bureaucrats is actually acquired through frauds, frauds and bribes. That is why they are so persistently supporting the demands of Washington and Brussels, fearing to remain at the broken trough when they have their stash confiscated. And in this issue in a ball of kissing snakes interlaced as representatives of the authorities and the opposition. The only question on which their own interests converge into one point is the mythical entry of Ukraine into the European Union and the actual entry into the FTA, which will finally finish off the Ukrainian economy, but allow them to save their capital and get kickbacks from transnational corporations.
In this plan Ukrainian oligarchs They differ not only from the Western elite, but also from their Russian colleagues. If the Russian oligarchs rely on the resource and industrial potential, then a part of the Ukrainian oligarchs are representatives of speculative capital, who receive income from the trade in Western goods on the Ukrainian market and hide the money obtained in foreign donuts. Those who own industrial enterprises fear the arrival of Russian capital and the loss of their assets. This is what explains the dual position of Ukraine. On the one hand, many enterprises are focused on the market of Russia and former post-Soviet countries, as in Europe, Ukrainian products are not competitive, on the other hand, all their capital lies in the form of dollars and euros in Western banks, and they themselves are afraid of losing them if supported joining the CU. In fact, all Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs are on the financial hook of the West.
And what is the profit of the European Union and the United States, also supporting the European aspirations of Ukraine?
Entry into the FTA will fully open the Ukrainian market for European goods, subordinate Ukrainian legislation to European Union laws, destroy the remnants of competitive enterprises, destroy agricultural production residues, turning Ukraine into a raw material appendage of the West, a market for stale goods and a source of cheap unskilled labor. Compared to Arabs and blacks, who do not even think of integrating into European society or working there, Ukrainians are ready for a beggarly, by European standards, wages, to do the dirtiest work, without making protests, pogroms and not irritating European society alien to him religious and cultural and social traditions.
The US is interested in Ukraine’s European integration on another occasion. It is based on geopolitical interests.
First, it will allow to place on its territory its military bases. Let not immediately, but gradually weakening its relationship with Russia, it will be possible to carry out the Yugoslav scenario and divide the country into several small enclaves.
Secondly, the entry of 40-million Ukraine (by the way, Ukraine is the fifth most populous in Europe) to the EU will further weaken it by undermining the euro, and this is perfectly understood by Germany and France, who will lay bones, but will never accept millions of Ukrainians evil from poverty, into the European Union. They have enough problems with Greece, Bulgaria, Spain and Portugal.
The only ones who hope to receive preferences from Ukraine’s accession to the EU are its most underdeveloped members - Poland and the Baltic States. No wonder they are so courting European commissioners, lobbying the interests of Ukraine. Germany, which together with France actually carries all EU members around its neck, has only 12% of votes in the European Parliament, which makes all decisions. The entry of 40-million Ukraine into the European Union would allow the poorest countries to have a majority in the European Parliament and successfully milk their sponsors.
As German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated at the meeting with the Estonian Prime Minister, “the case of former Prime Minister Tymoshenko is not the only obstacle for signing an already-ready Association Agreement with the EU. This is generally about the legal system in Ukraine and human rights issues and civil liberties. " There is not a word about economics, land, social issues, because there are figures, concrete initial data and consequences. And about human rights and civil liberties can be talked about forever, as about the struggle between good and evil. It's all clear. Ukraine just has to accept the conditions of unconditional surrender to Europe, and then it will be infinitely milked, until it is overwhelmed.
The war continues
Ukraine’s entry into the FTA will mean the actual surrender of national interests to the West and its final transformation into a raw materials appendage, a source of cheap and beautiful prostitutes and equally cheap, though not always beautiful, trenchers. This is indicated by independent experts, who still remained in Ukraine, but their voices disappear in the chorus of grant eaters, imprisoned for drawing Ukraine into an FTA. This will bring a solid negative to Ukraine, but the Ukrainian media, which today have turned into SMRAD (media advertising, agitation, misinformation), and journalists paid by foreign sponsors do everything to make Ukraine citizens believe in the advantages of the Western project and the benefits of entering the Free Trade Zone. A similar situation was observed several years ago, when Yushchenko was persistently trying to draw the country into NATO in five-year plan, and propaganda was choking on us, describing the benefits of such entry. But the NATO leadership was smart enough not to even consider this question. NATO hysteria in the media has subsided, and today citizens do not even remember this abbreviation.
But with a new force, Euro-hysteria sounded. Sociological polls, depending on customers, show different figures of citizens' opinions on the choice of Ukraine, but on average, one can say that opinions were divided roughly in half. Slightly more than 50% are in favor of joining the European Union and the FTA, a little less than 50% prefer the Customs Union and integration into the Eurasian Union. But these figures can hardly be called reasonable; rather, in a society where "sagging of meanings and social amnesia" prevails in the formation of public opinion, a conscious opinion based on real preferences cannot arise - people make their choice based on those hackneyed postulates that politicians give them under the guise of truth MASS MEDIA. The usual manipulation of consciousness. Europe is good, Russia is bad. Point. And why, how, why, what will happen, if and when ... - this is not necessary for people to know.
The basis of modern methods of social management is Operational Research (Strategic and Tactical Methodology, developed by the Military Manual of England during the Second World War). In 1948, the Rockefeller Foundation joined this research, and then the Tavistock Institute and the RAND Corporation, the main centers of the ideological war against the USSR, took part in them. The strategy of a silent or information war was formed, which is successfully used today against the population of Ukraine. In conditions when people are forced to wage a war for survival literally every day - health, work, normal food, communal living, brutality in society, arbitrariness of power, lawlessness and lawlessness - they simply have no strength to participate in the information war, therefore they prefer to sit out on the couch and just listen to the order from the TV - where to go and what to do tomorrow.
"Spiral of Silence"
One of the main principles laid down in the activities of European integrators is the so-called “Spiral of Silence”. For the first time the concept of "Spirals of silence" was developed by the famous German sociologist Elizabeth Noel-Neumann, in connection with the problem of the formation of public opinion. The essence of this theory is that most people tend to avoid sharing those opinions and perceptions that are not dominant in the media. If a person everywhere hears opinions about the advantages of the European Union, about the European choice of Ukraine, then even if he adheres to the opposite point of view, he will try not to advertise it, since a different point of view prevails in society, even if it is persistently imposed. Similarly, his opinion, which does not coincide with the opinion that prevails in the media, will be wary of expressing people around him. Few people want to look like a black sheep, which also needs to defend their point of view. In the end, for those who want to stand out from the crowd, today there are enough ways - from hair and clothing to organizing the most stupid flash mob in the main square of the city. With your own opinion is more difficult - you need to justify it and defend in a crowd of opponents, swim against the current. As a result, a social pressure phenomenon is created in society. A person is afraid to express his opinion if it does not coincide with the opinion of the majority. Thus, a conspiracy of silence is formed around vital problems. Such a spiral of silence will exist until a different point of view breaks through the media, like a sprout from a dried earth, and the number of its supporters does not increase. Only then will indecisive and doubting citizens be able to express their opinions.
That is why in Ukraine, despite the loud cries of politicians about democracy and freedom of speech, despite even several programs with this name, in reality, access to the media is limited to those who make critical statements or provide objective information both in the internal and in the external politics, including those related to the European Union. The most rated talk show, conducted by a foreign citizen Savik Shuster, who was forced to leave Russia at one time and warmed up here by Pan Yushchenko, gathers crowds of supporters of the European choice, despite the fact that people who reflect the opposite point of view are represented by a single communist. The public has the impression that all civilized people around are striving exclusively to the Free Trade Zone, as if they are simultaneously smeared with honey, jam and condensed milk. Beautifully combed uncles in expensive suits and with manicure, beautiful phrases and gestures tell viewers about the virtues of European integration, while the absolute majority of performances of European integrators are reduced to empty demagogy, which does not carry any meaning. Instead of real meanings, people are shoved with simulacra, and they take it for their own coin, which is about to be in their empty pocket.
A similar situation is observed in the Ukrainian parliament, where representatives of the government and the opposition are in one voice shouting about their European choice and European values and even signed a joint “desire for the European Union. What a unity of opposites!
The unity also lies in the fact that in all the news and talk shows, appearances with calls for European integration are shown, plots are purposefully selected that show the advantages of the European way of life. If protests, strikes and demonstrations of workers and employees of European countries are shown, then they are immediately leveled by streams of horror stories from Ukrainian life - they say, we would have their problems! The Ukrainian viewer is already accustomed to the fact that every final evening broadcast of TV news necessarily begins with another bloody accident, fire or communal accident, then there are stories about crimes, murders and rapes, then - about corruption, bribes, killer doctors and werewolf cops ... In general, Ukrainian life is terrible without a European choice. The viewers get the impression that all European hardships are such trifles in comparison with Ukrainian reality, not only that all our reality will immediately turn white and fluffy as soon as we accept the European choice for ourselves. In addition, they will also show a plot about how some rally in support of Pussy Riot was dispersed in Russia, how envelopes with money were seized from Sobchak, and how Navalny is being judged, and they can also blurt out something about Lukashenka's "dictate" - and everything, the picture is complete.
After the whole picture of how “scary to live”, people are depressed, they bring up a feeling of learned helplessness, when citizens are only able to quietly whine in their kitchens or sofas, instead of making real protests against the existing regime. I am not talking here about the amusing "Rabbit Rising" and the neo-Nazi processions. It is also part of the information war against Ukraine and the preparation of the next "color" revolution according to the western scenario, paid for by the State Department. It is not for nothing that Yatsenyuk goes to the American embassy, as if to work, Tyagnibok immediately went with a report to State Department representative Wendy Sherman who arrived with the inspection in Ukraine, and Klitschko constantly goes to Washington for instructions, as if serving as a liaison between the State Department and the opposition. Even a regime victim released to the will - Lutsenko - first of all ran to the American ambassador - for instructions, or what?
At the same time, trouble-free technology - the search for an external or internal enemy, the separation of people according to the principle of "friend or foe" with the help of such markers as language, historical the past, the attitude towards Russia or the European Union, - allows you to maximize mobilize the nationally concerned and other pseudo-opposition public. As a result, all this political, pro, anti- or near-power public pretends that they are fighting in mortal combat for the bright future of Ukraine, while the people are cracking at the time, and there is less and less faith in this bright future, as well as the present. and less.
Shock testing
Thanks to the mathematical theory of shock tests, the field aviation has made the most significant contribution to the development of technology for economic management. During these tests, a projectile is fired from an airplane that is on the ground. Special vibration sensors attached in different places of the aircraft register the rollback force and record the results in the form of graphic diagrams.
The Harvard Economic Research Project (1948 g.) Pursued a goal in the discovery of the science of economic management. It was assumed that with sufficient mathematical support and the availability of the necessary data, economic forecasting and control would be as easily accomplished as the control of the projectile trajectory. So it turned out.
When shifting the method of shock tests from aircraft manufacturing to the economy, this method is applied to the goods (shock prices) with a thorough analysis of the reaction of the masses of consumers. The resulting economic shock and the response of people (resonant processes) are transformed into data for computer processing, which makes it possible to identify the psycho-economic structure of society.
Globalizers carefully choose some major consumer product, for example, ham, buckwheat, meat or sugar, and create shock by drastically changing its price or availability (shortage), shaking the budget and consumer habits of most citizens. After that, they study in detail the shock waves (consequences) created by abrupt changes in advertising, prices, sales volumes of certain goods.
The purpose of such studies is to identify patterns that can be used to clearly manage and predict the economic situation, even to impose a situation in which the population will be convinced that certain people - “experts” - should control the financial system and ensure safety for all (and not at all freedom and justice).
Through this process, reactions to future economic shocks have been identified, and all reactions become predictable, which is used to manipulate society, to turn it into a submissive herd of animals, controlled by a computerized accounting system that controls social energy. In the end, each individual element of the structure falls under computer control, which, among other things, implies the determination of personal preferences — this is ensured by a computer accounting system of consumer preferences (universal product code — bar code on packages), consumer identification (using personal credit cards .
Through shock testing, a direct correlation was found between the amount of cash flow in a country's economy and the level of psychological recovery and the reactions of people in a given country. This allows you to completely subordinate and control society by undermining the economy.
Now pay attention to the results of shock testing in Ukraine. If in Greece, while reducing social benefits and wages, a wave of strikes and clashes of the people with the police has rolled; if in France, raising the retirement age by 2 has led to mass protests; while in Bulgaria, the increase in electricity prices led to demonstrations of hundreds of thousands of people and the resignation of the government, then we are calm in Baghdad - peace and quiet in Ukraine, the people are silently silent and not capable of any resistance. From which it follows a logical conclusion that the people turned into a stupid herd and calmly lead to slaughter. 90% of the population is victims, cannon fodder, 9%, possessing versatile information, are able to adequately assess the situation and make the right conclusions, and only 1% is able to produce information and change the situation.
Information war
In fact, Ukraine today has become a springboard of the next information war, which has turned into a consistent war for the consciousness of people. Newspapers, magazines, television are in the hands of several oligarchs and their clans and carry out a massive processing of consciousness, raping and brainwashing the brains of the citizens of the country with the most overt false propaganda. The Goebbels principle is used - if a lie is repeated many times, then it becomes true.
Brainwashing technology is actively used when a person is forced to take on trust what he is taught and substitute for his beliefs. At the same time, of course, not forgetting to recall the "ganebna nonsense of savvy propaganda of the makhin".
Information in the media is carefully filtered and served under the desired sauce. The fact that you do not need to know, just silent. Instead of censorship, there is today a so-called editorial policy (and, understandably, no editorial staff at all, but the media owner) forms it, and what does not comply with this editorial policy will never be aired or printed.
Citizens of the country are attacked by a stream of information noise, in which certain sensible voices drown, telling people another truth.
The Internet, which in Ukraine uses about 35% of the population, while only 1-2% are interested in political and economic issues, also does not save globally, since even there the number of resources giving unbiased objective information is limited. Most of the sites, if not owned by the same oligarchs, exist on Western grants and are fed from Washington or Brussels. Residents of villages, pensioners, this type of communication is practically inaccessible, but in every rural hut, in every Ukrainian apartment there is a “zomboyaschik” telling the horrors about the Customs Union, the fears of the Russian “empire of evil” and painting the charms of European life.
Memotechnology
Another technology widely used in the information war is the introduction of memes into the collective unconscious that reflect the point of view of Western globalists.
The term "meme" was introduced in 1976 by Richard Dawkins, a biologist from Oxford: "Meme is the basic unit of the cultural transmission (transmission)." According to this formulation, everything that we call a culture consists of memes, like matter from atoms. Memes pass from one mind to another just as genes are transmitted through eggs and sperm. Memes shape our basic life priorities, which, in turn, at a more superficial level, affect our behavior and decisions. Memes affect all choices we make in life. The same meme can penetrate stadiums, the media, parliament, offices, cathedrals and student audiences.
Memes are simple, consisting of a single word or concept, and complex, including a multi-level structure. An example of the simplest meme is the concept of "scoops", which was introduced into the minds of most people, especially young people. No one thinks about the meaning of this term. In today's unthinking society, it is customary to call in a good form “scoops” on people who built a great power, created a powerful industrial potential, nuclear energy, a powerful transport structure, an efficient army armed with nuclear weapons. weaponswho defeated fascism during the Great Patriotic War, launched man into space, built an effective education and healthcare system, raised scientists and people of art recognized all over the world. In short, the "scoops" are declared those people who have created all that huge potential that still could not be completely destroyed and plundered during the time of independence.
For the collapse of the Soviet Union, another cunning meme was used - that "the Moskal were our lard" or its Russian-language interpretation "Ukraine is a Moscow colony." Having received considerable financial support from the West, and especially the United States, who slept and saw how to tear Ukraine away from Russia, Ukrainian nationalists began to distribute leaflets in millions of copies explaining where our sugar, meat and grain disappear — it turns out that the Kremlin occupants ". As a result, the people, intoxicated by a powerful propaganda attack, gave their consent to the dismemberment of the USSR. However, if they knew even a tenth of what would happen to them and their country, it seems that the results of the memorable referendum would be completely different ...
But back to the memes. The development of meme technology was particularly developed in the 2004 year during the presidential election. If earlier memes were used in advertising and unstructured management of society, then during the famous presidential race in Ukraine they became the property of politicians. In the flock of sheep there are always several sheep that will lead the whole flock for slaughter, and trained shepherd dogs will guard and guide on this route.
Orange ribbons served as info-signals, identification marks "friend-foe", with the help of which you can mobilize people for mass protests. Further - more: primitive verbal memes "Ganba" appeared - it doesn’t matter to whom and for what, the main thing is that you can sip your throats and announce the ganba to everyone who is not with us. “Kuchmism” - no one can really explain what it is, but, probably, it is something terrible and dangerous, which means that it is necessary to fight it. "Yushchenko Tak!" - this is generally a masterpiece of political technologists: that "so" is unimportant, but still it is, and who is wrong is against democracy. For many, this in general, apparently, was one word "Yushchenko", and most importantly, that this "Yushchenko" didn’t steal anyone’s hands and that it was against the Kremlin’s hand. The fact that these hands and the good created nothing, took part in the destruction of the destructible and opened the Pandora’s box, dividing Ukrainian society into two hostile camps - also not important. The main thing - everyone went for democracy against dictatorship. By the way, democracy is also one of the successful memes, which has been used for quite a long time. We are for democratic democracy in a democratic family of democratic European nations. And the fact that democracy is actually the power of the people, and not a bunch of fat cats - no one cares. Just try to give a hint that you are against such a democracy - instantly a pack of journalists and politicians will declare you an enemy of the people and stick the label of the Stalinist and henchman to the "malicious regime" (also very successful memes).
Representatives of the Party of Regions successfully used memotechnology in the 2009 presidential election. The role of memes was carried out by candidates' campaign slogans. That only costs meme "I will smell skin". Personally, I associate it with a nettle from Viy Gogol - “Raise my eyelids for me”: I just want to exclaim in response - spread my ears. Nevertheless, "People Shaval" and massively knocked to the polls, giving a majority of votes to the representative of the oligarchic clans of the East. Then they said that people have to choose from two evils. But is there really no good in Ukraine then? And read the answer to this question above - there is no good and there is no third, if this third is not on TV. In fact, representatives, or rather owners, of the two main political forces, having taken over all property, the entire financial and economic system of a plundered country, got their hands on both the media and the political system. We closed all possible resources and full power in the country to ourselves. And the impoverished and wiser people are getting into the picture about democracy and an effective market.
Well, and after Victor Fedorovich’s victory, the last round of the struggle for resources began. “Everything has already been stolen before us,” exclaimed the new prime minister in despair and began to search for the stolen. As a result, an event occurred that threatened the existence of the current oligarchic clans. For the first time, representatives of the previous government were in prison, and not just "scapegoats". A similar fate can be expected of today's state leaders, deputies and officials.
Now we are passing the bifurcation point, for which we are waiting for either a complete disintegration of statehood, or the revival of a civilization alliance with our brotherly countries.
Today, Ukrainian politicians and journalists and activists serving them with all sorts of experts have replaced the famous slogan of the era of the orange revolution “ganba” by “bandit” and a new mantra - “associate member”. Meme "European Union" has become a symbol of well-being and the subject of lust for office plankton with Ukrainian nationalists into the bargain. Deputies and political scientists stubbornly talk about this on various TV channels, stubbornly imposing on the image of a wonderful European Union to inexperienced citizens of the country, where asphalt is washed with shampoo, where universal democracy and tolerance prevail, members of parliaments ride bicycles rather than Mercedes, respect human rights and observe laws. There is only one question for these pans - and what prevents to do the same in Ukraine, now, without any associations? Do we really need European overseers with democratic whips? No one is going to answer these questions. Everyone just screams that as soon as we sign the long-awaited agreement on the mythical association and join the FTA, everyone will be happy right there.
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As the experience of history shows, when the political regime begins to crumble, the disintegration virus spreads rapidly everywhere, infecting all institutions, penetrating into all cracks. The fall of the regime is the result not only of the efforts of revolutionaries, but of decrepitude, powerlessness and inability to creatively and constructively work the regime itself. The tops can no longer, although they are still jerking convulsively, the lower classes still want, but they get nothing. Today's Ukraine exists only thanks to IMF handouts. Its entry into the FTZ will mean the final collapse of statehood. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian information space today is filled mainly with pro-Western advocates. Russia, for its part, is not paying enough attention to explaining the benefits of the Customs Union, and this could end negatively for both of our countries. Ukraine will completely lose the miserable remnants of its economy and sovereignty, and Russia will lose geopolitically when NATO bases are located in Galicia.
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