Let's talk?
I recently impromptu, on emotions, wrote an article Boy, what country do you live in??, which is posted on our website "Military Review". I did not think that she (the article) would cause such a heated discussion. But, apparently, the people boiled. All readers - my low bow.
Some comments are generally masterpieces of thought. But something still hurt me - rudeness. Simple rudeness, when commenting, clinging to a word or a line from an article, begins to insult the author or other commentator. I do not accept this. I do not care about the minuses and pros, I care about the culture of communication. And here I want to talk a little about it, and not only.
After publishing the article on “VO” the next day, my old friend called me and asked: “Vitalich, is it not you who accidentally squeezed the article about the“ boy ”? Otherwise I read the signature: “major071”, and I don’t know any other such majors. ”
I confirmed the authorship, but I asked where he managed to read it, because the Military Review website is not in his interests. It turned out that the article was separated by various third-party resources (including the website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, I was in a big "ofige"), and there is a serious discussion.
I decided to run through these sites (who cares, type the title of the article in a search engine) and read the comments. After five minutes of reading, I apologize for the expression, crouched on the fifth point. I’m not talking about everyone, but the percentages of 20-25 expressed to me as the author my big “Foo-y”! And in my face at the same time those who agreed with me.
I did not expect such a flow of negativity, frankly. Well, the young people, as they say, “troll” the author, but then quite adult people, some older than me, were insulted (among which were “stupid cop”, “officer rednecks”, “bribe taker” and for some reason - “ensign” were not the roughest).
I, of course, a man tempered on this account, nevertheless, consider that the Ministry of Internal Affairs gave it almost twenty years, and I didn’t see such “peppers” there, but still jarred on.
And God bless them, with these comments, we have freedom of speech, and everyone can express his opinion, hiding behind some kind of “nickname”! But another problem pops up: those who have negatively reacted to the article think not like us, they have a completely different outlook on life.
I refer to the definition of “us” to sensible people (regardless of age), who understand that at present Russia is on the verge of great changes, and it depends only on us where it goes further: it will pass the threshold and move into the future or make step back into the quagmire of the western world.
Now we can not retreat. Having said “A”, we must and must say “B”, and continue speaking until all the letters of the alphabet are called. And here these people frighten me, these 20-25%, who first in the comments write about everything good from Western life, and then insult Russia and accuse us of everything (I wanted to write “Russians”, but I realized that they themselves will come up with us).
It is no longer a question of education, although it is important, here is a question of information warfare for the minds and souls of the people, but this is already a topic for a separate article, and many authors have written about it.
I apologize for writing so messy, but how it happened.
PS So that there are no questions on the previous article, I will say right away: I did not catch the boy, he was fired a week later for stealing a tablet while unloading the car. Where is he now, I do not know.
PPS People, humans, if you want to write a negative to the author, I ask you, write in a personal. And I feel good, and you are calmer.
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