Two Jews meet:
- Moishe, what do I see? Do you read anti-Semitic literature?
- Yes, I do!
- But how can you?
- Oh, Semyon! I read our Jewish literature. It's all depressing: everyone persecuted us, killed us, tortured us, cut us, organised the Shoah and the Holocaust. It's disgusting!

And I read anti-Semitic literature: it turns out that we rule the world, we are in charge of everything, we put everyone in important positions, we bought everyone.

It's all positive!

Putin the poisoner

Lavrov and Burkina Faso have signed an agreement on the non-deployment of weapons in space.

Recently I was struck by Thomas Piketty's book “Capital and Ideology”. There is this idea: The economic formations we know (slavery, feudalism, capitalism) are societies of an unfair distribution, maintained by violence. But people do not like to be victims of violence. And they do not like to carry out violence. There is therefore a need to justify the social relations that exist, to give them legitimacy. People feel more comfortable if they perceive inequality as fair and inevitable.

The stability of society is maintained by religions, ideologies, including various narratives. Originally, a narrative was an oral story that conveyed an idea, for example about the structure of the universe. In particular, narratives are used in politics, advertising and business to shape public opinion and control people's behaviour. Nowadays they are also used in print, radio, television, the internet and artificial intelligence.

Of course, the beneficiaries of existing inequalities have always tightly controlled the narratives that are disseminated - in every known society. Just how different these methods can be is illustrated by the difference between freedom of speech in the West and strict censorship in Russia. But the result is the same - the overwhelming majority of society shares the ideas being disseminated.

Of course, there is a constant battle of ideas, especially in an unstable situation. And the change in economic formations is accompanied by the uncovering of some narratives and the creation of new ones. We believe that the West is ripe for a new economic formation, or at least for significant modernisation. The task, therefore, is to debunk the narratives of today's hyper-capitalist society and create new ones.

We are all carriers of ideas that may turn out to be false. So let's try to debunk the false ideas circulating in the public consciousness of the population of Western countries. I'm waiting for suggestions...

— Число потерь… — говорит военный с папкой «Война в Украине».
— Число поддерживающих … — продолжает человек в костюме с папкой «Президентская поддержка».
— …не имеют значения, — отвечает Путин.

"I have brought peace to our generation!" -Britain's Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told his countrymen on his return from Munich on 30 September 1938.

There, along with the French Prime Minister, Daladier agreed with Hitler and Mussolini that war is bad, and diplomacy is good. In return, Czechoslovakia, whose opinion was not asked, had to be sacrificed.

After that, the peace lasted less than a year in Europe: Hitler did not think of stopping and used the remaining year for arming, fortifying and for new conquests (so far, as promised, in a purely diplomatic way - blackmail).

For this reason, the Munich Treaty became a symbol of weakness and cowardice for both contemporaries and descendants, called the "policy of appeasement ".

Since then, humanity seems to have learned the hard way that the aggressors are not inclined to peace, that their words cannot be believed, and that any concession will only increase their appetite, insolence and strength. But public memory proved to be short this time.

Leonid Nevzlin (https://t.me/leonidnevzlin)

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