ПРОБЛЕМА МОЖЛИВОСТІ ДІАЛОГУ І ВЗАЄМОРОЗУМІННЯ З «РУССКИМ МИРОМ»

Abstract

In the article, the Author analyzes the problem of "deafness" and "blindness" in relation to the realities of the Russian-Ukrainian war. These phenomena are characteristic of everyone involved in the "Russian world", regardless of origin, including ethnic Ukrainians. They cannot be explained only by powerful propaganda. The author believes that it should be about the inability of individual "functionalists" of the "Russian world" to think independently, to understand the positions of the bearers of other worldview paradigms, to fully communicate. The Internet contains tens of thousands of examples that clearly confirm the validity of the theses outlined above. Telephone conversations of Russian soldiers between themselves and with their loved ones, which were intercepted, testify to the same. Adequate assessment of the situation is often characteristic of representatives of the Russian so-called "opposition elite". The results of sociological polls, regularly conducted by the independent "Levada Center", also testify to the inability of the absolute majority of the population of Russia to understand reality, replacing such an understanding with the reproduction of the dogmas of the "Russian world". The author believes that this is explained primarily by the nature of the existing social order in Russia. This system is often called authoritarian or "extreme version of authoritarianism". From this, it is concluded that it is enough to achieve a change of power, the dismantling of the repressive apparatus and the cessation of propaganda, so that Russia moves on the path to democracy. Such a theoretical position seems wrong, since it should be about totalitarianism. Authoritarianism is a political regime, and totalitarianism is a comprehensive socio-political order, and this concept is much broader than a regime. The main difference here is that a totalitarian mythological reality has established itself in Russia, which cannot be rationally deconstructed and abolished by some political act; it can only be destroyed together with the Russian/Soviet Empire. The bulk of Russians are completely immersed in this mythical reality, which is both their external and internal world. Therefore, not only a full-fledged dialogue, but even any communication is impossible, neither with Putin personally, nor with the "collective Putin", which makes up the majority of the population of Russia. What Ukraine and the world need is not the preservation of imperial Russia, even in a simplified version, but its final and complete dismantling.