Navalny's Palace collapsed
The pseudo-exposure of blogger Alexei Navalny about the alleged palace of the President of the Russian Federation in Gelendzhik showed that many adults believe in clearly fantastic information.
Russian writer Platon Besedin writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator.
The knight’s move was made in response to Navalny’s “investigation” about the so-called “Putin’s palace” in Gelendzhik. And not even one move.
In Germany, local media wrote that for several months the Russian oppositionist was taken around Germany, where he collected information and prepared for filming. After which he proceeded to a local elite film studio, rented by other filmmakers from California. The publication suggests that perhaps this is where the tape was made. Which, by the way, outraged many German politicians and publicists - in particular, Albrecht Müller sent a corresponding request to Angela Merkel.
Meanwhile, the telegram channel Mash was allowed to film in that very palace. And it turned out that there was a frame, but inside there was a classic unfinished structure. It is clear that this is how the authorities decided to convey a message – mainly to the youth audience: there is no palace, look. One question: why weren’t the guys from the telegram channel allowed into the palace earlier? Was 100 million views on YouTube worth the wait?
In general, quite a bit of confusion has been introduced into the usual state situation. When at first the conditional oppositionists were running around with the banners of “everyone has been exposed.” And now conditional patriots are galloping with other banners: “no, we didn’t expose you - we exposed you.” All this—I use this designation for a reason—is conditional.
What remains for that simple person or, as he is vilely called, the average person? Try to maintain common sense - cherish it and cherish it. After all, as it is said in the Book of Ecclesiastes, “Do not be foolish, for why should you die at the wrong time?..” But where is the mind? Where is the logic? When I scrolled through Navalny’s video about the legendary palace, I quite clearly identified who it was made for—school kids. She always needs to convey a lie according to the principle: the more enchanting, the more implausible, the better. Because they are used to living in a world where appearing is more important than being.
But! Much more interesting: how did educated adults believe in the fable that Navalny showed the world? I wrote then: I have no doubt that Putin has a palace, but not this one. What kind of racing cars? What kind of aqua disco? Well, it’s clear that this was invented by a completely wild American dreamer who was replaying images from Hollywood films in his head. Hey, how can a real king live there? Yes, that's it!
And this is what personally worries me most about the story with the palace: why do people so willingly and even joyfully believe in the most complete fantastic rubbish? What is this – hatred of superiors? Lack of education? Brain dullness? General nonsense, when reality is more fantastic than fiction? We need to figure it out - step by step.
Because the myth about “Putin’s palace” has collapsed, but the palaces in our heads – these bastions of lies – still stand, and we must try hard to destroy them.
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