Russians keep messing with my head. For the second time this week, I turned on Russian TV and what do you think I saw?
Yes, fucking St. Louis. Again! It’s like they are obsessed with us or something. Here is the snapshot of our famous STL Arch on Russian TV 2 minutes ago:
The reason why I turned it on was to see what’s going on with the fire in downtown Moscow. But apparently downtown St. Louis is of greater interest to the Russian viewers.
I wonder, are Michael Brown protests the only thing they’ve been showing since the last time I tried watching Russian news?
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Политолог Екатерина Шульман на страницах издания “для интеллектуальных и политических элит” ВЕДОМОСТИ анализирует состояние умов на верхних этажах российской номенклатуры
http://trim-c.livejournal.com/410384.html
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You might find this article in the NYT salient.
“I am the subject of an experiment. For the next week, I will subsist almost entirely on a diet of state-controlled Russian television, piped in from three Apple laptops onto three 55-inch Samsung monitors in a room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manhattan. (If I have to imbibe the TV diet of the common Russian man, I will at least live in the style of one of his overlords.) Two of the monitors are perched directly in front of my bed, with just enough space for a room-service cart to squeeze in, and the third hangs from a wall to my right. The setup looks like the trading floor of a very small hedge fund or the mission control of a poor nation’s space program. But I will not be monitoring an astronaut’s progress through the void. In a sense, I am the one leaving the planet behind.”
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“With the exception of fishing, soccer and the Orthodox Church, few things are taken more seriously in Russia than Eurovision.”
Otherwise, it’s a great article, thank you. 🙂
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Wasn’t that a point in the vatniki article? They don’t go to church but revere the church and defend any ‘insults’ toward it (considering how much cognitive dissonance they’re already dealing with, that’s a small load to add…)
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They pay lip-service to some fake religiosity but as to revering anything, I can’t even imagine that. This is a culture of extreme cynicism. Yesterday, people were taking happy selfies in front of the burning Novodevichy Monastery. And today there is zero discussion of what happened and why. That’s the extent of their patriotism and religiosity.
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Yeah, that’s what I meant, in Cliffspeak ‘revere’ = pay a lot of lip service to something and maybe get huffy and even violent about ‘defending’ it but not really care about or respect it
Anytime I hear someone ‘reveres’ something, that’s exactly what it means in reality (in my experience).
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“Yeah, that’s what I meant, in Cliffspeak ‘revere’ = pay a lot of lip service to something and maybe get huffy and even violent about ‘defending’ it but not really care about or respect it”
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Is that you in the foreground?
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Gosh, she totally does look like me, you are right. 🙂
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I was thinking the same….
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