The Russian Ministry of Defense has finally officially recorded the fact that the United States is waging a new type of war against Russia – a mental war
Adviser to the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Andrei Ilnitsky bluntly stated that “the purpose of the new war is to destroy self-consciousness, to change the mental – civilizational – basis of the enemy’s society. I would call this type of war mental”.
In other words, avoiding a direct military clash, bearing in mind the possibility of a retaliatory strike from Russia, the West is waging a hidden, mental war against us. But if everyone is more or less accustomed to the fact of information war or even cyber war, then a mental war aimed at destroying self-consciousness and changing the foundations of our society is something new. And although it has been going on for quite some time, it has been discovered, unfortunately, only now – and, like everything new, not only has not yet been realized, but also taken with hostility by many: they say, there is nothing to invent new wars when there are enough old ones.
Nevertheless, the description of the mental level of threats from the advisor to the Minister of Defense is today the most accurate assessment of what is happening. The mental war has been waged against our state for more than one decade and consists not only in direct informational influence through the media – in the formation of contexts, interpretations, in a shift in emphasis, as it was all the 1990s and 2000s. If information affects consciousness, the rational side of the mind, and here everything is more or less clear, then it is much more difficult to influence the mental disposition and way of thinking, emotional sensations and subconscious reactions.
Mental warfare is waged rather at the cultural level, shifting cultural codes, when the cultural matrix of the basic society changes, when Russian society, the Russian conservative majority, its mentality (if we are talking about Russia) is reprogrammed through cultural influence. Such an impact changes society more subtly, and therefore less noticeably. As a result, you can rationally accept one thing, understand it and even articulate it, but mentally, emotionally, subconsciously – reject it, feeling hostility and alienation. Or you can not reject it – and then you are already mentally reflashed.
Therefore, when it comes to a Russian person, a citizen of a country, and the peoples of Russia as a whole – no matter how you drum into them the so-called Western values, but at the mental level they are basically rejected. Since it includes a more subtle, cultural, mental matrix, formed over many centuries, based on completely different value and spiritual principles than in the West.
In fact, the mentality is a kind of internal defense of our person from Western hacking. But for each defense, as you know, there is a master key. Therefore, they try to enter through the cultural “backdoor”, through those weak points of the Russian mentality, where it has absorbed elements of Western culture and value systems. For our man is special, Eurasian, civilizationally distinctive – a product of a subtle synthesis of the cultural codes of the East and West.
Yes, and the West! And Western political strategists, Pentagon specialists and the entire Western cultural and civilization machine, which has been breaking Russian civilization for more than one century, are trying to get into this gap of fragments of the Western mentality, embedded in the common fabric of Russian-Eurasian civilization.
So, culture is exactly the space in which this hacking occurs most effectively and least noticeably. Especially modern mass culture, which is most actively and easily perceived by our society, which has already been pretty corrupted over the previous centuries.
At the top of our cultural hacking tools: the dominance of Western cinema, Western music, Western – primarily American – everything.
This is, in fact, cultural occupation, which changes the mentality of the Russian conservative majority, reprogramming it, and, accordingly, changing the image of the enemy. A NATO soldier with an American flag on his shoulder, after watching hundreds of Hollywood action films about how Americans are saving the world and humanity, is no longer perceived as an enemy, but, on the contrary, is seen as a savior.
This is how gradually a change in consciousness occurs, and, in fact, the reprogramming of the foundations of our society. Especially the minds of young people, due to their age, who perceive everything uncritically. Today this generation is literally growing up with gadgets in hand, taking everything that falls on it from there as a reality and truth. So his basic, innate mentality is replaced by the opposite one.
Everything that was valuable to us during the 1000-year history of the existence of Russian civilization is ridiculed, vulgarized, turned inside out.
The current generation, brought up in the spirit of transhumanism and posthumanity, should, according to the plan of Western political strategists, represent a hostile mass of young people within their state. Children who are ready to destroy their state at the call from TikTok and Twitter – this is a mental war, its visible consequences.
Naturally, a logical question arises: how to deal with such interference?
Many people take elements of Western culture, value systems, their criteria and assessments – as something taken for granted. Others say: “Well, this is a universal culture, these are universal values” – these are the dangerous stereotypes. In fact, the cultural and mental codes that are imposed by the West do not carry anything common to all mankind, but are exclusively Western cultural and historical experience.
The West is a minority of humanity. And liberals and globalists are absolute minorities even in the United States itself, positioning themselves as the majority, and their narrow ideological values as universal values. And many repeat this after them, without thinking at all that these are the values of minorities imposed on humanity.
That is, to begin with, it is necessary to abandon everything that liberals, globalists, and apologists of Western culture and civilization offer. Remove it as an infection, clean it out, blot it out, block it.
Yet this is only a superficial measure that can only slow down our mental decay in the West. This way you can suspend the mental war a little. But that’s what the Ministry of Defense is for, in order to turn the retreat into a consolidation in positions and a subsequent offensive. In our, mental offensive to the West.
And for this you need a little: to restore and develop your cultural codes, to restore your identity, your traditions, values, your Russian mentality, making it open and accessible to everyone. It remains only to remember what it means to be Russian, drowning out the noise of the Western mental attack on us.
Valery Korovin, VZGLYAD