One Day I Put on A Green T-shirt, look at the mirror, and --Wow--I see Zelensky on the other end. I didn't fully wake up, and looked pretty angry and disheveled. In any case, inspired by my looks, I wrote a satire about war-mongers in Washington and Kiev and how they benefit from wars, the satire which was liked by more that 750 of my friends, and reposted more that hundred times.
Nothing extraordinary, just a funny text. it was clear even to my cats, that the post was satirical; it was a parody of Zelensky’s staple address of gullible or cynical western politicians.
Well, satire is an obvious crime. Stalin didn’t like satire much, nor did Soviets. Not sure, Germans did. That’s one reason, why Mikhail Bakhtin was promoting humor, playfulness, and carnival, as a way of confronting totalitarianism.
Speaking of which. My humorous post had provoked the ire of a new autocrat. FB, whivh decided that my post went against Community Standards. It was taken out and I was placed in FB jail.
First I was angry, but then it occurred to me. But of course! When community embraces war, any writing that promotes peace becomes a thought crime. It is bad for business. NATO’s business is war, and social platforms are there to enforce it.
So yes, sending billion of dollars worth of lethal weapons to Ukraine and cheering it on, does not go against the community standards. But protesting it and mocking its Orwellian cynicism, is a crime, which warrants FB censorship.
Soviets silenced anything questioning the official narrative. Nazis didn’t like satire, burning Heine’s poetry. Is this the community standards that FB want to adhere?
In any case, I have my own blog. I have an account in VK. I will use these two platforms more and more frequently. I hate to part with my FB friends, readers, and followers, but I have a feeling, pretty soon, it won’t be my choice to make. But you know where to find me, in case, I am to repeat the fate of one of those Bulgakov’s characters, who suddenly disappeared from the apartment he lived in.
