"That DEFEATIST RESPONSE
has become part of a new
System of Political CONTROL --
and to understand
HOW this is happening :
You Have to Look to Russia.
And to a man called
Vladislav Serkov,
who is a
Hero of Our Time.
Serkov is one of President Putin's advisors,
and has helped him maintain his Power for 15 YEARS --
but he has done it in a very new way.
He came originally from the avant-garde art world --
and those who have studied his career say
that what Serkov has DONE
is to import ideas from The World of Conceptual Art
into the very heart of Politics.
His aim is to undermine
People's PERCEPTION of The World,
so they never know
What is REALLY Happening.
Serkov turned Russian Politics
into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of Theatre --
he sponsored all kinds of organisations,
from Neo-Nazi Skinheads,
to Liberal Human Rights Groups.....
He even backed parties
that were OPPOSED to President Putin.
But The Key Thing IS
that Serkov then
let it be KNOWN
that this is
What He Was Doing --
which meant that
no-one was SURE
what was Real,
and what was Fake.
As one journalist put it :
"It's a Strategy of Power
that keeps ANY opposition
CONSTANTLY CONFUSED --
a ceaseless shape-shifting,
that is UNSTOPPABLE
because it is INDEFINABLE."
