>1980s Soviet Union>dissident movements are all ineffective and also heavily tattled on by informants>college kids start finding them to be cringe because these movements have gotten nothing done yet everyone involved is a sanctimonious prick>the kids start becoming "vnye," simultaneously in the Soviet mainstream society and out of it>they just accept that the things are way they are, do minimum work to get by, and spend rest of the time hanging out at cafes and special interest clubs>aside from sharing some banned books, nothing much in terms of overtly subversive activity goes on>they are escaping the Soviet Union by pretending it is just an ordeal to get through so that they can go hang out with friends and talk about cool stuffAre we all in "vnye" now in the West?
>>24987566And yet the Soviet Union faltered a few years later. Funny that.
>>24987566This tracks with the 'hypernormalization' concept which was originally used to describe the USSR
>>24987566>Are we all in "vnye" now in the West?I wouldn't say that. We are all more or less on the same page and when we disagree with the government, we usually say it quite loudly, to the point where prime time TV guests would says "Epstein didn't kill himself". And if your tripple-vaxxed aunt thinks he did, well, good for her. During the Soviet union, you would pretend to agree with the government-sanctioned narrative and only privately disagree because your relatives could turn you in on a moment's notice.
>>24987566Yes, and the dissolution of state authority in most Western countries is all too obvious. It happens exponentially, meaning slow and hardly noticeable first, then suddenly very quickly.
>Actually decent fucking thread building off an actual book>page 10 with a whole four responses.
>vnyeWhat is that?
