Farewell, Revolution

I am watching with interest as street protest in Ukraine is being devalued. Rallies, demonstrations, and attempts to seize buildings and territories are moving from the marginal sphere into the toxic one and no longer interest the average person. I think the main reason — viewer fatigue with any combat operations, both military in eastern Ukraine and social in Kyiv itself. The time of trolls, art performances and, if you like, clowns is returning. The citizen-viewer demands entertainment: the funny, the cheerful, and even the incomprehensible, something that fundamentally differs from the action genre. 

In this regard, radical-marginal groups will sink ever deeper underground, turning into a 'BROTHERHOOD' of the 2004 style, and from there, from underground, will generate content and activity for a narrow circle of users, consumers and clientele.

In turn, this very sharp decline in activity will give radical projects a new chance at new super-activity in a few years, when the average person's fatigue with art performances gives way to a demand for a new bloody arena. 

If we consider the strategic necessity of blocking and controlling radical projects close to the right, close to the left, and close to civic groups, the state must take on the controlled support of this activity. The framework of this support should leave projects the possibility of a constant, minor presence in the media field, but at the same time not allow them to develop uncontrollably or, conversely, — switch off their activity. In addition, the state should support the heroes of protest movements, both the dead and the living, while using this support to block the possibility of creating new figures. 

If we consider the reverse process, radicalization, the development and cultivation of radical and marginal protest projects for use in future processes, the state should already now use legal and media methods and tools to suppress any protest-adjacent political or civic movement.