Of the series of speeches at the conference devoted to Russian imperialism, the most topical topic was taken up by Dr. Michał Wojnowski, who has been involved in reflective management for many years. In short, they can be defined as controlling people (individuals or entire nations) by eliciting specific responses using provocations, impulses, disinformation.
In a paper on the “Moscow Methodological Circle” and the work of Moscow intellectuals on the management of society (both their own and the opponent’s), the scholar pointed out how specific students and successors of the inventors of reflective management nowadays advising Putin or creating the Kremlin. power apparatus and influence him. The level of sophistication of the art of manipulating society must be greatly developed in Russia, since such “reflective management” is used today in the US as “cognitive maps”, but it was developed in Khrushchev’s crude Soviet Union as many as 60 years ago. To what extent has this art of disinformation developed to this day behind the thick walls of the Kremlin? We can only helplessly spread our hands that we really know very little about the recent mistakes of the so-called. white intelligence, who alarmed that Prigozhin’s troops had already started a civil war in Russia, and then suddenly, in two quarters of an hour, the case of the Wagner uprising ended as in a cheap theater play.
However, in the debate about Wojnowski’s speech, the scholar himself formulated a short postulate:
let’s stop calling ordinary fake news disinformation. Disinformation is based on true information, albeit presented in the wrong context (quoted from memory)
Wojnowski is not a publicist, he does not take part in television debates, he does not make money from popular science books accusing everyone around of disinformation. But just today, in the era of the intense information war that Moscow has unleashed on the free world, we have an overproduction of various types of “fact-checkers”, “disinformation experts”, “manipulation researchers” and fake news hunters. It is customary to call any error, any mistake “fake news”, and any lie – disinformation. It seems that modern commentators have not even skimmed the classics of the subject, such as Vladimir Volkoff, Ion Pacepa, Ladislav Bittman or John Barron, but simply adopted the popular notion of disinformation formulated in Western countries.
Meanwhile the Soviets have turned disinformation into real, as Pacepa put it, “art”, we are not dealing with just plain fake news that Tusk or Bosak lied or made a mistake, but ecosystems of concepts are being created that can fall in and later become particularly susceptible to scrutiny. For example, anti-vaxxers who believe in omnipotent medical concerns will more readily accept the theory of omnipotent conspiracies provoking war in Ukraine or of “bioweapons laboratories” that could harm humanity “if not for Putin’s invasion.” And so Lenin was wrong again in his belief that quantity turns into quality, because the number of disinformation hunters in Poland in Poland cannot decide who, for example, is really pro-Russian, who is the sounding box of Kremlin disinformation, who helped Moscow and who fought he actually against her influence? Two political camps in Poland have completely different views on fundamental issues such as the liquidation of the WSI, the deubekization or the creation of the Territorial Defense Forces (let us remind you that the opposition called them “Macierewicz’s militias”).
And isn’t such polarization and mutual attacking of fake news experts the best example that disinformation works in Poland? So that these “successes” in the fight against fake news do not turn our headsbecause the enemy is prepared differently for the Polish backyard than for ordinary Western societies.
Source: wPolityce