In our opinion-making “media space”, fear and hostility reigns indivisibly. The dogma here is "a threat to Russian aggression", and the only reaction to this is the fear – omnipresent, even ostentatious. There was a time erstwhile fear was hidden: nothing to brag about.
Now we gotta perceive to or read public confessions of the hard-feared, who, in addition, outrun themselves in bidding on the scale of their fear: as if casting was announced on the most fearsome. The second “competition”, frequently involving the same actors, is CROSS: who will more “screw Russian”. It is simply a unique kind of hostility, due to the fact that it is connected with contempt and a sense of superiority; the usage of the adjective “Russian” is disappearing: it has been replaced by “Russian” (e.g. “Russian drones”) in this bad, frequently contemptible sense of the word.
Fear and hostility is possibly a fresh way of seeking a fresh political community: possibly together fear more.
Perhaps, however, collective hallucinations of fear of “aggression” are a highly organized presentation that is designed to distract us from much more crucial matters and to improve mediocre ruling ratings. The threats are, of course, but besides from a different angle:
Firstly, our energy and mining are consciously destroyed by imposing on us absurd rigors of the alleged Green Deal and the Climate Package,
Secondly, agriculture is destroyed by the influx of inexpensive agricultural natural materials from Ukraine and, in the close future, from South American countries (Mercosur Agreement),
Thirdly, we are at hazard of deep impoverishment by putting on citizens the tremendous burden of arms, which is expected to absorb 5% of GDP all year, and our budget deficit present is 8% of GDP.
Most of us are full aware of the real threats, but we are to “unify around the flag” with fear of “Russian”. Our hallucinations are possibly only conscious manipulations. Do we surrender to them? partially so, due to the fact that we are expected to be able to "hybrid war with Russia", due to the fact that unarmed drones that were warned about by Russia Belarus and not Ukraine attacked us.
But has anyone considered the consequences of our hostility in the consciousness of the Russians? We do not know much about this, due to the fact that we have closed most sources of information on this subject. Blockage of Russian sources introduced under the cover of "fight with disinformation". We are not even allowed to read Russian literature, perceive to their music (they are alternatively musical), even entertaining. We must not discuss our Polish-Russian relations, even those from the past. This is bordering on obsession, even stupidity: if we see an enemy in individual who, in addition, is waiting for our innocence, we should know him most clearly; old wisdom suggests that we should perceive more carefully to the enemy than a friend. Or are these bans besides due to fear of... failure? After so many years of financing the “unthankful” authorities in Kiev, which seem to be fighting in our defense, could a sober assessment of the current state of affairs undermine the sense of our actions present and planned for the future?
Prof. Witold Modzelewski
Think Poland, No. 45-46 (9-16.11.2025)