Navalny's Fear and Loathing

The Eastern Border

Kristaps Andrejsons

Cold War, Politics, Soviet, Society & Culture, History, Ussr, News

4.6 • 851 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This is the name that was chosen to be the title of Navalny's letter. The first one that he's posted via his team after the latest sentence of 19 years. The problem is - if you pick a title like that, it puts a certain responsibility on You - or more likely Your team. You have to take it seriously, any message with such a title ought to be witty, well-written, explosive and thought provoking. The 'collective west' likes their subtle references, nuances and symbolism. This could have been great. But then Navalny's team absolutely failed to live up to the title. And nobody there actually gives a shit. And Navalny has neither read the books, nor seen the movie nor even heard of Hunter S. Thompson.

This is one of those cases, where it is very likely that his PR team picked a "cool sounding title" gave it to Alexey and he, without any additional information or knowledge, wrote what he thought would be expected with such a title.

There is a bright lining to all of this, however. If I get my PhD in communications science, then I know that I'll be using this letter in class to show how terrible form can undermine content - made all the worse when the content is about how important proper form is. Enjoy!

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0:44.0	Oh yes.
0:50.3	Greetings, comrades, and welcome to the eastern border.
0:54.6	Like I told you in previous episode, I want to do an episode on Noviney today.
1:03.0	Because you see, the blinding got sentenced to 19 years in prison. And he wrote a letter from his prison through his team and his lawyer and everything. And I just wanted to, you know, chat about it.
1:10.1	But then I found out how he has named his letter. And then you wanted to, you know, chat about it, but then I found out how he has
1:12.0	named his letter. And then you have to pay attention to it. Because Alexander Vainty has chosen
1:17.6	to name this letter, my fear and loathing. And, you know, my love towards console journalism
1:24.1	and everything. So if you use those two words in a sentence, they better mean something.
1:29.4	You have to do it right.
1:31.7	This letter and the reaction to it took me on a bit of a bit of a rabbit whole trip.
1:39.7	But I'll start by reading you the whole letter.
1:43.3	It's coming from Navalny's webpage, Nainees'embourg, Navely.com.
1:48.6	English version is there as well.
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