Brotherly love, a True Story

Day 1,331, 09:38 • Published in Bulgaria Bulgaria • by eDarkAngel
Disclaimer: This article is part of the international writings of the WOT master Stoich, its in English, however if anyone wishes to translate it to any other language they may feel free.



Now more and more I see articles with propaganda saying, they are our brother, my brother this and my brother that, hail brother and so on. So much so that lately it's hard to see an article that does not contain a reference to a brother of sorts, and every 10th comment must by definition include "brother".

The ones that use it the most however, seem to abuse it the most as well, and basically it has stopped having any kind of meaning. However just so I can demonstrate how mundane the use has become I'm going to show you the following:

Turkey, along with Macedonia, the biggest propaganda trolls in the whole new world call a few countries brothers, that list over time grows and shrinks as "needed", however I'm going to focus on the current "brothers"

So Turkeys brothers are: Macedonians, Serbians, Argentinians, Indonesians, Hungarians, Iranians, English, Slovenes, Polish (yes they are brothers too now), former brothers include Brazilians, French, Russians and even Bulgarians were called brothers at some point.

Hungary brothers are: Serbians, Polish

Poland brothers are: Swedish, Spanish, Hungarians

Argentina brothers are: Macedonians, Turkish, Indonesians, Brazilian, Chilean

Chile brothers are: Argentinians, Bulgarians

Serbian brothers are: Macedonians, Hungarians, Montenegrin bots, New Zealand PTOers, Slovenes

Well I think that is enough to show what I mean. It turns out everyone is brother with everyone, we have one big manly love commune here.

The word brother implies an imperative family bond, beyond any other affiliation and thus creating an expectancy of unconditional support. It however carries another family imperative with it and namely: "The smaller brother has to listen to the bigger brother".

It is not surprise then, that the term is being highly abused when someone wants another to do his bidding without questioning. Also there is no grounds on which to "deny, such an imperative request".

Other connotations that get associated with the family nature of the term is one of greater carrying and compassion, though it rarely is supported by empirical data, I'll even go further and say it usually masks exactly the opposite. Usually "fighting for a brother" involves very vocal and showboat exercise of limited scope and consequences, during which the propaganda holds the central place.

For example the former brother Serbia, fought less for Russian independence from Romania, than did Bulgaria which did not proclaim a brotherhood.

On one side, after the collapse of the PHX vs EDEN bipolar world and in the resulting rearrangement of power, the use has been a very good propaganda weapon to neutralize or bring to your side useful countries in given moments. In a bipolar world you do not need this, in a multi-polar world it's quite useful. Here Turkey, Macedonia and ONE in general have excelled in calling everyone useful to them at one point or another -- "brothers".

On the other hand, this has led to the increased use of the term and in progressively less and less important situations and looser and looser relations. Thus it actually tight bond and unconditional support it suggests has been eroding steadily, to the point where, Turkey for example has so many brothers, that it can't choose between them and has to stay "neutral" in their "fighting".

Third reason is the excessive use of the call for increasingly more and more mundane causes, MMM campaign's, trolling of the opponent, smear campaigns and so on. The exclusivity of using it in the hardest of times to rally people to your cause has been lost at this point, much the reason, why it does not really bring in any big result nowadays.

The last reason it is getting so heavily abused is, that it implies, the inability to choose. New players are told who their brothers are and thus they no longer have a choice in the matter, just like one does not have a choice who your brother is, you either have him or you don't.

In the game there is a different reason to a greater extent. Suffice to say, it is usually done heavily by people who seek help/comfort/friendship and not necessarily to give.

Ok, so it's easy to understand why the term gets abused, and why people use it as a coercive method to get others to do their bidding. The real question is, why do people by it, especially when it has been so devoid of meaning at this point?

The reason people buy it, can be viewed in cultural specifics of the countries that use it the most, however that would take a long time to delve into. It is however not hard to see that it has been overused and emptied of meaning especially in the the brother of them all.

Personally after 3 years, it's time to leave behind prejudices and all manipulative means to exclusively monopolizing others for our cause eternally and start to play this game as a game. Look for new experiences and be able to have a real competitive "game-like" battle with opponents that do not aim to deface and destroy each other in any means possible only for the virtual length of their virtual member. This type of play has been brought to new heights by ONE and some PRO-ONE countries, but that is a story for another time.

And now kids it's time for bed, good night and pleasant dreams and don't forget to turn the bot on 😃


Brotherly love, a True Story by Stoich
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