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In Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev explores the complicated modern state of a culture that has been at the crossroads of something new for the past century. Russia is a country of one of the oldest civilizations, crossing hemispheres, eras, political boundaries, religions, and alliances – and there is no question that these complications have increased as we’ve entered the twenty-first century.
Pomerantsev had a big job ahead of him in trying to capture many of the emerging and complicated elements of the transitions of soviet culture, and he could have approached it in a variety of ways that all converge on listing facts that seem irrational and bizarre without context. His approach is effective, contextualizing the sociopolitical environment from the bottom up by presenting anecdotal individual and social-level effects that build up to the political and state-level causes. These individual stories are sad and mysterious. Pomerantsev unapologetically presents these stories in a manner that offsets his own – the story of a television producer and director intent on uncovering the darkest truths of his society, but who is blacklisted further and further until he is forced to compromise and produce what he wants to outside of the country so that he doesn’t become a part of the “array of voices working away at global audiences from different angles, producing a cumulative echo chamber of Kremlin support, all broadcast on RT.”
I picked this book up as part of research I am doing on a novel I am working on and absolutely loved it. I flew through the breezy and effective prose, and was surprised to learn that Galbraith/Rowling certainly had real-life inspiration for The Cuckoo’s Calling. An excellent book, the organization and execution of the piece in terms of how the material is presented is a little wonky at times, but I can't think of a better way to do it with everything he is trying to accomplish. The content is an effective, abrasive, true, and spectacular indictment of the bad behavior that is certainly seeping from Russia into all worldwide governments and will certainly implode in the near future as the symbiosis implodes on itself when information and words meet reality in the Information Age. When there is little to hide in the twenty-first century, freedom and transparency will be unavoidable. Still, the chess game this director of Hello-Goodbye presents is a brilliant analysis of this terrifying, temporary shroud covering a culture navigating a brilliant future certain to shed the corrupt old money scratching its own back.
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