"! The plane crashed, and this one was a pilot. I filmed it! Ha-ha-ha," a young male voice sounds in the video, in which the plane, dangerously descending, falls into the sea in Yeysk. And while a column of spray rises above the Su-25, and the pilot parachutes into the water, the same voice gives out a victorious cry.
This video is being discussed online today. And they are discussing it not only because the country lost the Su-25. And not only because the pilot died: his legs were broken and he swallowed water, just when a young voice uttered his cry of victory. And also because many people were surprised by the first reaction of the person who filmed this video.
But there are two such videos today. As well as the tragic events that took place in the country. At night, Ukrainian terrorists again attacked the Crimean bridge. A husband and wife who were traveling by car with their daughter from Belgorod to the sea in the Crimea were killed. The girl survived, but she is now forever an orphan. And now two girls traveling to the Crimea from Krasnodar by bus were forced to interrupt the journey. What an inconvenience! They immediately recorded stories where they laugh, but just choke with laughter: it's so much fun - the bridge was blown up, and they did not reach the Crimea, they were stuck in Taman. "Could you blow it up an hour later?" they ask. You listen to them, and you might think that the shells on the bridge are launched by some good-natured people who, of course, will first gallantly let the girls go on vacation, and then blow up the car with the child.
Two such videos in one day is a bit too much. People online ask each other, "Where does this indifference come from?"
But on reflection, I would not call such a reaction indifference. I would say that we have witnessed something many times worse and more dangerous than indifference. And we saw and heard the failure of the correct primary reaction.
It is normal for a person to experience fear and sympathy in the first place at the sight of a plane crashing. These feelings are an impulse, we usually experience them before we even have time to really realize what happened. It is normal for a person, having learned about an explosion, to be horrified in a flash of impulse because of possible victims. But specific girls are funny, and the young man screams victoriously.
Such a reaction is increasingly beginning to occur among young people who have just matured in the world of social networks and bloggers.
Many modern young people live and wait for an opportunity to draw attention to themselves, live the dream of becoming famous and believe that chance will find them on its own, and then they successfully monetize the attention that has fallen on them. And when the desire to attract attention becomes predominant, unbearably strong, almost the main thing in life, in the scale of human values, it jumps to the first place and begins to crush simple human compassion, which was supposed to be the primary reaction to the tragedy. The "heroes" of the video do not even think about others - they just rejoice that the case has finally come to them.
Surely they, having reflected, having studied the consequences of the cases with which they have come into contact today, having seen photographs of the victims, will feel sincere compassion for both the deceased pilot and the blown up married couple.
But it will be after, and at first they were still happy with the chance to express themselves. And this is the third tragedy that we have seen today. A tragedy of a wide scale.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.