As heroes die, the whole world calls billionaires (video, photo)

"It's the twenty-first century." It's the Internet. "Glory is everything." Mass production has made traditional money … Glory is all because the traditional money has failed.Family is everything because it is the last convertible currency in the world ", Jaret Kobek, the novel" I hate the Internet. "

L & # 39; rescue action of Thai boys from Tam Luang Cave, whose floods were closing the exit, was over. More than a hundred rescuers participated in a complex rescue operation. Saman Gunan, one of the lifeguards, also gave his life to try to bring oxygen bottles to the boys and their football coach.

However, the action of the entire Thai government fell into the shadows as soon as the billionaire and business owner "Spikes Iks" and "Tesla" Ilon Mask announced that He wanted to get involved in the rescue operation

Since the news that the boys were trapped in a cave, he announced via Twitter that he would join the Action by sending a team of engineers to help pump water from the cave. He then offered "special capsules" to remove the boys as soon as possible and finally announced on Twitter that he was testing a special mini-submarine in the pool to remove the boys from the cave

they are impractical, but the persistent mask left it in Thailand for "for the sake of God".

However, despite the fact that the messianic aid of Mask was denied, the impact on social networks completely overshadowed those who really participated in the operation.

On social networks it turns out that Mask, not Gunan, is a hero because Gunan did not tweet every second of his engagement in Tam Luang's cave, he got a job more intelligent. Judging by the enormous admiration inflicted on him by the chirps of all the meridians, he is in fact a humanitarian, not a hundred people who really work to save the children who bring them oxygen, food and medical assistance. The mask managed to overshadow even the boys and their trainer who caught in a dead-end cave, shaking on an uncertain fate and looking death in the eyes almost surely.

And while Mask promoted his extravagant ideas to rescue the boys through the social network they worked and pulled them out of the cave. And as more boys were attracted, it was that Mask's commitment became a (tragic) comedian – while the newest "visionary business man" was working on Twitter, rescuers were doing their job. Work

The sailors did a job without the help of Mask – because the whole world knows what Mask would do.

To be honest, one of the social media activists, we would say the little ones, accused the Mask of opportunism and self-promotion. are very visible on the example of the mask commitment in the rescue action of boys – the first concerns the question of what the businessman has suggested to Involve involuntarily in the action; the second concerns the impact of social networks

. The answer to the first question is in a quote from Kobek's novel, from the beginning of the text. The mask belongs to a group of businessmen, extravagant billionaires, such as Mark Cukerberg, Richard Branson, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, who, after making a lot of money, have felt the need to become famous

The thirst for glory has led them to form a special image, l 39; image of modern New Age messiahs who want to change the world according to their own perceptions. Thus, Bill Gates or Steve Jobs is a halo of modern saints

The thirst for glory, but not with the glory that surrounds the celebrity, but with the Messianic glory, holy and glorious, brings them benefits – they act rather like messiahs; more Apple sells more computers Apple or Microsoft

Similar to Ilon Mask, the youngest member of this family. His extravagant travel plans, they say, about Mars or building the world's best electric car are not enough – it takes a moment when the Mask becomes savior because it saves 12 boys captured in a cave, he becomes a savior of humanity.

in fact, it has become due to the fading of reality on social networks, which is the way of these media. Because to trust Twitter, Hilary Clinton is in power, not Donald Tramp, in Russia Navalny, not Putin, and in Serbia, Sasa Jankovic, and not Aleksandar Vucic.

Activists on social networks have declared, The Crimean Bridge for an impossible project, as well as the victory over terrorists in Syria, and predicted the famine of biblical proportions due to sanctions imposed by Western countries on Russia.

In dealing with this phenomenon, the Russian journalist Viktor Marahovski explains, where everything collapses, the activists in the society This trend is not peculiar to the Russian activists and influential, it is characteristic of the world whole.

If the reality is so blurred, then I should not be surprised that Ilon Mask is the savior of the Thai boys, not the ones who really worked on it. According to this principle, Mask is the true hero of the drama in Tam Luang's cave and around her, not rescuers, trapped boys, their coach and unfortunately the late Saman Gunan.