Question : When a toy functions as an object of ideology?
Answer : It’s exactly when the Other outsources its own beliefs being run through the mediation of an object-toy.
The Javelin-Toy in Ukraine is a perfect examplary for this formula. Playing with it encapsulates and perpetuates all sorts of eclectic associations for Westernization, independence, nationalism, freedom, democracy and so on… but, there is a problem : it’s Other’s Toy and it’s given to them to perpetuate Other’s beliefs.
Therefore it’s not an accidental fact that thousands of these toys have already been captured by the Russian Army.
One’s true belief however is never manifested via a toy. It is manifested through another human, a compatriot’s/comrade’s authentic action :
—14 years old student—
—from Krasnodar—