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Okhlobystin as a litmus paper
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Okhlobystin as a litmus paper
December 10, 2012 Viktor Shenderovich
After a recent interview with Ivan Okhlobystin, Echo of Moscow, a puzzled acquaintance called me with the question: do you think he is serious? Here is all this: about the Orthodox Empire, about Russia revealed to the world, to repulse the world adversaries, about the people who will call him, Ivan, to the kingdom ...
Well, yes, seriously.
That is, he is serious, but in fact, seriously, of course, is not at all. Ohlobystin himself ... Well, what to say here: the Lord, of course, did not pass by Ivan, but did not calculate the power of the blow. A phenomenon worthy of study.
To what extent this capable lyceum is lying to Vanka, to which madness simulates, and in which he actually touched on the road, only my young friend Andrei Biljo can say more definitely. According to my personal observations, messianism messianism and Vanka Vanka, but Mr. Okhlobystin does not carry a spoon past his mouth, and he complishes the Orthodox salvation of the world with Selfic and the chopping of the satanic dough well. But this is a funny particular, and it is important here, I repeat, something else.
Such characters are always social symptoms. In clear times, the times of a progressive social idea, social upsurge, people of such a special psyche are, along with their visions, on the periphery of public consciousness; They drift on the mental outskirts, wander and, wandering, from time to time come to visit the society ("a strange person came," as is said by Ostrovsky) ...
Well, as he came, he will leave.
But in times of vague, the times of public marinance and collapse - such a kind of gentlemen, with all their external comic, can be gathering on the public to the public, to magnify it and suddenly become key figures for the current story (see the article “Rasputin”).
To such an extent key that they occupy the entire space and leave themselves categorically. We have to help (see the article “Yusupov”).
Not Okhlobystin himself (God is already with them - or not God, this is a matter of terminology), but the public interest in such phenomena is an extremely indicative point.
So far, it seems, Lakmus shows a rather sluggish reaction ... It is good, but the decay continues, and from time to time it is necessary to look at the intensity of the color, to keep the process under control ... And then we will not have time to bend, we will begin to verify the issues of geopolitics with the visions of the elder Okhlobystin.
And how in the head of the lyceum (which is ordered by the church fence), both Orthodoxy and the imperial idea, the opposite Christianity, can at once-I will ask Dr. Biljo.
Interesting ...