In the opposition

Pessimism-optimism of imagination

May 4, 2009 Boris Suvarin

There is no “elections” in Russia-Sochi showed it again (1001st time).

“Elections” is not when the voices are considered.

And not when the struggle is carried out according to the rules.

“Elections” is when voters are not indifferent to what is happening.

This is obvious to voters in Russia absolutely indifferent. Exactly and that is why it happens: the bitch does not want - the male will not jump up. There is such a proverb ...

That the election is not a luxury, but a means of transportation, no one counts. Proof? Elementary, Watson: no one seriously and thinks to worry about them. They would try to break off such jokes as in Sochi (and not like that, but in a hundredth share!), A few tens of kilometers lower - in Georgia, or Moldova, or, by the way, in Abkhazia ...

No one considers the elections to be something serious, because in general they do not consider politics to be something deserved. This is also the people and the party are one.

I am often “reproached” in pessimism regarding Russian politics and its prospects. That's how accused! I wonder - what should the optimist say?!

Take the most visual - only persons.

The national leader is him. And without any quotation marks-does someone know another leader of the nation about which the nation has heard? Party - "Er. Chairman of the CEC - Churov. The chairman of the parliament is Gryzlov. Communist - Zyuganov. Nationalist - Zhirinovsky. Political opposition - ... well, I will spare the tender feelings of the readers of the Hedgehog. The names cause hatred, but they are not even interesting to me. Substitute anyone - it's still good. The leader of the undergrowth is Limonov. Political scientist - Kurginyan. Publicist - Shevchenko. And so - for at least ten years. Maybe I forgot who? Sorry ... I can’t see a single hemp anymore. The folk clearing itself remains - in cigarette butts, bags, bottles and even less tasty things ...

Apparently, the optimist should admire all this, because there is nothing more. There are enough such optimists - on TV, for example, continuous optimists on the contract. There are, as you know, “historical optimists” in the opposition-“Comrade, believe!” ... But I somehow do not believe. I don’t even understand-what to believe in? And I have some grounds for this.

"Characters" - not from Mars collapsed.

The “characters” appeared and fixed (and others did not appear) because exactly this people from politics are waiting for this. More precisely, nothing else is waiting. If you are “all” - politicians, elections, etc. -For some reason, “is in our souls”, so even if at least there will be a show ... with a lousy sheep ... Well, the consumer is always right. Ordered - get it. The same lousy sheep, but who know how to get rid of it.

“Will you drink? Will you dance naked at the moon? Eh! I will pump! "

So society understands “politics” - it had such a policy for the time being.

And when this “policy” was eliminated, and they put it on a concrete wasteland - it is not known for what pre -hated auditor from the EU - the decoration that depicts at all that no one even led his ear. No one noticed a change (substitution) - but it was not so great, according to conscience. In the 1990s, the show imitated a serious public policy, which was not there even then. Well, then, according to the laws of the genre, a second derivative appeared-Solovyev-Shevchenko’s completely reptile show imitating the former parliamentary shows. So we were pre-technologized before the mice: political events were left alone-the closure of the TV show ... Sometimes someone will stand up next to this long-erased decoration, help (we live in Russia!) And then it will go. Here, perhaps, is the only practical use of "political institutions in the context of society."

Accordingly, political journalism in the Russian Federation is a message from fresh information about imaginary quantities, “as if” these were the numbers of a natural series.

Political technology is an imitation of “actions” with imaginary values, as if it were natural numbers.

Political reasoning “Professionals” and “mournful hedgehogs-ames”-analysis of imaginary quantities, clarification of “dependencies between them”, as if it were about natural numbers.

But since it is impossible to roll Vanka for a long time and sincerely, everyone is actually ashamed. They swear with shame ... it is not clear with whom and for what. They argue with shame ... It is not clear with whom and about what. Money is divided, of course, without shame, but ... with disgust. "From myself - and with hatred, with hatred."

It may seem that I was bent about the “shame” - what a shame of professionals! That is how it is, but, as always, hidden feelings break through in reservations or undergraduates. For example: they can swear “almost sincerely”, but no one is able to squeeze out “sincere pathos”. Neither power nor her opponents. And yet-a stem, a stem, a tiring-eternal stem. If a person is constantly staring, this is a sign of neurosis, uncertainty, the desire to cover a shame. And if - society as a whole? And cynicism and theft, which became the absolute moral imperatives of the elite. Well, so? Well, how else? What can you do when, besides theft, there is nothing to do? ..

The fish goes out of the head, but the body is also “cooked”. The population tries to live according to the same ethical standards. Since our people even have a “political nerve”, they annoy him-with stories about American imperialism who dreams ... Well, he dreams of doing something awesomely spiritually spiritual ... But for some reason we don’t give him ... or stories about evil Chekists who have spoiled our same awesome people, but they do not give them a dog, they don’t give them, they don’t give them, they don’t give them a dog. We-inteligents, to us ourselves-and better, of us, of course, cannot be anyone! - Live freely, in accordance with their high breed. Behind such stories and we will shorten the times ...

These are the pies.

All these are long -term affairs. And let someone explain what such understanding is the fruit of “pessimism”, “misanthropy” ...

Our socio-political system is growing not from Lubyanka/Old Square, but straight from the national mentality. From which mentality, in turn, all Lubyanka and squares grow - even new, even old. This is a case when it is worth understanding that it is primary-an egg or chicken, so as not to scold it in vain (there is no strength or courage to beat) stone eggs. So about-the chicken is primary, which over and over again carries these eggs.

I will not once again rewrite Pushkin's famous poem. Let me remind you only by prose: A.S. He explains that he does not want to “depend on the king, to depend on the people”, and he wishes to “wander here and there” at his whim. That is - in principle, politics is not needed, but a purely personal will is needed. He believed (or pretended) that any policy only limits the will.

So is Tolstoy.

Levin (“Anna Karenina”) explains to Brother-Liberal, who persuades him to engage in “zemstvo activity”-and you would go, brother, forest! “Our institutions (zemstvo) and all this similar to the birch trees that we stumbled, like on the Troitsyn day, in order to make it like a forest that myself grew up in Europe, and I can’t water and believe in these birch trees!”

A smart and honest Russian person sees imitation democracy - he despises it, but does not know how to create another.

Brother-liberal, however, know for yourself: “The birch trees are not nailed, but which are planted, which are sown, and they must be more careful. As for the fact that you do not like it, then I'm sorry - this is our Russian laziness and barking, and I’m sure that you have a temporary error, and it will pass. ”

Well, so they figured it out.

The optimists think everyone thinks-for 150 years this “temporary delusion” and “will pass soon”, good citizens will begin to seriously treat “civil society” and, so to speak, “grow it, as in Europe,” contrary to the Biack-Vlaziness.

Pessimists believe that it has already passed - and for a long time. Together with the landlords of the Levins, who were chopped by peasants Fokanychi under the leadership of the Levin commissars. And then - once again, along with doctors of the Levin sciences, the grandchildren of the Levin commissars, who left for the historical homeland in the silicone valley ...

Do not care, scientifically called "alienation from power", the fatalist humility of power is the basis of national political consciousness. He was among the nobles/peasants in the 19th century, strengthened from the hard workers and "education" of the twentieth century, acquired new colors from office plankton and pensioners in the 21st century.

Well, about two other components of national-political consciousness-faith in free and agitating themselves with shows-there is all the more so much more to burst out for a long time.

The imitating political show show “with the elections” remains, especially since political technologists also need to take a mouth and put something in the mouth. It’s growing up on power (and in the soul, it’s scary to say-and the people!) The “layer”, which either lives by internal emigrants, “under with no sensation of the country”, or, as emigrants, still continues to “save Russia”-it will also not go anywhere, an eternally guilty plant in our latitudes ...

But all this, as they say, has nothing to do with life.

But why is the national political psychology just such indifferently-chatter? This is really an interesting question. To which no one answered from the time of Chaadaev.

No pessimists. No optimists. No realists. Not Russophobes. Not a blunder. Not the carriageway de Custine.

“In my opinion, a medical center in Lieutenant (the name of the poor village - B.S.) is not needed at all.

My irritation was transmitted to her; She looked at me, squinting her eyes, and asked:

- What do you need there? Landscapes?

- And landscapes are not needed. Nothing is needed there. "

This is from Chekhov’s story “House with Mesonin”.

The story ends well: "I am a target, where are you?"

PS A and tired of the same “calculating national imagination” and the 1001st proof that they are imagination! And there is nothing to complain: the other Rukomesla is not trained. And the readers are visible - too ...

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