A little about the teapots

I bring my five cents to the topic of joint photography.

I have to disagree with the MBH . Not the Virgin, but - Descartes does not tell me to agree with him. And Descartes urgently advised to agree on the meaning of words so as not to slip into a dangerous semantic void ...

So about tolerance, public harmony and all that.

The handshake with a political opponent, the normal communication with him ETC is a sign of adulthood and observing the civilized rules of the game, there is no dispute with an MBH. But for this - first! - We must be firmly confident in the presence of general (for all participants in the process) civilized rules of the game.

Obama and McCain can afford a handshake and even have to commit this ritual. But a selfie with a Gestapovts is a sign of not tolerance, but (at best) wild morality and indifference.

Of course, I am not about Prigozhin with my wife ; The conversation has long gone beyond the scope of a private occasion in a London restaurant ...

Civil consent cannot be built on ambiguity. Public reconciliation cannot stand on the foundation of total sclerosis and moral deafness. These blessed historical “churiks” are very dangerous for the future, and we have already jumped on these rakes in the ninety -first.

Public consent in Germany, in 1946, can only be built on the firm understanding of the crime of the Nazi regime. An alternative version of “public national reconciliation” is a vile comedy and a direct insult to those who swept the heavy wheel of the regime, not to mention the memory of the fallen.

"Are we all Germans?" Oh yes. But Thomas Mann does not have to hug with Leni Rifenstal about this.

To call white white, and black black is not extremism, but the duty of a normal person. The desire to step aside for shit is not a whim of clean, but elementary hygiene.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky has the full right to drink tea with a judge Danilkin as a Russian with a Russian, this is his personal matter (sorry, Dostoevsky died: he would like this psychological bend).

But personally, to me - an outside observer of this hypothetical tea party - it would be very desirable that Judge Danilkin first suffers a punishment for a serious crime committed by him.

It is desirable - together with the customer of this crime.

And so that society finally realizes that all this was a series of serious crimes. And so that the names of the criminals do not cause anything from the citizens of the country but contempt. And so that to the new generation of judges and the rulers of the country it reached that if they follow in the footsteps of Danilkin and his owners, it will be the same with them.

And so that, to the hell, even a couple of generations of Russian children, to the glory of Descartes, managed to grow in firm ideas about good and evil.

Then - you can put a kettle.


Photo Kay Nietfeld / Picture Alliance / DPA / TASS