General and honest

The recently popular publicist poet, responding to those who claim that most people are still for Putin, expressed this way:

This was not so and never was so. The fact is that the majority, 90 percent of the population, traditionally inertly have no their own opinion. It forms a total opinion of 10 percent of the active minority. This always happens in any country in the world ... The brain in comparison with the ass is also a completely insignificant education. It weighs at best 800 grams, and the ass is 2-3 kilograms, in some cases more. Nevertheless, the fate of the body is not the ass.

One malicious blogger immediately attached another to this quote - from the "demons":

Shigalev ... offers, in the form of the final resolution of the issue, - the division of mankind into two unequal parts. One tenth share receives personality freedom and boundless right over the rest of the nine tenth. Those must lose their identity and turn in a kind of way in a herd and, with limitless obedience, reach a number of degenerations of primitive innocence, kind of primitive paradise, although they will work, however.

The blogger misled the same figure, although it is quite obvious that we are talking about things of different and even directly opposite. In the first case - about his own conscious choice of a person, in the second - about forced.

The question of the "Putin majority" and the "anti -Putin minority" today is acute. What is the way to reckon with Putin with the opinion of the Swamp -Sakharov White Belarusians, if the rest of the country is the Uralvagonzavod?

The famous statesman and Anti -Liberal frankly speaks about this:

How many people are gathering? If compared arithmetic, then these people simply do not. Well, 100 thousand people came out, this is an insignificant figure for a country with a population of more than 100 million people. Why react to them? No negotiations! Let them rage, come up with something, lead dialogues with Putin as much as they like: a lot of microorganisms live on a person, but we do not take a magnifying glass and do not begin to lead a discussion with these microorganisms.

What an interesting arithmetic! That is, in order to react, the population should have to reach rallies entirely? But this never happens.

"Tyrania of the majority" is exactly what the political thinkers of the past feared. They were of low opinion about human nature and perfectly understood that the majority never speaks in their own voice, it goes after the leader - from conformism, herd feeling, and the instinct of self -preservation. It easily creates idols and equally easily refuses them. “Alone of the human mind, like the person himself, is cowardly and careful,” wrote James Madison. “However, he acquires firmness and confidence in proportion to the number of similar and related minds.” “There is a huge difference between most arithmetic and political in the state,” said Antoine de Rivarol in one of his most famous Maxim.

Most are generally a fiction. Society consists of minorities. The state is the result of a public contract of all citizens, and not the most components. The purpose of the social contract is to ensure equal minimum rights to everyone, and not the right of the majority.

“Under a public agreement,” Rousseau Pijal , “a person loses his natural freedom and an unlimited right to what he seduces and what he can take over; he acquires civil freedom and ownership of everything that he has.” But what John Locke said even earlier: "The great and main goal of uniting people into the state and transferring themselves to the power of the government is to preserve their property." This is the same thing that Irina Pavlova just wrote about the faces: "World history does not know another way of the formation of democratic procedures and institutions except for the approval of private property right."

Our general problem with the Putin regime is precisely that it violates the terms of the public contract, and when we try to terminate the agreement, appeal to the majority, which is enough for everyone. In his programmatic article, Putin draws a completely false, distorted picture of the last 12 years of Russian history and his own ascent to power, depicts himself as the Savior of the Fatherland, a superhero that grabbed the country on the edge of the abyss into which it fell. People who have not yet had a memory has yet to, only grinned bitterly.

Today, Putin is convinced not to pay attention to the opposition, in no case to act “reactively”, with an eye on the “street” (as examples of rulers who made such a mistake are called Vasily Shuisky, Nicholas II and Gorbachev): all the same, they say, the leaders of the protest movement are already “legitimate the victory of Putin” in the still not held elections.

And the aforementioned poet called the non-appropriate word not nine tenths, but one tenth, thinking part of society (he replaced the word in the press, but the rhyme remained). Rightless rhympler is right. One has only to imagine how Lenin somewhere like this in July 17 tells the associates: “Well, comrades, the revolutionary situation is obvious. Now is the time to wave with mamzels in the Alps or Capri, and then, with fresh forces, we will continue!” This is what happened :

*Enjoy, hang up,

The battle is over ...

We, tired of a noisy feast,

We need to gain fresh forces.*

If the “White Ribbon” does not find the strength for a new rise, it may very much turn out that the “years of reaction” await us after the first Russian revolution, when, according to the word block, “under the yoke of mud and the abomination of desolation, under the burden of crazy boredom and meaningless idleness, people somehow scattered and went into themselves: they were like aim The air was pumped. "