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Reboot

February 2, 2009 Nikolai Svanidze

For a long time I did not leaf through the newspaper Tomorrow. Then I came across the arm. I read the advanced article from A. A. Prokhanov. Under it, a petite, addressed to the sympathetic public, a prayer for material assistance: “The bony hand of the crisis reached the newspaper“ Tomorrow ”.

And in the text itself - not a word about Putin. That is, not a single mention. Obama is, there is Medvedev - he is scolded, even Radzikhovsky is - he is quoted with hatred. But there is no Putin.

Of course, this may be an accident. Perhaps in the previous issue, Putin was mentioned in each line. Maybe.

But the tonality has changed dramatically. The victorious, rumbling, copper-pipe tone disappeared, somewhere the “song“ military ”about the“ fifth (either seventh or forty-ninth, I definitely don’t remember) the empire. ” “Bringing hand ...” - that’s the whole song. Here is the answer to the main question of philosophy. Right is rude, vulgar materialists. We do not love them, but they are right: being determines consciousness.

As you know, the Nazis - both classic German and our current - are divided into two ideological camps. Some, more editorial, learning that Jesus Christ was a Jew, and being unable to continue to remain in the ranks of his followers, begin to worship the filthy blavans. Others, more pragmatic, act easier: they argue that the Savior was not and could not be a Jew, and therefore not to be the Christian faith.

With all the understandable conventionality of such a comparison, conscious and sincere fans of the regime created in Russia V.V. Putin can be divided by a similar basis.

Some, that is, nationalists, fascinated by imperial rhetoric in recent years (Alexander Dugin, a quote of three or four years ago: “I enjoy Putin’s discourse”), leaned against power from ideological considerations. Putin, putting in place America. Putin, who brought a heavy hand over naughty vassals. Putin piercing Khodorkovsky. Putin, beloved by the people. Putin, a national leader coming from victory to victory.

The poor, the smell of Stalin's boots, was already a poverty, already seemed to be a shiver.

And here is a crisis. What crisis, where? Who is this crisis? American? Is it a Jew ...

The winner does not fit in in any way, does not mount with the crisis. Here or anything. Either you are a winner, or you have a crisis.

Either where Putin is, there is success, there is victory, or - “bony hand”, and then - sorry. Then you are not your own father. Then Vera leaves, and with her love.

But this is alone. And there are others. They do not care about Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Fidel Castro, etc. They don’t care: empire, monarchy, republic, democracy, oligarchy. These are all - words, words, words. And the words are for fools, for suckers. Really important for serious, adults are completely different. It is known that: the power and money into which this power is converted. And words are needed only so that some say them, while others listen and do not interfere with serious adults to do business. And therefore, such words are needed to listen to them for a long time and carefully, not being distracted.

Of course, imperial nationalists are cordially closer than the Liberal Westerners, what we are talking about, but this is not fundamentally. Fundamentally different. The fundamental is that, by virtue of a number of their characteristics, our praying people swallows and asks for additives, but liberalism, well, does not at all trim it. Just even funny. And completely logically and naturally from this fact follows, to whom it is recommended to say all words to our God -bearing people, and who can calmly put their tongue, it is clear where it is with unnecessary. As, by the way, the figure, having previously taken it from the pocket.

Serious adults, not too burdened by ideological addictions, still like their work. They are not disappointed in the existing authorities, in Putin, since they did not hurt high expectations that would now be deceived. They received and continue to receive what they counted on. Of course, if everything begins to crumble, which God forbid anyone, then they, like people are sober and not deprived of the reaction, spray the first. But now, even with a crisis, they are satisfied with everything, and they do not want to change anything.

In addition to - perhaps one. And then partially. Ideological sign.

For two reasons. Firstly, but not in the main ones, because the entire National-patriotic lads, financially cut off in connection with the crisis from the usual grandmothers, and morally wounded in the best feelings, instead of a bronze dictator, received a tired, angry business executive, instead of a brilliant empire triumphant over the presumptuous America, a huge country with loose, one-time and unhealth from the ship. Pouring, ready to return to the opposition - there in the near future it promises to be politically more profitable, and possibly safer.

And secondly, but in the main ones, the problem is that he has justified itself in a well-fed, fat era, like a hiccup, condo propaganda rhetoric needs now, when everything has become much more real and modest, in a radical update.

It’s easy to trim victory when they are, and it is very difficult with the obvious presence of their absence. Meanwhile, even if you distract from our most stable economy, which in the light of the forty dollars per barrel appeared suddenly naked, defenseless and embarrassed, like a frightened nymph, and directed an eyes on our international activity, it turns out that here it was also remembered recently, a little reason for sovereign pride.

Ukrainian gas scandal. There are even no complaints about victory. Everything is losing, but Europe in the physical, and Ukraine and Russia are in the strongest moral-refutation, and there is no need to even spend paper on arguments.

War in the Caucasus. Here, of course, is more difficult. An undoubted military victory, although not over the most powerful opponent. Defeat in the eyes of the overwhelming part of the world. Not a defeat from Saakashvili, of course, but simply defeat, in the sense: serious political losses. Moreover, long -term ones, since no one except us recognizes two republics, we will not refuse their recognition and Georgia will not agree with their loss. Here is such an abscess that will always fester at our side.

Well, of course, as a direct result of two wars, hot and gas: both Georgia and Ukraine, in fact, simply blessed to join NATO. Now nothing will stop them.

And finally, our “crown” is the Olympics in Sochi. What a joy was when we received it, what a pleasantness! Because then everything was around blue and especially green, and this greenery was a non -vocational flip, and it seemed that the Lord God himself would always be so, with this greens wide and on a scale, to envy the whole world, but at the same time, of course, he did not offend himself. And now order you to do with this Olympics when the concept has changed and we are poor? Why do we need it now, when you can’t even warm my hands on her?

All these successes are not easy to sell not only to the world with a profitable profit, but also to yourself. But now the task has become more complicated. When everything is good and all kind, there are enough unreasonable drum fighting and even public actions of the Prochrevsky youth organizations are not able to greatly spoil the picture.

But when everything is very difficult and all tense and annoyed, then something else is necessary than the set -in Soviet officialdom.

Another thing does not mean that the nuts will be weakened. They won’t go to this: it is uncomfortable and risky, and just weaned already. And it also does not mean that a preaching of classical liberal ideas will come to the place of imperial propaganda. She will not come. Whatever Putin said in Davos. He said - there and for them. And here and for us the imperial discourse is reliably tested by time. It was used by power from Peter the Great for three centuries with two tiny breaks - in the early Bolshevik, Lenin period, and for the period of the late Gorbachev perestroika and early Yeltsin. And always with unchanged success, not giving misfires. It is absurd to expect that in the current situation the current government will refuse this discourse. It may not be about changing the general direction, but about high -quality rebooting.

And for this reboot of the authorities there is only one fresh resource - the Russian Orthodox Church. More precisely, her new Primate. It is now that his energy and an outstanding oratory talent can be in demand in full to stabilize the public mood. As the social situation is complicated, we will find the clericalization of state propaganda.