Hot "rain"

It is symbolic that from the “rain” in January 2014, patriotic vocabulary began its triumphant custody, materialization-which reached incomparable scale this year. The end of the year is again “rain”, only now a boring old syllable from the clothing warehouse of the last era: “Plans have changed, the lease has expired, the owners refused comments.” I can’t even believe that once this whole “business” was considered a language norm in the media conflicts.

Since military terminology is in fashion, in this spirit we will continue. During the war, there was such an eternal question: “Why did you go without an order? ..”-and there was about one answer: “We stood, but the neighbor on the left (right) moved away, the threat of the flanks had to retreat ...” In “different days of war”, Simonov has a colonel (who served the prototype of Serpilin in the “living and the dead”), which says: “There are neighbors to the right, it doesn’t matter; We will stand here, we will not leave ” - and this answer struck Simonov with its simplicity and grandeur.

I will not repeat the banality that if tomorrow, for example, there will be complaints about the “snob”, there will be no one to stand up for it.

In this sense, the "rain" of the last months had such a "neighbor on the right" - in the person of "Snoba". But the neighbor suddenly retreated, giving explanations (“We planned to provide the premises for the TV channel for some time until they find another studio, but plans have changed” - the words of the Snob project “Snob” by Nikolai Up the quotation, and they are exhaustive, in my opinion). "Rain" is now in a half -reduction, if not in the boiler. But in the current conditions, is it worth it to be surprised at this fact? .. I do not take the moral here - what is the disappointment, that "this is done with the hands of my own." As, however, I will not repeat the banality that if tomorrow, for example, there will be complaints about the “snob”, there will be no one to stand up for it.

Perhaps tomorrow there will be some temporary room-from where the rain a month later will be asked again in connection with the newly found out circumstances; In this sense, broadcasting from apartments is not the worst solution. This will, of course, will already be a new stage of the Russian journalist - “Return in the kitchen”. Not a studio that imitates, say, the kitchen of the 1960s or 2000s-and someone’s real kitchen, hastily converted under the studio. There is a lot of symbolism, the circle closed.

Now the “rain” is coming the most alarming, but also interesting times. The fact that advertisers, landlords, colleagues (in the literal sense) are retreating - this is familiar and explainable; People are probably not bad, but they did not subscribe to the “struggle”. It is much more interesting in which section of the front the offensive stumbles on a more or less solid defense. Today, the extreme line are the groups of the media themselves (as it was already in the case of the "echo"). The team occupies circular defense with the editor; We will add a general director, investor, listeners/spectators (which are now at the same time) - and an interesting ligament is obtained. You can recall, of course, how different people behaved differently-but now it is not important that, but that they decided for some reason “standing”.

All this imposes on one generalization in connection with the general situation in the country and the world.

Patriotic excitement that grew into militarism can be rationally explained can be only one way. A person - among other things - claims the “present”: real feelings, final grounds, higher motives. He cannot do without it. There were such attempts for the past 23 years - to find meaning in consumption, in spiritual practices, in a new job, in travels. But, as we can now judge, for most this experience was not successful and valuable. From this we conclude that nothing “present” from 1991 to 2014 has appeared in the mass person. He was not just not ready for capitalism-he, as it turned out, was not ready for a peaceful life. In peaceful life, long -term effort and gradual movement are required, step by step, to the goal; Moreover, you still need to learn how to enjoy this - otherwise you will go crazy. A new philosophy was supposed to appear here - peaceful life, this is the very “Russian world”, where the keyword is “world”. It is the place where you can live, cooperate, love - and not die. Since no “world” happened, they preferred to return to the “war”-to the only “present” that once united everyone.

What could be more natural than the struggle of journalists for their independence?

And for the sake of this, the man was even ready to invent a war - and immediately against the whole world. He is even ready to subject the holy words to new circumstances (and for this reconstruction have already been paid by thousands of real lives). And all because (conditionally) that life “failed” - in the existential sense. This is a problem, as Fromm wrote, "poor -quality living of life." Simply put, people did not have a feeling that for the sake of such a life should not be sacrificed in 23 years. People are ready to sacrifice something in a war with a fictional evil than dealing with a plain, but real world.

"It is better to put up with a familiar evil than to take a flight to a stranger."

Meanwhile, on the fifth floor of Red October, one television channel has been on a siege for a year. And somehow it is twisted by the “whole world” (small, but still). Resists - purely peaceful means, in the name of peaceful purposes - to stay in a legitimate field. Having for a long time it has long been not material benefits (it is just less and less). This story is absolutely universal, it is inscribed in the world context: what can be more natural than the struggle of journalists for their independence? .. And who will say that this is not “high” and not “present” - moreover, a completely peaceful action, within the framework of peaceful life? While this “present” is looking for in mythical piles and old cliches, somewhere far away-it is right here on the fifth floor; Without a bald, without inventions, without hell and the wishes of death to anyone, even enemies. And although this struggle also requires efforts, moral and physical, but its highest meaning is not even a struggle with others, but a struggle for itself, for its rights and principles.

That is, I want to say that it is it-the “Russian world”: the real, not invented, by itself, not somewhere, but here-on the fifth floor, even in the kitchen. And just, in my opinion, he took place, and this, despite all the horror of the situation, can be considered a good outcome.