Normal people

In Moscow, the Gaidar Forum completed the work, which celebrated his decade this year. As before, we saw here the grimaces of officialdom, politically engaging gestures and a cheerful student laugh - after all, most of the listeners are students of the RANEPA.

Of the most unpleasant performances, it is probably worth calling the speech of Anatoly Chubais. Oh, how I want Anatoly Borisovich to raise tariffs for electricity and shake the last little thing from the pockets of the subordinate population. And what beautiful words are said - it does not matter, there is no trust in them. If only because their monopolist pronounces them.

Among expert discussions, it is worth noting a round table: "Political trends: estimates, analysis, forecasts." Leonid Gozman led him. And among the speakers were the “Yezhov” authors - Dmitry Oreshkin, George Satarov, Leonid Levinson ... It turned out to be impossible to squeeze into the Green Hall, where the action took place. Therefore, the author of these lines wrapped in the neighboring “Red Hall”, where experts discussed the development strategy of the urban environment.

The topic was surprisingly interesting. The performance of the Moscow architect Alexander Kolontai was especially remembered, in which he reflected on the integrated development of territories. Kolontai spoke about the artistic development of space, correlating it with the paintings of old masters. About the importance of 3D pictures - volumes, planes should play, delight the eye. He told in sufficient detail about his work in Sarovo, where, when building the microdistrict, the volume, height of buildings, and wastelands are taken into account.

The speaker did not pass by bad projects. For example, he showed recent development in Samara as a whole area to the same type of houses. And on the screen it looks terribly, and so-go and strangle.

Space today somehow begins to influence a person in a special way, to build the geometry of our “I”. Some other anthropological reality appears, which we had not previously suspected before-did not attach any importance to it. Such thoughts were born while I was listening to speeches about the development of high -speed highways and the creation of city conglomerates around them.

Here we say: timelessness. But some things that grow tomorrow are laid here and now. If all the money, of course, will not plunder ...

The Gaidar Forum has gathered many interesting people with whom a common person can be intersected only at such events. I remembered Tatyana Chernigovskaya, a specialist in the field of neuronauki. Its main message is to exercise the brain, like the body. Give him difficult tasks. Move intellectually.

The hall and psychologist Alexander Asmolov fascinated. He said more that a person should not be afraid to fall out of the trend, to be in an unusual situation. A normal person, according to Asmolov, is the one to which ordinary people address the question: what do you need more?

I suspect, readers of the “daily magazine” belong to such normal people.

Photo: Russia. Moscow. Plenary discussions "National Development goals and global trends" during the X Gaidar forum "Russia and the world: national development goals and global trends" in the RANEPA. Sergey Bobylev/TASS