People-child?

“Do you want the Nazis to win within the framework of absolute democracy? Do you agree that if all participants in the political process in Russia are given equal shares of television air, then the darkest forces will win, from which you will have to flee abroad?

I sat in a cafe and answered questions from a political observer close to the Court. It was hard to argue. “The educated classes in Russia have been afraid of the people for centuries,” he said. - What, no? Do you like that the boor is no longer on the train, that the boor is now sparkling with his tooth from the Porsche Cayenne? Do not be hypocritical - repeat after me: "How disgusting the middle class is."

I resist the court observer: “You yourself ousted conscious people from the sphere of politics, turned them into happy cattle. You cut off the legs of a child who could not yet walk, and now you reproach your victim. You have deprived them of the possibility of discussion, you have taken away their sight beyond the horizon, you have turned them into accomplices of kleptocratic power.” And so on.

And we both disagreed.

There were no deceived people. Not now, not in the last century, not the year before. We are both talking about the speculative category. The people are not the subject of history. The elites in Russia play as if the people are not even an object. He is completely ignored. The Marxists tried not to ignore and promised land. The people joined in making history and returned serfdom. Really great? He himself renounced subjectivity. Whenever our people are given freedom, they choose responsible paternalistic slavery in the spirit of Gogol's Selected passages from correspondence with friends. “Remote, rollicking, heroic slavery,” characterizes Alina Vitukhnovskaya.

Then, perhaps, it is right to treat the people-child with compassionate sympathy, with touching love? Even be proud of him, because we are talking about a heroic child, capable of the highest sacrifice for the sake of the Father? It may be right to teach the people-child to read and write, to use a knife and fork, and to drain the water behind him in the closet, but not to demand too much from him. Do not put him in front of the need for responsible decisions in complex paradigms. Imagine you ask a child if he wants to take piano or guitar lessons. Now imagine asking a child if he would prefer amphetamines or morphines. Is it pedagogical? Who decides what to ask? Adults? And who are the adults? America? Europe? Kremlin? Sixties? Other intelligentsia? You understand that it is not the child himself who decides, otherwise he knows what the hell he decides. Right? And we are Democrats after that? We are angry with Putin because he does not involve us in the upbringing of the adored nation-child, that he spoils and corrupts him. Because Putin recruited a child to be educators not of aristocrats of the spirit like you and me, but of narrow-minded thimble-makers, right? But are we ourselves - are we ready to give undivided power to an imbecile child with Nazi cockroaches in his head? Are we really ready to give him pharmaceutically pure freedom?

Well, not so much, we are also afraid of him, of course, he must be prepared for democracy. We would be preparing - the vector is important, which is now in a completely different direction. We would gradually let the child grow up under our pedagogical, meritocratic supervision, and then we would proudly clap our hands when he, quite already democratically mature, would choose the Terminator. So?