Paranoia in open form

Illness is not a vice. Unless, of course, your illness prevents you from performing important government duties and unless you are deliberately trying to infect others. Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev is ill. He suffers from paranoia. Occupying the most important (at least nominally) post. And together with his colleagues, he strives to turn all of us into paranoids.

Nikolai Platonich is sure that America literally only dreams of not having a country like Russia. True, he quotes Madeleine Albright, attributing to her words that she never said. These words - not even words, but thoughts - were attributed to her ten years ago by another extravagant gentleman, FSO General Ratnikov. We read, Ratnikov said, her thoughts, but Albright has little good in her thoughts. Pathological hatred of the Slavs and envy of their wealth. And now Patrushev considers Ratnikov’s glitches a historical fact. Well, this one is like the famous “Dulles Plan”, invented by the writer Ivanov in the book “Eternal Call”. Our patriots also consider this plan a historical fact. Or as with the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, which even some of our courts recognized as a historical fact. But, in general, according to Patrushev, it turns out that this America has absolutely nothing to do except dream of destroying us.

You've probably paid attention to people like this in your life - you've met them at work, or when you were studying, or they're your neighbors. These are people who believe that everyone envies them, that everyone doesn’t like them, that everyone wants to drive them out of the world. Women of this type are sure that everyone is jealous of their beauty. Men of this type are convinced that everyone is jealous of their intelligence. By the way, these citizens, as a rule, are quite nasty. Women are not at all as beautiful as they think, and men are not at all as smart. These people are affected by paranoid complexes. They have some kind of major shift in their heads. In fact, in their hearts, they suspect that they are not so attractive at all - that’s why they get angry. They declare their independence, that they don’t care about other people’s opinions, that they live by their own mind. But in fact, they just expect to be appreciated, follow every review, notice absolutely everything that is said or written about them. They crave recognition from the world around them, which they so despise in words and from which they allegedly strive to isolate themselves.

Our country lives exactly like these people. Are they jealous of us? What is there to envy here? Are we the best? Are we the richest and healthiest? Are we the freest? Do we amaze the world with discoveries and inventions? Ahh, I got it! We have a lot of oil and gas! That's where the envy comes from! Everyone in this West sits - from Obama to the last homeless person - and shakes their heads: how lucky these Russians are, how much oil and gas they have! These Russians should be exterminated!

We have nothing to envy, alas. We haven’t amazed this world with anything for a long time. Except that our athletes continue to win various competitions. And so, only the classics of literature and music are remembered. Well, they also know Putin - how can you not know him!

I think the point is that this cult of paranoia helps both the bosses and the common people continue to exist. Under this sauce, the authorities will endlessly mobilize the people and tighten their belts—not their own, the people’s.

And the average person finds the meaning of life. So what kind of life does he have? I worked, came home, stared at the TV. Over the weekend I drank beer and dug up the garden. Work, home, naughty children and annoying spouses - a routine. And here! The whole world is against Russia, and therefore against me. And I don’t just live - I fight the world’s evil. If I can bear it, then let’s do it. For the sake of the country, for the sake of the future. For the sake of the same children. If everything is against us, that means we are worth something! If everything is against us, it means we can’t cope with us alone! This means that we are worth something all the more.

With a short break, we have been living in this delirium for the last hundred years. And we are definitely a powerful country, if for a hundred years the whole world has been trying to destroy us, passing on this covenant from generation to generation, and nothing comes of it.


Photo TASS/Sergey Fadeichev