Poor light

Sveta from Ivanovo divided the society into two parts. Some are staring over its limitations and vulgarity, others protect its sincerity and immediacy. But both of them perceive her as a typical provincial - which is completely wrong.
Over the past year, I have traveled a lot around the Russian regions. He was in Kirov, Irkutsk, Barnaul, Penza, and more recently - in Cherkessk. And also in the small city of Yegoryevsk near Moscow, but with a completely different, completely non -non -non -cultural subculture. And never I had to meet anyone like the world - in the form in which this girl became the heroine of the network, and then the NTV journalist.
Of course, the idea of ​​a more honest, conscientious, spiritual province is nothing more than a myth. In the province, everyone is enough - both good and bad - just like in megacities. The provincial, by definition, is more conservative than the Muscovite. He is guided by the old principle - measure seven times, cut one. He is careful, pragmatic and not inclined to emotionally follow the authorities, whether it is pro -government or opposition. He is very restrained and skeptical about the authorities, tends to scold her, but is in no hurry to overthrow, because he suspects that the next bosses will be worse than those that they seem to be used to. I am not inclined to enthusiasts about enthusiasm for the next glorious accomplishments, but you need to very much “get” people - like now in Krymsk - so that they begin to outrage loudly, demanding to drive away the authorities (and the authorities are already starting to hand over the average superiors, it seems that it will end there - that is not a fact, by the way).
In a multistract Russian state, the province is an industrial-agricultural (and somewhere already “agrarian-defiantly”), a poorly compatible with “post-industrial” Moscow, which is both a dream and an object of undisguised hostility for the residents of the regions at the same time. The dream for those who did not leave the hope of conquering the capital, joining the Muscovites community - and their grandchildren (or maybe the children) will look down at the “nonresident”. Recruits - for those who remain in their region, which, of course, are the majority. But both of those and others combine certain ideas about ethics, about decent and indecent, about the limits of the permissible. These ideas change over time, as society also changes, becoming more relativistic from the Rigorous. But some foundations still remain, experiencing revolutions, wars and other shocks.
Of course, as in Moscow, in the province there are people who seek at all costs to break up - by any means. But in the province, where everything and everything is in sight, they have even less chance of realizing their ambitions than in the capital. In the story with Sveta, the most interesting for me was her recognition that friends turned away from her-and not after the news of the future journalistic career (then this could be explained by elementary envy), but according to the results of its involuntary Internet presentation. She found support only among like -minded people at the “ours” headquarters, which is not surprising.
In the province, they are proud of noble fellow countrymen advanced in Moscow - especially if they do not forget about their roots. But in the province they do not like those who, for the desire to break out of poverty, glorify bossy achievements and are ready to beat the drum as much as you need to be noticed. The province rejects those who, for the sake of a career in Moscow, are ready to say vulgarity and behave extremely stupidly, believing that it is necessary to fulfill their dreams. And Moscow, in turn, laughs at the poor Sveta, which, it seems, really believed that its time has come, that it would fit into a new trend to a political reaction (not realizing that there are no reactions that cause not fear, not indignation, but laughter). High (directly sky-high) ratings of the first program should not be misleading with its participation-we are talking about exotic, which can be viewed at best a couple of times, and in the offseason, to dilute the impressions of the usual and familiar television product. And then she will begin to bother much, like any product with a mediocre performer.
However, is the poor Light? On the one hand, it seems like yes - how unhappy a man “failed” between the province and the capital, who sailed from one shore and did not reach another. On the other hand, it seems not - no one forced her to choose the path on which she was. And for the choice made must be answered - and on the Hamburg account.

Author - First Vice President of the Center for Political Technology