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Wii vs Pinocchio
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Wii vs Pinocchio
September 26, 2012 Nikolai Svanidze
The Taganrog Court of the Rostov Region has submitted an application for recognition of the fairy tale “Golden Key, or the adventure of Pinocchio” extremist. From the conclusion of a cultural examination: "Pinocchio is an evil and unpretentious parody of Jesus Christ." Well, evidence: Dad-stroke, he doesn’t sink in the water, he sold a primer for 30 coins, etc.
Of course, I am subjective in this case. I perceive the resentment inflicted by Pinocchio as deeply personal, because we are both Karlovichi. "We are both victims, and therefore Russified."
But that is not the point. And that is not funny.
When deaf marginals, evil holy fools not only appear in the whole Goblin beauty to the city and the world, but begin to dictate from the standpoint of strength, from the position of state power ethical and behavioral norms - there is no laugh. Here to take the saints.
There is a war in the world. War of cultural attitudes. Until recently, it seemed that we, with our multinational, multi -confessionality, worldview instability, would not get into this war. As if not. They got into. And consciously.
The global line of the front has quite clear, visible geographical and confessional outlines: the conditional east against the conditional West, radical Islam against everyone else. In Russia, the situation is different. Here on both sides of the watershed you can find Orthodox, Muslims, and believers, and unbelievers, and metropolitan residents, and provincials.
Fundamentalism against humanism.
The confrontation is fundamental. It is deeper than the political, it has a value value.
The jean of obscurantism was released from the bottle last winter, when the authorities, frightened by the unexpected mass and cheerful drive of opposition rallies, relied on the most conservative forces and slogans. As a result, the characters of the Gogol “Viya” crawled out of the decayed cracks, from under the mossy snags, and in an ultimatum form showed the intention to command the parade by society. Reinforcing his claims with quite real court decisions, energetic legislative initiatives and the undisguised favor of the highest state leadership.
At the same time, the coffin with the corpse of the old witch Sofia Vlasyevna, who took the image of a beautiful panel after the death, know the music of Alexandrov, embarrassing the minds of the multimillion -dollar mass of these small ones.
Small these, in mentally embarrassment, taking the coffin with music either for Gagarin, or for the deltaplane, he is warmly welcomed and called in chorus to the dead Sofya Vlasyevna to return. So the kids calls a drunken Snow Maiden on the New Year tree.
All this heavy, bad phantasmagoria, a nightmare mix of dense tribal savagery, rude populism, fertile fire, hypocrisy and KGB to a poisonous cloud fell into the country and poisoned the air.
It became stuffy and stinking. I really want to ventilate the room.
But it is unlikely to work out.
Today, comprehensive power support for the fundamentalist campaign is pursuing two main goals.
Firstly, to achieve the consolidation of the conservative majority, to prevent its relaxation, dispersal and departure from V.V. Putin. This task seems to be difficult, since the conservative Russian electorate is guided in its political choice of motives, primarily the economic order. Upon maintaining social stability, he will always be for power, and in the case of its loss, it will not be able to hold it with any shamanistic spells.
Secondly, morally, politically, aesthetically distance from the West.
Of course, in the current conditions, it is unlikely to repeat the Stalinist focus with the “iron curtain” in full. However, some of its basic elements, say, the introduction of visiting visas for Russian citizens, i.e. The return of the Soviet permissive order of departure from the country is almost practically feasible.
The growing xenophobia, the most powerful anti -American propaganda and the holy folk faith in the theory of conspiracy are constantly fueled by the already strong isolationist sentiments. And here the clerical tantrum at the state level is very to the court. It will aggravate the trend towards tough isolationism and can make it long -term.
Illustration of the artist A.M. Kanevsky (1898-1976) to the tale of Alexei Tolstoy "Golden Key or adventure of Pinocchio." 1950
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