Moral coding

The Ulyanovsk regional authorities, like many others, preoccupied with the harmonious spiritual development of the population of the region and gave it an instrument of internal improvement - the Code of the Resident of the Ulyanovsk Region, so far in the form of a project born in the bowels of the Department of Culture. Since the building of the regional government is located on the so -called Simbirsk Gora, this document is logical to call the “Nagoric sermon”, although it is possible - “preaching with the hill”.

According to the content, the document is a variation on the topic “Ten Commandments” and “The Moral Code of the Builder of Communism”. As stated in the preamble, "the code is a set of moral rules, the observance of which will allow each resident of the Ulyanovsk region to improve themselves and the land." The word "resident" is written with the title letter, obviously with the hint that in the region the new subspecies of Homo sapiens will eventually grow, armed with a moral law in the soul - such a resident. However, the tendency to large letters is not common for the ethical codes that have recently breeding recently: their creators love to copy the form of sacred texts, and at the same time the style of bureaucratic orders.

The draft Code of Seven Section, they describe the rules of the Ulyanovsk behavior in communication with each other, with the guests of the region, on the street and home, in relation to nature, cultural heritage, family values, and their own health - only 41 points. Some provisions of the Code find full analogies in the poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky "What is good and what is bad?" For example, paragraph 1.7.: “A resident of the Ulyanovsk region will never offend a child and an elderly person, protect the weak” (“If it beats a crafted little boy, I don’t even want to insert this into a book”); Clause 2.7.: “A resident of the Ulyanovsk region is careful about personal, municipal and state property, does not allow him intentional damage” (“If you have broken a book and a ball in a row, October say: a bad boy”); Clause 6.1.: “A resident of the Ulyanovsk region takes care of his health, because it is very valuable for his family, friends, his homeland” (“If the boy loves soap and tooth powder, this boy is very cute, it acts well”).

There are many and other revelations in the Code, for example, that the Ulyanovets “will never forget to say“ thank you ”and“ please ”,“ will not throw garbage past the urn, and if someone else has done it, politely indicates a mistake made ”,“ feeds homeless and wild animals ”,“ loves foot walks ”,“ does not smoke, moderate alcohol ”,“ sought Strong and durable ”and so on. According to the assistant governor Tatyana Ivsina, "this is a kind of secular Bible of the Ulyanovsk, so that people remember these simple rules and observe them." The authors of the text insist that the code “does not teach and does not force, does not punish and does not prohibit”, it is only a declaration of how “to make yourself and the world is better”.

Of course, the document cannot be legally binding, so it is proposed to be accepted at a meeting of the regional public chamber. In this regard, the draft Code was discussed at the Council of the Chamber and was quite harshly criticized. “I have never seen such a degree of disrespect for intelligence, common sense, morality, and family values,” said a member of the chamber, journalist Oleg Samartsev. -And when I read that a resident of the Ulyanovsk region takes care of the municipal property and other official phrases, I understand that someone who is very smarter, wiser, kinder and more humane than me wants to teach me how to live. You teach children in kindergarten, not adults of healthy people. ” Another member of the chamber, entrepreneur Alexander Danilov, said that the document reminds him of the oath of the pioneer “Be ready - always ready!”, And he suggested that the official’s moral code also suggest that the decency of the latter just believe, and the thefts in the housing and communal services and the uncleaned roads are convinced of this again. The ward expert Mikhail Kirillov pointed out that such a code should be based on certain common values ​​characteristic of the inhabitants of the region, but no study was conducted this topic. The proposed set of declarations can be addressed to the population of any region-the Tambov, Vologda or, say, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.

Members of the Council are vividly interested in the authorship of the document. It turned out that this is the fruit of the joint work of the former director of the Department of Culture Tatyana Ishina and the head of the legal department of the same department Artem Kiselev. “The governor set the task of turning Ulyanovsk into a city with a European level of culture, and such a project requires coordination of the efforts of all authorities and the whole society,” Ivshina said in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant.

Indeed, the Ulyanovsk governor Sergei Morozov relies on the development of the territory through culture, at least he constantly talks about this. In particular, Morozov announced that the region he head should pursue a more “aggressive policy in the field of culture” and will seek participation in the European Union “Cultural Capital of Europe” in 2020. The head of the region promotes a number of large -scale investment projects and hopes that they will make Ulyanovsk more attractive for businessmen and tourists. To this end, he instructed to develop the "Code of hospitality". Officials made the instructions as they managed, although the result is similar to the author’s compilation from similar documents developed in other cities. After adoption, the Code is planned to be widely published, handed to schoolchildren in the form of booklets, placed on the covers of school notebooks and diaries.

In 2010, the developers of moral codes in different cities of Russia unexpectedly intensified. It began with Moscow: in June, the press violently discussed the proposal of the Moscow City Hall to implement the Muscovite Code. In July, at the “Round Table” in the Moscow City Duma, the voluminous “Ethics of the multinational capital”, the development of the city youth parliament, was discussed. According to city officials, the goal of the Muscovite Code is to help “who came in” with the shortest possible time to adapt to the cultural and domestic features of life in Moscow. Opponents of the Code criticized him for infringing on the rights of citizens in the multinational capital, which, in their opinion, was expressed, for example, in the fact that the Code did not approve of everyday wearing of national clothing.

In July, the Civil League of the Tomsk Region approved the Code of Tomich, which went through the crucible of public discussions (it seems that this is the only case last year when the Ethics Code has passed the formal approval procedure). The author of the idea, Tomsk ecologist Alexei Toporov, says that the code is “applied from crust to crust”, it does not have slogans, it is essentially “instructions for use” in critical moments of everyday life, and this is his advantage. The document is written in access, from the first person, and penetrated by environmental pathos. Personally, as a non-smoker, the following lines lay on my heart: “Actually smoking is bad. But since I am a smoker, then I light a cigarette only after I leave the entrance, and not in the entrance or in the elevator. I also refrain from smoking on the balcony, since cigarette smoke immediately falls into the windows of my neighbors. ” I would like to slip this page to my neighbor from below, who in the summer smokes my apartment from his loggia, and answers the comments: “I am at home.”

In September, the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Tourism of Tatarstan initiated a discussion of the Tatarstan hospitality code! ", Founding its need for" increased stream of tourists. " It was reported that the document was driven by an independent center for analytical research and developments on the focus group and received positive expert assessments. This almost Buddhist text is unusually simple and poetic and in a number of provisions rises to psychological and philosophical heights, as, for example, in the section “Be itself”: “Our world is unique. My country is not like any other. My republic is original and is admired. I live in this republic. Without me, she would be different. I give her individuality. " The section “Believe in the best” is partly similar to the auto -training session, partly to the affirmation of Louise Hay: “Life makes sense only when I feel good. I myself can create an atmosphere of happiness around myself. I believe that everyone can. There are many of us. We will make our republic better. ”

Representatives of public organizations of St. Petersburg, led by the movement “We are Petersburgers”, developed the “Moral Code of the Petersburger” (all words with a capital letter) and in October turned to the governor Valentina Matvienko with a request to show a civil position, support the idea and create a procedure for discussing and adopting a document. The authors of the appeal attribute to themselves the priority in writing the City Ethics Code, indicating that their initiative is supported throughout the country: Anapa has already accepted the “Moral Code of Anapchanin”, the pre -Olympic Sochi is working on their methodological support to the Petersburgers by representatives of the city of Kopeisk of the Chelyabinsk Region ... The authors believe that their code contains “the main provisions of the national idea regarding the preservation and development of development and development regarding the preservation and development morality and spirituality. " Therefore, the response of the vice-governor of St. Petersburg A. Manilova was supposed to upset them: “... giving the project the status of an official regulatory and administrative act is premature-by virtue of its purely humanitarian and educational nature.”

The Russian Orthodox Church was actively involved in the development of ethical regulators for a secular state. Having supported the idea of ​​creating the “Muscovite Code” in the summer, shortly after the New Year the head of the department of the Church and the Society of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin spoke about the need to introduce a special “dress code” for Russians, which would not provoke interethnic conflicts and other criminal actions (“The problem of the mini-skirt”). According to Chaplin, "at all times, in all peoples, the appearance of a person was not considered one hundred percent a private issue."

In general, when one of the officials begins to talk about ethics and “spiritual and moral education”, which means that with a high probability there is an Orthodox priest, as an option, a mufti. The term “spiritual and moral education” has become so common that it can already be reduced to the abbreviations of the DNV and attributed to the category of manipulative symbols according to Satarov , for the company with the “interests of the state” and “strong power”. In modern conditions, the DNV manipulation suggests: school lessons of patriotism with discussions about Great Russia, the transfer of monopoly on patriotism by the Prochrevsky youth movements, teaching the “foundations of Orthodox culture” in schools, swimming high officials in the hole for baptism and mass fence of holy water into plastic containers. The manipulative DNV is designed to replace a civilian education, which recognizes spiritual and moral guidelines lying outside Orthodox values-and this is already a disorder.

At the same time, it can always be explained that all the power is from God and to encroach on it - from the category of mortal sins.

In mid -January, Christmas educational readings “Church and the state: cooperation in solving common problems” took place in Ulyanovsk. Officials reported on the conduct of the “Week of Spirituality and Good Deeds”, about the number of schools in which the teaching of the defense industry and secular ethics was introduced, about the number of students covered by the teaching of “Azov of Spirituality”.

Mass construction of ethical codes in Russian cities is quite in line with this trend. Moreover, as we see, the construction goes both “from above”, at the initiative of the authorities (both in Ulyanovsk) and “from below”, on the initiative of the public. The state cannot cope with the growth of nationalism, as well as with the problems of bad roads, alcoholism, corruption, ecology (hereinafter). Writing another “code” to officials is much easier than to seriously engage in the problem of eradication, say, corruption - after all, it means chopping a bitch on which you are sitting.

The appearance of all kinds of “codes” on the initiative from below can be considered as a reaction to “condopoga syndrome”, to forced multiculturalism, which causes foci of tension up to conflicts on national grounds, and not only in large cities. In this case, the discussion of the codes becomes a continuation of the debate about the appropriateness of Lezginka on Red Square or the Braran of the Barana during Kurban-Bayram, which was not previously seen on the streets of Russian (Russian) cities. It is probably useful to speak such things in time, as well as to consolidate the results of the discussion in a public agreement, calling it as you like, at least a hospitality code.

The public is trying to properly with mild non -legal means to streamline chaos. These attempts may seem naive, because a person who never pisses in elevators, the code of hospitality is useless, for he is in his head, and the one who does it does not read the codes, and you can’t peel it off with moral coding. The intellectuals who compose moral commandments, these modern heirs of Professor Preobrazhensky learned that devastation was in their heads. And they try to remind the person, especially the young one, about simple things: that you need to translate the old women across the road, do not throw garbage past the urn, do not climb with your feet on the benches and wash your hands before eating. A drop is sharpening a stone. And - Blessed is who believes.

Ulyanovsk

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