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One and a half parameter

Mikhail Berg: Imperial Pont and religion of losers

Update: 05-07-2015 (13:22)

From the site "Kasparov.ru".

The polarization within Russia is determined in different ways: Slavophile Westerners, conservatives and liberals, patriots-bumpers and anti-Putinists. You can even divide into those who consider corruption and theft, and those who believe the reason in autocracy and official reverence (instead of, say, respect for the law).

I will offer two, more precisely - one and a half parameter, equally, however, obvious, how much biases. The first is imperial . In short, the imperial complex is such an innate (or still well-made?) Invk of the Russian heart and mind. It is not characteristic of the Russian mind exclusively, but the Russian mind for centuries is forming and seducing. As pride in strangers and imaginary. Including, of course.

It is clear that on this vice someone welds that then Navalny will be calculated as a corruption rent. But since there is no way to divide everything into the side of the world and darkness, evil and good, sin and virtues (the meaning of these words is destroyed as a proverb and also exhausted), then the border should be simplified to the limit. Those for whom the empire is value, to the right, and those for whom it is a cloud in pants, to the left.

It is clear that this criterion is not universal, but historical, although quite long in time. If something leads to the strengthening of the Empire (and imperial power), then complain to the pole of the Crimean-Putinists-defenders of the divided Russian nation and so on.

If you believe that this or that event/action leads/led to the collapse of the empire, to the rejection of the autocratic hierarchy, evaluating this trend (refusal) as historically positive , to the other side of the barrier. There, where it is not Navalny or Khodorkovsky, like opponents of the regime, this is precisely insignificant, but their support (or refusal to support) Russian nationalism (most often in imperial larva) and imperial ambitions of Russian society.

This criterion, it seems to me, is a barrier of imaginary duelists.

But there is an subparagraph - division within their own. I would noisily call it ontological and define it as a superficial or deep (not in the estimated, but physical plan) a sense of the current ( another, constantly repeating ) crisis. Then, on the one hand, there will be those who believe that our people-well done, is also a hero (the God-bearer, it seems, is tired of being the third and ran to the side of the gastronom). He, they say, just knocked down the vile propaganda with a pantalyk. And they will only turn off the cute man from the box, as the obsession will disappear and melt, like the number eight, drawn on a foggy mirror in the bathroom.

On the contrary, those who believe that imperial bacillus is dissolved in Russian mass culture (part of which is the classic) and in the package of social (including religious) stereotypes and habits. And therefore, not careful liberalization and shielding of the waves of the imperial emperor is needed; It is not a set of reforms in the manner of Alexander the Liberator, Gorbachev-Drinter or Yeltsin-Horse, but a cruel and irreconcilable reformation. Together with the era of enlightenment and revival, humanization to taste and such a deep turnover of Orthodoxy, so that only buttons and threads remain from it. That is, what remains of Catholicism in Protestantism. It is clear about the depths of the bayonet of the shovel - like to heaven or so, throw and warm up, feeling the potency of naive dreams.

It would seem, where is Orthodoxy here,

If secularism and non -religiosity steadily crowded religious mysticism everywhere, even in Protestant America? And, however, if you look at how stubbornly democratic reforms (without clarifying their creature) are not in Orthodox countries (in Greece, Moldova, Romania, Cyprus, Bulgaria and further from east to west). And if at first glance they turn out (Georgia), then they quickly break into the trodden rut of the autocracy of explicit or shy. And if something turns out in Ukraine, then only (it is possible) thanks to the Uniate influence of the Westerners. And, therefore, the question of the seeds from the apple acquires special significance.

This division among their own is not a whim. There are two branches from it, two fundamentally different options for the future. If it’s all about Putin and propaganda, then let's arrange a popular will and solve the problem quickly. No Putin, there is no problem. Easy and simple. And even the soul even felt better.

But if it is not a matter of Putin and propaganda, but in culture and society, then you can’t help a short screaming. Tomorrow instead of Putin is the blessed Navalny with Khodorkovsky, and the day after tomorrow: Hello, my dear, we already have two Putin and both in a cap (or in a bail). That is, it is necessary not to change the veil -tail with bulging eyes, but the water in the aquarium along with the fish. Because we have the water of such a degree of spirituality that from any guppy, a smug gold fish with a mustache quickly gets.

And then completely different techniques and another period are needed to achieve the result (if it is generally possible in these circumstances).

Well, the last, first: why is the collapse of the empire significant? Because the inflated idol, wax idol, the Golden Taurus of the Great Nation, which our harsh, naive and infantile ancestors prayed and worshiped. The destruction of the empire relieves the social agent from the need and the opportunity to be proud of empty, unconventional superiority by the principle of power is not necessary . And in an elective: neglect of the value of the entire humanitarian set - from the life of another to the type of dignity.

Therefore, the disappearance of the illusion allows a different principle of organizing society - not on the basis of pride in things with imaginary, but even quite sane. Directly related to water in the aquarium. Not creating partitions with the rest of the world, like our Orthodoxy, but approaching it. The caterpillar of Russian life crawls out of a strong imperial shell and crawls by the time of rebirth, when a fluttering butterfly will appear from a cloud of universal disgust.

And suddenly the world is not dangerous and wishing to take away the fragments of the shell, which we wear like a shell, but quite permeable and intelligible , to be proud of which (or not be proud of) there are 3382 different occasions that do not have much significance. The main thing is that the obese body exceeded the fence, and it is now here.

On paper, of course, everything is simple, but for implementation, which is not a fact that it will turn out at all, a non -destructive number of torment will go away. But is there another way?