Duma of Uncle Arvo

Behind them, behind our restless lawmakers and "correctors", it has already become quite difficult to keep track of - their nervous body movements are so rapid.

More recently, I was glad that the country was still alive: there were people, many people who immediately responded to someone else's trouble. These people, called by volunteers, helped them: they collected things, foods, medicines and money, equipped transport, they themselves went to the unfortunate Crimean to save, help, treat, feed, and disassemble the rubble. “There is hope,” I thought, looking at these beautiful people.

But, of course, there was immediately the need to take control of the vigilant state, which immediately concerned "the establishment of systemic and complete legal regulation of social relations arising in the field of volunteers' activities." Well, of course, how is it without the "complete regulation of social relations." So, an hour is uneven, and civil society is formed. What was not enough.

It is quite obvious that in the paroxysm of their punitive-preservation “lawmaking” they do not pursue any goals except one. The authorities are not even trying to achieve anything other than the authorities. Trying to put themselves over the law or adapt the law for themselves, they put themselves outside it and cannot understand this.

They in their crazy courage, having lost any connection with reality, want to prohibit all human feelings except loyalty. They want to prohibit freedom of thought and statements, they want to prohibit or put under their control (the same) justice, honesty, mutual assistance, mercy.

They intuitively understand that everything human, all free, smart, noble and disinterested, that is in the country, and most importantly, what is detecting a destructive ability for self -organization is objectively directed against them and their serene existence. And they are not so wrong.

They have neither mind, no conscience, no honor, no aesthetic feeling, no sense of proportion. They have nothing but stupid, sweaty, puffing, rough and clumsy physical strength.

Hiding behind this, in general, not very reliable power and trying to deprive citizens of the very possibility of intellectual and moral maneuver, they, as it seems to them, surround themselves with an impenetrable wall that makes them invulnerable. They really surround themselves with a wall, but completely different - a dense wall not even hatred: hatred is too pathetic, which they hardly worthy. No, not hatred, but of ugly contempt and disgust, which for many are much stronger than fear.

In order not to end on such a pathos note, I will finally try to tell a joke, which, in my opinion, exhaustively describes the essence of these very “amendments”, which is so incompetent for us by the bosses. I said "I will try" because the whole charm of this joke in its oral intonation, which is very difficult to transmit in the letter. But still I'll try.

The joke is like that. Boys from the Estonian fishing village run into the barn, where Uncle Arvo sits, repairing his network and smokes his phone. “Uncle Arvo!” The guys say. “Tomorrow we are going to go fishing. Can we take your network?” "Of course, you can!" - the old fisherman responds immediately. Then he is tightened with a tube and completes his thought: "The only thing that is impossible."

Leo Rubinstein

Source: facets