Light prey

What is a bouquet of conscious views prevailing today in Russia? This is a mix of scraps of thoughts and works of a famous number of writers and publicists of the two past centuries. In their writings there are everything, except for the provisions that completely withstood the test of time, that is, by research and logic. In alphabetical order: Aksakovs, Berdyaev, Gogol, Danilevsky, Dostoevsky, Ilyin, Leontyev, Solzhenitsyn, Tyutchev ... People who are not interested in a fact, but prophecy, cite them in a common thing. It is no accident that there was no and could not be in this list, for example, Turgenev, although he outlined his worldview better and shorter than anyone: “I am mainly a realist - and most of all interested in the live nature of human physiognomy; I am indifferent to all supernatural, I don’t believe in any absoluts and systems, I love the most freedom - and, as much as I can judge, it is available to poetry.”

An ordinary educated person easily exists without the rulers of his thoughts. The utopian romantic does not see himself without authority. Where it is about the salvation of mankind, about delivering it from the filth, it is completely inconceivable to do without quotes and re -marks. It would be such a gag, for which the direct road to the bonfire. Why then the book, covenant, scripture, word?! Here, the answer to the question was why they were not erected to the cult of Turgenev, why they decided without any discussion - and decided correctly - that it is not suitable for a matter of such importance.

Turgenev’s introspection is a product and a symbol of the world that is freed from the absoluts - bewitted, if we recall a long -standing definition. And we cannot yet - what kind of life without them? It is impossible to refer to Turgenev’s Testament, wanting to reveal and justify himself before people. Well, how to say: I do not care about all sorts of absoluts and systems, because this is how Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev teaches?! And to say: I believe that Russia with its Orthodoxy will save the world, because Vladimir Solovyov and Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky thought so, it is possible.

Cream of the post -Soviet crowd turned out to be a mild prey of autocracy, such a burned one that Russia has not yet known

From the scoop, Russia inherited the infantilism of the whole cultural layer. The product of magical education. What is my heart is the truth. I live in the world of beautiful, long ago spoken words. I do not study, do not analyze, but perceive mysterious signals and messages, I believe, confess. In this layer, the doctrine of the "Russian world" has taken root. The famous Prokhindeus-inventor of this utopia meant helping the party of crooks and thieves to strengthen-and was not mistaken. Words in which he himself did not believe a single minute fell into the soul of millions, otherwise they would have grieved less today the existence of the West and Ukraine stretched to it. He did not believe, but the professor of Moscow State University, not to mention other foci of enlightenment, believes without exception!

A fan of Spengler can say not without a grin that in this case the culture snaps into civilization, magic - for common sense. Antiquity, certainly, is to modernity. Gogolevsky farm - on the city of Belinsky. Belinsky, by the way, for this layer, too, was not. In revenge, or something, for the fact that it was once needed to repeat by heart: "Russia sees its salvation not in mysticism, not in asceticism, not in pietism, but in the successes of civilization, enlightenment, humanity. It needs not to be served (quite he heard them!), Not prayers (quite he repeated them!), But awakening in the people of human dignity, so many years old lost in mud and captivity, rights and laws that are not with the teachings of the Church, but with common sense and justice "?

The cream of the post -Soviet crowd turned out to be a mild prey of autocracy, such a burned one that Russia did not know yet. Uvarov with Pobedonostsev, Lenin-Stalin, up to Suslov were not cynics. Hitler and Mussolini with their asset too. All of them did not look at themselves as at the jogged merchants of rotten goods. Their current successors look at themselves that way. Longers, in a word.

Anatoly Striere - writer and publicist, host of the Radio Liberty program "Your Letters"

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