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The national idea cannot be invented. Actually, in Russia there has never been its national idea. And there were doctrines: either religious or political. But both are borrowed: either in the West, then in the Middle East

"In Russia, there has never been its own national idea" (drawing from the book of V. Yana "Baty", 1954)

Source: Ozon. Gid

Dmitry Gubin

Dmitry Gubin was born in Ivanovo, the harsh edge of the weavers. After graduating from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, he, by distribution, entered the Volokolamsk in the newspaper Ilyich's Testament. A year later, he was unclenched into proofreaders with an oral formulation “For Podnipiness”.
Then Dmitry worked in the Leningrad magazine Aurora, then five years - the Sobrik in Ogrook.
The track record of Dmitry also includes the Russian -speaking version of the newspaper Pulse St. Petersburg, and Radio of Russia, and the Vesti evening issue on RTR, and Mayak. From everywhere Dmitry was expelled for a misunderstanding of the current line of the party.
In 2004, he emigrated for six months to London, but returned to Russia, because he was tired of going to dinner from London to Paris. After London, the era of glossy magazines came: Dmitry Gubin headed FHM and Robb Report. Since 2007, he collaborated with copyright television - that is, he led Trechochko, Temporarily available, and “Big Family”.

I have a friend-a dexterous, cynical, observant person, and therefore recently ritual-Orthodox. He does not eat imminent in fasting, but does not refuse the restaurant, noticing along the fact that the vegetarian, that is, is twice as much as usual, but is three times cheaper than the dietary, which is planted by the hinges of the doctor.

I appreciate the observation in it, and therefore sometimes we have dinner, and it supplies me with aphorisms like "in our time it has become so hard to steal that it can already be considered labor income." Well, in general, he is one of those most dear Russians who, having drank from the cooperative at one time, then fell to the banking, and now merged with the state, carrying out the transition with the careless dexterity of the gymnast, which makes the rise a coup.

"He is one of those dear Russians"

Source: Photo Cell Zoom

In the last meeting, a week before the Christmas post (“The Great thing! Forty days on the rolle and asparagus - four kilograms of down!”) A friend trampled me on statements about tolerance. “Lapush,” he said, “you are a smart person. And you write again against the wind. The near future of the country is for Gazprom, but the further future is Orthodoxy. In your place I would offer a current show “Spas”. How will you take people when oil prices are crashing, and they, believe me, will crash? There will be a simple choice-either Father Vasily with a cross and “Kalash”, or a hachik with explosives and a kurban-Bayram, to whom the lamb, that the infidel is all one. For what the hell is Ramzan to stay with Russia if it stops paying it? And he will follow the path of Sharia, and along the way he will taste the Stavropol. ”

I never argue with cynics. I listen, because their noses are like a Pinocchio - they smell something that barely begins to smell in the air. Sometimes they do not have enough scientific knowledge, serious reading tires - they rather like to flip through Akunin, watching the plot, but chuckling at the fandorine moral imperatives. But the scent of them-wow!

Pinocchio. Mark "Mail of Russia"

Source: Academician

So I did not object, but, daring, painfully began to remember who I read about the balance of religions and political doctrines, about the import of these doctrines from Europe, and even, I remember, made a bookmark?

And then he slammed his forehead: Ba! Yes, this is Huntington! The recently deceased Samuel Huntington was a political scientist. In the 1990s, after the collapse of socialism in Europe, he proposed replacing the paradigm “liberal West-Communist East” by the paradigm of the polycyvialization world. In which the actions of countries are determined not by the ideological confrontation, but by civilizational, by the community of religions and cultures, and civilization no longer means westernization. Russia made a separate "Orthodox" civilization with him. Where do I have Clash of Civilizations? ..

A! Here! I read: “The main political ideologies of the twentieth century include liberalism, socialism, anarchism, corporatism, Marxism, communism, social democracy, conservatism, nationalism, fascism and Christian democracy. One thing unites them: they are all the ranges of Western civilization. No other civilization gave rise to a fairly significant political ideology. The West, in turn, never gave rise to the main religion. All the main world religions were born in non-western civilizations and, in most cases, earlier than Western civilization. As the world leaves the dominance of the West, the ideology who personifies late Western civilization is naught, and religious and other cultural forms of identification come in their place. ”

That is, my restaurant friend in the fundamental sense of rights. According to Huntington, it turns out that, having discarded the borrowed Western (born there, but not participated) communist idea as a national, Russia is doomed to choose from a different Western idea and a borrowed Middle Eastern religion. And here, of course, in theory, a choice is possible between liberalism and Orthodoxy, and between fascism and Islam.

Since the liberal idea, while there is oil, the Russians do not want to choose, and our Orthodox idea boils down to the cross, Easter cake and a posture menu in a restaurant.

When the oil ends ...

What will we do when oil and incense end, huh?

It will be necessary to dare again with my acquaintance through five years!

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