Airplanes fly, hello to Pushkin

or "flash mob" in honor of the birthday of the great poet

The last Saturday day was frightened, drops of rain were awkwardly broken on the heads of passers -by, the sun occasionally looked through the dark clouds, and the real rain would look, and even sprinkle the snow. However, no weather conditions could prevent the Pskovites from gathering at the monument Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin in order to congratulate the poet on the upcoming 205th anniversary. There was also a rumor that the participants of the mysterious movement “Flashmob” will hold their action.

From the information of the official website of the Pskov movement “Flashmob” it followed that “at the heart of this culture there was a contradiction. In the literal translation, “Flashmob” means “instant crowd”. But each person in this crowd is a bright personality, and this already contradicts the word “crowd”. All crowds in history gathered rulers for their selfish purposes. And here the crowd, which itself determines when and where to gather, does it without any purpose, for the sake of her own pleasure. ”

The movement is quite young, the world's first Flashmob campaign was held in New York only in May 2003.

As the ideology of the universal “flash mob” says: “Mobber (participant in movement) is a person who benefits to society. We twisted in the routine of everyday business that we do not notice the world that is around us. We do not see anything before our eyes, but we go, as if, at the institute, to work or somewhere else. But suddenly we see what is completely knocked out of the usual perception, that which cannot be. And we wake up for a second, smile, because we see in front of us living people, not robots. And we ourselves become living people for a minute. We forget to live, and mobbers remind us of this. ”

As a rule, mobbers perform in sight of passers-by some outwardly meaningless actions that actually carry a high meaning. They can, for example, celebrate the New Year in May, explaining this by the fact that every day is the New Year, it all depends on what to take as a reference point. What could have been at Pushkin's holiday was not possible.

While the monument was slowly going on to set up microphones and other equipment, strange people with a poster “Be Pushkin!”, In white robes and bizarre forms of paper cylinders, began to tighten to the summer garden.

The first dancers (also in white), who performed something pleasant to the eye under a calm pacifying music, entered the site in front of the monument. Behind them, the leaders, a pen and inkwell went to the microphone, which, after short rhymed speeches, called to the site of Alexander Pushkin himself, who completely forgot about his birthday. The pen and inkwell courteously reminded the poet of the reason for the celebration and immediately released a place for congratulations.

And then everything went obviously "not according to plan."

Suddenly, the music performed by Pushkin’s holidays performed by the modern alternative St. Petersburg group “Squandra”, and people in white slowly moved along the crowd of spectators, leaving behind the trace of white paper, which they scattered left and right, and also launched aircraft in passing, distributed leaflets from which representatives wrote that representatives wrote them Club "TIR".

People in the crowd, not yet showered with paper, began to slowly back away, in the hope of not becoming “white” in the heat of the celebration. However, when one of the people in white shouted into the microphone: “Be Pushkin!”, From nowhere, an entire armada of paper aircraft flew out, and another portion of cut paper woke up from the crowd. It turned out that in the crowd of onlookers, accomplices of people in white lurked. Everyone got it! Meanwhile, “white clothes”, continuing to sow paper snow, were pushed with white sheets of A4 format in front of the monument, after which they quickly retired.

Together with them, they began to leave the scene in a hurry, which became similar to the winter landscape, and people who helped to arrange a snow blizzard in June. It was possible to catch one of the mobbers, who, as if nothing had happened, was waiting for the bus. He refused to introduce himself and stated that he knew nothing about any “flash mob” (one of the rules of movement says that in no case should he come into contact with media representatives), and he scattered and let the planes only because he decided to “dilute” the holiday dedicated to the great poet, whose name was so visited and vastly, that schoolchildren can simply no longer hear him, but he couldn’t hear him. “Pushkin is also a man?! Let him have a normal birthday, not a show for attracting tourists! ” - I finished my interlocutor and jumped on the first bus.

This is called “legend”, that is, information for thought, which they usually accompany all shares, a kind of justification of actions.

But what about the holiday at the monument? He continued, the host (feather) came to his senses and promised that after a small pause there would be this and that. However, people could not calm down after such a paper “raid”, because there was never this before at the Pushkin festival. Usually everything was somehow ... Usually?

Artem Koryushkin.