In the opposition

Continuation of the Russian dispute

September 15, 2011 Viktor Shenderovich

A few days ago, a wonderful and, in a sense, the program article by Natalia OSS “Russian dispute, meaningless and safe” appeared in Gazeta.Ru.
This article is initially devoted to the regrettable level of our controversy. Well, yes: “It’s easy to switch to you, say“ But this is not your dog’s mind ”” ”” - Zhvanetsky outlined the topic in the early eighties, and in three decades the customs have not improved: freedom of speech has opened such gateways that mother did not grieve.
But - “I went into the room, I got into another ...” - in the second part of the essay, an attentive reader suddenly discovers that we are talking about something completely different. Namely: about the absence in the camp of intellectuals of a positive program, about their self -destructive reflection, Oblomovskiy laziness and banal envy for the success of new Stolites ...
Toward the end, it turns out that the text, in essence, about the main reason for Putin’s high rating: the people sees in it a positive unifying principle, and in the liberal-intellectual liberals saturated with the skepticism. Submes should be a somewhat unexpected conclusion: “In the stripping of the political field, it is necessary to blame not the cleansing, but those who refused to water their beds.”
Where is the estate, where is the flood ...
Let's try to deal with this difficult agriculture.
That our brother was not a sugar and is inclined to verbal face on the basis of individual and corporate vulnerability, I know firsthand. With my own hands, organizing the “Committee-2008”, then for three years I observed meetings and dialogs of the GG. Nadezhdina and Ivanenko, Kasparova and Kasyanova, etc. Once it was possible to ensure that G. Yavlinsky himself came to us ... there was a stir and a great combination of the press. Mr. Yavlinsky allowed everyone to join the “apple”-and retired, scratching the halo along the influx.
That is, I'm not about the fact that intellectuals are not to blame for anything, but to blame them for the abolition of elections in Russia-there is some kind of Russian breadth of generalizations of this. “I would narrow,” as Dostoevsky wrote.
A few more quotes from the article by Natalia OSS regarding, as follows from the context, today of Russian liberalism.
“The intellectuals are too squeamish and legible to vote for success and positive. Neither for his own, nor even for someone else's. Alien is especially unpleasant. Well then, in vain lay with Facebooks on Oblomovsky sofas? .. "

“That's where the old man is a curse!”, How Rigoletto sang. We are not ready, therefore, to break from our sofas in support of those who symbolize our liberal success! We would have invested in Stolz Mikhail Dmitrievich, and we all lie down and flickering ... Oh, yes, the absence of a positive view of the world in combination with natural laziness makes the intellectual a disgusting grumbling face bout. Who to know, if not for me.

“The Democratic seemingly Viktor Shenderovich seemed to be very clearly expressed on this occasion: the oligarchs should talk about their success not to children at school, but to the investigator in the prosecutor's office.”
Pure truth, he said - at Echo of Moscow, in the program "Special Opinion".
And after a few seconds, on the same air, he said that he himself would have loved to a lesson where the founder of Beeline Dmitry Borisovich Zimin, who became a billionaire in a slightly different way, would have told the children about the history of his success - and had a little differently disposed of all this time with his condition.
But the passage about Zimin did not notice the OSS, and it can be understood: this does not fit into the concept of intellectual hostile hostiles to someone else's success and positive-but such a beautiful concept! It’s a pity ... (This, apparently, to the question of the culture of the “Russian dispute.”) But we will return to the essence of the issue.
The devil, as you know, lies in details. The financial success of Jobs and Zuckerberg is not an equal to the take -off of Deripaska and Sechin. The word "success" is a really indecent word where this success is associated with general corruption and banal theft. The Columnist, who is quoted in the ironic vein, quoted MsS, alas, rights. And so irritating Mss, disgust and intelligibility (in other words, moral hygiene) today are not an intelligent whim, but a condition for survival. Either we finally understand this and try to at least slightly move the rules of the political game and our own public behavior towards European standards, or for correcting the landscape - and very soon! - People will take it easier, in a well -known range from the Nazis to the Communists.
In this context, the fussy modeling of the figure of Prokhorov as the Savior of the liberal idea, in my opinion, only brings the hour of another Russian drama.
Here we, however, are again diverging in assessments with the ironic Ms. OSS:
“With the bad, we have already somehow got rid of, it is understandable, familiar and forever. From the good expect trouble. One political scientist writes: this is your competition in the elections is the worst evil, because it legitimizes your criminal non -alternative elections ... "
This is called a substitution of concepts, and in the space of one paragraph, Mss made a couple of such substitutions.
The first of them lurks in the word "competition". To the west of Belarus and the east of the smoking of competition in the elections is understood as a struggle for power with equal opportunities of competitors. We are talking about distributing places on Okhotny Ryads from the Barsky shoulder for their further conversion during bargaining on the Old Square. The political scientist had in mind just that, and Ms. OSS perfectly understands this.
The mouse competition, which we observe and will observe for growing until December 4, is an obvious evil for the very reason that the aforementioned political scientist said: all participants in the toy race in the final political score work at the administration, preoccupied with the most interest (they will draw percentage for themselves), but just their low legitimacy and the worsening of the political picture. The task is set, and Mukhtar-Churov will be very tried to find a couple of places on the Okhotny series with the edge for a group of trained liberals.
Is it with us, or something, goes to the menu as “good”? Ms. OSS easily skipping a clear substitution and rushes to the elegant ironic generalization: “... that is, the expansion of the area of ​​good leads to the total victory of darkness. It is clear why Oblomov does not leave the couch ... ".
This is the second substitution. The call to the non -participation in the farce (a variant of the suburban) or agitation “against all” (version of Nemtsov, Bykov and Co.) - not Oblomovism; This is a clear action-anti-action to crooks. I don’t know to what extent the report of the OSS realizes in this-the authorities understand it for sure! They were not too lazy to bring the judge of Lomazov to where the judge Danilkin was carried, after which the unfortunate Lomazov forbade him to be agitated “against all”.
Something hurts a lot of trouble about Oblomov lying on the couch, do not you think?
Glori Ms. OSS is time for sadness.
“The saddest thing is in this - with such a mindset, nothing is completely impossible to come up with, change and fix it. Anyone who comes up with a project of the future is a spotlight, a deliberate loser and a target for wit. ”
Why is anyone? Well, so to generalize right away?
When Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn came up with their “projects of the future”, I do not recall the ironic grin addressed to them, especially in the days of failure. If someone from this couple became a target for sharpness, this spoke more about the head of his service, than about Andrei Dmitrievich or Alexander Isaevich.
They believed them because. Without even agreeing - they believed.
But when the project of the liberal future of Russia begins to compost the brains of the oligarch, which has been lying a whole for a decade, face on the Forbes list, or when a prominent democrat from the past calls me to the future, all this has been exclusively preserving his leadership on a democratic flank, you should not blame me for insufficient study of their programs. Knowledge of biographies is quite enough.
This is - and first of all, of course! - Related to United Russia. After Beslan, Kadyrov and the sentence of Khodorkovsky to seriously tast their election manna heavenly - an extreme degree of idiocy. They implemented their program for a long time - they realized so well that they are now afraid to get away from power.
Yes, but then - they, but what to do to us in this situation?
To begin with, as Descartes suggested, try to agree on the meaning of words. Stop calling the “election” re -leaning of the authorities, “opposition” - Surkov’s thimbles, common sense - “Oblomovshina”, “Liberals” - those who can use a credit card, and “patriots” - those who prefer the Old Slavonic Vyaz for any font.
Rub the coordinate system; Restore straight angles in order to at least understand where we are.
Start little by little to distinguish your garden from the Kremlin or corporate. Water it.
Well, what about it! - increase the culture of the polemic.

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