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"He had a persecution mania ..."

September 19, 2011 Viktor Shenderovich

A couple of days ago, on the website "Hedgehog" I made a feasible analysis of the article by Natalia OSS "Russian dispute, meaningless and useless." Aside from the main topic of the polemic, one indicative (both in the intonation and logical terms) a fragment that deserves attention. The author of the article is subtly ironic over the tendency of the population to demonize power:

“The vileness of officials, all, without exception (...) does not require evidence. Therefore, the most rating version of the crash of the Yak-42 is a trim clogged with jets. It doesn't matter if this is so. It is important that people like the idea of ​​the malignant authorities ... "

I wonder if the OSS asked the question: why do people like this idea? And why does it spread so easily in Russia, and, for example, in Denmark or Canada, is on the outskirts of public opinion and, simply put, marginal? What kind of mass local psychosis?

My answer to the last question lies in the area of ​​the famous aphorism of Stanislav Hedgehogs: “He had a persecution mania-it seemed to him that someone was walking behind him all the time ... And this was an employee of the investigating authorities!”

Practice is a criterion of truth, you know. And if it seems so persistent in millions - maybe it's not about hallucinations?

In Denmark (or, for example, Canada), the administration is chosen - public bossy rudeness will immediately bounce on the forehead of the ruling party, and any party knows this. In our Palestines, the administration, having crushed both the press and the courts, overpasses itself for the second decade - and it can afford not only to force the Jets a runway, but if he sees the highest need, then shoot the children from flamethrower.

Or did it seem to us too?

So: whether the runway in Yaroslavl was clogged with presidential sides - it does not matter, but extremely important! Secondly, no one put forward any versions about the malignancy of the authorities in this case (the author of the “Russian dispute ...” again shrugged out of habit)-it was only about the priorities of Russian life.

The very priorities that (a couple of days after the Yaroslavl disaster) allowed the authorities to keep dozens of aircraft in the air waiting for Mr. Putin to fly out of Yekaterinburg ...

Is something unclear in these priorities for Ms. OSS? It really is not clear to her why, in the second ten Putin's vertical, “vile officials” does not require evidence?

Well, well.