Day of joy

The tenth issue of "Salt ": New Russian Hedonism.

Russian people have any problems with pleasure. Even despite the craving for idleness (pike orders, goldfish, seven-color flowers and other artifacts of the domestic hedonist), the craving for gloomy still prevails. In the end, demotivators were already invented in Runet, but motivators - no.

That is, to be dissatisfied in Russia - it’s normal, not ashamed, but if someone rejoices, all the more unreasonably, then for others this is already a reason to think. You go along the street, you see a sour face - well, normal, a common thing. You see that the lonely passerby smiles - it is not clear: either his birthday, or dementia.

To enjoy life, you need courage. To enjoy life with limited resources - courage in a square plus fantasy. And in both cases, you can’t do without taste and common sense: so that you are not accidentally forced to rejoice at what you really do not want. To distinguish good joy from bad.

Although such ephemeral things as joy are not easy to reason in a pragmatic manner, the “magazine Salt” took up this. Moreover, with all responsibility: the pleasures are small and large, useful and dangerous to humans - we are interested in the whole ruler.

The philosopher Elena Petrovskaya, from the perspective of the humanitarian scientist (curious, not bores), explains how hipsters in his manner are happy to enjoy life from Norma from the nineties, Putin-from Medvedev, and we are all from the ancient Greeks.

The team that makes the best humorous show in the entire TV - “Reutov TV” - in an interview with “Salt magazine”, not so much analyzes joy as it brings it to people at the same time with laughter.

Ivan Davydov acts with a powerful manifesto in defense of bad habits and specifically the one that the royal nicotine is responsible.

The editor-in-chief of the magazine "Posifish-made" Alexei Zimin speaks of gastronomic pleasures with the right.

Giving tribute, following Rolan Bart, the pleasure of the text, we devote separate material to reading - more precisely, to say, the literature of the relaxation: about sex, goodies, alcohol, rags and travels. All five books from the review came out, which is characteristic, at the sunset of the relaxed 2000s.

In order not to be deadly serious, they gave a place under the preview of the pleasant pleasures of the tiles: a warm checkered blanket, children, cats, funny pictures.

Yes, funny pictures are a photo gallery of sellers of joy (that is, those who sell us sweet cotton wool and rolled on ponies) and futuristic children's drawings for glory of nanotechnologies (nanoschek, nanochka and other objects of the future).

In a word, live well, live for yourself, and not only.