Forward to the elections - to the state of victorious idiocy?

The long bus route with a transfer in a provincial town became an unexpected revelation for me. Namely, an hour-long wait at the bus station, which helped me open my eyes to some aspects of social reality :))

At the station I visited, excuse the details, a public place called a paid toilet. And to my amazement, I discovered that at the entrance, visitors were given free... propaganda booklets of the famous Party. Here it is, the use of administrative resources taken to the point of absurdity! What associations such electoral campaigning evokes among visitors to this hygienic establishment need not even be explained - everything is already obvious. As they say, you can’t invent it on purpose. In addition, the booklets are published on thick coated paper - so the “blessed” readers, being unable to derive direct practical benefit from high-quality printed products, must inevitably experience frustration. In general, the desire of the station and provincial authorities to curry favor with the local leadership served the propaganda campaign poorly. Truly, if you force a fool to campaign in elections, he will scare off the voters.

The fact that the System extends its hands to public toilets is not original (this tradition dates back to the times of ancient Rome). But the fact that these public places become a platform for political propaganda is a truly creative achievement of Russian political strategists.

All this would be funny, but... As you know, any undertaking, even a reasonable one, can be driven to the point of idiocy - and in our society today this is especially easy to do. A continuous society of absurdity, striking the eye at every step. And even on every line: from the mentioned booklet I learned that the incomes of residents of the region where the town is located have more than doubled in 5 years - and this thesis is illustrated by the fact that during this time 1,143 tractors were purchased in the region. Another propaganda point of regional pride is that the region contains 40% of the Russian population of breeding Hereford bulls. All this revived in my memory memories of 30 years ago - remember the Soviet “news from the fields” and “successes in socialist competition”?

Yes, much of the recent historical past is now being repeated - no longer as a tragedy, and not even as a farce, but rather as insanity, in a clinical sense - as a mental disorder of society. Moreover, to give society such a diagnosis, there is no need for special clinical studies, since the symptoms of a social disorder are so obvious that they literally catch the eye at every step, both big and small - even in small things, like the described station incident.

We once lived in a state of victorious socialism. Then they built and built, and finally they built a state of developed socialism - which, alas, happily collapsed. Now, in my opinion, society is moving “forward, into the past” - restoring and modernizing ideological templates that have long since become obsolete. So that through the scaffolding of a new social project the contours of a state of developed idiocy are already visible. And our glorious officials will build it, and will not stop there! And there it’s a stone’s throw to the state of victorious idiocy. And then...