On freedom, opposition and national development

The organizers of the protests achieved the main thing: they showed that the so-called creative class, also called the “educated” (I wonder who makes up the uncreative and uneducated class - I can immediately name a dozen working professions and business specialties, where without creativity and education nothing), there is no political representation. A fair portion of him is favored by the authorities, but there is no hope that the personally exalted will represent anyone. As well as those who started the rally on Novy Arbat with statements in defense of Olga Romanova’s husband. What exactly? Putin and his fellow villagers and fellow soldiers privatized the state, why shouldn’t Romanova privatize the opposition?

But that’s okay, it would still have at least some socially significant content, unlike Rimma Polyak’s menstruation, the confidential information about which in connection with the upcoming rally immediately gave the whole event a warm feminine trust, turned it into a get-together between pleasant ladies and ladies pleasant in every way.

This became especially clear after the post containing this valuable socio-political information collected almost one and a half thousand comments. Intimacy is a terrible power.

This is how the democratic opposition will be intimate, for itself, from time to time. Especially for which the nicest law on parties will be adopted. Some lady, pleasant in every way, will gather five hundred people. here's a batch of, say, Monthly Update. At the same time, it is obvious what will constitute the content of programs and speeches. Point one: oh, how spiritual we are! Point two: oh, how doomed they are! As it once was in the Russian emigration: aspen stake to you, Bolsheviks, your power will not last even three months. And so for seventy years. At the same time, everyone will arrange their own affairs, integrate into the overall development of the country, while affirming. that there is no development and cannot be.

And the last thing is the most important thing, which turns away from the so-called opposition to a much greater extent than its privatization by noble ladies. That's okay. These ladies are no slouch, and some are even smarter than everyone else, like Olga Romanova. But besides them, there are a fair number of creatures of different genders who deny Russia the right to positive development only because the people in power are not the most pleasant.

But the development of our country has always taken place under a completely non-democratic government, accompanied by colossal losses, costs, marking time, a constant return to the previous state, proceeded cyclically, but the country changed, remaining - it must be admitted - civilizationally flawed, but achieving unprecedented cultural and intellectual achievements. Yes, the Putin model is degrading, but no one can force an internally free person to degrade along with power, which is only strengthened by social degradation - this must be admitted. And a free person does not need to assert himself by deceiving himself and others that this power is doomed. This is not true, it is on the rise and it is deeply rooted in society. But this should not affect the self-esteem and sense of righteousness of those who consider themselves oppositionists. Otherwise they are worthless.