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Black magic session
I will now try to be extremely brief, almost concisely, in order to only record and outline a few main points and topics for now, which in any case will probably have to be discussed in more detail in the near future.
Regarding state and so-called public property in all its types and forms, starting from the bowels of my beloved and native country with all the gases, oils and other extremely minerals and ending with the materialized labor of many generations of ours, and my, including, ancestors in in the form of dams at nuclear power plants and spaceports. So, personally, I don’t need and am not interested in my share in all this.
I would like to emphasize right away that I in no way encourage anyone to join me in this regard and in no way do I have a negative or even disdainful attitude towards those who feel themselves to be co-owners of all this property, feel their share as something inalienable, the right to which is given from birth and by the fact of this very birth in our country. And therefore, like old Mochenkin, grandfather Ivan, he wants to keep a vigilant eye on his drying, indignant that when distributing the said drying, they try to bypass and defraud him. I speak exclusively about my own opinion and feeling without the slightest attempt at preaching or generalization.
I don’t need my share and am not interested in it for a huge variety of reasons, some of which are purely psychological, and I’m not going to arrange a total confession here mixed with a session of self-psychoanalysis. Therefore, I will tell you just a few of these reasons.
First of all, I simply don’t need this share. What he earned in life, perhaps, was not always so satisfying, but it was enough without help redistributed through any public funds. Whatever they are called. And what I have to use involuntarily, regardless of my desire and again indiscriminately, I consider it necessary or at least relatively useful for myself, starting from public roads or a free part of education and ending with the army, navy and border service , so, the taxes that I paid for my life more than cover all this. That is, they naturally again cover my share of the use of all of the above.
I tried to pay for everything in my life and “received” nothing. And that part of the seemingly free thing, which often and against my will, simply tried to fit into the existing system, so it almost killed my mother, then my child, and in the end, myself. So, it’s better not to, I beg you, I’d better manage it myself, somehow.
Besides, I still really believe in fate and destiny. And in this sense I completely agree with Fitzgerald. Property status is prescribed to us even before birth. And no matter how much money I have, I will always remain a punk. I simply physically cannot imagine myself as a person related to the “bins of the Motherland” or some kind of “state property”. Well, as under Soviet rule, a party or government figure. So, even then I perceived it as completely alien, and then nothing changed for me.
But the most important thing, of course, my dear fellow citizens and compatriots, is that I simply do not want to have any common shared property with you. Absolutely none. I've had enough of communal kitchens, communal toilets and all other public property. Take everything for yourself and divide it as you wish, according to any principles, even universal social justice, even monarchical all-merciful distribution according to fatherly love.
At one time I did not go to receive a voucher at all, not only because of laziness or because of the understanding of its uselessness, although both were present. But still, mainly because he did not want to participate in any sharing of anything with anyone. And I don’t have the slightest complaint against those who got the sweet pieces of “public property”, and how they got it, and for how much, and what they did or are doing with it next. I didn’t participate in any privatization then and I never intend to participate, even if tomorrow they start dividing everything up again and giving it away for free, in accordance with the highest laws of justice. I don’t need anything, because you don’t have anything of mine. I was not, was not a member, did not participate, and I am not going to be, be a member, or participate.
I recently republished in my Journal the statement of one blogger from Donetsk, who wrote that he wants the unification of Ukraine with Russia, including in order to be involved in the ownership of Siberian oil and gas fields. Honestly, I don’t know how it is with unification and global issues, but specifically regarding this particular person, then if he finds some kind of legal form, I, as a citizen of Russia, will be happy to transfer my share in everything to him completely free of charge. whatever he wants. You can consider this my official statement, valid not only for him, but also for anyone who is the first to respond from the citizens of the former USSR. I am introducing such a restriction not out of greed, but only out of cowardice, so that I will not be accused of wanting to give the Motherland away to completely foreigners.
Now, horrified in advance, I am forced to mention Navalny’s name. I feel this feeling solely because every time I do this, those for whom this gentleman is like red to a bull rush in on one side, and on the other, a steel line of his ardent admirers stands up, and an empty disgrace begins, nothing to do with the matter not having. So, in order to anticipate this, I will immediately warn you that I am not going to enter into any discussion of the personality of Alexei Anatolyevich and categorically will not. Everything that I could and wanted to say about him can be seen if you click on his last name in the “Tags” section of my Journal. And here I am talking very specifically about the work, as I understand it, of a certain organization conventionally called “RosPil”. “conditionally”, because I didn’t fully understand how formally this was recorded and how it was officially called. However, it doesn’t matter at all, I proceed from the essence of the matter publicly announced by them:
“This is a public project aimed at monitoring the expenditure of budget funds in the field of state and municipal procurement.
It is financed entirely by voluntary donations from citizens.
During the first six months of the project, more than 8 million rubles were collected. Spent - about 1.7 million rubles.
The amount of contract orders for which it was possible to stop violations of the law in the first six months of work amounted to more than 7.5 billion rubles.
Number of complaints (appeals) to the FAS - 105
Number of complaints (appeals) recognized as justified - 65
The total amount of orders for which violations were suppressed is 40,407,536,066.71
Verified orders - 341."
I sat for a long time, looked blankly at all this and could not understand anything. The guys spent their time and a little, but also not lying around on the road, about fifty thousand dollars collected by people. And for what?
That is, there is some kind of complete logical discrepancy here for me. If Navalny believes that corruption and theft, but in fact just one specific type of theft, which RosPil specializes in, can be fought and overcome within the framework of the existing system of power, then his most direct path to this very power, and not at all against it. And if he wants a different system, does not want power, but rather wants to achieve a change in its very essence, then what does this have to do with the inviolability of the budget, which is still in the hands of the same government?
It's, you know, like seeing a bucket with holes somewhere. Place a ladle under the streams and pour everything that you can collect into the same leaky bucket again. And it’s not even like not trying to change the bucket for a new one, but even without hope of sealing at least some holes. What, at least someone was imprisoned for these “identified violations of the law”? Or was at least one thieves' office broken up? This, however, would also not have any practical meaning, but at least it could bring moral satisfaction to someone, albeit small. And this turns out to be complete stupidity. “We have returned billions to the state budget.” And to hell with them, with these billions. Will they, after being returned there, be disposed of by someone else or in some other way?
And Navalny proudly declares that he is the only one busy with real work, and not with empty political chatter. And on principle he does not want to organize a party.
I want to finish with a slightly abbreviated quote from Mikhail Barshchevsky:
“Navalny has a job in his hands - he is engaged in the fight against corruption, and he is doing this quite effectively. Therefore, Navalny will not disappear. And unlike others who prattle on and do nothing, Navalny (I mean among ordinary citizens), Navalny really does. And I have never hidden my positive attitude towards what Navalny is doing in the fight against corruption.”
And in conclusion, Barshchevsky admitted that he would give, and very possibly will give, his own money to Navalny’s organization to fight corruption.
Apparently there is simply nothing more to add here. Perhaps remember the famous from Brodsky: “If Yevtushenko is against collective farms...”
So, gentlemen, you can fight for the safety of the state budget and its fair distribution. You can demand the redistribution of property that brings in the main revenues to this very budget. You can privatize again or nationalize again. You can, in short, as I originally said, do whatever you want with all this. But this is with Navalny. Or with Barshchevsky. Or with both. By choice.
I'm out of luck.