Artemy Lebedev: “Another opinion”

“An amazing property of the Russian consciousness is the complete unacceptability of any opinion other than that accepted in a certain social group. Let’s take for example a social group of advanced, educated, intelligent, liberal-minded, wealthy people. From my point of view, “our own” and “normal.” Let’s say three girls go to a temple and organize an action there, generating a wave of conversations and a world-famous court. All “their own” and “normal” are outraged that the secular court judges as if we have Sharia and the church is not separated from the state. And then someone appears who has their own opinion. Let's say, the musicians Vaenga, Valeria and Gazmanov... It is curious that the most intolerant of pluralism are precisely those who are on the side of good, democracy, liberal values, “their own” and "normal"