"Funny" pictures

The story with the “Photo Podge Competition” on the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill, who was held in his “Cozy Zhezhechka” designer and artist Artemy Lebedev, is indicative and interesting. As you know, the main media designer topic, like many of its brothers in the workshop, is not distinguished by a great love for the Patriarch of All Rus'. The designer The topic looks at Patriarch Kirill not as the spiritual father of the nation, and he looks at him as a manager who offers society an unsuccessfully positioned product.

For the topic, Patriarch Kirill is a loser manager, that's all. And he posts the pictures about the manager in his favorite style: “G ... but vs. Oh ... nno. " The designer is in a special, gaming space in which there are no fixed objects, everything is mobile, everything is a designer. And church space is status, it is fundamentally not playful. In church space, as in the army, there is a charter , and it is he who determines the behavior of actors and punishes deviations. But there is no charter in the game space.

Generally speaking, I do not think that religious leaders can fall from the topic in the second category in principle. In addition, perhaps, one is the Dalai Lama. Indeed, Dalai Lama is surprisingly, a successful media product. He is an ascetic and unrestrained, he is persecuted by the Chinese authorities, he is kind, cheerful, open and generally cool. The topic must definitely like it. And the project of mediatorization of the Russian Orthodox Church and its leadership in the game space looks like unsuccessful. And it can hardly be sold in such a package.

But how does the Church fall into the space of the game? Going beyond her borders, she behaves in the eyes of society in a stupid and ineffective way. Setting the task of “excision” the society, it gives out a topless-motor raising with banners, then a rock festival with priests on drums. They wish to talk about the problems of modern society - and exhibit about. Chaplin or Fr. Smirnova with ridiculous attempts to "roll out a gesture." Instead of the wise elder-patriarch, they show us an “effective manager”, reasoning about the “civilization code” and “globalization challenges”.

Such Philippics against Western values ​​and the “Atlantic threat” are appropriate in the lips, for example, Professor A. Dugin, but for the Patriarch this is an “epic fale”. Instead of a clear explanation, why the worthy Roman pope Benedict XVI cannot come to Moscow, some kind of moo about “proselytism” and “some unresolved problems” is heard. At the same time, the Patriarch himself may well come to Rome, but explain in the language that is understandable to society, what kind of “problems” are such - cannot. With the Dalai Lama, it seems, everything is clear: the policy of China, the occupation of Tibet, the political status of the head of the Buddhists. And then some fog. And then the society thinks: either the loot was not divided, or Putin does not allow, or they don’t know how to work.

Instead of wisely, to keep silent in the face of the Gallery of the Photo, the official speaker of the Patriarchate of the patriarchy A. Volkov scribbles an angry letter to the leadership of Livejournal (a copy-to the FSB, a copy-Putin personally!) With the requirement to close the magazine "The Wooden". For the fact that the national symbol “fried” - well, that is, like a flag or coat of arms, should be answered. It is clear that “you are not here”, from the leadership of LJ answered that, they say, these are your personal showdowns, we do not judge the conflicts between private individuals and the topic magazine will not close the topic. They have their own domain hard - and here without prospects. You can, of course, suppress again to the state through the court, especially since we also have a parsley with the court.

Photo of the photojab SMS on the site: TEMA.Livejournal.com

In the church, by the way, the patriarchs easily “funny pictures” painted in the church - any Byzantineist will tell about this. Cases when cartoons were painted on the patriarchs, frequent in the West and the Christian East. For example, the Syrian Patriarch Grigory Pratsk (6th century) portrayed a greedy chicken for fat content - the elder was greedy. And it was in the order of things. Even in a booth on the fair area of ​​the priest with a priest, they depicted. And Pushkin wrote about the priest with Balda. In the game, secular space, there have always been their own ways to assess reality and ridicule status figures. The problem arises when the church begins to get out of its domain without understanding it inside it, and get out in the form of a media project. In this case, do not be offended by caricatures.

The game space does not accept the status at all, does not work with the hierarchy. The church, public administration, the army are structures associated with the hierarchy. Hierarchized structures, falling into the media space, lose their status greatness and authority. Pushkin, for example, ridicules the priest, but does not make fun of the sacred at all . The same thing happens with officials. Take at least the recent attempt of the president to perform in LJ or on Twitter - he was immediately accepted to “troll”. Therefore, if we want to stay in the space of hierarchized, we do not have to go into the space of the game - and vice versa.

The distinction between two types of discursiveness in relation to institutions is a very important task that was well understood in the house era. To do this, there was a decorum 'A system: which is allowed to status people, and what can not be allowed. This is, in fact, the question of behavior and its codification. Whether the authorized norms developed in the 4-9th centuries should be supplemented, with new barriers-this is already a matter of technology. We need a significant correction of the behavior of status figures regarding its appropriateness and chastity. A patriarch or official, fasting kittens or demotivators on Twitter, is a contradiction, and the patriarch -ascetic, a priest “not from this world” - is just, on the contrary, decoRum . Therefore, you just need to observe it where he remained, and return to him where he was lost.