Black and white Lubyanka

Let's start with the good news. An order of magnitude more non-activists came to the Solovetsky Stone than expected. Instead of several hundred - several thousand.

There were a lot of middle-aged and elderly people. The question of why they came remains to be answered. Perhaps - because they know what the Solovetsky stone is a symbol of and do not want a return to those times. Perhaps because they are tired of being afraid. We're used to it. We survived the fear.

It is obvious that with the abolition of the institution of coordinated actions, the number of people coming to the actions should fall due to those who are still afraid and those who will always be afraid. But people who have experienced fear will feel calmer with those who lend a shoulder to them.

The authorities themselves created such a situation, after which the benefits of carrying out uncoordinated actions became obvious. It became clear that there was no need to be afraid, and the sky wouldn’t fall because of it. A mass of fearless people, even without leaders, will not become fanatically uncontrollable, will not go home again, but will live their own individual lives, which are much closer to those ideals of freedom and brotherhood than the already outdated “marches of millions.”

The authorities initiated a powerful passionary push. The truth that free and fearless people do not need the same topics and speakers, but need horizontal interaction to unite in groups to solve specific problems, has found its way into itself. People united to repel arrest attempts. To campaign for work in the PEC. I don’t know when the society of direct leaderless interaction that we dreamed of was born, but it is already taking its first timid steps.

The number of people who are not afraid will grow - if you have already experienced fear, then it is no longer possible to frighten you. Losing fear is tantamount to liberation from slavery in a world where everyone is afraid of losing something.

I don't know about you, but every day I feel the shoulder of those who have learned to be fearless. Having gotten rid of fear, we finally began to do what we should do - help those who need our help. Do what needs to be done - participate in elections, implement useful projects. And, most importantly, share your fearlessness and experience with others.

There is no need to scare each other that fewer people will come to the next rally. In general, you don't need to worry about rallies - you need to worry about keeping your country's agenda in line with its current problems. So that the problem, if found, is closely monitored and resolved. If the opposition can set its own agenda, then people will come out at those moments that they themselves deem necessary. How they came to the Solovetsky Stone.

Now let's get to the bad news.

At the Solovetsky Stone several times it was miraculously possible to avoid the stampede and its unpleasant consequences. An illegitimate government really cannot control anything. There are no people in it who are capable of solving the tasks assigned to them.

It's scary. Having abandoned the organizers from the Constitutional Court, the mayor's office abandoned the security service for the rallies. The leader of the rallies, who announced from the stage the actions that need to be taken for general safety and to avoid a crush, was abandoned.

If anyone had doubts about the need for legitimate power, then this case should explain everything to him. Illegitimate power is when no one listens to what the policeman shouts into a megaphone. Illegitimate power causes a desire to resist even its reasonable orders.

Living under such power is scary. She puts your life and your future in danger every hour.

And the illegitimate government has no choice - they can change the person responsible for the security of public events ten thousand times. Illegitimacy is a phenomenon that permeates the vertical structure of power from top to bottom. The system is illegitimate not only for us, but also for itself. Orders within it are ineffective.

The conclusion is that those who are legitimate should organize rallies. And any interference by illegitimate authorities in the process can ultimately become tragic.

It would seem that the conclusions from the good news and the bad news contradict each other. However, the lack of coordination of the rally does not mean that it does not need to be organized. Perhaps it was precisely to solve this problem that liberal European legislation was invented - the organizer should think not about the permission of the rally and the efforts of the executive branch, but about the safety of those whom he wants to see at his rally.