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2012 - year of fools
- You see, I was convinced a long time ago that the percentage of fools in all professions is approximately the same.
- I don't understand.
- Well, let’s say, if you take ten ministers, a good half will definitely be fools. Ten merchants - the proportion is the same. Ten floor polishers or wipers - the picture has not changed. Ten millionaires, ten poor people - the same law of nature. An absolutely iron law.
- Paradox, dad?
- God save me!
Indeed, this time his eyes were not surrounded by cheerful, mocking wrinkles. He clearly said what he had thought through, which he was convinced of while observing life through the pince-nez glass in a gold frame.
“That’s why my friend Herzen probably advised us to take stupidity into account as a huge social force.”
Anatoly Mariengof. My century
I also can’t resist summing it up. Very laconic and arrogant, but so painful. I am convinced that 2012 has become the year of fools in Russia. The year when fools ruled. When fools remained silent, becoming executioners. It was the fools who allowed them to be brainwashed by election propaganda; the fools did not resist when they were dragged to the polls. The fools were silent when they cleared Moscow for Putin’s motorcade, when they dispersed citizens to Bolotnaya Tsvet, when the authorities slapped the people in the face with retaliatory slaps. When they tried Pussy Riot, when they seized the prisoners on May 6, when they tried 12 other Russians, when they threw them up, beat them, beat them up. In my hometown, for a trip to the “March of Millions,” a guy, Nikolai Lambin, was given heroin an hour before his own wedding. In retaliation. Fools are silent.
It wasn’t you and me who missed the changes, it wasn’t us who let the hope for a new life slip from our grasp. This power played well on the enormous social force called stupidity. And our progressive public, accustomed to shuffling their feet in front of the people, did not dare to draw up their own line, taking into account the fact that half of the country is fools. In the end, the fools won. Putin now bows to fools, addresses fools, and is ready to answer to fools and only to them. The rest don't interest him. From which it follows that a tenacious mind, an ardent heart, a sober mind and a free disposition are not a huge social force. Social power is the 56% who approve of everything. According to Herzen.
Putin will not sit still. He will leave, run away, die. He no longer suits anyone at the top and is very upset with those below, the other 50%. What will we get in return if we don’t decide how to come to a new life, dragging ourselves around like a fool? How was it in the 90s? They trampled squares, spat on tanks, and in the end they didn’t even get a revolution. And not a coup. What they got was a handful of the Soviet elite, who secured their personal right to what was once public property.
And since then, our country has been working to preserve the elite. Yeltsin completely weakened and ceased to suit the new owners of the world - they needed a stronger security guarantor. Both in health and in spirit. The strong Putin has become smaller in 12 years, he is no longer needed. Who will come next? You need to understand: if we now, right now, we don’t understand that at least half of the country is complete fools; if we don’t take them into account, if we don’t find the courage to call fools fools and finally come up with something with them, somehow start talking to them... if we don’t understand and don’t finish shouting, then nothing will change. The fools will carry this thieve around for another 100 years. They don’t flinch, they don’t make a sound.
Ultimately, I want to do something about these fools. For enormous social power! God grant that next year it doesn’t drag us into a new abyss!