Intersection of parallel lines

The Sakharov Center wondered whether the creative class could change Russia .

The question is relevant and tormenting many over the past year. The creative class - like any other in our country - can only change itself, which, by the way, it did a long time ago. The specificity of our life is parallel existence. Power, different classes, business (with the exception of the powerful one), and the criminal world coexist, depending little on each other, without truly intersecting. The most remarkable thing is that even government bodies depend little on the authorities, which, in general, do not care. We are all united, by and large, only by love for the Motherland, that is, patriotism in the highest - without any wild interpretations - sense of the word. And also the fact that we came from the same place, in which we were very similar (the USSR is meant). In addition, there are, naturally, common moral values ​​and mentality. But there are neither real elections in which we would determine our common destiny, nor representatives who would bring the interests of different parallels to a common denominator. They lived like this for centuries. The authorities have censorship, the educated class has freethinking, the people have bestiality. Then seventy years of totalitarianism, which lowered the elite, brought the people up and united everyone with a common destiny. But as soon as the totalitarian system collapsed, we returned to the old model and for the last fifteen years we have lived as usual: the government has a dictatorship, business has an oligarchy, the workers have industrialization, the creative class has democracy. And here it is on you. With the start of the protest movement, the creative class broke this pattern of coexistence. He directed the vector of his life to the intersection with the parallel of power and the parallels intersected. The authorities were very surprised, since they did not interfere in the life of the creative class and, within the framework of the usual geometric model, did not find an explanation for the protesters’ intervention in their lives. Thus, turmoil began at the intersection of dictatorship and democracy. The most progressive parallel changed its vector and deliberately intersected with the most backward one, violating the axiom of the Russian way of life. The creative class has already changed Russia.