Robin Hood is the president.

When I first saw this photograph, the signed “President Uruguay is sitting in a general line in a clinic,” I reacted something like that. "Some kind of president, and the country is probably the same beggar and wretched." (The inner redneck stuck out his ears!) But then I doubted that the first impression was the most correct, and the more I learned about the President of Uruguay Jose Mukhiko, the more neglect was replaced by admiration.

It turned out that this is a real “man from the people”, and he hugs with people on the streets not for the sake of raising the political rating. It was not a thirst for power, but a desire to serve people to the top of the human anthill. Something like what Christ said: “Whoever wants to become the first, be the last and all the servant of all.” Perhaps many will not believe that such people are in principle. I think, including in Russia, but only at the top we don’t see such people.

But what if you build a system in which disinterested altruists will rise upstairs? For this, of course, it is necessary to deprive the power of those who are in charge of all privileges. On their bus, in a common clinic, etc. No security, elite housing, free access to visitors. In general, to create an environment familiar to such as Muhiko, and completely unacceptable for all kinds of careerists. But this is in the future, but you need to start small, try to change public opinion. And for this, talk more about positive examples from the life of foreign leaders. So that, for a start, the Russians ceased to seem to seem the norm to the imperial lifestyle of our lines of our lines.

What are the advantages of the appearance of a large number of altruists in the authorities? I think the changes will be global. First of all, the power will become so effective that it will be difficult to believe in it. New officials will be incomparably more than time to solve state problems, an incomparably wider horizons and space for activity. The modern politician is connected by hand and foot obligations to his political clan, to the thicknesses who have given the way to life. We must also not forget relatives and friends, but do not get caught on theft. It is necessary to ensure that more active and greedy youth does not lift, do not tear power, etc. In general, there are so many problems that there is simply no time to engage in state interests, even if such a desire suddenly arose. There is time only to create the visibility of the work, and to camouflage criminal schemes for laundering money and sawing budgets.

Understanding all this, I in no case condemn the current power from a human point of view and try not to switch to personality. These are good people, even the best, judging by "by concepts." And the fact that from the point of view of high morality they are moral freaks and scum does not matter. After all, we, in essence, also “according to concepts” live? Inflability, cunning, unprincipled, the ability to “live beautifully” consider the unacceptable qualities of a successful person? Only the names are given to them by others. Ambitious, business, respectable, etc. Well, that's the whole thing!

However, I suspect that not only in Russia they think so. Not only the Russian government is moving into a dead end. All countries of the world are not ready for the latest challenges in the field of demography, ecology, information development. And, for reasons described above, the leadership of countries is not capable of adequate actions. What is there, to action. Even to understand the situation, not from the point of view of their corporate interests, but from the point of view of the survival of all mankind. An example of Uruguay, of course, is an exception to the rule. Well, as if Robin Hood became the king of England ... You can judge by who the president of Uruguay is and what his country is by an interview given to him by the British newspaper Gardian. I am here the most informative excerpt of the interview, for more abstract and emotional impressions (for example, behind the story of how young Muhik robbed banks and distributed money to the poor) go on the link.

“Uruguay is proud of his social traditions. The government sets prices for essential goods such as milk, and provides computers and education for each child for free.

Key energy and telecommunication industries are nationalized. Under the predecessor, Mukhik Uruguay took first place in the world for attempts to limit the consumption of tobacco products. Earlier this week, the most radical bill was adopted in Uruguay, according to which the state receives the right to legally produce, distribute and sell marijuana.

Similar actions - along with other progressive laws regarding same -sex marriages and abortions - earned praise and strengthened the reputation of Uruguay as a liberal state. However, Mukhika rejects this label in the same way as he rejects the label of the "poorest president."

“My country is not too open. These measures are quite logical, ”he said. - As for the legalization of marijuana, here we are not talking about becoming a more liberal country. We just want drug addicts to stop using the services of underground dealers. However, we are also ready to limit their right to smoking if they exceed reasonable marijuana consumption norms. It's like an alcohol. If you drink whiskey per day on a bottle, you need to treat you as a sick person. ”

In his opinion, the capabilities of Uruguay to improve society are limited by the power of world capital.

“I'm tired of how everything is folding. We live in an era when it is simply impossible to ignore the logic of the market, ”he explains. - All modern politics is built on short -term pragmatism. We renounced religion and philosophy ... All that is left for us is the automation of actions that the market dictates to us. ”

The President of Uruguay lives within the means and in his policy promotes the idea of ​​using renewable energy sources and waste processing. At the RIO+20 conference, organized in 2012, he made a sharp criticism of “blind obsession” with the idea of ​​achieving economic growth by increasing the level of consumption. However, given the fact that the Uruguay economy develops at a speed of more than 3% per year, Mukhika with some reluctance recognizes that he should promote the idea of ​​material expansion. “I am the president. I have to fight for the creation of new jobs and new investments, because the needs of people are growing, ”he says. - I try to increase the level of consumption, but at the same time to reduce the level of inappropriate consumption ... I am against meaningless spending - money, resources, time. We must create things that can exist for a long time. This is an ideal, but we are unlikely to be able to realize it in reality, because we live in the era of accumulation. ”

When I asked him about what he sees the decision of this contradiction, the president admitted that he had no answers, however, as a former Marxist, he added that the search for this decision should lie in the field of politics. “Today we can process practical everything. If we lived in the means - that is, they would be frugal - then 7 billion people living on the planet could have everything they need. And the global policy should develop in this direction, ”he explains. “However, we think, as peoples and countries, and not as a human appearance.”

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