Minority apology

The only chance of the majority is to listen to the minority /photo in time: Oleg Dyachenko /Fund

“The main virtue of our people is that it does not move,” Russian publicist Bashutsky formulated in the 19th century. “The country of slaves,” someone Lermontov echoed him ...

The time was glorious. The era of complete unity of the people and the sovereign. The minority, secretly worshiping the West and planning to deprive Russia of its national identity (consisting, mainly not to move), was completely defeated by that time, and the grateful majority fell to the footsteps.

The surnames of those who fell, are mostly unknown. Unless the puppeteer’s corrupted Nestor - and that we remember not as the creator of the vulgar drama “The hand of the Almighty Fatherland”, but as the author of the apolitical “lark”. Glinka would not be, they wouldn’t remember, go, in general ...

And Lermontov - here he is, as a living, with his strange, separate, nervous and biliary love for the Fatherland. Love - contrary to the difficult knowledge of her story and morals, love - “for what, I don’t know for myself” ... And it is necessary - they still go to school!

(It would be necessary to remove from the program, by the way. What kind of propaganda of "strange" love in the era of a normative celebration?)

And yet.

It was the minority - always and everywhere - turned out to be a symbol of the human spirit, the key to the future. It pulled its peoples from a dull herd existence in the "small" time - in a large, universal man; Up - from a tunnel of circumstances that was prone once and for all.

Most to these circumstances (any!) Always adapts, the minority is trying to change them. Poetic reflection, intellectual analysis, great discoveries, brilliant inventions.

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It was the minority that pulled out its peoples from a dull herd existence

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Most are not able to write "Divine comedy." Under the pain of death, to expel her author-this is to health, but with the tercins, the majority somehow, you see, not very much. But after many centuries, in Florence, it was a monument to Dante, and not to those who roam in this city, while the genius was in exile.

Of the majority - anyone! - It is possible to organize a Khodynka as soon as possible, or excite it for pogrom, but there was still no case that the majority invented the periodic table of elements or saved the one who threatens the reprisal.

Yanush Korchak and Raul Wallenberg - in the deliberate minority! But the name Legion to those who sent people to concentration camps or lived next to the concentration camps as if this did not concern them.

The solely in the singular Leonardo da Vinci designed the channel, which is still boasted by a blessed pawnshop. Most are capable of approving the organization of the White Sea. And if the intellectual gets into the ranks of such a majority - the worse for the intellectual! Gorky, he, not bitter, the price from this time is five cents.

What time do you take, whatever edges you look at - the picture is the same. Which, in essence, determines the tragic vector of history.

"Boring, Eugene ..."

The only chance of the majority is to listen to your minority in time: a warning, creative, slightly more perfect ethically. Sometimes it turns out, but very rarely. More often - a missed chance, meaning the loss of historical initiative or just death.

Before the eyes of those who found: the overwhelming, hooting and stomping with their feet, the majority of the first congress of the Soviets of People's Deputies and the academician of the Sakharov, who had just proposed, in essence, to save the USSR, signing a new union agreement from the rostrum.

They did not hear, the whole crowd, idiots.

So they still hide, leading to the collapse of Russia. Some are hooting, others, traditionally, "do not move." Most of what to take from him ...