Fan Syndrome

National support - like a soap bubble

Sevastopol. Spectators at a parade dedicated to Victory Day. May 9, 2014

For a lot of hours I am in a time in a day.

- Why would it be? - Thinking people are cloudy. - And the rating? And the vast majority?

I admit honestly - it does not suppress me. More precisely, it suppressed, fanned-and stopped suppressing.

And this raises the mood - how many wonderful smart people in my country! How the wise men use their heads! They won’t let me blow out! .. I read it and rejoiced for a long time - Andrei Kolesnikov (not that Kolesnikov, but the other), Dmitry Oreshkin, Vladimir Pastukhov ... Denis Dragunsky - was always smart, but at the fracture of time he was still wise (unlike those who turned out to be mete -dependent). The meaningful historian of Russia Andrei Zubov, populated (in two receptions-still could not cope in one) from the professorship of MGIMO. For what, what do you think? And for the fact that in his articles (not even in lectures!) He expressed his own thoughts. Instead of the unequal thoughts of our Foreign Minister (yes, I’m not joking at all!).

And what smart articles were written by Borya Dubin - until the last days ...

I learned others now. Alexander Morozov - editor of the Russian Journal. Ivan Davydov-just read his very sane text ... Lyudmila Petranovskaya ... And the rating?

“Do not forget,” Boris Dubin managed to explain to us, “that these are mental and verbal games of irresponsible people (highlighted by me). These 60 %, 70 %, no matter how much this ultra -painfulness is gaining (Dubin introduced this concept. - M.Ch.), are people who have never decided anything in life outside their private existence, and it seems that they did not do not do there. Therefore, these statements about support, trust, approval, and so on - these are all the cries of the bitterness and euphoria of a special moment ”... He wanted us to stop clinging and understanding: our fellow citizens are not responsible for our own assessments and opinions. So - tomorrow we are ready to answer the opposite today (say, “We will not give our blood money to the Rotenberg brothers!”).

My example: Luzhkov. Yes, after the films about Baturin, support fell, but Muscovites were still mostly for him. And what? Did anyone at least a single picket in the days of his sudden resignation?

Ratings are comparable to soap bubbles: beautifully the rainbow plays, but they burst quickly.

Where did the numbers come from

But where does it come from, a rating? The judgment of Sergei Kozlov (excellent philologist and fan): “Fansom Syndrome”!

Accurate hit. Many are familiar with this roar of the stadium - ours keep an account! So, squeeze them! We violate the rules? The dog is with them, with the rules! The judge took out (completely in the case) a red card - a judge on soap! The rations are completely turned off. Emotions dominate.

Another component: warmed by corruption. As before - with collective farms. In the 90s, I could not understand the longing for collective farms, until I explained one “drove”: “Previously, I will take 40 bags of grain-one is legal (!) To myself. And you won’t take a private trader ... ”These corruptpantians will not be given their good (and they are terribly angry with Ukrainians for a bad example). Only for no reason they admit where the dog is buried.

The brilliant psychologist L. Petranovskaya adds clarity: “84 % support power. We are glad to squeeze the Crimea. They hate Ukraine and Europe. Ready for anything for the "Russian world". <...> The vast majority of the population supports all that happens. Against - a clear minority. " 100 million adult population! Petranovskaya offers to see, "from which, of whom they consist."

And what happens? “For most Russians, events take place there on TV. Almost like in the series. Maidan, Donbass, Obama, Putin ... ”And people plant currants, get married children. At the same time, “come to them at some point with the question:“ Do you support the foreign policy of the Russian government? ” What would they answer? "Yes, of course, we support how not to support."

And should Russia help the DPR and LPR? “Yes, of course, you need to help, people in what trouble. Sorry, I'll go, otherwise the milk runs away, the daughter -in -law gives birth, it's time to plant seedlings ... "

And one more component: “About a third of the survey participants admitted that they are afraid to answer“ about politics ”. All of their interchangeable (and the older generation and its own) memory is horrified by the process itself: you are asked about loyalty to power and record answers in official papers. ”

And yet. More recently, they stated about sanctions that "the West is worse from them, but we are even better." But in the September survey of the Levada Center, only 2 %think so ... (A. Levinson). And only 9 % want to enter troops into Ukraine.

Descendants of "sofas"

But will anyone change the total figure? Here are all these 84, 86 percent ... Still! Those who will answer surveys in two to three years. Teenagers. I took them up. It turned out - they are completely different than parents (“sofas”, as they call them, - the zombie watch from the sofa all evening). Do not share, imagine, their values ​​(but if you do not help-in three or four years they will be separated). They have many living, existing associations (unknown to us).

In April this year, a literary competition was announced - “Good scenarios for Russia” - for optimists. By July 31, 500 (!) Work were handed over. I am proud that I got into the long list (36 works). In my script "Country of Smarts" I tell how teenagers took up their parents:

- The Amur governor did not hesitate? Holding?

- Where should he go? He knows his sons. The guys said - they will leave home and never find. So, if it gives back, it will lose children. The governor, of course, loves his president very much. Money too. But there are more children more ...

And adolescents change Russia: after all, they live in it.