Dumming artists

Recently, at a meeting in the Kremlin, presidential adviser Vladimir Tolstoy said :

The fact is widely known when Winston Churchill was offered to reduce culture and art costs to increase military expenses. He answered very simply: and for what are we going to fight then?

It’s not wild that the Kremlin official feels in the war: sitting in the fortress, it is difficult not to imbue the defense consciousness. Another thing is interesting. At an event of such a high level (with the participation of the president), the speaker uses a "vague plot", not even trying to check it. Churchill is now like Lenin - every barrel of a plug. But Lenin was quoted with reference to the full collected works. Churchill is quoted on the Internet. We must not know anything about Churchill in order to attribute to him such aphorism. Having doubted his authenticity, I spent about ten minutes to make sure that it was a legend, although widespread. If only because the expenses of the UK government for defense were 643 million pounds in 1940, and 25 thousand to culture. The reduction in culture expenses in no way could help defense.

Why didn't Vladimir Tolstoy do this elementary work instead of me? After all, he probably has an apparatus intended specifically for this, professionals with diplomas and academic degrees. Why are you fooling your head to the public?

Or here is the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky. Prohibiting the rental of the film "Number 44", he was especially indignant that "Soviet soldiers who hoisted the banner of victory over the Reichstag" are shown in the film "Marauders with five trophy clocks on the wrists."

But there is nothing to resent here - this is a historical fact. The front -line photographer Evgeny Khaldey more than once recalled how he saw in the picture a trophy clock on his right hand of one of the soldiers and a needle scraped them off the negativity. Recently, special attention was paid to the Haldeus personal exhibition in Berlin in Berlin.

Why do they poke a finger at the sky?

Then, that the authorities now do not have a professional examination, but there is only an information war on which all funds are good. And it is no longer particularly surprising that the government "Russian newspaper" takes for the real newsthe feuilleton of the famous American satirist Andy Borovitsa and is erupted in response with an angry commentary .

It is already uncomfortable to talk about the presidential spokeswoman Dmitry Peskov. "A foreign agent is not a household name, this is due to financing, as you know," he said in an interview with Echo of Moscow. And further, in the same interview: "This is not a household name. This is the norm of our law."

I wondered for a long time, which implies Peskov by the expression "Hardwork name", as long as a colleague Tatyana Malkina did not guess : he meant that a "foreign agent" - a non -reproaching name. Thank you submissively! The statements of the Kremlin representative must now be solved as a rebus. That sand himself will become a household name. “Peskov is pouring out of you,” we will say to the tongue -tied opponents who studied poorly at school.

Power is dull. Otherwise, it cannot be in a country where the authorities not only evades the intellectual call, but also carefully plugs all the cracks from where such a challenge can come: shallow, Emelya, your week. The mead of the current propaganda is no longer just obvious - it cries.

But maybe she was deliberately so stupid that smart people do not have a desire to argue with her, and the president receives a correct, truthful examination, only strictly classified? I doubt. With a vertical structure of power, her chapter says what he wants to hear, and all the efforts of officials are aimed at distinguishing and pleasing to the owner. In any case, I do not remember that at the Kremlin meetings, someone dared to object to the first face. Find off such a desperate daredevil - and the leader, maybe, would not repeat the nobility created for domestic consumption in the society of world leaders:

What we used to sell for the dollar and received 32 or 35 rubles in response, and now we are selling for the same dollar, but we get - how much is the rate today? - 45, 47 or 48 rubles. Therefore, revenues to the budget even increased.

The assistants must have been heard, they look at him behind him and whispers one to another, like Berlioz Ivan: "Do not contradict!"

Reading on the "faces" of the chronicle of Russian television talk shows , it is difficult not to recall the famous conversation from the "thunderstorm":

*Feklush. They say that there are such countries, a sweet girl, where there are no kings of the Orthodox, and the Saltans rule the earth. In the same earth sits on the throne of Saltan Turetsky waves, and in the other - the Saltan waves Persian; And they create a court, a sweet girl, all people need, and whatever they judge, everything is wrong ... And that is, the Earth, where all people are with fester heads.

Glasha. Why is it like that - with Pesi?

Feklush. For infidelity.*

Such a picture of the world is diligently drawn by people who were once considered shallow and educated.

The dullness ends with wildness. This involution is the development of backward when the functions and organs are atrophy behind unnecessary. The Bolsheviks created a new person. The project was a success. Already in 1918, Sergei Bulgakov spoke through the mouth of the writer - a participant in the dialogs "At the Feast of the Gods":

I admit to you that the “comrades” sometimes seem to me creatures who are completely devoid of spirit and have only lower spiritual abilities, a special variety of Darwin monkeys - Homo Socialisticus.

Later, the term homo sovieticus appeared and was widespread, in the expansion of the "scoop". Today we are told that we “ lost ” this identity that “the state will no longer survive without a quality person” and that “demographic - and all social - politics should be aimed not only to multiply the number of citizens, but also to increase their quality.”

The highly moraine patriot - this, according to the author of this concept, Sergei Karaganov, should be this new high -quality citizen. In a short article by Karaganov, the word “freedom” is repeated many times, but such a picket fence of ideological limiters is built around it that they do not have to dream of any freedom -thought - they are allowed only “freedom of self -realization for the common good”.

Such a citizen can be called Homo Non Dubius - "a person is not doubtful." But, as the Latin proverb says, Ubi Dubium Ibi Libertas is “where is doubtful, there is freedom” or, in a more free translation, “freedom begins with doubt.” And in Descartes, the famous saying begins like this: Dubito Ergo Cogito - "I doubt - therefore, think."