Gleb Kuznetsov: "Treasure Island"

"Treasure Island" - the book is very good. And very adult. I read it to her child now and was amazed at her depth and gloomy honesty. She is not about treasures, pirates and battles, she is about the fruitlessness of any resentment. The values ​​of the pirates, generated by anger, envy and created by the image of the enemy, the sublimation of a sense of inferiority into a special morality, in a special system of relationships - “justice”, expressed in the “Code of Gentlemen of Good luck” - are defeated and insolvent before the values ​​of the ruling class, values ​​of the “first world,” writes a political scientist on his own page in their page Facebook .

"Dr. Livsi is not just a doctor, he is an intellectual, he makes plans, enters into complex negotiations, he even treats pirates during the" hot phase "of the conflict. (All these venues of the West, like" doctors without borders "and" red crosses "should be called him name.)

Squire is financial capital, he is an investor who not only pays for everything, but also contains “cannon meat”. Infantry is his armed servants. Captain Smlett - technology, and both purely technological technologies - how to control the ship, both to navigate by devices and stars, as well as military technologies, and management technologies. Iron will, knowledge and competent leadership are captain Smolelett.

All together and each individually are educated people with serious weight in society. They took place, their right to the present - and the future - the "treasure" - are not disputed by anyone.

And what about the pirates? Unhappy people. Weak, poorly organized, only that compensating for their savagery and non -education, is anger and aggression. Mostly barren. Their motivation: “I want to live in his cabin” (this is about the captain) with a huge number of accumulated claims to the world, his injustice and his role as a victim of circumstances in it.

Silver, balancing on the verge of two worlds (its unusual character, unique knowledge and origin from the "decent people" emphasizes the author many times), offered them a plan - to wait until the squire, the captain and the doctor dig up the treasures, deliver them to the ship, bring the ship to the inhabited places, and then kill them. Divide the treasure and all your life to "dress like lords" and "ride in a carriage."

And what? The plan does not work. Even if Hawkins did not hear this discussion, it smelled of a riot in the “air” - so much that the captain would have guessed everything himself. Pirates would simply not be able, due to their internal shortcomings, to observe the secret and consistently follow the strategy.

They cross ashore, put a camp in a malaria swamp and get a malaria, leave the fort on the hill for the "gentlemen", storm it, and most people lose it. During a drunken fight, they then lose the ship, the role of Jim Hawkins in his hijacking is negligible - Israel Hends himself “did everything” and this is very conveingly shown in the book.

And then they are deceived - the doctor and their own chosen commander John Silver. They are an ideal manipulated mass, they can be convinced of anything, relying on a couple of simple theses - "you are better than others", they must "live in a korolevsky" and "and then we will kill everyone."

The result is logical. Those who should live like this by education and origin live in Korolevsky. Plus, the lanky John Silver is the “chosen” head of the pirates, who built his successful strategy for manipulating the team and the betrayal of its interests. At the same time, John, in fact, is not a traitor, he wanted “what is better”, but the quality of the human material, in the interests of which he wanted the best, made him see a simple thing-with these people it is impossible differently. They themselves are not able to act in their interests, so what the hell to keep them loyalty and go to the bottom together?

The book "Treasure Island" is a really great book about resentimal. No worse than the "genealogy of morality" Nietzsche, where this phenomenon is introduced. And both books were written at about the same time. You will never achieve anything, you will not prove anything just from the fact that you want it and consider it fair. Education, experience, origin, place in society with specific ties (all this receives, by the way, Jim Hawkins) - these are the conditions of success.

Well, or the ability to take advantage of the trust and energy of people who listen to you in time to “jump out” from their world and jump into the world of gentlemen with their education, experience, origin. The book is heavy, but very informative and useful. Especially for a society, struck by the same resentment. "