Denis Dragunsky: "Riddles of power"

“Here recently a certain governor spoke about the ethnosocial conflict in the territory entrusted to him. Having accused of everything, which provokes and throws fakes,” the writer recalls on his Facebook page.

"The impression of complete inadequacy. But we will not rush. Here is a story from my youth. One famous Soviet psychiatrist could not stand one even better well-known Soviet philosopher. Once he sent him to his audience with a tape recorder. He then showed his students a recorded lecture as an example of a schizophrenic speech. And from the point of view of a condo psychiatrist, that was really a classic example of the T.N. "schizophrenic resonance."

What did not prevent this philosopher from remaining a respected professor and author of a whole shelf of monographs. Obviously, the mind from the point of view of a psychiatrist and from the point of view of a philosopher are very different minds.

But back to the topic of power.

Take, for example, Brezhnev. The last years of his life, he was clinically dementia. What did not stop him ...

Or the recently rested Bobkov Army General. Then they referred to his interview, where he calls Khrushchev and Gorbachev - Trotskyists. That is, the general has a deuce on the history of the CPSU! Gorbachev - and Trotskyism? N-yes. You involuntarily ask - how can a person with such a level of knowledge in the field of ideology - could fight ideological enemies? It's not to catch pickpockets at the station! However, he grew up in the service and probably "enjoyed well -deserved authority."

The conclusion here is simple. Rather, very difficult and morally difficult. Obviously, for successful work in power, the mind - in the old usual sense of "mind" - is not needed at all. Not needed. Deeply parallel, may I say goodbye to me such a geometric metaphor.

So do not laugh at the governor to whom America throws different fakes. He is a man in his place. In any case, for now. "