Utopia against archaic 2.0

In Kant's homeland, the next “Kafka and Orwell Forum” was held

Ilya Shumanov, who came up with this Kaliningrad forum 7 years ago, also called him “post -tertoilic”. This was a certain coquetry, and over time it became clear that there, behind the mind (and it doesn’t matter whether you believe in God), there is nothing more.

Should I call the mind that it pushes us from time to time to get together and think about the general future? In this case, the mind is squealing here in Svetlogorsk, where the forum “about the future” was held, but it is not noticeable in the conditional “leadership of the country”. There, the common future is discussed separately from society. But it doesn't work anymore ...

The “Leader and Tribes” model remains at the level of national consciousness, because liberals, who are also focusing on the “leader”, also do not know how to jump out of it.

This is always a random figure, and there are no “ruts”, but there are always a corridor of opportunities, but he is a “sleeve”: if you once went to the right, you are unlikely to return to the left. This was said by Sergey Tsyplyaev-physicist, and now the dean of the Faculty of Law in St. Petersburg.

This idea was looped by the entrepreneur and radio host Dmitry Potapenko with the outline: since the authorities will not be able to appoint a successor to himself, we are “waiting for the junta for a short time”. But a modern network society can simply ignore the issue of the “successor”, and its legitimacy will nothing to justify.

Everyone agrees that the formally rebuilt vertical of power with a single center is already now - “technocratic utopia”. The level of diversity of the control system here is catastrophically lower than that of the controlled one: the center has only coercion from the answers to various challenges, and then the only peaceful development scenario for the country is the transfer of power to the level of regions and local self -government.

But what is there, “downstairs,” remained from human capital?

Viktor Shenderovich was groceryly joking on this subject: in recent years, the audience of his foreign tour has grown ten times.

The conclusions of Svetlana Makovetskaya, an expert on the “third sector”, also look anxious: NPOs provide citizens with the possibility of “from civilian entertainment to civil exploits”, but basically this is “archaic 2.0”. Activists pupate, everyone speaks in their own language, an incomprehensible neighbor. Mimicry for grant standards in the market, where the monopoly forcibly seized the state, destroys diversity and leads to the creation of windows, behind which there is nothing.

“The variability of the future is a matter of choosing a collective memory,” says publisher Irina Prokhorova. But sometimes this is again the choice between historical truth and Grant. So money can not only revive, but also kill civil society. "But! - proves economist Mikhail Dmitriev. “We are waiting for a future in which, due to growth in any product, the intellectual component will play money a significantly smaller role than today.” While the state was worn with the budget as a universal booze of soft violence, such a future seems to have already come.

It is not difficult to predict the bad: if you do the same, the same thing will turn out. It is impossible to predict good: if suddenly we will begin to do it from some body, which before, there will be so many points of bifurcation that the trajectory cannot be calculated in advance. A good future should just be done-based on the fact that some well-known things should no longer be done.

All performances can be viewed on YouTube by links on the website of the Kafka and Orwell Forum. The forum was supported by a permanent sponsor, Kaliningrad entrepreneur Igor Pleshkov and the Tomas Concrete Group of Companies. The arrival of part of the experts paid for the Committee of Civil Initiatives, but the listeners - about 100 people from different regions of Russia - paid for the road and food from their pocket. This time there were without raiding mummers of Cossacks (2015) or police search (2018). Either really the mind prevailed, or the state spent all the forces on the acceleration of Moscow actions and searches from Navalny's supporters.