Mikhail Maccoon: "People do not want change"

"It is strange that no one has yet drawn a completely obvious analogy of home violence with the stability of autocracies. In general, there is no good answer to the question: what are people holding in any bad team? Why do families live in a permanent conflict for years? Why is it cheaper to warm up everything to the hustlear than just divorcing bad work? Preparing? " - The publicist writes on Facebook .

"Each of these actions has some costs: you will have to look for a new place of residence, you will lose in income, before the school will not be five minutes through the yard, but two stops on the subway. But, on the other hand, losses from preservation-they are clearly higher.

The answer, it seems to me, can be one: no one is afraid of direct costs, but everyone wants to maintain the status quo. Everyone wants to save the default settings. In every situation where the “Do not make a decision” option is left - a person, on average, will stop on it.

It's like hiring and dismissal. It is much more difficult to get a job than not to lose it. By hiring, you must persuade the pendulum in the head of the authorities from the default position to the decision to “hire” so that you are fired the same pendulum must move in the opposite direction. And he is most comfortable in position 0 (zero).

Moreover, it does not matter to what extent the current status quo is terrible. It can be not only a family where you are beaten or an office where they poison. It can be literally a prison. I grew up in a city where, probably, every 4th adult had prison experience. I know this only from the stories, but to go out no better than sitting down. This schedule, this food, this life, these relationships-they become your status-vvo, which is selected completely on the same day.

From here it is quite easy to understand why autocraces are so stable. People, on average, do not want change. No one is admitted to this, but the ground is a ground is preferred. Let tomorrow be the same as yesterday. Even if yesterday and tomorrow you are a DPRK citizen.

Here is the best example not even Russia, but Venezuela. You cannot come up with a more ineffective and, between us, crazy regime. Yes, a lot of migration from Venezuela. But the country was not depopulated. People are ready to live with money that cost cheaper than paper, an outrageous level of violence, but do not change anything.

It turns out that the only real tool against the usurpation of power is not a mythical “freedom -loving mentality”, these are institutions that provide hard rotation. Because in their absence, if tomorrow Donald Trump declares himself the father of the nation and the lifelong president-the vast majority of Americans will prefer not to do anything, no significant masses will go to fight with the police and no 2nd amendment will help here.

The victories of the so -called "populists" are customary to call the "crisis of democracy." In reality, it is a triumph of stable democratic institutions. Only they undress the Hungarian Orban from the American Trump - the first can grab the chair simply because no one will come to overthrow it, no matter how unsuccessful it is, the further - the more it will become sophisticated "stability" for the population, the second system will not allow this. "