There is no place for young people

Why doxa is the power that our authorities are afraid

Three years ago, in Moscow, on charges of creating an extremist community, ten young people were detained. One of the detainees was a minor. Another two - the girl and the young man - eighteen turned away shortly before the arrest. The process in their case lasted more than two years and received a public resonance as a “case of“ new greatness ” - by the name that the guys gave their mug, where they discussed plans for changes. Plans for changing Russia for the better.

However, this circle, or the “organization”, as it was respectfully called in court, was created not by the accused, but the provocateur working for the law enforcement agencies, known as Ruslan D., he campaigned for the children to create an “organization”, to write its charter, and at meetings pushed to discuss the need to change power in Russia. That is, Ruslan D. on an equality “involved minors in dangerous activity”, violating clause 2 of Article 151 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

However, Ruslan D. did not suffer any punishment for violation of the law. The punishment was carried by those whom he involved.

The minor at the time of the arrest Anna Pavlikova and her young friends, who received after a painfully long process, during which the provocateur gave evidence against them, real and conditional terms.

But for the “crimes”, so qualified by this article, now they are sitting under house arrest on the eve of the court (this, in essence, is house arrest, although it is mockingly called differently) employees of the DOXA student magazine-Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metelkin and Natalya Tyshkevich. It turns out that they involved minors in dangerous activity, having recorded a video in January about how students are pressed at universities so that they would not go to protest rallies. At the request of Roskomnadzor, the video was removed from YouTube, but the claims of the security forces to the guys, of course, did not “star”.

That is, if you summarize, this is what: a person who provoked minors to enter a dangerous path is not only punished, but also gives evidence against them, but young people who told how to crush and violate their rights to minors, bring punishment for being told the truth.

This example is not only internally symmetrical - one case seems to be “mirror”, turns over the other, but also brightly illustrates what has been happening with us recently. With the raid, what was happening should be called “struggle against youth”, but more precisely, it would be said that this is “fear of youth”.

Perhaps youth is a power that our authorities are most afraid of most today.

Recently, I came across the words of the press secretary and vice president of Rosneft Mikhail Leontyev. It seems that he said this in connection with the “Moscow business”, but this quote was not only not faded, but matured, it was filled with relevance: “We will face the need to deprive youth of the electoral rights, probably in the near future. Because otherwise we will lose the country. <...> My opinion: the current youth does not need voting rights at all. ”

Mikhail Leontyev, of course, the speaker is a specific, but one of the features of today's Russia is that these are the same, with the Maspeisle, the pronounced “Truth -Troubles” guess the trends and even lead them (take at least famous TV presenters or fiery deputies of both sexes).

Because, indeed, why our young people are suffrage? What is there, the opportunity to choose (and, by the way, to be chosen)! It is not clear why the possibility of at least some of their actions, at least some activity?

We know what young people want. This is explained to us in the well -known song that the singer sang, forever young and remaining and still with the young, popular. I sang right - we want change. Does the current Russia want change? That's just it.

All youth in principle enjoys distrust in our state. Of course, somewhere there are detachments of young Putinites, but at the same time young people do not cause confidence in general. And it’s clear why.

For the most part, young people - just because of their age and their inherent skills and interests - live in another world than the one where the price is stagnated. They, well, at least just listening to world popular music and watching world popular films and series, are built into exactly the world context, exactly in the world agenda from which our power wants to isolate.

A person does not make a stranger in our power a person (well, not only politics), but precisely the built -in in modernity.

The acceptance of her discoveries, her ethical norms, her agendas. The issues of equality, unacceptability of violence, ecology may well excite people who consider themselves “outside politics”. However, this interest itself makes such people strangers to the authorities of those in power. Because these questions and problems (say, rounding) are new. And their solution implies changes.

And the authorities do not want any changes, except for the changes “to the old”.

So the young is not a place here.