The riot of prohibitions is always and today

August in our Fatherland is a disturbing month. The current one was no exception. Question: “What was banned today?” It seems to be included in the treasury of eternal Russian issues. Actual words of the end of the summer - “lack of permit” and “blocking” - gain the status of metaphors: now they relate not only to elections and sites, but everyone and everyone.

A brief chronicle of demonism

The riot of prohibitions is a familiar phenomenon for the Fatherland. Someday, the new Herodotus will write a chronicle of the Russian “demonianism” (the term Ernst Unknown). The mechanism of the emergence of this evil is not visible in the thickness of times; It seems he was always. Not only the second centuries, but also a relatively civilized story (that is, the leading countdown from French enlighteners with their principles of humanism and freedom) indicates the saturation of the process. Pavel the first led the campaign against words: he replaced the “fatherland” with “state”, “citizen” with the “layman”, and “society” was generally forbidden to use; Nicholas the first - fought with the Decembrists; Both of the Alexander - with the people's volumes. Under Nicholas the second, there was a turn of the circle. The revolutionary element, which he did not have time to destroy, destroyed him. The persecuted became persecutors. Stalin bravely erased everything alive from the face of the earth - from fists with priests to artists with scientists. And then revelation descended on him, and he forbade the whole past in one fell swoop-with the help of a “short course in the history of the USSR for 3-4 grades approved by him personally. From now on, the history of Russia served (and, it seems, will serve for a long time) with a certain preface to the era of Joseph Vissarionovich.

Having defeated the "obvious" enemies, they took up the implicit, that is, cosmopolitans and Jews. Very soon it turned out that this was one and the same. What is only one campaign against doctors! Anti -Semitism turned into state policy. Then the turn of dissidents came, and the state switched inspiration to those who dare to think without the permission of the highest sovereign forces.

New Russia strictly observes glorious traditions - the fight against its own people. All objectionable space is concrete

- From the oligarchs with the adoptives of children to adherents of surrogate motherhood and a separate shaman. And always, at all times, the main direction of the blow is a free thought and a free word. “Punishment by the Motherland” - so diplomats working in European countries call an unplanned return home. A very promising term for the present time.

Collective blindness - the abolition of the diagnosis

Another important topic follows from the riot of demonism: the history of Russia as a history of collective blindness. Here are the origins of our identity, clothed in the immortal formula "The people are silent." (And whoever is not silent, he disappears). We know everyone, everyone saw, but we continue to believe in a miracle. Putin's reign began with hard media sweeps. They closed the NTV, lifted the rest of the TV to steel shine, adjusted the paper press. But when Medvedev appeared from the foam of the sea as a successor in 2007, a sigh of relief was heard. Baba Pelageya from the Bashkir village of Krasny Zilim said: Putin and Medvedev - one team. The army of experts immediately confirmed the insight of the wise woman. A day later, Putin and Medvedev were already indistinguishable. Two days later it turned out that the word "democrat" and even the word "liberal" is no longer a curse. And when Mikhail Leontyev deciphered the true meaning of the Putin’s message (“Guys, Sokkukha, they will not flog”) Pacification reigned in the air.

Mr. Leontyev is often inaccurate.

The more Putin's deadlines there were, the more clearly it became: they would flog.

Who is needed and how. The only thing that the guardians did not take into account is the rapid approach of the era of the total Internet and total openness. The chain of time exploded - the people stopped silent. Today in our Fatherland there is a rare natural phenomenon - an attempt to stop time. It would seem that everyone understands: it is impossible to act in the patterns of previous centuries in the 21st century. It is clear to everyone except the authorities. She still wants to stop the moth flights of spacecraft to Mars.

In the "Day of the Trap", Sorokin interprets the future of the country as a return to medieval archaic. When the book came out, the historical pessimism of the author seemed excessive to me. Now it doesn't seem so. The closer the date (Sorokin describes the 2028th year), the or rather the anti-utopia with its dominance of security forces and fences from the outside world are similar to reality. Hope is only for one thing - collective blindness retreats. Otherwise, where would such a number of enemies of the state immediately come from?

Yesterday the cheese was crushed with a rink, today - journalists

The presence of an external and internal enemy is the basis of the regime. The peculiarity of the moment is enemies those who are not friends. The former from the second are separated by total control, which is subjected to the entire space of life - from historical science to carrot prices. For the convenience of the strategy, those who are not friends are united under the nickname “Inoage”. There were always foreign agents in Russia, they were just called differently. But the power with such demonstrative cynicism has never mocked its citizens.

The prohibitions can be given nothing but subsequent prohibitions. In the quantity and quality of the ruling absurd, today's Russia left behind tsarist Russia. Vladimir Purishkevich, a creative Black Highway and a deputy of the State Duma as many as three convocations, could achieve a ban on the production of Oscar Wilde's Oscar Wilde in the Komissarzhevsk Salome theater. But even Purishkevich encroached only one performance. Today, the vengeful union of officers, veterans, coupled with the inhabitants of various chambers, is eager to close any idea that is not executed personally by them. And after all, they will close sooner or later, who would doubt it.

The peculiarity of the current moment is the design of the class of loafers parasitizing on lackey patriotism. They start mainly in television studios, they also live in the same place. Then they are overgrown with mythical centers, institutions, and headquarters. They can only hate and prohibit. It is such a void that producing the void - reliable assistants to the general line. Any power is suspicious. Not all power is petty. And very rare power is touchy, like yesterday's mistress. We were lucky - we got this marvelous bouquet. Yesterday they were offended by imported cheese, today - for journalists. Yesterday cheese, today journalists are pressed by a rink.

Lenin, Stalin, Skabeev

And now about the good. I am naive attempts by individual investigators (both finished and not finished by vigilant Roskomnadzor) to bring elite propagandists to the pure water. Unlike ideological loafers, these elite ones plow selflessly. The recently exposed Evgenia Popov, who was going to deputies, so what? And before, the couple was exposed by Simonyan, Solovyov, Kiselev, Nailya Asker-Zade-so what? They are only filled with juices from enemy words. The main successes of the Power over the past 20 years are precisely in propaganda. Who is good to pay if not for them? Both the authorities and the people learn about their previously unprecedented Victorias from their mouths. “Northern Stream” may not be completed, but these time -legged at the post.

It has long been clear: “60 minutes” is not a program, but a symbol of faith. Recently, one excited Ukrainian deputy built such a new hierarchy - Lenin, Stalin, Skabeev. In an ideological sense, he is not as far from the truth as it might seem. Olga is a national treasure. Only grateful spectators call Olyochka only Skabeev. On Soviet TV there was Valechka (Leontyeva), and we have Olga. It does not stand still, develops. Her voice still gives a shackle ringing, but the style changes before her eyes. Skabeeva is equal to Kiselev: she gained degree, he pronounces the words emphasized clearly, as if the piles in the eternal permafrost. And the little hands smoothly so much - just like a senior comrade. Unlike her husband, deputies are not going to deputies. And if he goes somewhere someday, then immediately to the president. If you listen carefully (as sophisticated torture) the Skabeeva and Popov program, you will always be aware of future prohibitions. A real politics, already inseparable from real madness, is performing here.