Sleeping country

How partial mobilization improves the national character

The substance of the people is mobile, inventive and heterogeneous, no matter what evil languages ​​speak there. With her own metamorphoses, she reacts to the phenomena of history, gives out of the depths of her new, hitherto unknown characters. New classifications.

Here is a partial mobilization. The answer to her immediately was living folk art, giving rise to at least four very peculiar social types. Consider.

• The first category is best called using deep folk vocabulary: "non-mushrooms." This term is taken from the speeches of one pretty blonde who recently noticed in her hearts: “Only chloride can run from the call! Not men! And if the country said: you need, - get up and go. What is it here! "

Accordingly, those men who, having received the agenda, squeeze their lips and go, where it is prescribed, this is “non-mushrooms”.

Different doubts, maybe there are also among them, but there is and “it is necessary” - this great ontological Russian imperative. With him and any question is not a question:

• "Are you going to fight?" - "So it is necessary."

• "With whom to fight?" - "Who needs with."

• "What to fight for?" - "What is needed."

By answering in approximately this, the consciousness of the "non-mushroom" gains confidence.

• The second category is “shy”. These men have more doubts. The imperative "must" did not take its roots too deeply in them. Their consciousness is determined by the question to which the answer is “necessary” is not counted: “Why?” However, no other clear answer also comes. They are not ready to lose their acquired picture of the world and silently follow the political doctrine and logistics of the draft commissions. But they are not ready to leave the country, which would be frankly revealed by the disapproval of the mainstream political agenda and also by the loss of a familiar picture of the world.

Not ready, in fact, to any of the existing radical options, they, as it were, “shyly” evade. Remain to live in their cities, but not at the place of apartment registration; temporarily leave social networks; Slender to both deserted and too crowded routes. The existence of “shy” becomes alarming, but extremely interesting. They seem to participate in a global detective show, where they got the role of potentially suspects. And any gaze of a random passerby may be here - surveillance.

* Third type: "Pioneers." Those who decided not to accept unacceptable circumstances and, collecting a little things, moved into the unknown. Like those “pioneers” from the novels of Fenimore Cooper, they explore new lands at their own peril and risk, pave the ways, cross the frontiers. They do not know what awaits them ahead. The image of Nathaniel Bampa, a trade-nomad who has no home.

What significantly distinguishes them from Russian emigrants of the 20s of the last century is the voluntariness of the choice. In fact, they have not yet been declared class enemies and did not exproper property, as it was then. They could just go to the bottom, become “shy” - but preferred a variant of the rangers, “pioneers”. Here the choice is not of the kind that "either, or the destruction." Here we are talking more about ethics, but rather even about aesthetics. It is possible, leaving the country, they will be the guardians of that creating and living power that will then be put in a new foundation.

• The fourth type can be called "sleeping." So in world intelligence they call agents who are deprived of a direct mission, but are a potential asset. They expect when the system gives a significant failure - that is then their exit from the deepest cover will occur. And the most reliable cover for the “sleeping man” is when even he himself will not recognize himself as such. Until the very last moment.

The paradox of the Russian situation is that not some “dark foreign forces” create “sleeping”, as evil tongues repeat. She herself, the Russian situation, produces “sleeping” in a huge amount. In fact, each new project, every ban and control for which the system is so generous - produces them. The goods in the store disappeared, prices rose, planted a scientist, beat the poet, closed visas and, apotheosis - mobilization. Here you can’t sleep on gays and liberals.

It seems that “sleeping” is the main category in folk character today. The most socially wide: from a humiliated professor to a dismissed worker. And every day growing. If some real futurological project is now possible for the country, then it is better not to find the name than “Sleeping Russia”.