The man is guilty

Where in the Russian world came the presumption of unclean conscience in anyone. The opinion of the anthropologist

Not so long ago, a person, a participant in his own, was accused of spoiling state flags in the cemetery. The fact is that on occasion he was somewhere nearby. Evidence, the investigation is superfluous. The main reason is that someone must certainly be guilty. So it works here.

In the ancient world, with the presentation of Socratic philosophy, a rational person. In modern times, with the filing of Darwin and Marx, he is a working person. At the same time, rationality was not canceled. Later, with the light hand of Baudrian, a person consuming. Reasonability in doubt.

In the "Russian world" (by default, it is not known from whose presentation, but always) - a guilty person. The conversation is not about rationality in principle. Homo Culpa, speaking academic. Russian anthropology.

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Perhaps the case is the specifics of the Orthodox canon, where the peak of anthropstation is not declared a person’s correction, not his improvement, but repentance. Yes, repentance was the universal practice of the Christian faith, but as for the clergy of Europe - it was significantly supplemented by a rather daring will to cognition.

The monks not only prayed and repented, but adapted Plato and Aristotle, made curious travel notes about the people they met, and sometimes completely presented completely new models of the Divine Universe, such as Dominican Giordano Bruno.

The Russian Orthodox canon did not leave the fruits of knowledge. No philosophy, no science. In this canon, it was customary to suspect any occupation of a person, if in the end it did not end with repentance. But from philosophical intuition does not follow repentance, and therefore, is it not a dangerous temptation?

If the peak is repentance, then the basis is guilt. A sense of unconditional guilt determines the sacrament for Orthodoxy, and even more - in general to the human race. Quintessence - in the words of the elder Zosima from the "brothers Karamazov": " Make yourself guilty and immediately understand that it is so ."

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It is one thing when wine is a deeply personal, intimate (Mea Culpa, lat.). Between man and his God. But when the guilt is declared universal and doubt not subject, this is a completely different matter. The presumption of unclean conscience: there is no one who is not prescribed repentance.

The Russian Orthodox Church almost immediately followed the path of its metropolis - the Church of Byzantine. That is, almost immediately the process of symphony, the merger of the interests and contexts of church and state -owned ones began. With the obvious distribution of roles, where the state, of course, is the "older brother."

The merger turned out to be deep - we can say at the cellular level. The servants of the Lord learned the manners of the sovereign “ordered chambers”, and the servants of the sovereign were imbued with “true spiritual”. Since the alpha and the Omega of the church was the wine with repentance, the Russian state with pleasure such "scrapers" adopted itself. In your own, of course, manner. The fault was accused, and repentance - a prison term. Exactly for that “spiritual truth” that there are no innocent, but repentance is prescribed to everyone. Both before the Lord and before the sovereign. Russian truth.

Probably, since there was a long time that every sovereign servant - an official, a policeman - looks at the world as if through those words of the old man Zosima, even if he had never heard of this: "Well, who will be guilty for everyone today?" Search for him not for long - let anyone take it. And takes. And after that he feels very well: not only his superiors served, but also the high “truth”, this guilty-harassed “Russian truth”. Servant sovereign, servant of the Lord.

One friend-businessman told. They came for him to an apartment with an arrest under an economic article-six people in full armament. They put on handcuffs, lead. He asks one of them: “You can handcuffs, where will I go from you? Around the neighbors, from childhood they know me ... ”In response from a completely unfamiliar policeman he hears an instructive:“ It was necessary to live honestly! ” Of course, the handcuffs were not removed.

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It is characteristic that not only the sovereign servants “Russian Pravda” owns, but also those for whom these servants come.

In the case when they come for a neighbor, they say: “There is no smoke without fire, but just like that, for no reason, will they wear a normal person in iron?” If they come for them, then here they also have folk wisdom. “Do not say from the prison ...” - they say and follow the stage.

When, in their very monotonous existence, they periodically experience the lack of something “standing”, the lack of “truth”, then they begin to quickly look around and ask: who is to blame? And if they immediately show them at someone, then their joy will be immense.