
It was a long time ago. So long ago that I don’t even want to remember how many years have passed. Many years have passed. The first Christmas tree in the new school, the class teacher said that you must definitely come in carnival costumes. I had no suit. The costumes of the bear, the wolf and the hare were sold in the "children's world", but cost some kind of space. Twenty -five rubles, if not more. Of course, I asked my parents to buy, but so, for the Promise. I knew for sure that they would not buy.
Mom decided to comfort-she gave out pants for some unimaginable coloring, colorful jacket and a wide belt. The bandage to the eye completed the image.
“Here, you look like a pirate,” Mom said.
I looked in the mirror. Alas, I didn't look like a pirate. I looked like a fool. In general, he took off all this beauty, put on ordinary clothes and went to the Christmas tree. Where it turned out that no one has costumes. My friend Sasha came in a wolf costume. The same, from the "Children's World". Of course, we began to make fun of Sasha, he ran home - good, lived nearby, across the road, changed clothes and returned. But then it turned out that he had come in costumes a special gift, he ran home again ... And when he returned to Werewolf, we, of course, continued to make fun of him.
So, the kids, and the repressions against quadroers in the early -peristrict USSR looked looked like. Now everything is tougher.

“The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia and Armenia Sergey Lavrov and Ararat Mirzoyan discussed the quadrober while waiting for negotiations between the leaders of the two countries in the Kremlin. “Do you have quadrobors? <...> Children dress up in dogs. This is one of the most important news. They walk like animals, ”said the Russian minister. His Armenian colleague in response said that he knew about such a new movement. ”
It looks like a fragment of a sophisticated absurd play, but no. This is a real note from the tape of the main state news agency. Everything is seriously. Deputy Sergei Kolunov from the EP demands to introduce for parents of the quadro-workers "punishment up to criminal." Deputy Yana Lantratov is against - she believes that it is necessary not to punish parents, but those who promote quadrobaters on the Internet and the media. And is already preparing the appropriate bill. And she, by the way, is not just a deputy, she is the First Deputy Head of the Fair Russia faction for truth and the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Enlightenment. By the way, yes, this is now an enlightenment. The Federation Council also has supporters of the ban. And the ministers, as we see, are discussing the problem, and even the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov is forced to answer questions from journalists, to express the timid hope that the President of the Russian Federation knows nothing about quadro-workers. But this, of course, is not for sure. It cannot be ruled out that he is also concerned about the situation with the quadrors. And, having chosen the right moment, he will follow the next outstanding speech the story of this movement from the Mongol-Tatars to the present day.
An ordinary person understands, firstly, what all this is all wildness. No, not the children who jump in the parks, meowed and gavka, but adults of aunts and uncles who score the air in speeches about threats emanating from quadrobica. Well, and secondly, it is clear to an ordinary person that any teenage hobbies end-he himself was a teenager. And if adolescents do not cripple themselves and others, it is pointless and useless to intervene in their games. It will pass by itself. The matured emo and the Goths are now sitting in offices. And even in the trenches. And the aged fans of Victor Tsoi command them. And there and there. One fan of Deep Purple , who was also not younger, composes tirelessly texts about the Baltic midvgs and Anglo -Saxon nonhumans. It copes well, the texts are fire.
But a state -owned man is not a couple.
Experts love to argue if modern Russia has ideology. And I will say this - modern Russia definitely has mythology. There is a certain set of axiom disabilities that allow you to explain everything that happens in the world and build interaction with the world. Thunder is thunder because Zeus is angry, ”the ancient Greek would say. The child puts on the mask, attaches the tail and runs around the park, because the insidious enemy wants to destroy our youth, ”the Russian state man would say. Yes, in fact, he says. The Greek will arrange a hekamatube in order to propitiate a thunderer, the statesman will compose a punitive law, according to which some people, most likely, innocent and unfortunate, will go to jail.
The basic mythological postulate is about this - nothing happens just like that, in itself. Everything that happens in society happens either thanks to the wise order of the boss, or as a result of the machinations of the so -called partners. Overseas puppeteers. Insidious Anglo -Saxons. The boss did not give wise orders about the institution of quadrobing in the Fatherland, therefore ...
True, the Japanese came up with a quadrobing, but what are they better than the Anglo -Saxons? No better, and, most likely, they started this to pull off the smokers with us. By the way, the island residents are good for the role of overseas puppeteers.
There is always faith behind the myth, and in our case, this is a sincere and firm belief that people are not able to voluntarily unite for some kind of affairs or for the sake of entertainment. Only the state has subjectivity, a person is deprived of subjectivity. Man is always an object of manipulation. Either emanating from the state, that is, good and correct, or from the enemies of the state, and with enemies and with their accomplices we have a short conversation.

Children play a special role inside this power mythology. Firstly, children are hope, an embodied future. People who joyfully build a fictitious past in Russia are very concerned about the future. Secondly, in the paternalistic model (and we in it) the relations of the state and a person are generally thought of family: at the head of state, a wise and caring father who brings up unintentional children, takes care of them, instructs, but can spank if children are bad. The child here turns out to be an object by definition, an object in a square: he is definitely not able to make any choice, he can only be imposed on him. The devil, say, correcting a little classic, fights our president, and the battlefield is the hearts of children.
A clash with reality is a problem for any mythology, ours is no exception. It so happened that in relative stability and satiety, a whole generation grew, which is obviously not ready to share the aggressive values of fathers and grandfathers who have settled in bosses. The error is taken into account, and now children are an object (I repeat, this is a keyword) of the state's close attention. Hence the “conversations about the important”, militarized children's movements in the Soviet manner and so on in the same spirit. The child simply cannot, does not have the right to act freely - he must constantly be saturated with the light of state wisdom. An adult foster father-father, at least sometimes can leave alone, a child-never.
But it is clear (perhaps this is understandable even to the state people themselves, because they were once Soviet children, yawned on political information and pioneer races) that obsessive state patriotism is an uncompetitive product. All more interesting than "Talking about the important." In general, that's it. Even picking in the nose - and that is more interesting. And how much more interesting it is to run around the park, having attached a fluffy tail to himself to the very place where the tail and the cat grows from!
The unfortunate quadrober is an ideal target for a state attack: he chose entertainment for himself. There is no didactics within this entertainment. He does not study anything (even bad), but he could have a summary of the president’s conversation with Taker Carlson or disassemble the Kalashnikov assault rifle. And by origin this infection is foreign. And even a quadrobrier looks like another. Like a stranger. Differs. Stands out. This is a great sin.
To see the machinations of enemies here, to discover and ban the next non -existent extremist international movement is the work of technology, and our state people have mastered this technique well. The trouble is that due to membership in fictional movements, the state with pleasure breaks the lives of very real people.
And it is not worth it to be surprised that ministers, deputies and members of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation seriously discuss the fight against quadrobat. Everything is just quite logical.
Surprisingly, perhaps this is what. The unexpectedly famous deputy Vitaly Milonov spoke out in defense of children with tails : “As far as I love all kinds of prohibitive things, but here“ that mash ”is not. Everything is very simple. If we stop talking about this [about quadrabers], then after two months everyone will be completely bored, everything will forget. ”
Do you understand? The deputy, whose very name has become a synonym for ridiculous cartel initiatives, is trying to stop his zealous colleagues. There are, you know, such memes with a scale, where some kind of previously inconceivable events that have now happened are listed, and with the mark-"you are here."
So, in our parliament, deputy Milonov turned out to be the last adherent of elementary sanity. You are here. We are here.