Day of joy

Russian people with pleasure are some problems. Even in spite of the craving for idleness (pike orders, goldfish, seven-color flowers and other artifacts of the domestic hedonist), the craving for gloomy still prevails. The demotivators, in the end, were already invented in Runet, but the motivators were not. That is, in Russia to be dissatisfied normally, not ashamed, but if someone rejoices, all the more unreasonably, then for others this is already a reason to think. You go along the street, you see a sour face, well, normal, a common thing. You see that a lonely passerby smiles is not visible: either his birthday, or dementia.

To enjoy life, you need courage. To enjoy life with limited resources, courage in a square plus fantasy. And in both cases, you can’t do without taste and common sense: so that you are not accidentally forced to rejoice at what you really do not want. To distinguish good joy from bad.

Although such ephemeral things as joy are not easy to reason with the pragmatic vein, the “Salt magazine” took up this. Moreover, with all responsibility: the pleasures are small and large, useful and dangerous for a person are interested in the whole ruler.

The philosopher Elena Petrovskaya positions of the humanitarian scientist (curious, and not bores) explains how hipsters in his manner enjoy life differing from Norma from the nineties, Putin from Medvedev, and we are all from the ancient Greeks. A team that makes the best humorous show in the entire TV - “Reutov TV” - in an interview with “Salt magazine”, not so much analyzes joy as it brings it to people at the same time with laughter.

Ivan Davydov appears with a powerful manifesto in the protection of that bad habits and specifically the one that the royal nicotine is responsible for.

The lawyer Alexei Zimin says the right to gastronomic pleasures.

Sitting tribute, following Rolan Bart, pleasure from the text, we devote separate material to reading - more precisely, to say, the literature of the relaxation: about sex, goodies, alcohol, rags and travels. All five books from the review came out, which is characteristic, at the sunset of the relaxed 2000s.

In order not to be deadly serious, they also gave a place to the file of the pleasures of the tiles: a warm checkered blanket, children, cats, funny pictures.

Yes, funny pictures of a photo gallery of sellers of joy (that is, those who sell us sweet cotton wool on a pony) and futuristic children's drawings for the glory of nanotechnologies (nanode, nanochka and other “objects of the future”).

In a word, live well, live for yourself, and not only.