"Zhatetsk goose" against "orbit"

The philosopher Elena Petrovskaya explains why Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev rejoice in life differently.

Elena Petrovskaya - senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the editor -in -chief of the Blue Sofa magazine believes that there can be no hedonism in Russia. And not only in Russia - in general nowhere, except for ancient Greece. Anyway, there is no more “natural” pleasures in the world, they were eaten by civilization and did not choked. About how harmful and useful habits are imposed on a person, which is not right, the writer-Gedonist Beautyer and why Hipsters forever on the positive, Petrovskaya told in detail the “Salt magazine”.

- The writer Frederick Begbeder, the singer of the new bourgeois of the Austus, called the Russian society the society of the victorious hedonism. And Moscow is an ideal city. For a person who would like to live a consumer paradise. Do you think he is right? For some, this is really a society of the victorious hedonism, and for someone a society of poverty. In this sense, Moscow is no exception, but, on the contrary, a concentrated expression of social about tivoresties and even screaming contrasts. The statements of Begbeder seem superficial to me. Well, what winning hedonism can we talk about? What is this victory associated with? With the fact that we have hypermols open somewhere in the MKAD area? I would ask Begbeater that for him it was a criterion of the victorious hedonism. - I quote: "The Russian people have one thing on their minds - as it were to stretch out." - I do not think that the Begbeder knows well how the Russian people live. We have a very stratified society, many people are not just thinking about hedonism, they do not have worthy means of existence at all. In general, today the term “hedonism” especially in relation to the consumption society is very conditional, optional and rather reflects the ideological attitudes of those who are fascinated by this society. Those who participate, and with passion, in its reproduction.

- Interesting, by the way, how the connotations change.

For example, in Soviet times, the word “ambitious” contained a negative assessment, and now if a person has ambitions, this is like a plus for him. The same is hedonism. Why suddenly it became not shame, but to be rich and live well, live for yourself?

- We are now a society of the victorious capitalism. True, our capitalism to a freely specific phenomenon in terms of purity of the model itself. But this is a society where success is promoted, where the media pay a lot of attention to the lives of oligarchs, their entertainment. In this session of value landmarks and pet -covered purposes, a certain division of the place begins to occupy the hedonism used in the non -rushing sense of the word. What is it? Synonym for pleasure, pleasure that a person receives from life, and not just from life, but from the life of a rich. The ancient Greek representation, for example, does not bear the bonds about galonism with wealth, or wealth.

Now the status is assigned to wealth - some, virtues, if you use the ancient language. Accordingly, those emotions and experiences that are set by this ideal begin to dominate.

- There is a feeling that people were bored with purely physiological joys. And they try to put some kind of philosophy under this sensory base. Here is the film “Eat, Pray, Love” or Coelho Books - such an affordable enlightenment. In short: if ten years ago people. They just ate, now they still love, pray and travel to Bali to the fashionable predictor.