We proceed from the fact that we live here, and therefore we try to interpret every event in our favor. Suppose, not everyone, but each of those that have consequences with which we live.
The Constitution is amended - they are of different caliber and scale, can be perceived differently, but, apparently, everyone will become part of the basic law. And about the state-forming people, and about faith in God, and about the increased responsibility of officials, and about presidential terms. There is nothing wrong with that.
Against the background of these political phenomena, macroeconomic changes are taking place. Oil fell in price, the ruble fell, then recouped, then financial markets fell due to the coronavirus epidemic, the production chains of large corporations were interrupted. These are all working moments - interesting and exciting, but certainly not catastrophic. We look at this as part of the historical process in which our country is actively involved. And we are with her, because - but where do we go? We always have time to lie down and die, but there is no one to live for us.
Reaction: oh, everything is bad, everything is lost - it closes on itself all subsequent actions, or rather, cancels them. Everything is bad - that means nothing will happen. Will, do not worry, we live here.
But the natural reflex of a person who opposes himself to the official system is that the current state of affairs is a little from afar and is going to spit. Why do these spit come from? From powerlessness.
Is it easy to be an oppositionist today? It is very easy to be an oppositionist today. Moreover, this being does not require any effort from a subject who identifies himself with the opposition.
In the end, there is no active opposition - for 20 years there has not been any significant force opposing the authorities. Opposing themselves as opposition did not form structures that would meet the needs of the population.
And what kind of requests does the population have? We would have bigger salaries and retired early. Requests are fair, but not always satisfied.
And who is responsible for satisfying or not satisfying these requests? Only the state. This state comes out and says: you will excuse us, but if you do not raise the retirement age, then there will be nothing to live on.
Does the state think at that moment that part of the population knows about sky-high salaries of people in oil companies and some government agencies? Of course, he thinks and has this in mind. Does the state at this moment think that all these statements are perceived as hostile? Not only thinks, it exists with this knowledge. Nevertheless, he takes responsibility, because there is no one else. And suffers a sagging rating, uncomfortable questions and slanting looks.
And mind you, does not evade responsibility, does not disappear and does not dissolve itself. Because you need to have experience, strength and courage in order to make such decisions, and then be responsible for them.
What is happening on the other hand? On the other hand, unrestrained fun certainly happens. Jokes, humor, laughter - memos and jokes. You can attack the whole world with a two-core 83-year-old Valentina Tereshkova simply because she made it easier for everyone and called things by their proper names.
Yes, he says, let Putin be. What do you propose? What alternative have you formed? What did you offer the people? After all, there was a moment of amazing protest unity in 2011 - everyone rallied around the negative idea of canceling the election results. This is a definition from the opposite - "man is not a dog." And what in return? What is the seed, where is the positive agenda? You do not want to be as it is? What do you want? Do you want a power shift? And whom have you prepared to replace for all these years? Yes, even in the presidential election you proposed voting for Zyuganov only because he did not seem to be in power, and therefore, against the government. So what? Did this Zyuganov help you? Did you overthrow the hated regime?
But even if you imagine that they overthrew: what next? Fetish power shift? Does it provide universal prosperity? And if you don’t provide? And if it takes 20 years for the new system to settle down? Are you ready to tell people: “Sorry, but, apparently, we’ll live in a state of permanent seven-point storm for 20 years, and we don’t know what will happen later, but it is believed that turnover is a panacea”?
Oh, how easy it is to be an oppositionist! To talk endlessly on the topic of renewal of political leadership and adherence to the principles of international law, to look at everything from the height of one’s moral principles and talk about how it is arranged in the civilized world. And laugh at constitutional amendments. After all, why understand, why explain? You can just make fun of everything in the world and walk with a pleased look: we are oppositionists, we are against everyone, but for all the good. And still hide behind a line from Yegor Letov "I will always be against it."
Only Letov stood a Russian genius who could afford generalizations of any scale and an emotional impulse of any intensity.
And behind you is youthful maximalism: I will perceive with irony everything that adults say so that they in no way think that I am listening to them.
The spirit of contradiction is a good factor in the development of personality in adolescence. The deconstruction of the established image - power, state, personality, artwork - is a good reception at the stage of formation. But in the period of an established way of life, what, apart from destruction, can you offer? Have a good laugh? Okay, we laughed. What's next? What do you want, an oppositionist?
Easy and carefree life? So you live. It will not be better.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.