Everyone who has eyes and ears has long understood that we are living in a time of monstrous inflation of everything - words, money, health, thoughts and people.
Moreover, the process is rapid and gaining momentum.
What yesterday was called an ideal, exemplary democracy turned into the American elections, what yesterday was an exemplary example of free speech turned into stupid party propaganda.
The fight for ecology turned into a collective Gretoitunberg, and the Nobel Prize for Literature turned into unreadable opuses.
By the way, about the prizes.
Here the opposition of Belarus became the winner of the Andrei Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought for 2020.
This was announced to us on Thursday by the head of the European Parliament (EP) David Sassoli at a plenary session in Brussels.
If we did not know that in different years members of the punk group Pussy Riot, the former Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, the Belarusian oppositionist Ales Bialiatsky and the Russian ex-governor Boris Nemtsov were nominated for this award, then, of course, they would have sat open in amazement mouths.
But the prize named after the creator of the hydrogen bomb, Academician Sakharov, has been corroded on all sides for so long that no one was particularly surprised.
And yet - what is, in the opinion of the European Parliament, the “Belarusian opposition”?
Housewife Tikhanovskaya, writer Aleksievich, IT woman Veronika Tsepkalo, German flutist Maria Kolesnikova, accountant Olga Kovalkova.
And this whole Pussy Riot (which is not in Belarus for the most part) is the Belarusian opposition, which did something that would be worth a prize?
We will not even say that this is a cash bonus.
True, it is not clear in which country they will pay tax on it.
Everyone who follows the ups and downs of Belarusian life knows that the loudest girls from this company are not, as it were, independent figures, but are substitutes for their own husbands.
And there is only one real candidate - Kovalkova, and that one with a rating of 0.25%.
Well, just a kick-ass opposition, worthy of not only Sakharov's prize, but also Nobel's - why waste time on trifles.
What the hell did Madame Tikhanovskaya do?
Rides around Europe and reads pretty crazy texts from someone else's sheet.
What did Aleksievich do in her eternal rushing from chanting Dzerzhinsky to the Berlin box office?
The flutist got the most trouble - and yes, we all feel sorry for her.
And it is even more offensive, of course, that next to this booth on the road, people were nominated who are in real danger for their activities - the Archbishop of Mosul, for example.
Or, say, eco-activists from the city of El Guapinol, in Honduras.
Do you have any idea what it means to fight the Honduran government?
Who has ever been in this very Honduras?
From there, thousands of people are fleeing, and not from the chairman of the state farm Alexander Grigorievich - they are fleeing from hunger, poverty and banditry.
This is not Minsk at all with its licked streets and well-fed IT specialists who are “tired of Lukashenka”.
Tired - take a break.
Press the buttons - do not roll bags.
And nevertheless, there are people in Honduras who manage, with all this, to fight for some kind of ecology.
Because, in fact, nothing but nature is normal in this country.
Well, also the Mayan pyramids.
And these really heroic people were given a ride by the European Parliament with a premium.
It is now more important for eurodealers to promote the cardboard Belarusian opposition and in every possible way to expose under the spotlight.
That is, a purely political decision, and a very, very controversial ethically.
Not to mention the fact that, since now everyone is looking for signs of everyone's interference in everything, so here it is - and interference in the internal affairs of Belarus, and pressure on the country's authorities - in all its glory.
The EU is trying to blow this collective frog through a straw to make it look big and important.
But here you can't overdo it - the frog can burst.
And, may the animal rights activists forgive me, it will be just a funny sight.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.