Our national consciousness - would you agree?
Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2010 9:48
The rich are not happy.
Viktor Erofeev
Forbes, may 2008
All know who the fist, but few know the origins of this word. It would seem that the fist and therefore the fist that held the whole village in his hand, was a parasite, an exploiter of the village. This explanation is beautifully suited the Bolsheviks, when they began to dispossess the rich peasants. Hatred of the fist in this case, it seemed a natural departure feelings. Actually the fist was the name of the peasant who worked day and night and therefore slept little, not on the pillow, and tucked his fist under his head. In this case, the fist could be called any lazy, a successful farmer. From this turn, the etymology is born a positive way, but he was doomed to the historical destruction. Russian fist knocks on the table in a rage, and humbly placed under the head of a tired man – with this stereotype we are born and die.
Rich for the Russian people is a wide spectrum of threats. He oppresses them first and foremost mentally, emphasizing its existence to his life's failure. It is possible to become dependent, to become a slave. Rich is never ours, he is an alien and hostile by definition. Rich in the Russian consciousness, fueled compassionate Russian literature, is a greedy, cunning, clever, resourceful, enterprising man, who for the sake of wealth ready for any meanness. But the main thing – heartless man. All the rest is mental, and he is soulless. The soul flew away from him, he's already an inanimate object, in the future it is waiting for hell, he is the Antichrist, and to him everything is permitted, any kind of violence. About the rich people in Russia are supposed to tell the gossip and nastiness. The rich man in the Russian consciousness – not caught the thief. Rich justice can only be the Russian Tsar.
However, the Russian attitude towards wealth is the fundamental inconsistency. In itself wealth is not disgusting for a Russian, he's ready to become rich and to bask in luxury, but that he should do nothing, wealth is magically obliged to come to him, without any effort on his part. This miraculous discovery of wealth, a fabulous course in prosperity is opposed to the gospel motif of poverty as a prerequisite for a better start in Paradise, but the story in Russia is often stronger than the Christian virtues. Accidentally find the treasure, or marry the Prince – the doors are open to male and female happiness.
The distance between wealth and poverty should, thus, be minimal, preferably zero. If the path from poverty to wealth consists of the efforts of tireless work, he initially rejected. It turns out the case, the main defect is a successful work. The disbelief that the work can be fruitful - the main suspicion of the Russian peasant since prehistoric times. He tries in vain, working up a sweat. It is better not to try.
In modern Russian the world of work and, apparently, will long work the basic myths about wealth and poverty. However, the forced modernization of the country, no matter how ephemeral it may be, leads to the fact that any financial position of the person is false and causes rejection. The boundary between rich and poor is envy. We envy those who are richer than we are, the most black envy, which is anger and hatred, and condescending or contemptuous of those who are poorer than us.
We love the poor only in literature. The real poor, those homeless people who live at the stations under the platform, we're afraid. Their actions are unpredictable and often dangerous.
Poverty is the scourge of our consciousness. We fear poverty, her future is real and tangible. Live in poverty, our provincial relatives, millions of retirees, refugees from neighbouring countries. They scrimp on food, for they are all too expensive. They buy cheap vodka. They are sometimes disgusting, disingenuous, because in front of us pretending to be poorer than they are, but this deceit is also part of our poverty.
We don't want to be in the position of those who, unlike the poor, making ends meet, but spending on the ends of all his vital juices. Getting tips work a lot, but not productive, in that work, rather, those jobs that don't bring real money, but they fatally can't find a costly work because they look pathetic, and who likes losers?
Just above start, the people we don't like, because they can earn money. Russia never liked the owners. The property is still young for Russia, a concept born in Catherine, frankly, incomprehensible concept. The owners of our possessors, those who mistakenly think that'll lie in the grave with his goodness. Don't lie! The middle class – the main link of new Russian owners. They are the complete opposite feelings. They do not understand. They admire how was your trip to Egypt, you afraid of humiliating his boss, which determines their modest prosperity. The middle class is fearful. He is law-abiding and yet are dissatisfied with the laws. He wants stability, but does not believe in its sustainability. He starts for the health, ends in peace. The middle class today is the life of the loans.
Wealthy, rich, millionaires – our current fists. They work hard and successfully. They have different gestures, different logic, they are even a little glow of success. Every time we think that they – not Russian. In any case, we know the resorts, where they go, we go, we just know that they go there and they annoy us because they are the masters of life, but we don't. However, these masters of life in the Russian conditions often look like a fakir for an hour.
The oligarchs are our scapegoats. That's really who the true thieves. That's really who we do not love from a pure heart and wish them to hard labor and death. When we think of them, boil our dark instincts.
But if one of them decides to marry our daughter, we deeply think about it before saying no. However, my daughter hardly will notify us of your decision. About her wedding in Las Vegas we know from the tabloids.<
Viktor Erofeev
Forbes, may 2008
All know who the fist, but few know the origins of this word. It would seem that the fist and therefore the fist that held the whole village in his hand, was a parasite, an exploiter of the village. This explanation is beautifully suited the Bolsheviks, when they began to dispossess the rich peasants. Hatred of the fist in this case, it seemed a natural departure feelings. Actually the fist was the name of the peasant who worked day and night and therefore slept little, not on the pillow, and tucked his fist under his head. In this case, the fist could be called any lazy, a successful farmer. From this turn, the etymology is born a positive way, but he was doomed to the historical destruction. Russian fist knocks on the table in a rage, and humbly placed under the head of a tired man – with this stereotype we are born and die.
Rich for the Russian people is a wide spectrum of threats. He oppresses them first and foremost mentally, emphasizing its existence to his life's failure. It is possible to become dependent, to become a slave. Rich is never ours, he is an alien and hostile by definition. Rich in the Russian consciousness, fueled compassionate Russian literature, is a greedy, cunning, clever, resourceful, enterprising man, who for the sake of wealth ready for any meanness. But the main thing – heartless man. All the rest is mental, and he is soulless. The soul flew away from him, he's already an inanimate object, in the future it is waiting for hell, he is the Antichrist, and to him everything is permitted, any kind of violence. About the rich people in Russia are supposed to tell the gossip and nastiness. The rich man in the Russian consciousness – not caught the thief. Rich justice can only be the Russian Tsar.
However, the Russian attitude towards wealth is the fundamental inconsistency. In itself wealth is not disgusting for a Russian, he's ready to become rich and to bask in luxury, but that he should do nothing, wealth is magically obliged to come to him, without any effort on his part. This miraculous discovery of wealth, a fabulous course in prosperity is opposed to the gospel motif of poverty as a prerequisite for a better start in Paradise, but the story in Russia is often stronger than the Christian virtues. Accidentally find the treasure, or marry the Prince – the doors are open to male and female happiness.
The distance between wealth and poverty should, thus, be minimal, preferably zero. If the path from poverty to wealth consists of the efforts of tireless work, he initially rejected. It turns out the case, the main defect is a successful work. The disbelief that the work can be fruitful - the main suspicion of the Russian peasant since prehistoric times. He tries in vain, working up a sweat. It is better not to try.
In modern Russian the world of work and, apparently, will long work the basic myths about wealth and poverty. However, the forced modernization of the country, no matter how ephemeral it may be, leads to the fact that any financial position of the person is false and causes rejection. The boundary between rich and poor is envy. We envy those who are richer than we are, the most black envy, which is anger and hatred, and condescending or contemptuous of those who are poorer than us.
We love the poor only in literature. The real poor, those homeless people who live at the stations under the platform, we're afraid. Their actions are unpredictable and often dangerous.
Poverty is the scourge of our consciousness. We fear poverty, her future is real and tangible. Live in poverty, our provincial relatives, millions of retirees, refugees from neighbouring countries. They scrimp on food, for they are all too expensive. They buy cheap vodka. They are sometimes disgusting, disingenuous, because in front of us pretending to be poorer than they are, but this deceit is also part of our poverty.
We don't want to be in the position of those who, unlike the poor, making ends meet, but spending on the ends of all his vital juices. Getting tips work a lot, but not productive, in that work, rather, those jobs that don't bring real money, but they fatally can't find a costly work because they look pathetic, and who likes losers?
Just above start, the people we don't like, because they can earn money. Russia never liked the owners. The property is still young for Russia, a concept born in Catherine, frankly, incomprehensible concept. The owners of our possessors, those who mistakenly think that'll lie in the grave with his goodness. Don't lie! The middle class – the main link of new Russian owners. They are the complete opposite feelings. They do not understand. They admire how was your trip to Egypt, you afraid of humiliating his boss, which determines their modest prosperity. The middle class is fearful. He is law-abiding and yet are dissatisfied with the laws. He wants stability, but does not believe in its sustainability. He starts for the health, ends in peace. The middle class today is the life of the loans.
Wealthy, rich, millionaires – our current fists. They work hard and successfully. They have different gestures, different logic, they are even a little glow of success. Every time we think that they – not Russian. In any case, we know the resorts, where they go, we go, we just know that they go there and they annoy us because they are the masters of life, but we don't. However, these masters of life in the Russian conditions often look like a fakir for an hour.
The oligarchs are our scapegoats. That's really who the true thieves. That's really who we do not love from a pure heart and wish them to hard labor and death. When we think of them, boil our dark instincts.
But if one of them decides to marry our daughter, we deeply think about it before saying no. However, my daughter hardly will notify us of your decision. About her wedding in Las Vegas we know from the tabloids.<