белый дыбр

[juan_gandhi]

 Смешно мне сегодня написали про ахимсу и четыре миллиона грешников. Вообще вопрос, если в стране 100 миллионов готовы грабить и убивать... проблема, да.

Вот вам пример. Российская деревня. 1929-й. Коллективизация. Как вы думаете, каков процент от населения деревни оказываются грабителями? Угадайте.
 

А так что было - сходил погулял, слушая Kidnapped - потому что погодка была самое то, свежий ветерок, тепло.

Потом надо было в аптеку; окей, в аптеку. И еще в Лоуз, надо было небольшой тарп купить. И еще в Публикс, купил там суши (ел их во время митинга вечером), да большую бутылку воды, на велосипед, и шесть маленьких, ходить гулять с ними.

А больше ничего. Завесил крылечко от дождя, потому что в два, по расписанию, начался ливень. Люблю эту наружную поливалку.

А кстати, соль у меня кончилась. Нужно еще три мешка (т.е. это будет четыре пуда, что ли? Что-то такое. Бассейн немножко недосолен. Плюс дождик еще разбавил.

Что дальше будет? Мы не знаем. Раньше тоже не знали, но не знали, что так плохо. И уж точно не ожидали этого от русских. А зря. Литовцы, эстонцы, шведы ожидали.

 

Comments

[juan_gandhi]

О, да делайте какие угодно выводы. Я и не рассчитываю на то, чтобы все понимали, что это я написал у себя на заборе. Even more, actually I think that writing in Russian means the audience will be inadvertently biased. Unfortunately. I'll think about switching to English.

[elglin]

I guess this talks volumes about the audience, does it not? I can only wonder whether it does or does not deter the more irate part of it.
In my book, whatever a person writes means way more than what language he/she does it in. I respect the existence of the reverse opinion, but do not share it.
More to the point, what would you have me do? Agree to your statement - I did that. Express my misery for everyone who wants it to revel in - they will or will not revel regardless of whether I express it or not. Make further ominous statements as to the immediate or mid-term future of Russia - well, anyone who can put two and two together can see where that goes, and that's not a happy future.
What else? "Fly, you fools?" Well, you've expressed an amount of comfort for an acquaintance of yours who is supposedly moving out of Russia. Pray tell, have you encouraged him to sweep the floors at $40 a day, or are you content he is doing whatever he's doing at his own pace?

[juan_gandhi]

Oh, sorry, I definitely did not plan to impose my opinion on you. I had an impression that you misinterpreted it, but it's up to you to interpret.

Regarding my friend, we agreed with him that as soon as he crosses the border he'll get some money from me. I'm not content with his pace, but it's his choice? which I have to respect. He had enough problems with the KGB, while in the ussr, and I'm sure he knows what he's doing.

[elglin]

To sum it up, I think that, in principle, my opinion on the future of Russia is surprisingly not too dissimilar to yours, although we likely disagree on many finer and even not-so-finer points.
Bottom line, although Russian economy hasn't been dealt a death blow (it had seen worse), I don't see any way for it to recover appreciably even after the current conflict is concluded. Not unless the current regime drastically alters its modus operandi, which seems to be non-science fiction territory. Provided that the governmental modus operandi changes, I really cannot fathom the scale of actions that would be required of Russia to lift the status of the outcast it has so enthusiastically self-imposed on itself. Ironically, some of the more realistic options would see Russia part with much of its economic (and possibly not only) independence.
Which makes me really sad - quite a lot of people have been quite honestly working for decades to create, well, Russia - a country which, all caveats accounted for, would be a pretty, or at least somewhat, decent country to live in. Most if not all of those efforts seem to be so much spectacularly undone.

I purposefully stick to the economic part as this is something that can be discussed, well, unemotionally. The other news are, frankly, unfathomable. As I've written a couple of weeks ago to an ex-colleague of mine (who is in Lvov and whose family is in Poland): "What is happening now is something that should not be. Yet it is". Well, I hope he returns to Kiev as soon as it is practicable and finds whatever and whoever he left there just a little worse for the wear, if at all.

As to your friend, for all what such wishes are worth, I wish him a safe and uneventful journey to whatever safe haven he sails. May he find some peace and quiet in our current world of turmoil.

[juan_gandhi]

Well, I guess now we understand each other much better. Thank you. I agree with what you say. And I still remember how naive we were, like last year, 10 years ago, always. Nobody knows, I guess, how to cure Russia. If someone knew, Russia would change be an incurable state immediately.

As to my friend, yes. He's 60. It's time for him to stop worrying and start having a life. I hope we'll make it possible for him. He did help us a lot when we were in a desperate state.