Аннотация: The Sketch on the development of culture and about the elite of the intelligentsia
The Sketch on the development of culture and about the elite of the intelligentsia
Sergei Sergeyevich heard another optimistic statement.
It turns out, culture evolves!
How is this confirmed?
Museums "learned to earn"!
"And much they can earn?" - Sergei Sergeyevich thought. - "Perhaps now, after mass death of bees, will make a new banner of development? Not an agriculture, but - a museums?"
In General, what are the signs of cultural development?
The question is ambiguous, the topic is complex.
However it is clear that a culture in itself does not exist. Her carriers have to exist.
For example, the intelligentsia... It can be argued that the intelligentsia - a layer of the most cultured people.
And what can be said about the intelligentsia.
Sergei Sergeyevich wanted to rely on the classics - at least, on people well-known... Now hard time, is better to be covered, to be protected with a classic, a quote...
Who to take for "support"? Maxim Gorky? Anton Pavlovich Chekhov? Vladimir Lenin?
Lenin probably should not be taken as a basis. He is too complex and ambiguous historical and cultural figure. About the intellectuals he spoke directly ... Too sharply...
To whom he spoke. Perhaps he spoke in correspondence with Gorky.
So, a move towards Gorky. He described in his work "Savva Morozov" how a deputation from the intelligentsia visited Sergei Witte "in the apartment" " in order to confirm the "peaceful" nature of the intentions of the workers."
And representatives of the modern intellectuals can not go to one of the top officials? To ask him?... To beg him?. To admonish him?...
But for such a case, a lot of things are needed - a great reputation; a big capitals and large organizational resources "in a reserve" will not prevent... (after all, "weight" is necessary...)...
Aren't there of such a people?
Take, for example, the list of heads of large theaters on the budget suction. About their leaders (and the first persons) constantly there is a (bell) ringing. They have money and not small, and the organizational resource is available.
To attach to them grantees (from budgetary funds) on the film production purpose... Here too people not simple.
A major intellectual fist (a corp of intellectuals - the "elite of intelligentsia") is forming.
To add someone from the writing community (that, they in vain go "to Tolstoy", to Yasnaya Polyana?) ... and all sorts of "my thoughts are my horses (racers)" and "a time - a time - we will be glad during a lifetime..."
The whole company comes in and says... Speaks about the results of economic policy, about the "environmental Apocalypse", about reduction of a sphere of usage of juries, about the prinsiples of the formation of the Federation Council (if the concept "parliament" is applicable to this body, what is parliament?), about the selective filters, the elections without participation of the real opposition, about the electoral tricks...
If to clench this cultural fist ... (however, one sportswoman suggested a new term - "to clench the buns"), - so "culture" will show itself... It's not a kopeks, rubles, which museums make... For these kopeks and rubles abroad hardly to buy the real estate it will turn out...
People are busy... That's clear.
People are busy... That's clear.
But there are other people, also an intellectual, but without a power, without money, however - with an life energy.
Chekhov wrote about the unter [unteroffizier] Prishibeyev [Force-admirer]...
Lenin - he spoke directly: "To such a "talents" not a sin to sit weeks in prison if this action has to be made for the prevention of conspiracy (like a Krasnaya Gorka) and death of tens of thousands".
"...on all articles of the law there is a reason to certify any circumstance in reciprocity..."
"And for him it is clear that the world changed and that it is impossible to live in a world any more in any way. Gloomy, sad thoughts seize him. But coming out of the cell and seeing the men who are crowding and talking about something, he is according a habit, with which he already can not cope, stretches his hands at the seams and screams in a hoarse, angry voice:
- The people, disperse! Don't crowd! Go home!""
"Culture is developing," - Sergei Sergeyevich agreed.
On July 27, 2019 09:09
Translation from Russian into English: July 27, 2019 18:09.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Скетч о развитии культуры и об элите интеллигенции'.