All the celebrities appeared half-naked, they liked it, they published videos and photos on various social networks, so that they would be admired and envied.
Among other news and reports from Donbass, images of a semi-naked beau monde appeared. The actor Ivan Okhlobystin, who was carrying humanitarian aid to the front, was injured there. The bulletproof vest saved me. It’s cold, it’s dirty, and death is near. Masked faces look from the screen: fighters who have learned about entertainment from the capital’s stars warn: without clothes, the stars can catch a cold.
There was a lot of noise around this party: why did they publish the photo? To show off their bodies? Of course it’s a gesture. This is a position. As the futurists said, this, of course, is a slap in the face to public taste. “You have a war, we have our own peace. We are generally for peace. Wagging our tails.”
Did we learn something new? What would happen if the photos and videos did not appear? If not in this one, but in a neighboring club?
Curiously, all this reminded me of a story that happened to the naive romantic poet Vasily Zhukovsky almost two hundred years ago.
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In Zhukovsky’s diary, almost two centuries ago, the word “intelligentsia” first appeared, in the sense of “elite”, “conscience of the nation.” For some time now we have almost stopped remembering the “intellectuality”; well, but still it is worth remembering “conscience”.
Here’s the thing. In early February 1836, on Maslenitsa, Johann Lehmann’s most popular stand burned down during a performance in St. Petersburg. There were up to 500 spectators, only a few escaped. There was a mix there: commoners, generals, adults and children.
What surprised Zhukovsky: the firebrands were still smoking and there were hundreds of corpses among them, and already that same afternoon carriages arrived at the house opposite with “the best nobility of St. Petersburg, which in our country represents the entire Russian European intelligentsia “. .
Engelhardt has fun and the Meshcherskys dance.
Social beauty and famous talker Sophie Karamzina laughed at the moralizing Zhukovsky, who suddenly began to complain that dancing next to ashes was indecent.
“It occurred to no one that the misfortune that had happened was common, they danced and laughed and got angry until 3 o’clock and left as if nothing had happened.”
The curious thing: a couple of days later, in Saint Petersburg, the “Russian European intelligentsia” was already gossiping in every way – which is very typical – condemning the actions of the authorities. The blame for everything lies with the police (they chased away the curious and interfered with the rescue) and the firefighters (they arrived late).
Another wonderful phrase in a letter from the poet Pyotr Vyazemsky to a friend: “I accidentally walked to a fire and stood in front of it for ten minutes, admiring the landscape, and it never occurred to me or the crowd around me that this It was not a fire, but a human “bonfire”.
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I’m afraid that, in a sense, there is a lot in common between Sophie Karamzina’s reaction and that of the girls in the half-naked celebrity family. In response to the scandal unleashed, the organizer of that same party, Ivleeva, commented on the Telegram channel: “Friends, of course it was worth it.” “What happened is that beautiful people came with nice suits, half naked.” But then the message disappeared.
But Ksenia Sobchak also stood up: “But, excuse me, where and when adults go with their bare asses is their business. The world is unfair, it was, is and always will be. Somewhere they kill, somewhere children “They are starving,” and sometime around this time they drink champagne. No grief can last forever.”
Lolita appreciated the exceptional taste and elegance of the wonderful party.
Rapper Dzhigan only revealed his muscular torso, but he was wearing something sporty, and his wife was wearing overalls and a jacket, so after thinking, he suddenly declared that the party, in essence, was average, not very good.
I don’t know if the name of the poet Zhukovsky means anything to them. What am I really talking about?
But just in case: the romantic Zhukovsky was a statist and a patriot. He was one of the empress’s teachers and mentored her heir. At the same time, he, by the way, helped to redeem Taras Shevchenko from the serfs. Thanks to him and Herzen they were allowed to move abroad. And Zhukovsky, by the way, did not hear a single good word from these same opponents.
But in the story of the fire, this is what is important: Zhukovsky was then the hardest hit by this arrogant “curse of the people’s misfortune” – the immorality of the “conscience of the nation.”
This attitude towards fire is the key.
It is like the Westernizer Granovsky, a prominent liberal Westernizer professor, who exclaimed during the Crimean War: even now he is ready to go to the front and die for Russia, but not to wish her victory.
Position? Otherwise…
And divided consciousness is a position.
Deputies and social activists went to the supervisory authorities to check the orgy in the club and to the organizers to see if there was LGBT propaganda (an extremist organization banned in Russia).
Maybe they’ll find something if they want. But, strictly speaking, no one broke the law.
It’s about awareness, about tact. What is this?
Calling for a boycott of half-naked stars is a clear and explainable message, but I’m afraid it doesn’t make sense. Even if they are removed from the New Year’s “Blue Lights” (which is unlikely, they won’t have to re-record all the shows). That they are somehow severely reprimanded, deprived of concerts or something like that. So what?
And what’s in your heads? What happens to what is in the atmosphere?
And I repeat, awareness is something out of fashion. The rebranding happened a long time ago.
Are you on fire?
Well, today they are going to have a dance.
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