Business is the art of legal theft

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

How is the word "business" translated into Russian? - "I twist and twist, I want to deceive!"

How many times have the world been told that the point is not in the severity of punishment, but in its inevitability! What kind of economic crimes cannot be imprisoned - you just need to severely scold, at the very least, deprive the thief of his profitable place in favor of another swindler who has not yet stolen.

But now the inevitability has come - and already almost every hundredth first man is caught, cheated, deprived of his place and imprisoned under house arrest … But these crooks, as if deaf to the progressive measure, all twigs and twigs, more and more, are already openly laughing at Minister Ulyukaev, burned for only two lemons dollars!

Maybe it's still worth adding to the ax of inevitability and the ax of severity?

However, in the eyes of a thief - the whole world is full of thieves. And why should he not be like everyone else?

What kind of market economy can we have if the oligarch Usmanov easily stole a huge piece of money from the whole country - and transferred taxes from him abroad, where he himself leaked? And the workers in his factories are puffing for a pittance, since there is no other job. At the same time, the state, represented by its unfinished Ulyukaevs, is a mountain for this hapk and against the poor metallurgists - after all, they do not bring bribes into government offices!

“Small business” has become a euphemism, under which any shaher-maher is hidden by 90%: from speculation on Turkish tomatoes and pseudo-Abkhaz tangerines to racketeering and cash withdrawal. The word “business” itself, translated from English, means “business”. But in our opinion it is - "I twist and twist, I want to deceive."

In our country, not only small, but also big business most often does not produce anything, it just rubs in glasses, parasitizing on rare construction sites like the Eastern Cosmodrome or the stadium in St. Petersburg, where the volume of theft is overwhelming. Business and crime are our twin brothers. In any crime series, somehow striving for the truth of life to attract viewers, a businessman character is immediately identified as a criminal and a bastard. It is said about the character: "businessman" - and the viewer already knows who will be received by the valiant operas in the denouement.

Our clamps are our crypts

Why is it that our nobility is out of skin all Soviet, including the key heroes who laid down their lives for the whole country? Because if you honor the victorious cult of those who fought for the Motherland, sooner or later it will strike your eye: yesterday they wanted to capture us by the German-fascist freaks, and today they were captured by their oligarchs, deputies and officials. Well, let's defeat them too - how our grandfathers defeated their contemporary enemies! This is what the parasites are against: no, the winner is not a hero! The hero is a patient like the defeatist Mannerheim, the executed Tsar Nicholas, the traitor of the Vlasov, who cut the dissidents away from military service - their cults are now being spread with might and main.

The Wall of Sorrow is also being built - so that the people grieve, and not climb into battle against the Usmanovs, Vekselbergs and other Sechins and Millers.

The kingdom of the spirit and the kingdom of the belly have been at war with each other throughout the history of mankind. I think this is due to the eternal contradiction between life and death: I want to live sweetly, but somehow I don’t completely become dust after death. But in what way will the soul survive this dust? After Russia has become swoon again, it becomes clearer and clearer that by buying candles and donations from the stolen money for the temple, you cannot buy a ticket to eternity.

Only great deeds prolong mortal life for centuries. Hence the growing nostalgia for the USSR, in which, with all the external husk, there was this illusion, or maybe not the illusion of immortality like "Lenin died, but his work lives on." Or "Tupolev died, and his soul flies in his planes." And into what today can this flight of not greedy flesh be turned, but seeking something beyond the soul?

Hence, our braces are our crypts, not spaceships.

By the way, in terms of these braces, does Stalin really need a monument - if everything that is material around us serves as a monument to him? The famous skyscrapers, which are the face of Moscow, are they a monument to whom? And the best Moscow metro in the world? And space - material and spiritual, declared in the writings of such "Stalinist falcons" as Shostakovich, Chkalov, Tupolev and Korolev? Therefore, any personal statue, even the largest in size, will seem tiny against the background of all that has been created, as they like to say now, “in spite of it”.

And about in spite of … Well, I could say that I was born and raised in spite of my father and mother: they, mean, did not give birth to me, but they celebrated their pleasure - they also put them in the corner for two marks! Only I will never say that, because I know: when they conceived me, I was already the third in their love for each other. And without love, nothing happens - no children are born, much less great victories, construction projects and architectural masterpieces.

Two freedoms

There are two kinds of freedom: freedom for something and freedom from something. Freedom to build, learn, make a good movie, design spaceships and airbuses like the best IL-86 in its time in the world. In the USSR, there was such "freedom for", as evidenced by its world-renowned literature and films, spaceships and airplanes. Although there were infringements, but as for art - generally necessary according to the wise thought of Goethe: "Censorship makes the creator more sophisticated" …

Now all around there is "freedom from" - from personal responsibility for the leadership of the region, from criminal punishment with good lawyers, from conscience, from reason, giving in to idiotic advertising, and so on. The misfortune of our people is that at one time they confused these two freedoms - real and imaginary. And in pursuit of the second, he completely lost the first.

What lake - so are the mermaids. You can dirtiest any word and vice versa - fill something dissonant with the most attractive content. Take the word TV, for example. At the dawn of television, this neologism sounded like a symbol of a man-made miracle, was pronounced with admiration. In stagnation they spat on him. During perestroika, it became synonymous with the cherished truth: the whole country watched TV broadcasts from the congresses excitedly, like Govorukhin's "Meeting Place", the streets were dying out. There was even an anecdote: "- Hello, yesterday I watched this on TV … - Shut up, this is not a telephone conversation!"

Well, today this word has acquired a contemptuous connotation, evokes a feeling of cerebral stupidity, deception, cheating, etc. They generally try not to pronounce it, replacing it with squeamish "box" or even "zombie box". So it's not about the word.

At the same time, someone says: well, why are you addicted to our TV? Does he bother you? If you don't like it, don't look!

TV does not bother me at all; I am haunted by his viewers, with whom I am in the same boat, on whom I do not give a damn, whose nonsense, heated by this TV, deprives the future of both them and me. For with “freedom from” being sung in all trumpets today, we will not see this future as our own ears.

Why was the Russian spring so short?

Today's campaign "for reconciliation" is pushing and putting forward the thesis: what difference does it make whether you were blown away in that distant 1918 or were you blown away by someone? The fact is that there was some kind of disaster then, and to hell with it. Don't shit! In the descendant of those who breathed in, the eyes burn and the hands itch. And the descendant of those who were blown away is a moral defeatist. And it's bad if his morality becomes dominant: then we will certainly be blown in again.

This is how the new spit of Donbass found on the old philistine, still Soviet stone: “What the hell do we need this Cuba for? What the hell to feed the socialist camp? What the hell to feed the Chuchmeks? What the hell to feed the Caucasus? " As soon as this stone hardened in its bosom - the Soviet Union and the end came … It seemed that the Crimea, the Russian spring have changed something in our hearts - but no, this music did not play for long. And again prevailed: "What the hell do we need this Donbass for?" That is, the Russian spring turned out to be instantaneous, and the Russian winter in the form of philistine greed is endless …

We have already written more than once that if Christ lived in today's Russia, for his extremism he would probably be soldered from "five" to "tag" - depending on the bloodthirstiness of the legalists. But I’ll say more: and the majority of home-based patriots would approve of such a measure with a bang: “That's right, don’t fucking bother! bit the police? Yes, he must be against the wall right away!.. Typical liberal! I know who pays him … "And this utterly lost and maddened" voice of the people ", and not the crooked justice of the courts, is our main grief.

Cursed disease - and the course of its treatment

Russia today is to a great extent a country of profane who penetrated through their boundless impudence into all times of power, before which literate people give in. But there must be some limit to this profanation!

What the prime minister of a huge country with a population of 150 million carries with regard to the economy is some kind of utter nonsense. We cannot invest our rubles in our development, we must wait for the West to invest its bills in us … And if it suddenly does not invest? Then with a mournful muzzle blowing into the cemetery? We, of course, are real patients - but how much can you endure? Remember the anecdote: “The lion says: you, the fox, and you, the wolf, will come to my place for lunch. - Come, where to go … - And you, hare … - Fuck you! - So, then I cross you … When will we finally show this courage of a hare?

Today many laymen want to touch Stalin "by the mustache", but the result is always the same: the deceased throws them out of his grave by means of historical argumentation that cannot be argued with. Of course, you can dispute everything - and that the earth is round, and that Korolev, Tupolev, Shostakovich, Kurchatov, Kapitsa were Stalin's nominees and laureates - but this is already the lot of idiocy.

How much this idiocy is in favor today - if on state TV channels they say such nonsense about Stalin, as if he was only doing that, that he executed everyone right and left! And with him we multiplied our production a hundredfold, creating dozens of new industries - these "living corpses" from the kilometer-long lists of the idle "Memorial"?

Was Stalin cruel? Yes, I was in relation to my fifth column. And Peter, and Grozny, and Suvorov - weren't they? And Yeltsin, who spawned more homeless children than the combined Civil and Patriotic War?

Many of our rulers shone with cruelty - but only a few were able to turn it into great deeds for the benefit of the masses and the whole country.

In general, there are diseases that can only be cured by bloodletting. And almost all of our governors, ministers-economists, builders of immensely expensive roads, cosmodromes and stadiums are ill with just such ailments.