Аннотация: A Hero of Our Time. The essay of a brief research of the modern society.
A Hero of Our Time. The essay of a brief research of the modern society.
Yesterday, January 27, 2020, the father of two children, who became the most famous "simple provincial", ["simple resident of the province"] appeared for a public attention.
The most famous simple resident of the province is interesting to compare with the most famous historian.
There are obvious differences between them.
The resident of the province is an habitant of the Far East. The historian is a resident of the Northern (cultural) capital.
The provincial has no education worthy of mention.
The historian is educated, knows a foreign language, wrote and writes various kinds of scientific (literary?) works.
The provincial has no special talents. The historian clearly has literary and teaching abilities. He, may be, have the psychological techniques to attract young female students.
The work of the provincial does not require special qualification. He, seems, to be working in a security sphere (in a simple position). The historian taught in Russia and abroad, he is the author of numerous historical works.
What unites them?
Both have children. (An important note is required here - a simple honest person from the province until the last tried and tries to preserve the model of life in which his children live with him in the same family).
Relations with women, family relations at both the historian and the simple honest man are in noticeable frustration. It is a fact that both of them fail to create a stable normal family. The historian"s attempts to replace standard family life with alliances with young students have only relative success, and tend to put historian"s life on the brink of disaster (in the end, such a disaster has occurred).
The financial situation of both is the most uncertain. A simple provincial - close to catastrophic. He 's incapable of feeding his two children.
Both have no clear life prospects.
What was the springboard for the common man in the old days? Education and diligence. It is clear that now these qualities themselves do not open any social prospects. Moreover, the emerging and established criminal (sub)culture makes such people - people of knowledge and of a diligence - a subject of clear and hidden ridicule, irony.
The famous historian is a man with abilities. His energy tries to overcome obstacles - to break through, to find for itself some new tracks, a "bypass ways." He succeeded in something. He found for his powers and abilities such a sphere of application as historical reconstructions. He also created, found a professional connections abroad.
Of course, all this is completely different from the normal upward movement - through purely scientific or state (in the field of science or education) career ladders. All these "reconstructions" are a surrogate of the normal career movement up.
And even these relative achievements of the famous historian (central organizational role in historical reconstructions, professional connections abroad) were obtained at the sunset of his life through enormous efforts and application of unusual abilities.
What unites the most famous historian and the most famous simple provincial? What makes a generalized social type out of them?
The main thing is the absence of real life prospects and the general joylessness (sadness) of a life.
To this is added a ruined family and personal life. Catastrophic relationships with women or their (these relationships) absence.
The background is the ambiguity and uncertainty of the financial situation - in both cases.
It should also be noted that the general style of their lives and social conditions push them both upon, over a line where the action of the Criminal Code begins. - Push, moreover, into a debts.
"Ordinary person" you or intellectual, you have the ability or not, you live in the capital or in the province - in general, you are similar to each other.
Honest and capable people feel a tendency to be turned into a criminals. And a criminals - into ... (etc.).
The historical circle has closed, and it is time to remember Mikhail Lermontov...
January 28, 2020 09:25
Translation from Russian into English: January 28, 2020 10:40.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Герой нашего времени. Опыт краткого исследования современного общества".