Мы едем заграницу (например, в Европу) и почти...

We go abroad (for example, to Europe) and almost always tell how clean and good it is and how dirty and bad it is in our country. We say that the reason is the difference in economic systems, political structure, mentality and with a meaningful look we conclude “In our country, nothing will change until ...” So far, what? Or who?


An interesting metamorphosis can be observed with our tourists already after crossing the Russian border on the way home: the whole group with whom I went on an excursion stood on the lawn (did not sit down, but stood up and began to trample the ground, pressing grass), and smokers began to throw cigarette butts directly under the feet. Surprisingly, these same people behaved differently a few kilometers ago, in Finland.


We are waiting for someone to come and change everything (government, new president), but we don’t do anything, we only maintain the established traditions (throwing cigarette butts on the streets, for example, has become a good tradition, not fulfilling which you are already “not ours”) . We reason, "to no avail do something." But who will do, if not us? After all, you can not get up on the lawn right now, without waiting for the publication of the law on this.


Some say that in the West they live well, because there are high taxes and heavy fines. Here I want to note 2 points. Firstly, we don’t need high taxes: the country is rich in resources and we don’t need to “dump” (recall that taxes are not generally levies on the population, not taxes that the peasant pays to his master, but the money that everyone allocates it to the general piggy bank for general needs. That is, taxes are not money that goes somewhere. These are money that a citizen voluntarily gives to the state, but in the state, in principle, people who are qualified enough to properly dispose of them and work to realize what we want.In short, we all chipped in on a common cause, and transferred the money to the most responsible and competent, so that he would realize everything). Secondly, fines. Think, each for itself: you need to be afraid of punishment (= fine) in order not to do something bad (for example, throw garbage) or you can not do badly, because you think it is right not to do badly. This is a question of upbringing: there are children who are afraid of parents, teachers, punishment, and there are those who simply do well. Our desire to avoid punishment, to deceive the system is folk fun. A train ticket is not so expensive, you can buy it, but what a thrill to fool the system! Oh, these climbing over fences ... even with a bicycle, running from wagon to wagon, thirty conductor. Moreover, if you otmazatsya from the conductor for 40 rubles, and the neighbor for 30, then you are a sucker (Intersny moment, I heard that the ancient Circassians (I think modern ones too), residents of the Caucasus, who are considered backward in Russia, have this principle: if stole and they didn’t catch you - wah, well done! If you stole and caught - oh, sin, not good). So, in the West, most of us buy tickets. Not because the fine is high. It's just that there is somehow no excitement.


We are waiting for the “uncle” to come, to build and restore order for everyone. A certain “dad with a belt”: kind, handsome, but strict and with a belt. Uncle probably won't come. The government is not interested in changing anything, as the people are stupidly waiting. Just endures and waits. It is enough for him to give someone who will look like a “dad with a belt”.


Let's not wait for an uncle with a belt. Will he come or not. Let us make our country such a place in which we really want to live, and not endure and scold. Let's not be “against” someone, let's be “for”. For cleanliness, for health. Let's start small. From myself.


Collect by berry - pick up a box

Folk wisdom


Posted by:

Olga Kovalkova


Record created October 21, 2011

Last updated January 17, 2012