The people had a chance to talk, fall into two categories: those who found the Soviet Union and those who are not found. Very often they can not understand each other, the differences in the perception of the world are enormous. So, I was born in the Soviet Union in the midst of stagnation, the son of a simple and easy-turner of the Moscow laboratory assistant. The first thing your conscious aspiration I remember this: my grandfather sitting, reading a newspaper. I go over and look at the letters column, I ask: "Grandpa, what are you doing?" "I read."
I really wanted to learn to read. My grandmother worked as a teacher of Russian language in the elementary grades. I learn quickly. For six years I have read quite fluently. I remember very much like the school. Everything was interesting, I wanted so much to learn. Our first class was forty-two. The school had six first class, and I was the first E. Then, when I was studying in the fourth grade, first grade was ten. Yes, in our school I was the 1st K! Well, it's me to the fact that the children were very much, very much.
I must say that reading has become my favorite pastime. I read everything that came across - up to the tear-off calendars (who do not know or have forgotten it, some useful information was posted on the back of each tear-off page). I subscribed to and read from cover to cover magazines "Young technician", "Technics - youth", "Science and Life", and sometimes read chto-to from the magazine "Radio", which subscribed to my father for a long time tried to persuade the parents to write the magazine "At the wheel" and persuaded yet.
The "Roman-Gazette" Aniskina read about in the "Youth" read "A Clockwork Orange", "Love Story", "The Island of Crimea". Father took out somewhere "Seeker" - it was a whole treasure! I read "Pioneer truth", and then "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Trud" and "Evening Moscow".
Grandmother collected and disposed waste paper. you can get a voucher for books in donated 20kg of waste paper. We have all the cabinets were lined with books, acquired in this way: Dumas and Jack London, Fenimore Cooper and Maurice Druon, Jules Verne and Maupassant, Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe - all and not remember already.
Three consecutive years, spent two months in the Black Sea, in the pioneer camp. There also learned to swim at age six. Years 10-11 soldered acoustic switch - Clap your hands, the light is turned on! Yes, I knew how the transistor and capacitor that is before we passed it in the school of physics. We collected once with his father a glider, but as a cutter, there is still need to tighten the gum and then they twisted the screw, but the passion is gone, does not matter. Houses father gathered a small lathe and I was in the sixth grade could sharpen different Circuits and cut the thread. In the 9 th - 10 th grades in the Code of Criminal Procedure was Autobody after 10th grade received license category C, that is already at the age of 18 could easily work as a truck driver: profession was immediately after leaving school.
Naturally he could fix the car, flowing tap, well and in general almost any machine. Drive a nail, drill a hole in the wall. Thanks to his father could navigate in the woods and to distinguish edible mushroom from inedible. Dilute a fire in the rain. Fish catch in the river. Not God knows that for most people in our vast country, but for the inhabitants of the metropolis?
We were not poor or rich - in abundance. The government has provided three-room apartment for four. Clothing was the need for - and wore a jacket and boots with galoshes when the fine was. Running your first still remember. Bicycles purchased as growth check, "Butterfly", "schoolboy", "Salyut".
Those who read this far, perhaps, thought: why am I telling all this? And here is why: I have not read anywhere else if I did not say no, no parents, no teachers, no TV, that man lives for the sake of dough! I am one of those who do not fit into the market. I do not become a capitalist. No, of course I'm not in poverty, the necessary skills, so as not to starve, it was through the roof. I knew a lot about the world, but! I did not know anything about his childhood in the loot. I did not know what to start communication. I did not know that lawyers and economists is most needed and respected and common profession. The Union for speculation was criminal article, and it was necessary, it turns out, learn to speculate - would now "honorable man"!
And I look at those who grew up under capitalism. Degradation - did not pick another word. Virtual reality and money. Money and virtual reality. Salvage, grannies, cabbage, greens. Brands and wheelbarrows. Heifers and panicle.
Now, of course, it changes everything for the better. Sport develops slowly began to read. Mugs and sections revived. And it can not but rejoice. But a whole generation of "effective management". They do not have undone ... So USE victim breed again across the country.
Also looking for the answer, here what question: the development of capitalism is expansion. Business needs to grow. Businesses need to advertise, we need more and more consumers, businesses are not profitable products that can be used for decades, and then pass on. Business have long ceased to meet the needs, and creates them and then meet. Business completely not interested in science for the sake of discovery, if these findings can not be monetized. Business is not interested in creating a business that will pay off in twenty or thirty years! The interests of business loan interest, stocks, futures, options and other bonds. Hundreds or thousands of percent profit, right now - some twenty or thirty years? I beg of you ... And what? What we will have for the system? Business system? No, have not heard.
What do people need in this business system? Interested to whether the business operation in smart, well-read, open-minded, sports? they generally need To such people? Do you have a "modern" man time to lift his head and look at the stars? Just so watch for free, for nothing? But it is not profitable. Everything is measured by profits in our business order. And we think that for us it is all? Why increase the well-being of individuals who buy cars for the price of three apartments? What is put life in the battle for the loot? Do not you think that things have lost their meaning? Not things for people and people for things. Markets. No country, not the people, and markets. Numbers, percentages, profit dividends.
You know, I would give anything for the chance to return to childhood and to live it again, only to realize that knowing that I, as a six year old kid, all day until late at night to disappear in the street with friends, and know that the mother is calm, does not drink valerian and does not call the police. What price a year and will not change in five years, and that if I have a job, I will not feel the need, and the work of my life is not important, and the main family, children, books, sports. What can dream of space flights and other planets. What my country - is the best country in the world: the richest to the talented engineers and scientists, doctors, teachers and just nice people. The most powerful country in the world, which helps other countries.
Somehow it sounds pathetic, but I feel, what can you do ...
So here's the big question: whether to remove possible from today's dominant financial life? And if so, what to replace? How to make millions of people woke up from the darkness of financial charms and become men again?
