Time is rapidly gaining move. Not only the pace of our lives is changing, but also the perception of our (recent) past. Thinking the writer https://ingaugeofpolkcounty.com/course-titles/ Leonid Kostyukov.

I think many agree that times are now changing very quickly. By time, here are understood the most real life ways. Well, let’s say, the world with mobile connection is strikingly different from the world “before”. As a rule, all your loved ones, wherever they are physically, are in the access zone, which forms a strange system that is not imagined before, like a giant molecule. Mobile communications cancels the gigantic number of classic stories based on “non -insurance” or incompleteness of information, starting with Romeo and Juliet. At the same time, we note that a purely technically radio telephone is involved in one of the French films of the 70s with de Funes;The world is overwhelmed by the general accessibility of innovation. Private transport flooded the streets of Russia much later when Ford invented the car. But it is the introduction and reducing of the new one that is incredibly accelerated.

The older generation slowly gets used to the Internet, and the young man does not imagine life without social networks. Our fingers touched by arthritis are just accustomed to the mouse and the keyboard, and they will already be in full swing on the screen. Between a generation, who had not yet made a pager, and no longer found, ten years have passed – no more.

Amazing inversions arise. For example, in 1973, the situation in the USSR today was exactly the same as yesterday. And in 1988-1989, something changed daily-both in Europe and the window, and in the evenings we observed the life of the slave of Izaura (approximately one small change in 10 episodes). Or a characteristic picture of the new time: children teach parents to new programs and gadgets, and not vice versa.

Watching in the late 80s a film shot in the late 50s in the center of Moscow, the viewer saw exactly the same streets, the same houses, even the same supporting shops. Getting into the army (personally I – for shooting), yesterday’s schoolboy or student picked up about the same weapons that I saw on the movie in films about the war. Therefore, there was a huge difference between perception, for example, the film “Alexander Nevsky” (spears, arrows, chain mail) and “Battalions ask for fire”. In 1941–1945, not just our grandfathers fought, but as if we were in other conditions.

In a word, there was a certain horizon, 30–40 years, tangible of the past, visually and tactfully not distinguishable from the present. Then there was something like a fairy tale. Not that at this close distance, historical fraud and falsification were impossible at this close distance. Very possible, but they were just painfully. The brightest example is Stalin’s Heritage. Agree, a similar hot dispute about Ivan the Terrible – a villain is or still a collector of Russian lands? – possible only in parody. What is beyond the horizon does not touch emotionally. And how a liquid in zero gravity is collected in a ball, the past in this “zero gravity” is self -organized into a myth and an image, a form convenient for memory.

For current youth, the horizon of the past is no more than ten years. Even their own childhood (in their presentation) proceeded in the prehistoric era. Era of slot machines, first grocery stalls, pagers. We are amazed that half of today’s high school students do not know who won the Second World War, but for them the Second World War is the same as the centenary for us. As a result, a strange process occurs: a very recent past, 30–40 years ago, which is accompanied by amazing forgetfulness, mythologizes.

At the same time, the details seem to be restored from the logic of the whole, but with wild errors. For example, from the argument of the well -known architectural critic, “there were no small shops in the USSR”. There were only four near my house-“milk”, “fish”, “vegetables-fruits” and “tools”. Or from the argumentation of a well -known literary critic: “In the USSR there were low fees”. On the contrary, even – incredibly high. You could buy a car or apartment on the Novomirovsky fee in the Sorokok, and in the 80s it was 3-4 months old salary. The logic of the whole, meanwhile, is clear: the USSR was a country gravitating towards collectivization, giantomania;On the other hand – to the equalide, life past money. So? So, but not so. On the one side. And on the other – on the contrary. Perhaps his main side was precisely bilaterality, according to Orvella – double.

In a famous joke, the old German Jew is asked when he was happy. He replies: “Under Hitler: I was young”. Well, the people of my generation, of course, were happy with Brezhnev, and far from so catastrophic. But, probably, you should not confuse sweet nostalgia for youth with the real content of the life structure – beggar, stuffy and hypocritical. Moreover, this nostalgia is completely uncritically picked up by youth, vigilantly observing obvious shortcomings (who argues?!) present -day Russia. In short, they are not treated to the past.

I am sure that today, more than ever, memoirs of not yet old people, detailed, voluminous evidence of the recent past, because the truth here is more important than a flat myth – one or another.