As Pushkin once wrote, "we are lazy and incurious." He wrote, however, not at all about the Russian people and their attitude to work and the world around them, as is commonly believed, but about the fact that interesting people(in this case, Griboyedov was meant) rarely leave “notes”, that is, diaries, and their friends are too lazy to write memoirs. However, this phrase, as often happens, being taken out of context, healed independent life, turning for someone into an insult, for someone - into an excuse, and for someone - into a description of the surrounding reality.
So looking at the results of the next survey of the fund " Public opinion” about the attitude of Russians to work, you involuntarily recall this quote from Journey to Arzrum. Both laziness and lack of curiosity stand before us in full growth.
The researchers, among other things, asked the people: “If it depended only on you, would you work for 35 years? Or would you work less or more than that? To put the answers into some context, let us recall that if a person starts working at the age of 18-22, then he will receive 35 years of work experience at the age of 53-57 years. At the same time, the average life expectancy in Russia, according to the Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, has already exceeded 70 years, that is, many in the absence of any serious cataclysms will live for 75 years, and 80 years, and even longer. It turns out that those who would not want to work longer than 35 years, in fact, want to stop working at 55, after which they can enjoy life “for themselves” for another 20-25 years.
Now to the numbers. Duration working life exactly 50% of the respondents are 35 years old or less (37% would not like to work at 35 years old, 13% agree to this length of service as a maximum). Only 14% would like to work for more than 35 years, the rest have no opinion on this matter. It is interesting that, despite the clearly longer life expectancy, women, to put it mildly, are less industrious than men: among them, 57% of the respondents would have had a work experience of 35 years or less, while among men, only 44%. I understand that female readers will immediately be reminded that they, unlike men, need to give birth to children, so some part of life will fall out of work experience. However, I’m not sure that sitting on maternity leave for many years is urgently needed: women who want and love to work, even two or three births, are calmly put into total per year of dropping out of working life, and often less.
The distribution of answers about the reasons why people do not want to work at least 35 years is interesting. Recall that these are 37%. Almost two thirds of them as main reason calls the deterioration of health towards “old age” (by the age of 55, let me remind you), or even the fear of not living to see the end of this period (up to 55 years, yes).
This is an obvious mistake - people in our time live much longer, and in the future, life expectancy will increase even more. Just a word: just the other day I saw a message that the British Insurance companies began to calculate the consequences of increasing life expectancy to 120 years. While this, of course, is not very relevant, but those who are now 30-40 years old are much more likely to die at 80 than at 55. When talking about the estimated age at death, let's not forget that statistics on medium duration lives take into account both infant mortality and accidents, and the death of initially very sick people who either do not work at all or work very little in their lives. If a person has lived to 30-40 years, is relatively healthy and does not go in for mountaineering or motorcycle racing, then his life expectancy is much higher than average.
It is interesting that the same people who now in response to questions from sociologists suggest that by the age of 55 they will turn into deeply ill disabled people will certainly be offended when they at this age are called even simply “elderly people”. Most Russians at the age of 55 and 60 are quite vigorous, relatively healthy and definitely hard-working people who have a couple of decades of life ahead of them. Moreover, this will apply to those who will be 55-60 years old in twenty years. Although, of course, if a person smokes a pack of cigarettes and drinks a liter of poison, which in Russia is mistakenly called beer, every day and a bottle or two of vodka on weekends, then living to 60 will be an achievement for him. However, advances in medicine, unfortunately, can extend the life of such people.
I would argue that most of the health responses reflect the very same laziness and lack of curiosity. Laziness is covered with suffering in the style of “people don’t live that long”, and lack of curiosity is expressed in an erroneous and uncritical perception of statistical data. And the fact that there are so many of these answers is somewhat depressing.
Still, let's dilute the gloomy picture with a positive. Let us turn to the detailed answers of those who, despite everything, are going to work for more than 35 years. Exactly half of them make a rational choice, believing that there is nothing to live on without work, and that their pension will grow with an increase in the length of service. This is somewhat cynical, but reasonable: people either know or feel that in modern conditions maintaining a decent standard of living is possible only if there is work. Talk about passive income, which allows you to live happily ever after, is only relevant for the rich with substantial capital. An ordinary worker or employee, in order to become a rentier in old age, must learn quite early to live a second life - the life of an investor who makes reasonable and justified investments of the money saved from wages (that is, taken away from current consumption) money. This path is valid different reasons is not available to everyone. Most will have to die in the workplace. And it is a pity that only 7% of the able-bodied population of the country is aware of this.
The second half of the positive responses are explained even more positively. These people love their work, they are not interested in messing around, they have a desire to continue to devote themselves to their favorite work, they are going to live happily ever after. One can only be glad for them: they are not lazy and very curious. On the other hand, there are only seven out of a hundred such people.
We are lazy and incurious
From “Journey to Arzrum” (1836) by L. S. Pushkin (1799-1837): “What a pity that Griboyedov did not leave his notes! It would be the business of his friends to write his biography; But wonderful people disappear from us, leaving no trace. We are lazy and incurious...” (Ch. 2).
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Here, as if in brackets, I note that Russian culture is characterized by an ironic-critical attitude towards themselves, their history and achievements. On the one hand, this is a good quality, a kind of hygiene of the soul, thanks to which an inoculation is made against arrogance, arrogance and megalomania. But, as you know, the cure for poison differs in dose.
Self-criticism should not be brought to self-flagellation. Pushkin once said: "We are lazy and incurious" - and we took these words as a sentence. Yes, you filthy people. Lazy, incurious - no craving for knowledge to you, no mind. This sad diagnosis is echoed by a powerful support group from abroad: “Well, citizens are alcoholics, hooligans, parasites… Who wants to work today?!” And we all walk together, downcast eyes. They do not slander, they simply quote "our everything". Here we hung our noses, hunched over with shame - lazy people. And they also remembered Emelya, and Ivan the Fool, and the work that “will not run away into the forest” ...
Well, it's enough, gentlemen, to kill yourself! Alexander Sergeevich, of course, is “our everything”, the property of national and world culture, but not every statement of his was historical and objective. After all, he talked with his wife, and with friends, and with children. Conducted business negotiations with publishers, at the same time he was certainly annoyed and argued about fees - the breadwinner big family where to go. Who was Pushkin talking about - "we"? Whom did you mean? Arina Rodionovna blundered or captious censor finished? Maybe just a lousy mood happened, and everything around became “both kyukhelbeker and sickening”?
No, everything is easier. Pushkin complained that there was no one to write a biography of Griboyedov. Here is the quote in full: “What a pity that Griboyedov did not leave his notes! It would be the business of his friends to write his biography; but wonderful people disappear from us, leaving no trace. We are lazy and incurious…”
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Many people know the phrase belonging to Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin: "We are lazy and incurious." She is taken out of context and long ago went for a walk around the wide world. Initially, Pushkin wrote in Journey to Arzrum (1836): “What a pity that Griboedov will not leave his notes! It would be the business of his friends to write his biography; incurious..." Subsequently, some Russians began to consider these words of Pushkin almost a sentence to the Russian people, arguing that Pushkin was a genius and was always right about everything. Let's start with the fact that Pushkin was first of all a man, and it is human nature to make mistakes and be able to draw the right conclusions at the same time. But the main thing is different - Pushkin did not write about the laziness and lack of curiosity of the entire Russian people. He meant the circle of the noble intelligentsia close to him, although such a concept did not exist then.
I do not want to dwell on the "lazy" question, since I consider the arguments of some Russian and many Western historians and publicists about the so-called lazy Russian people to be completely unjustified. All this is nonsense, not requiring a waste of time. But as far as our lack of curiosity is concerned, there is something to think about and talk about. I think that lack of curiosity is a consequence, first of all, of poor education, and above all of a humanitarian one. In Russia, curiosity has always been treated differently, as well as educated people. But before continuing the topic, I would like to dot the i. I mean like Pushkin and all thinking people, under curiosity is not at all peeping through the keyhole. It's time to remember the Russian proverb - "Curious Barbara's nose was torn off in the market", although there is another saying: "Curiosity is not a vice." So, by curiosity I mean a person's interest in life, in everything that happens around you. That is, a curious person - first of all active person. And our society has always needed and still needs its active members.
I do not want to dwell on the role of curious Russian people in the history of Russia, since it is already clear that without curiosity, without interest, not a single discovery in the field of science and technology is possible; it is not possible to complicate labor and intensify the pace of production; it is impossible to discover new lands and fly into space ... in a word, for the development of society, a minimum (to begin with) level of education and interest (curiosity) of members of society are required. In order not to prove what is already clear, I skip the 19th and 20th centuries in the history of Russia and invite you immediately to the 21st century, to our modern times.
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