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Почему эпоха homo intellectus обязательно придет | Булат Атабаев | TEDxAlmaty


Translator: Milena Tomol Editor: Olga Mansurova

Hello.

In Berlin there is Alexanderplatz, Alexander Square.

I witnessed a demonstration of young people, girls dressed in black,

in toga, I do not know, some costumes, big shoes, and on my hands it says

“Ich bin stolz auf Deutsch zu sein!” – I am proud that I am a German! –

and drawn a fascist swastika.

Behind them stood a police cordon, and for policemen another demonstration.

These young men, dressed in black, had a lot of them and they shouted:

“Ausländer raus!” – Foreigners, out!

And behind the policemen are also young people, dressed in a more colorful and democratic manner,

shouted: “Liebe für Ausländer!” – Love for foreigners!

I walked there, listened to it – spat, I was bullied by the boys.

I went there, I listened to it – I felt love for myself: they see that a foreigner.

Then I came to my place in Almaty, and there was a transfer to Khabar.

The topic of the program was the Kazakh language.

Both poets and young journalists sat and spoke the same thing,

as well as those young people: “We are proud that we were born Kazakhs!”

I sat listening. Well, they talked about it for so long.

The queue came up to me, I had to perform.

Well, I told you about this situation.

I said that those people, thugs, called themselves neo-fascists, neo-Nazis,

but you sit here and say that you are patriots. What’s the difference between you?

Is this an object of pride?

That I was born a Kazakh, that I was born a German, that I was born Russian?

Nothing more to be proud of?

(Applause)

Eldar Ryazanov said about this:

“Then be proud that you were born on Sunday at seven in the morning.”

(Laughter) What’s the difference?

This is one example. Another example is also on television.

Some Krishna wrote the book “Abai – Krishnait” and proved it.

(Laugh)

Again we sit, we are indignant: “It’s like? This is our shrine! This is Abai! How can I? “

I say: “Abai went into another orbit already, how much can he sit in a yurt?

Well, let him rise a little bit.

Krishnaite found his own, the nationalist will find his own,

the humanist will find his own, the fascist will find his own, the idealist will find his own.

It’s wonderful that Abai is treated like that: he does not only need to shine with Kazakhs,

he is already on another planet, another orbit has left. “

Here often I wonder: where does this come from? What kind of jealousy?

Recently my sisters and relatives are sitting, discussing how they gave a bribe.

And most importantly, blame those who take. (Laugh)

And they themselves sit, so indignantly sincere.

Where does this all come from? Why are we like this? This question takes me very much.

My son gave a bribe to arrange a child, a grandson, in a kindergarten.

For me it was a shock. On stage I say: “You have to be honest, decent!”

And behind the scenes, I endure it all.

And I came to the conclusion that it was all because we

in the material world we live, and the spiritual world is forgotten.

We live in the age of a reasonable man, homo sapiens, for thousands of years.

There were prophets, there were scientists, philosophers:

the same Leonardo da Vinci, the same Abai, they wanted to bring the era closer

spiritual man, homo intellectus.

When will it come?

There will come, probably, but I know that during my life this I will not see.

But I would like, that we, everyone,

Approached this era of spiritual man, homo intellectus.

Remember, please, this era will certainly come.

Even Diogenes lived in a barrel in ancient Greece.

And when Alexander the Great came: “Oh, great philosopher,

they say, you are great, than to help you? “- wanted to become a sponsor to him –

he looks out of the barrel and says: “Do not shield the sun!”

That is, I do not need anything from you. When will this time come?

Hence, we live in the material world.

When we say “culture”, in Kazakhstan such dogma works:

when I say culture, then immediately they say: the park of culture and recreation, art and theater.

Nothing more is meant by this.

In fact, culture is science, education, religion,

literature, art, and the media. Here’s the culture. This is the spiritual basis of society.

If we live in this spiritual basis,

then we will somehow be attracted to spirituality, we will touch spirituality.

And civil culture for me is my activity:

political, social, environmental. What else? This is the amount of activity.

They say to me: “What are you doing in politics?

What are you doing with your criticism? What are you always yelling at?

Be engaged in the business, art! »And I speak:« And who will speak?

Well, someone should take the role of an opposite person who will speak the truth. “

(Applause)

Thank you. Good roles are distributed. They disassembled everything, play good people.

But it’s not my fault that there were only the roles of such nasty people:

grouch, always displeased, always criticizes,

eternally sees the minuses in this life. Therefore there were such people, were.

We must work Socrates, we must walk along the streets, and educate, and talk.

And I urge you to live in civil society, to form a civil society.

And civil society is based on civil culture.

Types of civil culture – I now call three, which identified

Russian culturologists, and then I added the last two myself.

What is it, why is man active?

Here is the first type of civil culture – a citizen from the word “grad”, “citizen”.

Civic culture, the first type,

if by classification – this is a “parish culture”.

The principle: my hut from the edge, I do not know anything.

There is a fence, the house is there, the children are full, they are shod, the sun has risen – and thanks for that.

Someone is walking and saying: “Come vote!”

He says: “I will not go. It’s not my business”.

But it will affect him, because he brings up children.

For the fence he will come out. He will communicate.

The second type of civil culture is the culture of subordination, the culture of dependence.

They will say – I will do it, they will not say – I will not do it. I’m a little man, I’m an insect.

Principle: I’m afraid of punishment or I want encouragement.

The third and most ideal type of civil culture is the culture of cooperation.

They said – for the sake of business we solve the problem, for the sake of the good of the concrete person.

This is the most ideal type of civil culture, and this is civil society

will be when there is such a type of culture as cooperation.

Cooperate, solve the problem.

And now I added the last two types of civil culture.

This culture of protest: “I reject everything!

I initially know that there are corrupt people sitting there, lying, lying,

there are no statists. “

Those people who are in protest culture,

offer their ideas, their principles. They are punished, killed, they go for it.

And the fifth type of civil culture is catacomb culture, underground.

This – I’m smart, she’s smart, the third is smart, we three are smart,

the three of us understand that there is an absurdity around us, we will not change anything.

Therefore, we secretly meet, we agree.

And inside of us, when we go, the music sounds.

(Sings the main theme of Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony)

(Laugh)

We look around, the secret must be. Knock three times: fat, fat, fat.

We open it, nobody is there, go in. We go and … the truth, the womb, the three of us.

(Laugh)

The steam was released and once again we leave.

When we meet somewhere on the street, we do not approach each other.

So, from afar, we do not know each other.

But it’s strange, if they are legalized, they disintegrate.

Legalization means that other clever men were found, and we, clever, are many.

And so we were three.

And in what type of civil culture are you?

In “parochial” culture and in a culture of dependence and subordination, I do not.

I will find you in a culture of cooperation, in a culture of protest

and in catacomb culture. That’s where I often go.

When a person realizes that something depends on him in this life,

then it becomes active.

And when I meet young people in institutions, when I say this,

many young people realize when I ask them: where are you?

They say, in the second – in the culture of subordination, the culture of dependence.

Because they consider themselves an insect. We were brought up like this.

Or in the first type.

When you see artists, directors, you like a monkey saw: Oh! Where is it from?

It’s from what you think they are artistically living.

Why do you read fiction?

Why watch TV shows? Why watch movies?

Because there is an artistic life, they live artistically.

And you yourself are afraid to live artistically, because you are afraid of responsibility,

afraid of conflict, you do not want to conflict like that in the movie.

You better look into the keyhole.

On this basis, created a lot of programs – “windows”.

This curiosity: what will happen now?

This passive observation of someone else’s life turns a person only into a consumer.

I want to live artistically: when I live actively, when I manifest my position,

I’m not afraid to be nasty,

I’m not afraid of being misunderstood. They will understand.

Now they do not understand, then they will understand, but it will be too late.

But I want to build this path, small, narrow.

We want to walk along the asphalt avenue. And who will lay this narrow path?

They tried to explain to me that if you can not change the situation,

change your attitude to this situation. I, a fool, believed and lost some years.

It turns out that this is harmful, you can not do this!

Do not compromise, when you see immorality,

when you see cruelty, when you see injustice.

This, I believe, is a victory for oneself.

I want to show the scheme, demonstrate: an aesthetically cultured person.

There is a politically cultured person, there is an ecologically cultured person,

but I want to say about an aesthetically cultured person.

Aesthetically cultured person is life in culture.

That is, we, living in this scheme,

we will approach the epoch of the spiritual man, homo intellectus.

We will rise slightly above the age of the rational man.

Aesthetically cultured person consists of three parts.

Aesthetic taste is a talent for perception:

life is perceived, and we have some taste.

The more we communicate, the more we learn,

The aesthetic taste grows stronger, it becomes higher.

The word ideology is inappropriate here.

Ideology is just a love for one idea.

The rest of the ideas will die. Ideology is a one-way movement.

Try to drive against the wool.

And the aesthetic taste extends the horizons of man.

It’s a talent for perception. Tact is a talent for communication.

The talent of communication is not only between people, but also the talent of communicating with the subject of art.

We know, we can decipher. We can decode.

We will rise higher, good or bad.

Mastery is a talent for doing, a talent for creation.

This is the basis for professionalism.

And the era of a spiritual person is based on professionalism, not on talent.

Talent is just a base for professionalism.

Professionalism is: I want – motivation,

I know – knowledge, education, and I can – skills, operation.

This is professionalism, this is the basis.

Aesthetically cultured person is the basis for professionalism.

And we have some talents in Kazakhstan: I want to, but I do not know, I know, but I do not know how.

One link is always missing. And from here these people are opposite.

Talented people are nasty, they are difficult to live with.

A professional knows his honor, he does not fall below.

Why all this? Again, I suggest that you show your position.

What is cattle,

it is better to show your activity, civic position.

And my grandchildren will say later that my grandfather tried to change this world.

We once missed the experience of Abai, did not use.

Abai alone died.

If there were people in that society and would use his experience,

what he said, and would change society,

created that spiritual environment, as Abai created, it would be easier for us to live.

So let’s start laying

this path to the era of spiritual man.

Thank you.

(Applause)

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