A friend asked me to vote for my son in a painting competition. I know his son well – the boy is very talented. I followed the link, upvoted, looked at other works, and realized that the guy had almost no luck. No, it has a great view, it’s not devoid of originality – but it’s a child’s work. And having children work in a children’s competition is of course a very strange move these days. Absolutely incomprehensible message. It even smells of manipulation. Member pretending to be an orphan? Pressure for mercy? Here they say that he is alone. Or is it a challenge? Rebel? For example, who am I? uncertain.
Others have jobs like jobs. Here is a city in a silvery haze: perspective, diffused light, plays of color, subtle palette, sophisticated technique, tempera – Sonya, 6 years old. Here is the set: water ripples, granite, lanterns, volume, texture, cold highlights, warm shades, air – Artem, 4 years old. And here is a still life in breathtaking graphics with textured shading, penumbra and reflections – Masha is 5 years old. It is immediately clear that people approach it responsibly. It is immediately clear that everyone is doing their best: mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, teachers. How else?
Otherwise, it’s as if the truth is already in any way. Crafts “Golden Autumn” brings complex compositions to the festival, as if for some time taken from the Museum of Folk Crafts. Designer jewelry is presented at the exhibition of young needlewomen. Surrounded by Paustovsky and Prishvin, they submit articles to literary competitions, on which the whole family stands. In the distance tours of the Olympics, in general, for a long time there are only cows who solve problems for fifth grade with trigonometric equations and reveal the transcendent intentions of the traveling frog.
Why all this is done is a mystery. A kind of excessive production of stupidity and nonsense. But this is garbage. Brilliant, whimsical, carefully crafted scrap. And this is nonsense. There is no point in wasting time and energy on something that has no use, no joy, no mind or heart, as they say, to foolishly deceive the public so that later it is screwed up in any case. This.
Like a garland of plastic cups and a basket of toilet paper rolls. Too bad, yes. The same darkness disguised as creativity. Same bullshit under the current agenda. Well, have you ever watched a video on this topic on social networks? Do not go bankrupt, we are not all sinless. Yes, watching these videos should be punished for particularly serious crimes. But once you looked completely of your own free will. Out of sheer curiosity, just to find out how the blogger was able to prolong this embarrassment for 40 minutes.
These videos are always the same. From the very first seconds, the zealous handmade guru begins to embarrass humanity for not recycling waste, at a time when all the junk from the universe could be used to decorate a house. By the way, – the guru explains, – such a decorative thing in the shops of the city costs a thousand and a half dollars, and you are incredibly lucky, you got to his super useful blog and now you will all be great designers. All you need is a glue gun, a ball of environmentally friendly ribbon, wires, light bulbs from a Chinese New Year’s flasher, rhinestones, tongs, special scissors, brackets, rivets, bolts, washers, cardboard – in general, complete nonsense, a good one the stewardess has a car and a small car. Then it is recommended to breathe for ten hours, cursing the idiot who invented all this. But at the exit, at the exit… Well, what always happens at the exit is a secondary product. A garland that cannot be opened because it will melt, but is monstrous and dust-collecting, and a monstrous towel basket that cannot be stored in the bathroom as it will disperse in high humidity conditions.
The situation is more or less the same with parent creativity disguised as a child’s genius. Take a look at these pictures. Yes, they are made according to all artistic canons, there is a geometrically justified composition, there is a perspective, a play of light and shadow, yes, they are made very carefully, haircut after haircut, stroke after stroke, but they are boring. and meaningless – empty. Mountains, ruins in passages, shops in the basement “Everything for Home” is such a good choice of desktop wallpapers. Why else? Grasp these writings, all this nonsense with their locomotives of long-depreciated adjectives, this pathetic bullshit with lots of participles and participles, this string of slogans and clichés flavored with clever literary terms – but it reduces, after all, the cheekbones in the first paragraph. All this is a horrible dead thing. No matter how hard you try, no matter how much you hide, in a place where there is not a drop, a drop of life breath, only decay. And finally, dust.
Accident is inevitable. Just think. Here is such a baby, a bloody baby, a baby being moved, dragged, pushed, and then suddenly there comes a moment when he has to do something on his own. A face-to-face competition or olympic tour, university exam, job interview. But all that he can do on his own already seems so clumsy and pale, so twisted and helpless that people on whom something is destined simply avert their eyes. A lot was expected from a man, he was known as a gifted boy, they trusted him a lot, but he … Disappointed him, could not cope – did not let him out. And some middle villagers are bypassing the poor guy. Those who shine nowhere, those who are dragged after, will now cut this place, then jump there. It’s not fair!
And now the child, who grows up in harmony with caring parents, begins to shout something about rivalry, corruption and bragging, which are completely dishonest. There was nothing left for the parents, their resources were exhausted, their diligence and ambitions meant nothing in the adult world, they had no money and no connections. And the boy does not understand at all how the world works, he votes for the company. No, there is corruption and bla. But there are critically few hot spots where you can do nothing, and now there are so many bypasses. Why? Why? Because someone decided that a normal, healthy, growing person could be in a wheelchair for half their life and then say, “Get up and go.”
And this phenomenon is much more common than it seems. Yes, people get angry and laugh when the phenomenon manifests itself in some extreme form. Take, for example, the unfortunate girl from the Teplyakov family. Here everyone more or less understands that the phenomenon is not a girl, but the father’s ambitions have reached incredible proportions. But there are actually many, both among those who are angry and among those who laugh, who serve as an eternal crutch for their children. Not only do people not admit it even to themselves, they will never think that they are deceiving someone. After all, they are helping their unconditionally gifted children. A little. The drop itself. Gradually, they are gradually removing children with disabilities from them.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.
Source: Gazeta
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