How to kill a scoop and live a normal life: prescription

Immigrants from the former Soviet Union recognized everywhere, and probably for good reason. You can be proud of their mentality, it is possible to hate. You can ignore the notion of mentality and just live as it is. And now ask any of your friend to give the briefest possible definition of the German character. It is likely that you will hear something like "right", "punctual", "meticulous", "accurate", "unscrupulous", "rational" and the like. In general, a kind of German "machine". Today we offer to your attention the story of Yuri Balabanov about why in Germany, everything just so.

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... When I meet with my old friends, and they will know that I have many years living in Germany, calls go straight into the mainstream, "as we do, and whatever." Usually opinion of my place of residence are divided.

Some say:

Germany - a prison! Step right, step left - shot. I can not imagine how it is possible to live! Around one bans, no freedom!

Others object:

This is called the procedure, baby. And it is better to live among the prohibitions, but be aware that you do not nabyut person on the street and not be robbed in the subway.

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Often from my friends, I hear more constructive views:

I admire the character traits inherent to the Germans. All these legends of various kinds of industry - Audi, BMW, Carl Zeiss, Heckler & Koch, - I think that all this is a consequence of the German mentality. This brings me to some crazy delight! Yes, even the football 2014 World Cup win!

Or:

I still do not understand how they manage to keep the peace among such a large number of cultures and peoples of the country. Some restrictions here you will not manage.

In this small series of stories about Germany, I propose to look at the system of government of the country from the inside. In it really stable, "they are even" life rests on the prohibitions and restrictions of freedom... It is true to say that Germany - the most depraved country in the world, after the Netherlands, of course, where, besides prostitution and same-sex marriages are allowed and soft drugs? How to manage on a small piece of land to live in the world and the indigenous people, and the Turks, Greeks and Italians, Bulgarians, Russian, and Ukrainian... all you name it! Why Muslims do not fight here with Catholics and Orthodox? Is it true that life in Germany is safe but bored to death... And what is this mysterious "mindset", which allowed to raise and keep afloat giants such as Mercedes-Benz and Volkswagen... Maybe, right, those who argue that all this - a gift from the "big brother" - the United States, with not so selfless?

And finally, the last and most important question: Can we, immigrants from the former Soviet Union, something to learn from the people has been like over half a century living in peace and prosperity?

Perhaps, in these uncertain times, when the territory of the former Soviet people literally go to each on the other with the weapons, the experience of the country where the mutual bloodshed is hard to imagine, may be helpful.

And I have to say that the prescription of mind is surprisingly simple, and it is based on not the prohibitions and penalties, but something else, what I want to tell.

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... Germany is indeed received assistance from the United States in nineteen forty-five, and the Germans are grateful to the US for that with their support they were able to win as soon as possible devastation. But this mutual overtures ended. Germany has not followed the path of "American freedom". Partly because it wanted to preserve their culture, and in part due to the country's post-war situation. All around was devastation, looting, fear and despair. The policy of "American freedom" (you are free to do anything, but the state, in turn, willingly punish you for your action) would only aggravate the situation.

It would seem that the simplest and the cheapest way out of postwar chaos would be the same "step right, step left - execution ", which so often frighten foreigners, but in such a situation of tension in society would only It intensified. After the difficult years of forced restrictions people want to take a deep breath - free and easy. And then the parliament (Bundestag, as it is called in Germany) gave the go-ahead to experiment. The construction of a society where people have the freedom of knowing that:

1. What I do not lead to unexpected, sad, tragic consequences.
2. Those objects, mechanisms (domestic and industrial), which I use, will not change its intended them functions.
3. The people with whom I talk, fail to appear to me as a potential threat.

Decipher this rather complicated wording of the motion on the example of the Autobahn (German highway).

1. I freely accelerates to your car up to 120 km / h, knowing that such speed is enabled and available on this section of track.
2. I freely accelerates to your car up to 120 km / h, knowing that my car will sustain this rate, he did not fly off the wheel or fall off the wheel. :)
3. I freely accelerates to your car up to 120 km / h, knowing that no one, ever, under any circumstances will not start pass highway on foot and any car, in any circumstances, do not go by my band I meet.

Experiment "managed, controlled freedom" was so successful that the main points of his work so far, practically will not change. Today I invite you, without complicated scientific terminology, simply and humanly, consider one of these items ...

INGENIOUS DISCOVERY - PRESCRIPTION

During the construction of a model of society "controlled freedom" laws (Gesetze) and prohibitions (Verbote) is partially replaced by a measure called "prescription» (Vorschriften). Prescriptions - a very tricky thing. In contrast to the prohibitions and laws, they do not carry the indispensable nature of execution "on pain of death." This is advice based on a thorough study of the issue and acquired in the result of experience.

For example, a study of the issue and experience have shown that:

If you want to hang a picture on a concrete wall without having to drill a hole in it terrible, use nails strictly defined type. With such an order, you have no need to experiment with the concrete wall, breaking drills and turning the wallpaper screen. Buy the necessary nail, hammer it into the wall, hang a picture - and here you happiness!

"The nail picture" - is written on the tab. Next prudently Set item number, so you do not confuse personal and product description: "MPE steel nail for pictures intended for driving in concrete walls." Even gold cap is provided to it it was beautiful. :)

Here's another example. Winter. You walk in the park and stumble on a plate: "In winter, this path is better not to go." And you will not have to find out why there hangs a board. For the people who created this prescription, we have found that in the ice on this path there is a large number of falls, ending injuries.

I must say that tourists are not always right, arguing that in Germany warning shields most popular word - Verboten (forbidden). Here are some cute picture glued to the plastic cabinet on the city boardwalk:

"We sell products here. Thanks for understanding! "- is written on the label. In my opinion, very intelligently and tactfully. Translated into more intelligible language sounds like "We have great respect for domestic animals and their owners, but it is better to stay away from this place and do not allow their dogs to shit where not supposed to." :)

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In this case, instructions and tips are not always as obvious as in the previous examples. At the beach, I saw a huge number of bars, which are called Bademantel Parkplatz (Parking for coats), with coat hooks and a small poster: "Here, you can hang up their robes and towels. We wish you a pleasant refreshment. "

Of course, you can not follow this friendly and pretty witty prescription and throw their towels, swimming trunks, T-shirts and gowns right on the sand. But the "trick" is that the authors of the poster know that the local seagulls inexplicably love nest directly on the hot sand in clothes. And not only the nest, but also to tear the thin fabric apart and defecate in it. It turns out: do not follow the advice of the friendly team of "hot spots" - go home, like Robinson Crusoe, in rags with holes in the most piquant places. :)

Sea Gull - is not just a graceful bird, which we see floating in a blue sky. Imagine a large cat and add her wings - one meter span. In places, where these birds are treated as "reserved", they quickly get used to people and does not afraid of him. Once you fall asleep on the warm sand or gape like a sea gull - right there, next to your items.

This gull in front of me pulled out of the camp bag towel. Now she is trying to break its huge sharp beak.

The watchful eye of an eagle gulls constantly watching things unattended. So that provision does not throw clothes in the sand, and hang it on the special hooks, it is not accidental and is not written because of addiction to the order on which foreigners laugh.

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There is, however, tricky relationship of some regulations with other social phenomena - compulsory health insurance and voluntary life insurance and personal property. For the violation of certain requirements may cause a denial of compensation.

For example, a person is medically insured. And medically insured, it violates the injunction, known to every schoolboy: crossing the street at a red light. An accident happens: a man hit by a car. Of course, he immediately render first aid, but... for the trial of the treatment in the clinic and restoration of crumpled cars perpetrator of the accident will have to pay out of pocket: the insurance will not cover these costs.

Or another example. You have insured their property - a glass table valued at € 800 and a crystal chandelier of the same value and weight of 8 kg.

Then you decide to hang a chandelier over thereby glass table. You climb up a ladder to the ceiling, to drive into it hook, hang the chandelier. And after a certain period of time, a chandelier with a homemade hook departs from an improvised mounting, It falls on a glass table, and fragments, as an evil, dig you in the right eye as Kai from a fairy tale about Snow queen.

And then you get into an unexpected (second right?) Situation. Table shattered, and no one will reimburse you for the cost; chandelier also "kicked the bucket"; and to you, rather than to remove a splinter from the eye in the form of free medical support, will either have to pay huge amounts of money for the operation, or wait their whole life to Gerd, who will make signified act of pure, unselfish love.

And it happened because in Germany there is another prescription, which you have forgotten. It says: "Boots should stitch a cobbler and pie oven - pieman". And not vice versa. In other words, to perform actions, the conjugate with a certain risk and require special skills, should be specially trained people who own these skills.

It is in this "trap" often come across our people living abroad. "Drive a hook in the ceiling? Also my problem! Do not pay for it as a primitive action € 100! "(Official price). In practice, it is better to pay the company € 100.

For:

1. Company by calculating the weight of the chandelier and the quality of your ceiling, you will make a hook that, in the case of necessary, you can not only hang on to him his precious chandelier, but also successfully to hang himself on it themselves.
2. The company is fully responsible for their actions and for their consequences. Now, if the chandelier, torn from the ceiling, smashing the glass table and clog your splinter eyes, all financial costs that you spend on the restoration of their property and their health, carries Who? That's right: the very firm. The company will buy you a new table, the company will repair your chandelier and it is representative of the (Nice), the firm will visit you in the hospital, giving you a basket of pastries, butter pot and a bottle of red wine.

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Here's a turned "history requirements." Those "Shrek" that tourists from other countries is seen as bans infringing on the freedom of citizens.

In fact, if we approach the problem in a kind way and without bias, it is simply the experience of facilitating life and get rid of the problems - our eternal "stepping on a rake." Similarly, my mother said to us in childhood, "Put on your hat, it's cold outside." Those who listened to her advice, now have color thick hair. And those who have neglected the experience of the older generation, go to the thirty-five with a bald patch on the crown.

... But who replaces our "mother" at the state level? That's what I'll tell you in the next article, where we will focus on another measure that determines the order and peace in society: the law.

With love and respect, Yuri Balabanov