Братья Стругацкие - Диалог философа Будаха и Руматы - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

- Fine. Well, what if you had the opportunity to advise God?

“You have a very rich imagination,” Budakh said with pleasure. - This is good.

“You flatter me...” said Rumata. But what advice would you give to the almighty? What do you think the Almighty should do for you to say: now the world is kind and good?..

Budakh, smiling approvingly, leaned back in his chair and folded his hands on his stomach. Kira looked at him hungrily.

“Well,” he said, “if you please.” I would say to the almighty: “Creator, I don’t know your plans, maybe you are not going to make people kind and happy. Please want this! It’s so easy to achieve! Give people plenty of bread, meat and wine, give them shelter and clothing. Let hunger and want disappear, and at the same time everything that divides people."

- And it's all? - asked Rumata.

- Do you think this is not enough?

Rumata shook his head.

- God would answer you: “This will not benefit people. For the strong of your world will take away from the weak what I gave them, and the weak will still remain poor.”

- I would ask God to protect the weak, “Bring some sense to the cruel rulers,” I would say.

- Cruelty is strength. Having lost their cruelty, rulers will lose power, and other cruel ones will replace them.

Budakh stopped smiling.

“Punish the cruel,” he said firmly, “so that the strong will be discouraged from showing cruelty to the weak.”

“A person is born weak,” Rumata answered. He becomes strong when there is no one around him stronger than him. When the cruel among the strong are punished, the strong among the weak will take their place. Also cruel. So everyone will have to be punished, and I don’t want that.

- You know better, Almighty. Then just do it so that people get everything and don’t take away from each other what you gave them.

“And this will not benefit people,” Rumata sighed, “for when they receive everything for free, without labor, from my hands, they will forget labor, lose their taste for life and turn into my pets, which I will be forced to feed and feed in the future.” wear forever.

Okay, don't give them everything at once! - Budakh said hotly. - Let's do it little by little, gradually!

“Gradually, people themselves will take everything they need.”

Budakh laughed awkwardly.

“Yes, I see it’s not that simple,” he said. - I somehow never thought about such things before... It seems that we have gone through everything. However,” he leaned forward, “there is another possibility.” Make sure that people love work and knowledge most of all, so that work and knowledge become the only meaning of their lives!

Yes, we also intended to try this, Rumata thought. Mass hypnoinduction, positive remoralization. Hypno-emitters on three equatorial satellites...

“You know, I could do that,” he said. - But is it worth depriving humanity of its history? Is it worth replacing one humanity with another? Wouldn't this be the same as wiping out this humanity from the face of the earth and creating a new one in its place?

Budakh, wrinkling his forehead, remained silent and pondered. Rumata was waiting. Outside the window the carts creaked sadly again. Budakh said quietly:

- Then, Lord, wipe us off the face of the earth and create us again more perfect, or... or even better, leave us and let us go our own way.

“My heart is full of pity,” Rumata said slowly. - I can not do it...

And then he saw Kira’s eyes. Kira looked at him with horror and hope...