Путь в элиту. От лояльности к соучастию. Екатерина Шульман. Бауновкаст

In this episode, Ekaterina Shulman and Alexander Baunov continue their slow reading of Fazil Iskander's "Rabbits and Boas" and explore one of the most disturbing metaphors of power: betrayal as a pass into the elite. A resourceful rabbit faces a choice: maintain his place among those admitted or refuse to participate in someone else's crime, and this story gradually evolves into a conversation about shame, conscience, blackmail, and the mechanisms of complicity. Why do closed elites share secrets and common crimes? Why does moral compromise often begin with a small concession? How does power delegate violence and responsibility? And why does attempting to deceive one's own conscience almost always end in failure? Ekaterina Schulmann's channel: @Ekaterina_Schulmann Watch previous episodes:    • Медленное чтение с Екатериной Шульман   THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT ALEXANDER GERMANOVICH BAUNOV OR CONCERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ALEXANDER GERMANOVICH BAUNOV TIMESTUFFS: 00:00 — Beginning 01:53 — Conspicuous Consumption and Elite Crime 03:14 — The King's Demand: Betraying a Friend as a Condition of Privilege 04:17 — The Pensive and Dangerous Rabbit The Truth About Fear 06:41 — Crime as a Pass to the Elite 11:47 — Shame and Conscience: Why They're Not the Same 15:44 — The Present vs. the Future: How Moral Choices Are Postponed 18:25 — How Do People Deceive Their Own Conscience? 22:14 — The Blurring of Responsibility and the Collectivization of Guilt 22:44 — Betrayal as an Initiation of the Elites 24:30 — Robbery, Theft, and Crossing the Moral Line 29:23 — Plebs vs. Aristocracy: The Struggle for Urban Rights 35:32 — Gogol, Klaus Mann, and the Themes of Betrayal of Conscience 38:51 — The Mafia, the Secret Services, and a Common Moral Code 52:12 — How Does the Experiment with Rabbits and Boa Constrictors End? My Telegram channel: https://t.me/baunovhaus Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/ Infraction-Lifeline