: The sun-dried roach, devoid of thoughts, feelings and conscience, penetrates into all spheres of human life and inspires people with its philosophy, then becomes a liberal and a dinner of a zealous slanderer.
They caught Vobla, cleaned the insides, “only left the offspring of milk”, and hung it on a rope to dry. Three days later, the head of the roach dried up and the brains that were in it were weathered. Vobla rejoices that they have done such a procedure with her, and now she has “no extra thoughts, no extra feelings, no extra conscience”.
About the fact that there are superfluous thoughts, feelings and conscience, the roach still heard in the wild, but she was a sedate fish and avoided all superfluous.
The trickiest time now! She thought. - So sophisticated that an innocent will just pass for the guilty one! They will start fumbling, and you’ve hid around somewhere, but they’ll rummage around!
The narrator does not know, “what exactly did the dried roach mean under the name of“ extra “thoughts and feelings”, but he cannot but agree that in life there really was a lot of superfluous, and you have to take it or bypass it somehow, which gives rise to one concern.
Having strolled well, the vobla became convinced that there was nothing left in it, except milk, was invigorated and slowly began to "bend its line."She became even more solid and trustworthy, her thoughts appeared "reasonable, feelings - not hurt anyone, conscience - on a brass nickel."
For days on end, the vobla argued that “you’ll go quietly, then you’ll continue, that a small fish is better than a large cockroach, that if you hurry, you will make people laugh
Once in the bureaucrats, she rode on clerical secrecy and empty words insisted, “so that no one knew anything, no one suspected anything, no one understood anything, that everyone walked like drunk!” And everyone agreed that direct and simple words are dangerous, and without empty words you will not notice any traces.
Vobla served in many places, and empty words helped her everywhere. She also climbed into the ranks of those elected to a public position, who decided once and for all: “If they ask - to pluck!” but they don’t ask - to sit and receive the assigned content. ” It turned out at the roach and "human error to judge." She managed to prove that an extra conscience greatly complicates life.
An extra conscience fills the hearts with timidity, stops the hand that is ready to throw a stone, whispers to the judge: check yourself!
There were convinced people in the society, which was intended to teach the roach, but motley people prevailed, their conscience wore out, who had been champions of the hedgehog gloves, liberals, Westerners, populists, and socialists during their lives. Convinced people were tormented, rushed about and every time rested against the locked door.And the motley people were happy to hear the sobering words of the dried roach.
A total liberation from unnecessary thoughts, feelings and conscience touched even the slanderers and misanthropists, and it was comforting that their calls helped Vobla to successfully carry out their peace and revival propaganda. Through the efforts of the wobble, society became sober, found the right tone, which from secular salons penetrated into taverns. Now it was necessary to choose the right thing for this tone.
Vobla continued to bend her line and did not want to know anything about the right thing. Increasingly, across her reasoning, the question became: "And then what?". Although they roared the roach, their entrails were cleaned out and the brain weathered, but in the end, she had to turn from a triumphant one into a suspected one, from a well-meaning one - into a dangerous liberal.
And then one day an unprecedented crime took place. One of the most zealous slanderers grabbed a dried roach under the gills, bit off her head, tore off her skin and ate it in full view. The motley people watched and applauded, but History secretly decided: “After a hundred years, I will certainly emboss all this!”
