Текст песни Братья Стругацкие - Диалог философа Будаха и Руматы

- Good. Well, what if you had the opportunity to advise God?
“You have a very rich imagination,” said Budah with pleasure. - It's good.
“You flatter me ...” said Rumata. But what would they advise the almighty? What, in your opinion, should be done to the almighty, so that you say: now is the world kind and good? ..
Budakh, smiling approvingly, leaned back in his chair and folded his hands on his stomach. Kira eagerly looked at him.
“Well,” he said, “please.” I would say to the almighty: “Creator, I don’t know your plans, maybe you’re not going to make people good and happy. Please want this! Just achieve this! Give people plenty of bread, meat and wine, give them shelter and clothing. May hunger and want disappear, and at the same time everything that separates people. "
- And it's all? asked Rumata.
- It seems to you that this is not enough?
Rumata shook his head.
- God would answer you: "It will not benefit people. For the powerful of your world will take away from the weak what I gave them, and the weak will still be poor."
- I would ask God to protect the weak, “Reason the cruel rulers,” I would say.
- Cruelty is power. Having lost cruelty, the rulers will lose power, and other cruel ones will replace them.
Budah stopped smiling.
“Punish the cruel,” he said firmly, “so that it would be inconsequential for the strong to be cruel to the weak.”
“A man is born weak,” Rumata answered. He becomes strong when there is no one around him stronger than him. When the cruel of the strong are punished, the strong of the weak will take their place. Also cruel. So you have to punish everyone, but I do not want this.
“You know better, almighty.” Then just do it so that people get everything and do not take away from each other what you gave them.
“And this will not benefit people,” sighed Rumata, “because when they receive everything for nothing, without labor, from my hands, they forget labor, lose their taste for life and turn into my pets, whom I will continue to feed and to wear forever.
Well, don’t give them all at once! - said Budakh warmly. - Come on, little by little, gradually!
- Gradually, people themselves will take everything that they need.
Budah laughed awkwardly.
“Yes, I see it is not so simple,” he said. - I somehow did not think before about such things ... It seems that you and I went over everything. However, - he leaned forward, - there is one more possibility. Make it so that people love work and knowledge the most, so that work and knowledge become the only meaning of their life!
Yes, we also intended to try this, Rumata thought. Massive hypno-induction, positive remoralization. Hypo-emitters on three equatorial satellites ...
“You know, I could do that, too,” he said. “But is it worth depriving humanity of its history?” Is it worth replacing one humanity with another? Would it not be the same as wiping this humanity from the face of the earth and creating a new one in its place?
Budakh, wrinkling his forehead, was silent pondering. Rumata was waiting. Outside the window again creaked wistfully. Budakh said quietly:
“Then, Lord, wipe us off the face of the earth and create anew more perfect or ... or better yet, leave us and let us go our 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 ...