P.S.
By the way, modern geopolitics is based on this dual hypocrisy and fanaticism at the same time. The Western world supports the democracy of archaic peoples. Archaic peoples will inevitably create an old primitive society, not a democracy, because they will always rely on covenants when any dispute arises. And they will return to the old road of the ancestors, with a full turn back, they will destroy all the buildings of civilization.
CHAPTER IX
OLD WIFE’S FEARS. OR WHY TRADITIONAL SOCIETY IS MEDIOCRE
Everyone knows that in traditional society, there are eternal difficulties with rotation. Everyone knows, but they can't do anything. They can't do it, and they want to avoid doing anything. This is such a phenomenon, the consciousness awakened by someone from the outside wakes up, can be a writer, analyst, journalist, and the traditional person still sleeps and sleeps. Or they are pretending to. Usually, rotation is understood as the supreme power or tip. In modern political terms, a leader or a political leader does not want to leave. He does not want to leave and even says that he does not see his replacement. This scene is bound to happen. There is no one to put. Who will put after? In general, there is no replacement, anyway. Everyone is waiting, as in the story of Khoja Nasreddin about his Emir and the talking donkey, who will be the first to die.
This phenomenon of the unwillingness of the entire upper layer to resign voluntarily for health reasons or incompetence seems to have been discovered not only by me. In a hierarchical society, as soon as a dignitary, official, or authorized person goes into the shadows, everyone immediately ceases to notice him, even relatives, who still show signs of respect out of habit. There is a shocking change in people. The attitude of the entire surrounding world of traditional people towards the retiree is changing in a bad way. No way! The ruler or even just an official says to himself when he sees such a change of mood. Let me die at my desk and be carried out of the office feet first. I prefer not to be disappointed in my people. I love them so much, and they love me. Even if they love me hypocritically, I am not ready for complete oblivion. And no one is ready. That's why no one really wants to rotate. Everyone wants any kind of love, even hypocritical one's own or someone else's, but love, honor, and self-deception respect.
But this state of reluctance is characteristic of everyone, as I have already said. Even not for the upper class. Even half the conditional nobility and entire the not nobility, such thoughts – fears come. Not even a thought, but just a feeling of fear of losing your place. The lower a person is in the hierarchy, the more indifferent they are to what awaits them. But the higher, the more experiences. But if a person got to the place of honor at least once, he feels it would be better not to avoid leaving it. He wants to privatize his number like in the cadastral list of private property calculating private owner. However, the traditional peoples’ private property was poorly developed. But no one thought to fix the ruler’s rule for eternity except himself (and his entourage because they will also leave with him). Because no one can have private ownership of power, hierarchical people cling to power in all ways, with their fingers, hands, and feet.
But for any honorary position, traditional cling is already mentioned. And even the half-elite and half-half and a quarter of the elite behave inappropriately (in the opinion of a modern young man). This half -, half -, half-elite behaves like the old wife of a rich gentleman. She surrounds her husband with extra care and sudden extra attention. If, of course, a young competitor appears on the horizon. All the other wives of (our conditional) Lord and master in the harem begin to circle around their husband, creating rings of oblivion. To, naturally, he no one did not see outside dance love old wives (and have us, officials, these wife-A. B.). Old experts are covered in fear of seeing the talented rival. They know If they all keep quiet together, no one will notice the talented rival! All pensioners or those who have reached the deadline do this, even without agreeing with other pensioners. It’s just an animal instinct that brings them all together. Have you seen how thoughtfully silent old cows are? They are silent without the agreement of the old cows. Simply stupidly, half an hour. And people keep silent more cunningly.
All traditional people who seem to have settled in cities and have already left the village society by their clothes behave like old wives. Moreover, the position of the jealous old wife is claimed even by collaborators inherited from the last Soviet regime. These journalists, Ministers, engineers. If old wives literally please their Khan, these collaborators are hypocritical servants. They are hypocrites and sit around-they writing about life, corruption, the economy, and even democracy. The hypocrites write that all okay and very well. But this writing is also from fear. They don't really want to be forgotten and kicked out on the street. That's why everything around us, except for the harem of real wives, if there are any at all, is saturated with the mustiness of the same. One might say, wax figures. Everything around screams garbage stagnation. When people come to the garbage dump, throw garbage in the trash cans, and so on day after day, day after day.
CHAPTER X
REFORMS IN RUSSIA AND CHINA
Why reforms in Russia are stalling, at the same time in China, since the mid-’80s, they have brought great success. Gorbachev’s perestroika began almost simultaneously. But what do we see? Do I need to list the difference?
Is liberalism, individual freedom, and adherence to democratic principles that do not suit the Eurasian people, but which the ruling elite of the CIS always looks up to, responsible for such depressing results? Or maybe the Marxist chains still remain on the feet of society, and the accusations of nationalists that the Russian-speaking, the former party-democratic elite is to blame, is not so accurate (in the Republic of Kazakhstan)?
(If anyone understood how the grandsons or great-grandsons of Russian revolutionaries would turn into liberals, it was only one person – the former leader of the revolution, Trotsky. He wrote a detailed work about this somersault, “Betrayed revolution” (“What is the USSR and where it goes” – the old name of this work)). We do not understand how in China, where adherence to Marxism and even Stalinism remain unshakeable concepts, nothing like this happened. The degeneration of the party and the elite did not happen and did not affect the Chinese reforms. Capitalist reforms in China have been successful. There is no close merger-a symbiosis of powerful corrupt officials and businesses in China. If any official is caught in corruption, the punishment will be swift and public. For any money, the corrupt official will not be able to pay off. Billionaires are also executed. If any cog in the law enforcement and judicial system made a wrong turn in the hope of getting a reward from a thief, he would also face execution. All Chinese know this. There are no gaps for fraud. The Communist Party controls the system and, most importantly, the souls of all Chinese, and it is not necessary to scare every screw by unscrewing the head. Chinese comrades from top to bottom resemble enthusiastic fanatics of the common cause. What’s it?
We are not talking about any liberal concessions. There is no such thing in Asia. Maybe because the reforms in Russia are stalling, its elite is not brought up in the Asian spirit of absolutism? It looks like it. There are few Asians in power in Russia. But what about the phenomenon of Stalin?
Russia is also Asia, but Eurasia.
Do Asian methods of strict control, policing, and the Declaration of human rights not combine? Perhaps because of the failure of reforms? This eternal dispute between Slavophils and Westerners.
Perhaps the frames are not the same?
Yes, the frames are not the same. But what does education have to do with it?
Let’s say that in connection with the reforms and industrialization, the masses of former dark peasants who joined the Communist party moved to the cities, received a good education, but they do not sell the state has broken today (not necessarily territorial), do not engage in corruption on an incredible scale, which in itself would indicate their hypocrisy and greed. Are potential corrupt officials held back only by the fact of an inevitable reprisal? (Perhaps because in Russia today, they are nostalgic for the time of Stalin because they are sure that only executions and labor camps solve the problem of theft). Is there a Chinese saying like “a Holy place is never empty”? Most likely, there is something similar. It cannot be to stimulate actions. On the other hand, the great Chinese leap and Cultural Revolution somewhat repeated in a reduced form the Soviet repression and struggled against the enemies of the people. Such events are possible only if the masses of the rural population find themselves in cities and create a stream of popular (rural, traditional) radicalism from their flow. The cult of personality and any deification is associated with ignorance and the need to serve it. However, the Chinese repressions “strike at headquarters” next to Stalin’s are ridiculous. Stalin and Mao both did not actually fight with thieves but with rivals. Just the struggle of any leader finds echoes in the mass heart of the people. And any dictator uses his power to promote this cult of love. Being in power at this moment is the most important thing. Only, for this reason, our losers Kamenev and Zinoviev rushed to challenge the championship, hoping that it would be easier to continue. The main thing in the traditional world is to take power. Then the power will work for the leader. On the other hand, it is more difficult to remove such a leader, and therefore only in a deeply traditional peasant people, the rulers do not resign but leave for physical reasons. In other words, they die in office.
GLOSSARY:
The Zerefs are community people whose behavior conforms to stringent standards. Taboo, morality, law. Their reflection is zero; therefore, their reflexes are rigidly set by the community, authorities, and law.
The Remids are people of honor. Their reflection is average, and they are a conditional elite and conditional authority directing the members of the community – the Zerefs.
The Refags represent the highest form of reflection, that of tradespeople. Selfish reflection is aimed at making a profit from underdeveloped or traditional people.
CHAPTER XI
WHAT IS THERE IN ASIA AND NOT IN EURASIA
Buddhists do not have theft and freebies because of the success of reforms.
“It can be said that a person will find agreement with the deities and the Buddha if his heart is straight and calm if he himself will honestly and sincerely respect those who are above him, and show compassion to those who are below him if he will consider the existing as existing, and the non – existent as non-existent, and accept things as they are. And then a person will find the protection and protection of the deities, even if he does not perform prayers. But if he is not straight and sincere, the sky will leave him, even if he prays every day”
Hojo Gagauz
There are two reasons why China did not liberalize public and political life as the Soviet leaders did. First: the founder of Communist China and the Marxist peasant movement of the same name, Chairman Mao, led the people’s Republic of China for a very long time. So long that if the founder of the USSR, Lenin had lived an equal length of life, the country would not have seen either Stalin or Khrushchev at the helm – the main actors of Stalinism and the thaw. This means that there would be no repression and personality cults typical of the Zeref (peasant) leadership style. There would be no Moscow trials, no persecution by the entire ideological apparatus of the USSR (with a huge budget) of the second leader of the revolution, Trotsky, after Lenin. It is even possible that the Second World war would not have happened, but there would have been a world revolution with a series of coups in the likeness of the modern orange Maidan. And of course, there would not have been a démarche of the two unfortunate ambitions of Zinoviev Kamenev, who fell the first victims of the Stalinist struggle for power. This means that modern corrupt regimes might not exist either if Lenin had the health of a bull. Rampant theft and embezzlement of money by the highest elite of all possible republics, too, might not have happened because Lenin’s “cook woman” in the face of the army, trained and educated the Zeremids, would have been under the control of a reflexive and not shot as a kind the intelligentsia.
And yet, why is there no such proverb in China?
“A holy place is never empty.” Is it because the main ideological base of the inhabitants of the Middle Kingdom is tradition? And its most important Foundation is Confucian morality?
What is Confucianism?
This is strict adherence to paternalistic ethics. First, submission to the state, then reverence for the father and parents, and the third condition is respect for the elders. Yes, it seems to be true. For Confucians, brought up in the spirit of respect for the old, the state of the Emperor is something like a deity. How can you steal from God? However, not everything is so rosy. China has made a rapid, radical leap from an agrarian society to an urbanized industrial one. This means that the population is mixed. No one can monitor ethical standards. This means that it is very difficult for people from their deep villages and from the poor to resist material temptations. Evidence of this is public executions of corrupt officials. There are not enough of them, corrupt officials, they are not so echeloned, they have not penetrated like rust into all authorities and society, but they are there more like exceptions against the backdrop of a rising giant economic monster.
And yet, during the Cultural Revolution and the struggle with its consequences in addition to the overthrow of defense Minister Lin Biao in 1974, there was such a poster: “Criticize Lin Biao, criticize Confucius – this is now the most important thing for the Party, the army and the people. Young schoolchildren and students red guards or” guards” of Mao protected the chief from all party leaders and prominent intellectuals, teachers who were much older than their executioners and rapists. In other words, the revolution and Mao’s experiments in remaking consciousness were not in vain.
What secret do the Chinese, Korean, Singaporean, and Japanese officials not steal? I list ethnic Han Chinese, Chinese from Singapore and Malaysia, and Koreans and Japanese – all participants in the Southeast Asian miracle.