Life is short, but you need to live – help me kami (spirits). Japanese Shintoism preaches no less an ethic of honoring the Emperor and the elders (all peoples of today’s Christians and Muslims of different faiths have reverence for the elders). But Japanese Shintoism differs in that it is very close to liberal norms here and now.
Finally came the moment to explain why the leaders of the Soviets Zinoviev and Kamenev made an attempt to take the wrong path and thus confused the Soviet way (Tao). Not because they were ill-bred nonconformists, any revolutionary is a subverted of the foundations, but not in the case of his party comrade Trotsky. They acted on the principle of I will take that badly lies, and the Holy place is empty does not happen is very popular (also traditional) councils of the people. But the point is that both fellow leaders were not… enlightened.
Who is such a teacher, who is such a Bodhisattva, and finally, who is a Buddha? This is a very rare example of a large and small chariot! No follower of Buddhism, that is, no disciple or just a visitor to the temple, will attempt to take the place of the Buddha. That’s why Buddhists don’t have impostors. But anyone can be a Buddha! The place of an enlightened teacher is a Holy place. That is why power is not needed by anyone who feels that he is achieving enlightenment. In plain language, Buddhists have an ethical norm that relates to the chosen people-geniuses. They will never take power as a thing that doesn’t lie well. Hence, all the reforms in the countries of Southeast Asia are doomed to success.
CHAPTER XII
WHO IS EQUAL TO ALL?
A formation where each subsequent unit is inferior to the link leader can be called a military formation. Unless, of course, there is no peace after the war. But there is one moment. After a war, there is always peace among the neighbors. In this most peaceful period to have time to grow up, the next replenishment of young soldiers. This does not mean that building peace has lost the quality of war. On the contrary, building, peace duplicates military construction surprisingly. These two twins can be called one word – tradition. We will call it the principle of choosing the worst and going for the best tradition. This does not mean that the first ranks of regime officials are better than the last. This means that each subsequent official in the chain is just convenient for the system. Selecting the worst is just convenient. But first, it is convenient for the chief of staff. Each chief of a link chooses the deputy worse than itself and worse than itself on all qualities. So that no one sees the superiority of the deputy in anything, after all, according to the stereotype of war, the more talented should be in front.
So, it turns out that the leader or leader of a traditional community is superior to all who follow him and in war, and not in war, surpasses all at once. He is simply equal to all in one. This is probably where his glory begins. But what man is superior to all the people? Only one superman. Such a person is worthy of love and glory. Especially those who follow him in rank will shout-you are our idol, you are our leader, never was such a bright sun born in the world.
But what would alert him?
The super leader will suspect insincerity and will not even believe that he is above all, cooler than all, stronger than all, that he is equal to all at once. One leader against all. It turns out approximate equality of peacetime: one super-human leader against the rest of the masses.
As for the lowest level where the most unworthy are supposed to live, here they also praise or at least are obliged to praise their immediate superior-flatter him, please him, the rest of the praise of the most important they do by order, on the orders of this chief as subordinates who carry out his instructions. For negligent soldiers, the bureaucrat can suffer a career or even ahead. Let his people officially shout about the sun of the nation and only obey him. And you don’t have to shout anymore. Today, of course, anyone official risks their career and money. If their people are lazy and incomprehensible and do not shout at all, they walk quietly, stupidly, which is significant when all the officials are watching each other. This is how a cult is gradually created, or its mechanism unfolds. And not because the leader is so insecure that he needs an hourly reminder of how great, how beautiful, how smart and visionary he is. This is just the natural mode of hierarchy. And only traditional people support such a regime. Just them and no one else.
Traditional people are always brought up on a cult and on authority. Without teacher’s mentors, there can be no tradition itself, and the meaning of life for traditional people is to serve. Of course, negative selection is also possible. All teachers of the world welcome the appearance of a diligent student. It’s just that the view becomes a way of undeserved reward and then duty in the most unexpected places. From here, the whole society is quickly overgrown with a general, no universal, just total hypocrisy that makes the rest of the world laugh. And forward, too, are selected almost flawed but quirky hypocrites. In a crowd of hypocrites, scoundrels, and hypocrites absolutely impossible to know where the old team knew who first who the second hypocrite. Who in the line is inferior to the first warrior in strength and courage. But to check the combat capability of a group of hypocrites and thieves, any incident is enough. Even a simple economic crisis is enough to find out whether there are no professionals here. The time of trouble is an artificial substitute for some aggressive neighbors from the past, far away. With all their traditions and discipline, such peoples begin to prepare themselves for this objective circumstance-a meeting with a un visible enemy. The crisis insight? No, I can’t see it. But they are not preparing for it together. After all, the worst is already sitting on even worse than himself; if the worst is ahead, it does not mean that he is the best. It is the best in adaptation, traditional servility, mimicry. Otherwise, nobody will be able to climb up the steps of capacity. There is a general sense of unease in the air. More than that, fear. And even the band of hypocrites and thieves is not sure where the punishment for lying and opportunism will come from. The entire population does not expect anything good, although inertia praises its immediate and formally first leader. There is no war, but there is anxiety. There’s something wrong here.
It would seem that to get out of this anxiety situation and believe in the future, and you just need to choose the worthy ones. These men are responsible for people. But where can we get them now? The problem of selecting the worst for fulfilling the will of the “best” (for today, conditionally the best) creates a depraved and cunning population. Each of the traditional crowd wants to get somewhere higher and, for this purpose, assumes a submissive appearance. The trick becomes pervasive and widespread. All are cunning and, at the same time, dissatisfied with something. Is this culture? This is culture. Exemplary fathers of families begin to raise compliant and cunning sons already in their families. The entire system begins to reject any deviation from the norm, even during rest, to avoid wasting time. The entire regime seems to be mobilizing. Any alternatives are rejected and pursued, perhaps not even literally but carefully. Everything superfluous is cut off. There is a struggle in all areas of the battle with invisible intruders as if it is the struggle of a traditional person with his shadow. It’s hard to find a cat in a black room. There seems to be no war, but the fight is on. At the moment of praising the ruling elite both officially and informally, when no one is watching, everyone is watching themselves as if they are walking in an invisible line of spies. Wherefrom, they will take decent people? The whole regime works against them. The really decent ones disappear as a species. They are decent inside, but everything is in the outer shell. Everyone tries to get rid of such an acquaintance. Being not decent here is quite consistent with the only discipline, hypocrites huddles together to collectively express contempt for the white crow. Even parents may regret at some point that they have a decent (actually decent) son and not a respected scoundrel. And I would be a hypocrite like everyone else. Maybe I would please the old people, my career would be set, and people could boast of knowing me.