All this, of course, is primarily a show-off. But who does not know, then these show-offs are an indicator of the fulfillment of traditional covenants. All that is pleasant for Zeref is good. If you see a crowd celebrating in restaurants, it means that traditional society has felt a lot of good in Zeref’s understanding of pleasure at a plentiful table. And good, we know, is a piece changeable.
The problem is that the government pursuing mass good does not understand what it is actually doing. In this sense, tradition harms the state. Although will not the state be rich, where all citizens have pieces of goods? The fact of the matter is that every family is not going well here in a strategic good or a piece of a different value. The Zerefs need a plentiful table, and the state seems to be of no use, except for the officials, who are also, by the way, Zerefs. So, they have families, for tradition is also above the common task. Large gaps are obtained. In other words, the showmen’s embezzlement and show-off cannot be counted in any way but can only be taken for embezzlement or losses. Traditional society, pursuing its traditional good, consumes a common resource that every Zeref is not interested in. Therefore, the Zerefs are not even interested in their future, which they understand only with their piece of family goods. At every family table, they eat up the future of their people. But no one can explain it to them. At this moment of general fun and show-off, any critic will be just a crank and an envious person. So all the guests will think badly about him.
The fact is that the indicators of good, or pieces of good, change all the time. And the fashion for the level of good is dictated by entirely different people. That makes the pursuit of some of the richest traditionalists seem pointless. Even if they are all corrupt, it seems that there is a lot of good, but the appetites of accumulation do not dry up.
But in general, we must remember for now that the good of a traditional person is always in the form of prosperity. And if he gets this good, he must show it to everyone. This is almost the ideology of the show-off tradition.
Glossary:
Zeref- a traditional person with rigidly set social actions, low reflection almost zero, hence the word Zeref-reflection zero (zeref)). Has no semitones, serves the idols of the genus, communicates in the circle of native blood. Zeref has no semitones of perception, is categorical, irreconcilable, hostile to others and to another opinion in the development of rejection of “not your own”
Zeref’s loop – the baby boom, overheating of the population.
Zerot (zeroot = zeref+root) – the traditional feudal elite
Zerot’s loop creates a solid cast, an impenetrable social barrier. None of the lower castes can enter the feudal elite. The lack of social mobility pre-revolutionary situation.
Remid – a new traditional elite, rulers, officials, authorities, teachers; Remid put actions for Zerefs, determine morality, laws, politics, reflection average-middle (remiddle).
Remid’s loop – the elite’s struggle with the brightest personality, the cooperation of second and third parties against the hero and the prophet.
Refag- a person of a trading civilization in several generations, reflection is high, selfish, utilitarian Refag (re + high). Brazen reflection.
Zeremid is a first-generation city person, has a half-rigid social reflex of custom and new skills of city life, half-urban, half-rural.
Zeremid’s loop – the Zeremids are approximate imitators. They imitate the elite, any idea, any direction just to be good for their families. By imitation, hypocrisy, and even fanaticism, they harm any cause, state, or idea. The first traditional generation to undergo industrial and cultural modernization.
Zefa is a man from the city’s first generation with a tendency towards the market and speculation, and to trade at least something, and circumstances forced him. People who have passed socialism and met market relations.
Revcon – revolution conservatism
Chapter IV
The clan and mobilization
The clan is an archaic organization of society before the advent of private property.
Nature is fickle. War was inevitable. There were constant wars. If these bloodthirsty relatives had survived to the present day, then the current society would have been waiting for mutual extermination. It is difficult to imagine, but the same remaining peoples, inherited from the past, would have waged a real war according to their laws. They would have overwhelmed the whole world with their concepts of” blood for blood”. However, the same mafia is a clan outside the official law. Criminal groups seal their brotherhood, as the warriors of the primeval dawn did twenty thousand years ago-with blood. And nothing seems to be able to resist them except for the time itself. The main obstacle, for example, for criminal concepts, is the atmosphere of civilization, the cult of culture, that is, progress itself. If modern” fathers “could recruit at least one million similar” relatives”, they could do a lot. But they can’t do anything. Why? Because they are lagging in culture. Therefore, the underworld-power, fear, and cruelty-does cult do not go beyond the suburban streets of megacities and prisons. This is the atmosphere of the tribal system, or rather the wrong side, more suitable for traditional people their culture. There are, of course, still fathers with a conditional ancestral “I”, who rule quite naturally and also subordinate traditional peoples as a whole. But the very cultural environment or air of civilization allows them to parasitize only on tradition, on its inertia. Conservative people control them. Modern Zerefs can even be fashionably dressed. But nothing unusual will happen if these most fashionably dressed people are sometimes dressed in their ancestors’ clothes. The clothes of their ancestors would even suit them better. And why?
Conservatism is a clear sign of paternalism.
Today, any conservative leadership easily changes the hierarchy of blood to a hierarchy of positions. For a traditional society, this is normal, but these people seem backward from the perspective of civic thinking. Is it necessary to interfere in this process? After all, they rely on traditional culture, the culture of the people, and the needs of the majority of people. To the Refag, these people appear to be a squad of military men dressed in civilian uniforms. There is no democracy. No one can replace the feudal elite, although, in this system, this disguised squad recruits even the poorest into its ranks. The traditional elite demands unconditional recognition of its authority. Anyone who recognizes these rules, and it will still achieve such recognition by any means, receives a reward – power, position, work. It cannot be said that discipline as a condition is recognized only by parts of the poor or uneducated strata. However, it is easier for the feudal elite to deal with the lowest ranks. They know perfectly well what they will get in return for their complaisance. Civilization, or so-called civic morality, puts an unnatural barrier in its way. Culture and education, thus, interfere with the feudal world, although all people brought up on traditions do not pay any attention to the laws. Hence, the Zerefs have obvious legal nihilism. Everything is decided informally. Everyone knows who the power is and who you are. Who are you anyway? This is the very first question among the Zeref when they look at each other. Different mafias and all groups based on the generic principle behave like this. All Zerefs don’t like official laws. They like different non-formal laws. But this does not confuse the “relatives”. All laws for the form this is the convergence of the traditional world and the world of custom. Some people write the laws, while others pretend that they are. All the laws of the world are for the law-abiding man in the street. For relatives, the main thing is not the law or some rigid and lacy norms, but morality. Law-abiding in itself symbolizes defenselessness. The law-abiding are the victim. They gather their harvest carefully, looking around. Alliances based on blood ties can terrorize entire continents. But even here, kinship unions, gathered along ethnic lines, are used by international criminal syndicates. In a separate state, supported by the world community, as if by chance, autocracy is installed. How so? From where? Who could have known?
The generic system is based on compulsion.
The gens oblige based on blood relationship to bear duties. Rod is a mobilization project of all the peoples of the world. It’s just that some people remember their ancestors, and others have forgotten about them. This is the main difference. The functions of each individual Zeref follow from the established hierarchy, therefore, by age, then by the nobility. Everyone bears their measure of responsibility, although Zeref never knows what it is. Zeref has a weak reflection. He knows that for disobedience or poor execution, he will be punished. The purpose of mobilization is confrontation. Opposition to the elements. And the danger factors include not only the surrounding nature or environment. The danger factors include another kind, a kind of neighbors or unknown tribes of aliens who did not come to look at them but they came for robbery, just like 1000 years ago. The Zerefs have not changed in their thoughts in all the centuries.
The main figure of the genus is a man.
Usually, this is a wise old man, he leads all the men, all the people. Hence, paternalism. Fathers of families have the same right to encourage and punish their children. But first to protect. The main function of the genus is protection. This is a paternal society, the protector is also the patron. In the future, it is paternalism that will be the most important distinguishing feature of a kindred community, even in a modern urban environment.
The highest indicators of patronage and protection in blood-related unions, and in the future such manifestations are observed in the empire. Slave-owning empires act as organizations of clear non-economic generic coercion. The barbarian periphery, tribes, and clans that have not reached the union, military mobilization serve as a breeding ground, due to which the empires of the advanced – the Romans, Persians, Turks, Mongols, Han, Anglo-Saxons, Russians-kind achieve prosperity. And again, the paramilitary union was built on strength-it rests on the authority of the center (metropolis), as we see – the same generic system of subordination. Empires are kin, although the blood relationship of all citizens of the empire is not discussed, and the main signs of similarity to the ancient family and its functions are discipline and a multi-stage hierarchy.
The rigid bond of blood that transforms tribal alliances from a collection of warriors into an empire corresponds to a single faith. Or it’s a new form of ideology. The Empire cannot be without a purpose. And what is the purpose of a traditional person? The Zeref must believe that they will achieve their ideal together.
The first gods are the gods of nature.
If the Zerefs are such strict fathers-mentors, if they create uncompromising subordination, then they themselves have learned from someone. Why should they be soft, when the very nature around was not so kind for centuries. Maybe that’s why the pagan gods of the Zeref do not know mercy, so they are the gods of the elements, of nature itself, of the surrounding landscape. And what brutal wars are waged between traditional communities! And also no compromises. If it weren’t for civilization and laws, they would have come to grips with each other again. Nationalism is still flourishing on the planet. Such relationships are derived from the cruelty of nature. So, the first gods of the Zerefs, they are also the gods of nature, are represented as one whole (universal), as one father, then divided into elements, each element-rain, fire, wind, sun, harvest, then luck, victory, love, war – corresponds to some god-official. An official of nature, an official of the elements. Why shouldn’t the modern official Zeref be the same feudal lord? As for the benefits, this official is very demanding and cruel. He so repeats the atmosphere of the past that his equanimity and confidence that he is doing everything right is a matter of life or death. There can be no other explanation for autocracy. The strong subdue the weak. The weak obey the strong. If two are equal in strength, one obeys or dies. And the ancestral consciousness is more consistent with the motto: “An eye for an eye, blood for blood.” And the gods are just as bloodthirsty and uncompromising. This bloodthirstiness and uncompromising attitude allowed a successful clan alliance to survive even in a market “war”. They trade and make deals now as if they are still at war.
All empires are aggressive.
Why are societies that have preserved tribal solidarity more resilient in a modern city? This is especially evident in the bazaars – in the markets of megacities, their informal unions are developing. Because they profess the principle of kinship. They gather like blood brothers. (This applies not only to the great experts in trade-the Jews. Their fraternal associations and alliances are enshrined in Judaism. Modern ethnic unions are just pathetic copies of the solidarity of ancient merchants. Only the principle of blood union is shown here. But among the ancient merchants, it was also supported by religious motives.). So, bazaars are small and persistent corporations of ethnically assembled people. Whoever you are and whatever benefits you bring, you have no voice in the assembly of persons of one ethnic group, and you have no right. If you’re not to them, you’re an outsider. The clan solves their particular issues thoroughly. They do not bother with other people’s problems and the state in particular. Only the concerns of loved ones. Therefore, it is easier for them to survive. In a narrow framework and on a small area, skills, not horizons, decide. Although here there are some pahans-authorities. But the horizons of the pahans are very limited. The godfather is a privilege. He can punish without limiting his arbitrariness. And what to limit? Therefore, pahans are appointed quite informally. A pahan, like all fathers, must have strength. And physical as well. A gang of thugs is forming around the leader. This is a normal primitive picture of being in a modern environment.
But can clan men reason on their own? After all, they do not have such an opportunity from birth. From the moment they are born, they are accustomed to obeying. So, it was before them, so it was before their fathers. The initiative is punishable, and reasoning is not welcome a thousand years before the events described. Here it is-humility – the reverse side of a war. Therefore, people with a generic habit can easily be organized into criminal unions – the mafia, even economic, even ideological. It is easier to gather them in one place and teach them to say the same things. Therefore, the cult of the next authority arises by itself. With a paternal way of life, it is easy for tribal unions to exist, and it is not difficult for a clan to live in any metropolis. Their alliances resemble military groups. They are bound by mutual responsibility, almost an oath.
In civilized places, where the population tries to build relationships based on interests, culture, law, in the end, on “man to man friend – neighbor – companion”, clan unions are organized according to “man to man stranger is rival and enemy”. It’s all about the relationship, or in the blood. And oaths are also sealed with blood. “Ancestral” peoples knock well, stipulate “strangers”. This is an independent beating of upstarts. Therefore, nationalism in the form of a current of politics is dangerous here. Only a nation can have nationalism. For the Zerefs, nationalism is war.