To understand this process, the term flotagia appeared in revcon (a neologism from flotation and Refag. Refags are people with market reflection).
In the first stage, financial fascists support the young nation-states, whose young or conditionally young elite begins to squeeze out cultural former soviet intelligentsia so as they not to interfere with what is called democratic reforms (by injecting a catalyst of egoism into their heads). At the same time, leaving only their «savages» in power. This is reforms or whatever else, but the crisis of governance and the ideological desert are creeping up imperceptibly, but surely.
In the second stage, when enough has taken place through the gentle squeezing of rivals to forget about them, the ruling elite begins to remember, but also insist on obsolete anachronisms. The old history of the Middle Ages is ascending to the skies by local academics. Thats what the bourgeoisie and local people want in the end. These are just the laws of an old, obsolete law that has reanimated market catalysts. This means that in addition to the generic revival, antiquity generic mores should also be revived with some adjustment to the market and the worlds fascist financiers. Basically, its just the parliament building and similar structures, which are just large rooms where some people (parliamentarians) just sit and vote. With the revival of the law of old, all its new participants will use the words freedom and democracy by the fashion (this is just for fashion and for importance, catalysts unleash the language in one direction). There will also be a stock exchange next to the monumental administrative buildings. These fashionable words will not interfere with the resurgent tribal arrogance and belligerence. But to attack an invisible enemy, preparation is needed (while the catalyst excites)
Flotagia is a process when any action in the name of local nationalism leads to a deterioration of both nationalism itself and the conditions of existence of the traditional population. It is enough to look at the countries where nationalism has already been revived and is supported by financial fascists. Nationalism is such a zugzwang for regimes that at the first stage everything seems to be fine, everyone is pleased, but then every move of nationalism will be against the local rulers themselves. Every blow to the cultural traitors and heroes of the imperial and colonial past, like the same demolition of monuments, will revive militancy and make these peoples modern tribes because the main occupation of a tribal hunter is war. The world government also needs it, because it allows it to restrain the growth of the population of the cultural periphery.
Flotagia is the replacement of principles with petty egoisms of most of the provincials, who did not know these very principles and did not have time to understand what it is. There are no principles, there is no choice of means, there is a mad passion, a crazy passion to be like Europeans. But this imitation is of course mechanical and material in the beginning. Everyone wants to get rich quickly by imitating the elite
Chapter 4
Frog caviar
What is the danger of flotagia thus involving the archaic population in market relations?
The market materializes the archaic energy of competition and destruction.
Blood and kinship play a cruel joke with the archaic population. The same joke is taken under control by external forces. That is why radical Islamism and nationalism, for example, which are super-controlled from the outside, are dangerous.
If we talk about the Arabs of the Maghreb, they had to try everything. Nationalism or national socialism was adopted by many reform officers. But they didnt know which side to choose the West or the USSR? Before the Suez Canal crisis, Abdel Nasser was the best friend of the German National Socialists, who did not have time to escape to Argentina. Some of these «specialists» settled in Egypt. But it was the power and authority of the USSR that allowed these Arab socialists to talk about socialism in general. (I dont know. Is the Baath Party socialist, rather nationalist? Because the catalysts of socialism still excite local patriotism among the Zerefs. But the catalysts of socialism are still, closer to Zerefs reflection, less harmful to Zerefs peoples than the catalysts of democracy)
If the current catalysts increase the capacity of life, then the population is growing rapidly like in Libya under Gaddafi, in Iraq under Hussein, in Egypt under Mubarek.
But all the leaders of Asia do not take into account one important thing.
The population is growing exponentially, and the benefits of maintaining the standard of living are arithmetic. But all the Zerefs want to dominate! At least to live with dignity and not be disgraced in front of relatives. (Thats why at weddings and commemorations, the zerefs mostly brag about where they work or where the children study. If children study in the USA, then its just great!) The socialist catalyst pours equality into the heads, and the democratic one inequality. Which is better? The question is rhetorical. Although, the local native elite itself is constantly enriching itself, thereby irritating the crowd. Which is the main reason for the uprising (in Egypt, the Mubarak clan ruled for more than thirty years, which is all tired). People who dont understand anything about democracy want to throw off this native elite so that the next tadpole becomes a frog (I use the evolution of a frog from caviar into a tadpole and a frog itself all the time in revcon. If you declare a tadpole a frog, it will still be a tadpole. But he will still become a frog, and not something else. The democratic catalyst and his laboratory assistants want the caviar to be democratic right away. Its impossible. I hope this is clear now).
The outstanding boxer of our time, Meni Pacquiao, built several multi-storey houses for the poor at his own expense. Why did he do it? Because hes a politician now. And perhaps the people of the Philippines will elect him president.
Without a democratic catalyst in the minds of Filipinos, it would have been impossible: for some fist-fighting expert to become president?
But you can say to Pacquiao. Pacquiaos act of goodwill is a simultaneous act of populism from Pacquiao. After a while, children will be born again in this area, and a lot of children and the same problem will arise as if there was no Pacquiao, and he nothing did.
Of course, flotagia excites traditional people to breed (to fight?), but flotagia does not prepare officials at all. Zerefs, become officials and steal again, steal endlessly, like a hungry loader who got into a grocery warehouse.
Why do different crooks get into officials?
This is a different question and, in fact, a problem for my other book (which is being prepared).
Both democracy and socialism work with the lower classes all the time, where there is rapid reproduction. This is probably the scourge of all mankind. Tradition does not give a chance in the face of another aristocracy or local elite for the children of «commoners» to get to the top. So do the commoners themselves, who gained power as a result of the revolution and coups. They attach only their children and relatives to big money. Does caviar turn into a frog again?
Chapter 5
Forerunner
Our people are outraged not by the injustice of life and power, but by the creation of a new caste system.
Since the Maghreb, all modern Maidan events take place on the periphery of market civilization. At the end of the global financial pyramid. In the former USSR going so also, so today the Maidan is predictable in terms of the level of urbanization and sudden urbanization after the so-called market reforms and privatization. Look, who are the revolutionaries, leading in the name of human rights and democracy?
The most sensitive to cynicism and lies are rural residents, many often from large traditional families, where parents, fathers, or mothers are hardworking, or from incomplete urban suburban families since provincials are the most radical deniers of lies and hypocrisy. But they are also carriers of an inferiority complex against the background of the same lies and hypocrisy that made hypocrites and other arrogant and wealthy people rich. Now they began to remove their complexes not by denying lies and hypocrisy, but by becoming the best students of hypocrites and corrupt officials. They are the best students in this case of the worst, that they are ready to walk on heads literally because being rich today is fashionable, and prestigious. Although the main rule of traditional morality of all peoples is an honor and the honest name of the father. But it has been in the past. Who needs an honest fathers name today?
Actually, along with total market urbanization, when millions of rural residents were forced to flee to the cities, everyone seemed to forget about the honest name of any property. The past honesty was connected with the past communist ideology. Therefore, even the usual integrity has become unnecessary. All the former provincials just wanted to stay in the city and live. And for speculation in the market of goods, honesty is even harmful, since speculation in everything has become the main occupation of the population. No one was interested in what the local authorities were doing, people were engaged in speculation and resale of goods initial accumulation, as economists would say about it. (With one amendment: it is impossible to demand integrity from rural people, those who have known need. Can you not require women to give birth in four months?)
Traditional peoples have also forgotten pity. Although, pity for former nomads is also not peculiar to nomads. The nomads always had the support of relatives in the first place. Relatives should support relatives. And no else. So it was in the past. And how did become now?
The reforms were the very disaster on which the real folklore nepotism flourished. This cultural quality was bound to lead to total corruption. And corruption has even become an informal ideology in the new state (everyone now knows that this situation was in all republics, not only in our country. Although we are still in Asia). At the very core of the new regime, this primal passion initially crept in. What else could the ideology be supported on? After all, no one was ready for independence, including the top. Officially, of course, the top declared their commitment to democracy and market values. But this is all for the public. In fact, the whole system was built on the principles of kinship (ruling family). In each region, over time, a ruling family was to appear. These relatives appeared everywhere. Relatives pulled relatives with them. People of the same kind had to appear in all institutions headed by relatives. The same picture was all over the republic. The Republican tribal elite had to form alliances with regional and district elites. They cant just walk away from culture, from age-old practice, from age-old experience.
As for the unusual callousness of traditional people, so traditional people did not need to be taught how to survive. For relatives, other people, especially people of another ethnic group, are strangers. Therefore, such people, the Zerefs, are the best executors of orders. Moreover, the second market quality in addition to kinship in the administrative apparatus has become Asian performance. In any army in the world, reasoning and obstinate soldiers are not needed. Therefore, the so-called market reforms took place for the population painlessly. Everyone quickly forgot everything. Propaganda focused on the famine caused by the Communists during Soviet modernization in the 30s of the last century. The losses from market reforms were forgotten by everyone as if on command. What is beautiful about Zerefs low-reflexive memory, so is rapid forgetfulness. In general, the entire memory of the people was now in charge of the authorities. She recommended, taught, and even ordered to remember only the miscalculations, stupidity, and cruelty of the bloody communists. Although it looked strange. The former communists who were in power in the USSR became adherents of the Democrats and blamed their teachers for all their sins. But now is independence! It was necessary to carry out privatization faster. In other words, to rewrite the former Soviet property for themselves.
Here we will present only one example of how rigidly economic reforms were carried out in the former republic of the USSR. This example is taken from a provincial newspaper. It was difficult to call the irresponsibility and selfishness of officials reforms because reforms are always understood as some kind of progress. Here, at first, there was a strong regression. Probably, all peoples have had reforms and probably in all ages and all peoples have had reformers. You can recall, for example, the English King Edward V, who drove the peasants from the family lands in the name of the nation. None of the local patriots would even think of accusing Edward V of communism, or of dictatorship, although almost as many English peasants died under him as Kazakhs died under Stalin.
«Grandfather Anatoly from room 29 died in the summer. Once he had his own apartment, it had to be given away for debts. Grandfather was brought to the dorm by young people and left lying in the corridor, where he lived out his last days. Sometimes the neighborhood boys fed him what to eat. After a month and a half, he was gone. The old man was found dead there, in the corridor.
Then Rakhimzhan ata (grandfather by Kazakh) died right on New Years Eve. He couldnt hear well and almost couldnt see. He lived in the hostel for only three months. They said he also gave up his apartment for debts. Rahimzhan ata rarely left the room. Just to take boiling water from the neighbors. He was last seen on December 31. Three days later he was found frozen in his room under the bed.
On January 10, Ermek from the 9th room died. The 13-year-old daughter of a single father was taken to a special school.
The last to die was Zhenya from room 59. The former PMK painter has two small children left. Now they live with the neighbors.
The stories of the residents of the hostel on Skulkin Street, 5a, resemble entries from the diary of Tanya Savicheva from besieged Leningrad. Only here the war and the blockade have nothing to do with it. The events take place in absolutely peaceful times. Just a few minutes walk from the sparkling lights of the central avenue.
And how do you bury the dead? I ask Muratbek, who invited me to the hostel in order to tell me about the problems of his and his neighbors.
«Is nothing way,» he says. We call the police. A car arrives, picks it up. Last year, 13 people died here.
We are standing on the first floor of the dormitory, where there are no windows or doors. Instead, there are huge empty openings. Someones barbaric hand broke the partitions. The dirt and stench are unbearable all around