Almaz Braev - World under clowns

But how will he live in the old way if all the places for climbing are occupied by the most arrogant? The bravest and the most cunning. The most respectable (in the traditional sense) and, of course, the most exemplary. Who, in general, is an example of the Zerefs? What do fathers teach their sons? You already know about the duty of raising sons. But with what mood? What is meant here is not excitement at the sight of a woman. The most important thing here is respect. Fathers bring up their sons to respect rituals and therefore observe etiquette. Respect for elders is equal to respect for tradition and reverence for the elite. Our mangurts, losers, and renegades in this matter are the latest. No, of course, they also observe rituals, show, and don't pretend, but they are kicked off by the strongest and the most brazen. The one who portrayed virtue and generosity with pleasure a minute ago gives the renegades a kick. Not only the bravest and most exemplary, kick someone. For traditional people, a prerequisite is to give someone a kick not necessarily with a foot but with words, intrigue, back-talking, and various gossip. So the most exemplary sons can tell their father about the pranks of one of their family members. And then the father punishes the unfortunate with his own hand. Do you recognize it? The ruler of such a people can, at the invitation of his entourage, punish an official who is guilty of something. Maybe he didn't even do anything. But woe to him! Whoever is closer to the ears of the father, ruler, educator, or supervisor is the most reliable. And whoever gets a kick kicks is pushed out by these kicks to the very perimeter. If the kick happened from above, then everyone can kick. Among the Mangurts, renegades, and losers, there may be very respectable people in the past, of course. But these fallen from the hill will never become Buddha. The traditional people do not like wisdom and the wise at all. Wise for the Zerefs is an old man. And, of course, the absolute authority of wisdom is the ruler. If there is an overlap of high position and age, then this is just cosmic luck for Zeroth. But woe to our Mangurts!

Suppose such people do not respect the smart. And what is smart? How can a son be smarter than his father? Unheard of impudence. The people expel such a contingent to the very periphery – these people become Mangurts. Only the poorest and ignoble, who by the will of fate find themselves outside the honorable circle of their people, study the languages of their neighbors and, of course, a craft that would be considered a despicable occupation for the worthy. For example. Who would need to communicate with Russian immigrants if the whole family and all relatives have long migrated to the side of grass-rich pastures? Only outcasts who don't have a horse have nothing to carry their yurt on. Tribal outcasts began to build stationary housing according to the type of housing they saw from the Russians to survive. And who would want to go to a Russian city if he has a lot of sheep? Only those who simply didn't have them. But in a strange city, you can find a job. This is all an example of learning where mangurts come from. And that's why they eventually turn out to be the most far-sighted. They are not far-sighted! Their relatives, kin, and people gave them a "kick". This kick gave them acceleration, and then hunger did everything.

But it cannot be said that the Mangurts were the smartest because they were naturally talented. Gifted mangurts. That's not so. There are plenty of talented sons among the family's authoritative people, the people in the circle of honor. But the thing is that these talents diligently perform only rituals and continue the age-old inertia; that is, they live in the old way. The whole talent of the Zerefs is to have a lot of wealth. So that everyone knows about it, it was possible to show sheep, horses – fat family herds, in the past. And you can show your elite housing, many floors, bank cards – this is today. It is necessary to show this to re-enter the circle of traditional honor. When the Zerefs meet on holidays or at a wake, they are sure to boast. They want to show their level, their achievements, where they live, and where the children study. What connections? What prospects? But how did these former nomads get into another circle of honor? How did you end up on another level of civilization? Without forgetting to praise your achievements, as if nothing had changed, as if time had stopped. Nothing has changed!

The fact is that disrespect for Zealots (for super people, for zealots, for people of honor and nobility) is a traditional rule. So they lived for centuries. Smart, and in modern terms, means civilized on the traditional scale and, according to the school of military democracy, means weak. It shows everyone that this person is weak. In fact, no one needs it. Zerefs by exemplary behavior: show—off is, of course, hypocrisy is common – by guile, arrogance, greed, and pressure, they still climb into the honorary circle. They still want to show that they are higher and they have great achievements. What achievements? It's not hard to guess here. According to the laws of military democracy, selecting an "exemplary" element goes to the very top. These people don't have to think like Mangurts. They are obliged to provide for their family like 100, 200 years ago. All the people are busy with such provisions. He got so carried away with this business that he doesn't even have an intelligentsia. And who is this intelligentsia? These are the very people who cannot roam with the family, and they simply do not have a horse. And that's a shame! This is no good. An intellectual, a mangurt, a scientist is not a warrior. Point. The modern warrior is making a fortune. This is not corruption in the traditional sense. These are trophies.

How did it happen that these people turned out to have lived up to market relations but continued to live by the old rules? All these changes in the people happened by accident. The people didn't even understand what had happened. And if I didn't understand, then I didn't need to.

If there is a sharp change, for example, people immediately switch from cattle breeding to market relations. But he again weeds out from his environment the smart, but weak, or the weak, but noble – I don’t know, both qualities are shameful here, so all the changes that have occurred, these changes have occurred abruptly, suddenly. No one was preparing for them. And why? The main thing is to show again that you are no worse, no weaker than the most arrogant.

There has never been such a thing in the East. There has always been a hierarchy in the East. No personalities. The very concept of personality is a bourgeois invention. The rootless bourgeois invented their personality so that the feudal elite would understand who they were dealing with. From now on, it means we did not with despicable philistines but with worthy people. Bourgeois personalities exuded an elitist informality. Formally, they were despicable people in the feudal report card; in fact, informally, the bourgeoisie had the meaning of a new rank. With a fierce desire to prove the opposite, this suspended state or formal insignificance manifested itself in the soreness or vulnerability bankers constantly carried with them. Today, when the "personalities" of the conditional East or all former citizens of the former USSR talk about personality and rights, they certainly do not know what it costs Western personalities. Even what passed to the East as remnants of Western dignity after the fall of totalitarianism does not convey the torment that rootless bankers once experienced. But that energy of humiliation and overcoming humiliation was still transmitted. I don't know how; rather, by genetic memory, the memory of humiliation turned into reflexes of resistance. Eastern people who had never lived in the market, in any case, have not reached the moment of the triumph of bourgeois law according to the type of the Napoleonic code, did not understand and could not understand Western protests. But they liked that they were called personalities in absentia. That's all. And who wouldn't like to be one? Life is bad without a loser. That's what Oriental vanity means. Find me a man in the street who would avoid fashion. Especially if it needs very average, mediocre ordinary money. Nobody would get the status simply. And they got it without bothering. But simply because world socialism collapsed. On the contrary, formally, everyone was equal; in fact, there is the same medieval hierarchy here. It turns out that the Western personality was born in a centuries-old market struggle; the Eastern took this victory from the Western personality. Although it seems that she also fought for her rights, but rather for status. But in the East, civil rights did not matter at all. Although even communists or people who fancied themselves radical equalizers wrote the constitution, they wrote and changed it several times. But if no one here was really interested in rights, even with a radical equation, if communism was just a new form or kind of an old tradition, and in fact, there were elected communists of the top and all men the rest, in general, the rights remained on paper, life has shown that the one who has more is right he is right, and officials always have more rights. It is repeated in all post-Soviet states. The Western tracing paper of the confrontation of feudal lords and urban philistinism received in the East the confrontation of party bosses and ordinary Soviet people, once again, with social justice declared to the whole world. There was never any struggle in the east. Soviet citizens automatically became personalities in the Western manner, without a market and money, that is, without the banal practice of fighting for money and rights. This very lack of experience in fighting for their rights has shown that no one in the East needs rights but money. Nobody wants to be called nobody comrades, as it was in the past, and everyone wants to be new personality. Consumer personalities. Consumers of goods, which would be even more accurate. That Eastern no one wanted universal equality through consumption; Western tracing paper was taken literally at face value. In the East, another eastern hierarchy was immediately lined up to be someone; an oligarchy appeared and immediately an elected non-judicial elite. None of the disenfranchised in the future, and constantly eastern personalities without money, did not occur to them that this would happen again. However, still, they were seized with the hope that someone would be able to climb up into the company of the chosen ones. That means one thing. Until something like a new hierarchy is formed in the East again, everyone will be busy with their own, only their own business. But even when everyone sees or is pointed out to them, they will rather feel a new corvee themselves. But now, nothing will save the eastern losers. According to their culture, they received, were obliged to receive a new feudal elite. Does it have a different name now? Nothing. But now there is a real market. Understanding what it is like to be a disenfranchised slave in the market with arrogant, arrogant feudal lords is necessary. Do I want to say that Eastern personalities should go through the experience of Western personalities externally as it really was with the West? I'm not sure. A new world system has been formed. And the eastern oligarchy has integrated into the Western one. The fresh descendants of the rootless communists, who were raised from the bottom by the revolution, found mature descendants of the rootless status burghers for a union. And the Eastern people began to play by the Western rules; that is, they hoped they would be accepted into the club of the elect, in any case, all the oligarchs. Who trades is a person, isn't it?