Almaz Braev - Weathercocks. Zeremidmen

Remid – a new traditional elite, rulers, officials, authorities, teachers; Remid put actions for Zerefs, determine morality, laws, politics, reflection average-middle (remiddle).

Remind’s loop – the elite’s struggle with the brightest personality, the cooperation of second and third parties against the hero and the prophet.

Refag is a person of a trading civilization in several generations; reflection is high, selfish, utilitarian-refag (re + high).

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 to be good for their families. By imitation, hypocrisy, and even fanaticism, they harm any cause, state, or idea.

Zefa is a man from the city’s first generation with a tendency towards the market and speculation and to trade at least something; circumstances forced him.

Revcon – revolution conservatism

Along with democracy, super, hyper, and mega – markets appeared. And former traditional people, as well as former provincials, began to shop in them.

It’s hard to tell which one is which from that point on. The first secretaries of the party and the ruling functionaries appeared to be on a par with ordinary citizens. Of course, from now on, everyone became a citizen. I can’t tell the difference. They did not even know what it meant. To use a cliché about the bourgeoisie, all former citizens of the USSR simultaneously became bourgeois.

But we know that in the USSR, there were still traditional people. Just instead of the traditional elite, there were first secretaries and other functionaries of the apparatus, instead of community members – ordinary citizens. However, tradition is tradition, and the idea is the idea. If the idea was jacked from the item to suit their needs, “the mind, honor, and conscience of the epoch,” i.e., party bosses are the top of all others below. But now all the same buyers.

So, new citizens began to differ not in purchases but the purchase price or price tag on the purchase. Still, although former, the nomenclature could afford expensive and prestigious things. Ordinary citizens (Zerefs) bought almost everything, but cheap and second-hand. Such cheap relative to the purchases of the elite and second-hand was a success for the bourgeois and provincial. They had never seen anything in the soviet past like it and could not hope to see it; it was a miracle. This explained the mass apolitical nature of the so-called people when the building of the USSR was dismantled into independent bricks. No one was willing to take risks and did not defend their country. After all, buyers in super, hyper, mega markets did not care. That was important to them; they understood their house and new business. Once again, we are dealing with a traditional population, even if it was called soviet. They have lost not only the remnants of a soviet but traditional elementary morality. They ask, for what?

The hero goes to feats, and the elite equips the army in campaigns?

For traditional people, their importance in their native society, some name in their community, is important. The name and meaning could now be had without performing any feats, without performing together with the feudal lords in any campaigns, for trophies from now they can go hiking in the super, hyper, mega market together with their wives. And the more expensive the wife chooses a dress, the higher her husband’s head rises. That’s how the former soviet, traditional people, began to go bullying each other for the next purchase (show-off began to mean). Who had never seen a used Japanese Toyota, moreover, could not dream in a residential area or a village even about Zhiguli, was incredibly excited, finding that you can buy it from resellers this very Toyota of fifteen years of freshness. Who has never lived in a house with amenities and may have occupied half a home in an urban-type settlement, where there was no hot water or natural gas, and the bathroom was shared, as in a hostel, for example. He was happy to buy housing with amenities, and maybe even a big cottage like the first secretary’s former soviet party, not to mention the small pleasures in the form of gift sweets, condensed milk, or just packs of Indian tea. Everything that the Soviet elite had become available to the mere person! Well, how can they not be happy for freedom and democracy! Although people from below accustomed to the hierarchy feel like first secretaries for a few days, yes, a few days, the rest of your life, is expensive. The Zerefs are ready to exchange their future for the prestigious dresses of a feudal nobleman of thirty years ago. That is why it is important to know that the so-called new bourgeoisie in market conditions will also strive to sit higher than its neighbor on a twig, at least one day, but higher. This was due to the endless, insatiable greed of the elite and now the simple persons.

Why do you think traditional people need this corruption?

This word is like the misting is a temporary and curable process. In fact, the practice of corruption (or stealing) is a recognized cause. After all, we do not forget that the existing internal policy is not built by decrees, orders, appeals. The general pile and concentration of appeals and orders seem to be empty talk or sound piles of garbage. Everyone who addresses, and everyone to whom they address, for a long time and always missed it by ear. Some advanced politicians and hypocrites understood that the fight against corruption was necessary for form. So, the struggle for the high and low branches of the traditional hierarchy and weight in society does not turn into anarchy and slaughter. All Zeremids and even Remids are quite educated people; they all received knowledge and understanding about good and bad. This is one of the positive aspects of the enlightenment that the people of the former world and the community know what is good and bad within civilization’s limits. In short, corruption, although it seems to be a bad thing, will never end here. Until at least everyone is sitting on their branches. Until then, everything will be outwardly peaceful and decent. Perhaps they will catch you like corruption, man, but it’s a small thing. This is not the most important thing To frighten the rest of the pile of applicants. You can always buy off the police and the court. Every service costs money, that’s all.

As for the intelligentsia, which seemed to know more than anyone else and was the first to claim the secretaries, but they were weak.

Let us drive too.

Then they moved on to another stage – the stage of law. If all the previous stages were a struggle for status, it is quite a traditional occupation, which is higher and lower; now, according to the bourgeois (the Refag) canons, the time of law is coming.

I’m a trembling creature, or I have the right!

The liberal intelligentsia turns to the Zerefs in the supermarket: Are you trembling creatures or what? Down with autocracy! Those in response looked at them, not even with the eyes of surprise. Don’t they understand who these shepherds are? If you once addressed traditional people, and they look at you with children’s eyes in response, then be lenient to these people.

All domestic policy is actually based on the understanding of the majority.

How this majority understands changes. Let them look at you even like sheep. At the Zeref level, even owning second-hand things of their own and someone else’s elite (supported cars and fashionable jeans are not even things of the western elite) is an outstanding achievement and success. Tradition sets before the community simple things that have been repeated for centuries: