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So what?  the reader will say. There are always such roads in the spring.

The fact is that private owners built mansions on the edges of this plot. Private traders had been driving out of their own gates directly onto the obstacle course and into the swamp for more than ten years. I am 100% sure that everything is dry, clean, and beautiful in their yard.

This psychology of my hut on the edge applies to the whole society and the whole state. Everything is fine at home, but there is a puddle in the state.

Chapter 4

Japanese nationalism

Nomadism and nomadism are the worst conditions that market relations would have to face. Although the former nomads have already met with Western civilization and its mission, today the market trend throughout history through an intermediary is Russia.

If we were looking for the reason for Asias lag. However, the Asian civilization had such cradles of civilization as Egypt and Mesopotamia. Although these civilizations were not created by nomads, not nomads in the sense that we understand today. The long stay of the people in one place creates a deep root of the traditional elite. European civilization also seems to have been created exclusively by migrants. Although migrants are also a kind of nomads, we are not interested in such nomads. Such massive independence of character, directed at any small property of migrants and travelers  contributed to modern Western civilization. All migrants in the world, even the ancients (Darians, Latins, migrants from the Old World to America) had new laws in use. These laws rejected the tails of the old privileged clans, peoples, and families. Slowly, informal laws were replaced by formal laws, which were recorded and observed by everyone.

In Asia, the opposite is true. No one migrates and everyone has been fine for centuries. Thats why a kind of eternal Asian conservatism has turned out. Whatever country you take, dictators rule everywhere. Because tradition is based on the root. Of course, you understand that. Why didnt people fly into space from Egypt and Mesopotamia? Because huge pyramids caught on the tail of ancient civilizations and were not allowed into space.

It is better to be a migrant in this picture of a market-democratic future because all migrants are rootless. There was nothing pressing on them and nothing is pressing on them. They found it difficult to show their arrogance. Who are you?  they could have told every upstart.

Its better to be a migrant, but not a nomad.

Nomads made annual raids along the old routes, essentially repeating the farmers sitting in one place, only some moved and returned to their original place. It is important for a nomad to go as far as possible along the route. Take up more space. Or to designate your nomad. This designation is repeated in time. The farmer likes to sit in one place. This community and the state of farmers are expanding, and the farmer himself dreams of acquiring a new plot. This perpetual movement with a small rest predetermined the technical lag of the nomads from the farmers. Its not even about the late development of technology and, consequently, then modernization in a cruel way (from anyone, but we are only interested in the Bolsheviks and why it happened. Without Stalins brutal modernization, it would have been even more difficult for the modern descendants of nomads to get used to Western civilization, even more, perhaps, they would have been threatened with complete disappearance. Even today, after the Soviet experience of modernization, Kazakhs remain imitators and consumers. Actually, who doesnt imitate and consume in this world today? The only thing that remains as hope is a centralized state. This is very important for any nation. Without a central authority, every person is a miserable loner, a small boat in a market ocean. We must protect our state. But first, you have to come to him, so that you can appreciate him later. Meanwhile, the nomads never loved the state, they loved freedom. Because they loved freedom, they called themselves Cossacks.

The Japanese people, for example, have spent a lot of effort and time on centralization, for almost 200 years. The samurai first took power from the aristocracy, then staged a civil war with each other. Tokugawa Shogun overcame the feudal fragmentation of the island. Of course, the island situation and the lack of large resources interesting to Europeans helped the Japanese. The Japanese managed and met with the Europeans  the future world colonizers  already in the form of a centralized state. This was of paramount importance. The Japanese did not have to jump through formations like the Kazakhs immediately into socialism. After the shogunate, the imperial power helped to carry out rapid reforms. Already 36 years after the Meiji restoration  the beginning of reforms  a victory was won over tsarist Russia and ten years before that over China. In 1904, Japan showed the power of the imperial navy and the skill of its admirals.

Moreover, a form of state nationalism or nationalism under the leadership of the emperor himself helped Japan. Japan has followed the path of all Europeans  turned into a nation of militarists in a very short period. The German National Socialists, that is, the European analogue of state Nazism, had a much larger time reserve  several centuries, although formally Prussia and Bismarck also united all Germans only in 1870.

Did the Japanese have an intelligentsia to educate chauvinists? Not so powerful scientific and intellectual, but it was (in the form of storytellers, myth-makers, syncretisers, but Japan has its own scientists, and its own professors).

Japan needed resources.

Japan was poor in mineral resources, but all Japanese ministers were great-grandchildren of samurai. If Japan opened the doors to European technology and culture, then the inevitable happened: the imposition of modernization, economic growth, and population on the traditional Japanese craft  on the war. The Germans also had the Prussian military in reserve, and the Prussian military relied on the tradition of the Teutonic Order. There is nothing unexpected in this world!

There were no other ethnic groups in Japan except the Japanese. Where did the so-called Japanese nationalism come from?

There was no nationalism in the form in which the layman understands it in Japan. This is a state nationalism invented and controlled by imperial ideologists. The Japanese elite gathered and decided for the whole nation. Japanese nationalism is rather Japanese patriotism because it was completely governed by the state. Every Japanese before Emperor Meiji and the crossing of borders was inspired that the Japanese were the chosen race on earth. Watching East Asia die under the onslaught of European merchants and colonization, the Japanese could think that they were the best. And it affected the Japanese character.

If the Japanese seemed depressed after 1945 after the deposition of the emperor, this defeat resembled the failure of the soldiers and did not affect the Japanese character. So, a temporary setback. The main thing is that the bulk of modern Japanese has a reflection of the Remids, the Remids of the statesmen. This is because the modernization of Japan took place under the leadership of the Japanese themselves. But most importantly, the aristocracy has been preserved in Japan. The aristocracy never steals. Never and nowhere.