The previous chapter spoke of the sacrifice of socialists and Narodniks for the bright ideals of the revolution. Well, that’s it. All socialists proclaim ideas with a long-term plan for their implementation. They promise a lot to the people and take them on a remarkable fantasy journey. But if the people who carefully listen to them resemble the primitive Adam? These are primitive people, for example, who live in the desert or in the far North graze herds of reindeer. What can they see in the drawn future? They don’t see it. They don’t want it at all.
Furthermore, they like the pictures themselves. This is the promised land. In all promises, people will find the most important thing for themselves. This will be important, substantive, and material. They will wait for a bright future, in short, but will settle down already heading to a bright future. After all, heading to the new Eden of socialism, no one forbade implementing the tradition: building houses, starting families, and producing offspring. So, they do not see in any pictures of revolutionaries only tradition. What the ancestors did yesterday from below, they will see today at the top. Yes, these revolutionaries promise to give the land. What else does a peasant need? If the revolutionaries promise to livestock, the nomads will see many cattle. That’s all they need. Each Zeref has its Eden in mind. If the population is made up of Zerefs, they can only really be attracted by traditional fairy tales. But in these fairy tales, everyone will see their own fairy-tale end.
But when Zerefs get into a fairy tale, Zerefs rid of the storytellers and leaves his fellow – Pharisees. Of course, they will understand that they no longer need storytellers socialists. Ordinary people do not prevent the Pharisees from removing the revolutionaries from the hill. Inert people are always busy with themselves, their work, their family, in general, they are busy with old things. And, of course, they will choose the right leaders. They do not need long-term tasks; for example, they do not need socialism in the whole world when they do anything in the village. Pharisees perform their rites. Thus, the revolutionary socialists are dangerous for them, not traditional people. Dangerous for revolutionaries are their comrades; they are also Pharisees who came to perform the rites out of habit immediately from the village. As long as there was a common enemy, the Pharisees were in the ranks of heroes. Even they performed feats for a bright future. Of course, as real Zerefs, they also saw their prospects in the future.
Heading to their cherished dream, they recognized the socialists as their friends. But as soon as the Zerefs received the first harvests from the victory, they quickly grouped even without a team. They saw their goals. To carry on the tradition is all that is needed to Zerefs. That’s all the Zerefs need. This is how new dynasties of “tadpoles” began, which at first waved their tails quite correctly and revolutionarily. From a tadpole, as we know, will be a frog. Just as a traditional person is not stuffed with stories about the big ocean, he will still dream of a swamp.
CHAPTER IV
IDEAS AND HYPOCRITES
So it turns out that the Pharisee isn’t concerned about abstract content. He is much more interested in a full plate of soup. But to get to it, he needs to make a smart enough face. He is smart enough to please. And since speakers or super people, whether they are seven or seven spans in the forehead, still remain infected with tradition (well, not all revolutionaries fell from the moon, after all), they take this rather intelligent expression of the face for an ideological one. Even leaders and speakers can’t be on their toes all the time. They relax and want peace and comfort. What kind of person doesn’t want to go to a corner and sleep? And this is just the moment of conditional silence and comfort, and there is a moment of triumph for all the Pharisees in the world. It doesn’t matter where they got to with the dream of a cherished bowl of soup with their dedicated and intelligent expression.
All ideas in the world, from the religious direction, that is, the metaphysical plan, to the revolutionary change of the social system, suffer from the hypocrites of the Pharisees. They just make a religion out of an idea, and a Church out of religion, and a soup out of a Church. It may be five years or even seventy-three, but everything will open up. It will be revealed how they infiltrated the party of revolutionaries, how they exterminated the revolutionaries, how they raised their offspring in the house of revolution, and how their offspring got tired of hypocritical chatter. Furthermore, the descendants of the first Pharisees broke down the house, the Church, and religion – all in the spirit of tradition. The first generation of hypocrites only adjusts to circumstances. If it is necessary to be revolutionaries, they become revolutionaries; if it is necessary to be counter-revolutionaries, they become Thermidorians of the revolution.
The second generation of Pharisees parodies the hypocrisy of the first Pharisees with the same success but with a lower temperature of passion. These are just the words and deeds of hypocrite fathers for the second generation. Therefore, it is not difficult to repeat it and not take any risks. And their fathers took real risks. But during the risk, they knew what it was for. For the family, for tradition. So, that their offspring do not live as badly as they did, their children would live in a world “where neither you nor I will have to live”. And they were not as poor as their father had been. The Zerefs liked Communist ideas because of the future prosperity of their families. And nothing else. All traditional people should understand all ideas; in other words, they should be supported by the people (the physical majority). Otherwise, the leaders and prophets of the revolution will not be able to defeat the old party of hypocrites, idlers, feudal lords. This is the rule of wrestling. The old traditionalists-the Zerots, the feudal elite-were no less concerned about the future, but they had nothing to offer the new generation.
Revolutions always happen when the population grows. Very much growing. Traditional peoples under feudalism reproduce well despite poor sanitary conditions this means that the old stocks or cooked family stocks are not enough for a new crowd of mouths. All the losers of the Zerots (feudal lords of the old elite) had and will have problems with forecasts and provision; in modern terms, there were problems with logistics. This technological progress, which has always come with the trade aggression of advanced Nations and trading peoples, is to blame for everything. Therefore, not getting their share, as their fathers did in their time, young Zerefs starve, grumble, and migrate-they find a way out. In the cities where they escape from starvation in their native village, they find work and a dream. Of course, they find in the new dream and the prospect of living better than their parents. Just such hungry and excited guys come to meetings of socialists of different stripes. And the world, drawn in the beautiful words of revolutionaries, certainly like. After all, everyone understands the future as they want. In the beautiful words of revolutionists, all people are equal. Everyone is born to be happy.
But this is not the case. At first, faith is never like hypocrisy. Faith is never like mass hypocrisy. Otherwise, the hypocrites would have killed each other before their beautiful fairy tales were realized. And Zeref plans are always mundane. And this is the second rule. Fiery speeches really ignite them. They move and shout back to the revolutionaries: “We agree!“But even lit by these wicks, they still do not realize that these same speeches are listened to by their ancestors who have passed away.