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By the way, modern geopolitics is based on this dual hypocrisy and fanaticism at the same time. The Western world supports the democracy of archaic peoples. Archaic peoples will inevitably create an old primitive society, not a democracy, because they will always rely on covenants when any dispute arises. And they will return to the old road of the ancestors, with a full turn back, they will destroy all the buildings of civilization.
CHAPTER IX
OLD WIFE’S FEARS. OR WHY TRADITIONAL SOCIETY IS MEDIOCRE
Everyone knows that in traditional society, there are eternal difficulties with rotation. Everyone knows, but they can't do anything. They can't do it, and they want to avoid doing anything. This is such a phenomenon, the consciousness awakened by someone from the outside wakes up, can be a writer, analyst, journalist, and the traditional person still sleeps and sleeps. Or they are pretending to. Usually, rotation is understood as the supreme power or tip. In modern political terms, a leader or a political leader does not want to leave. He does not want to leave and even says that he does not see his replacement. This scene is bound to happen. There is no one to put. Who will put after? In general, there is no replacement, anyway. Everyone is waiting, as in the story of Khoja Nasreddin about his Emir and the talking donkey, who will be the first to die.
This phenomenon of the unwillingness of the entire upper layer to resign voluntarily for health reasons or incompetence seems to have been discovered not only by me. In a hierarchical society, as soon as a dignitary, official, or authorized person goes into the shadows, everyone immediately ceases to notice him, even relatives, who still show signs of respect out of habit. There is a shocking change in people. The attitude of the entire surrounding world of traditional people towards the retiree is changing in a bad way. No way! The ruler or even just an official says to himself when he sees such a change of mood. Let me die at my desk and be carried out of the office feet first. I prefer not to be disappointed in my people. I love them so much, and they love me. Even if they love me hypocritically, I am not ready for complete oblivion. And no one is ready. That's why no one really wants to rotate. Everyone wants any kind of love, even hypocritical one's own or someone else's, but love, honor, and self-deception respect.
But this state of reluctance is characteristic of everyone, as I have already said. Even not for the upper class. Even half the conditional nobility and entire the not nobility, such thoughts – fears come. Not even a thought, but just a feeling of fear of losing your place. The lower a person is in the hierarchy, the more indifferent they are to what awaits them. But the higher, the more experiences. But if a person got to the place of honor at least once, he feels it would be better not to avoid leaving it. He wants to privatize his number like in the cadastral list of private property calculating private owner. However, the traditional peoples’ private property was poorly developed. But no one thought to fix the ruler’s rule for eternity except himself (and his entourage because they will also leave with him). Because no one can have private ownership of power, hierarchical people cling to power in all ways, with their fingers, hands, and feet.
But for any honorary position, traditional cling is already mentioned. And even the half-elite and half-half and a quarter of the elite behave inappropriately (in the opinion of a modern young man). This half -, half -, half-elite behaves like the old wife of a rich gentleman. She surrounds her husband with extra care and sudden extra attention. If, of course, a young competitor appears on the horizon. All the other wives of (our conditional) Lord and master in the harem begin to circle around their husband, creating rings of oblivion. To, naturally, he no one did not see outside dance love old wives (and have us, officials, these wife-A. B.). Old experts are covered in fear of seeing the talented rival. They know If they all keep quiet together, no one will notice the talented rival! All pensioners or those who have reached the deadline do this, even without agreeing with other pensioners. It’s just an animal instinct that brings them all together. Have you seen how thoughtfully silent old cows are? They are silent without the agreement of the old cows. Simply stupidly, half an hour. And people keep silent more cunningly.
All traditional people who seem to have settled in cities and have already left the village society by their clothes behave like old wives. Moreover, the position of the jealous old wife is claimed even by collaborators inherited from the last Soviet regime. These journalists, Ministers, engineers. If old wives literally please their Khan, these collaborators are hypocritical servants. They are hypocrites and sit around-they writing about life, corruption, the economy, and even democracy. The hypocrites write that all okay and very well. But this writing is also from fear. They don't really want to be forgotten and kicked out on the street. That's why everything around us, except for the harem of real wives, if there are any at all, is saturated with the mustiness of the same. One might say, wax figures. Everything around screams garbage stagnation. When people come to the garbage dump, throw garbage in the trash cans, and so on day after day, day after day.
CHAPTER X
REFORMS IN RUSSIA AND CHINA
Why reforms in Russia are stalling, at the same time in China, since the mid-’80s, they have brought great success. Gorbachev’s perestroika began almost simultaneously. But what do we see? Do I need to list the difference?
Is liberalism, individual freedom, and adherence to democratic principles that do not suit the Eurasian people, but which the ruling elite of the CIS always looks up to, responsible for such depressing results? Or maybe the Marxist chains still remain on the feet of society, and the accusations of nationalists that the Russian-speaking, the former party-democratic elite is to blame, is not so accurate (in the Republic of Kazakhstan)?
(If anyone understood how the grandsons or great-grandsons of Russian revolutionaries would turn into liberals, it was only one person – the former leader of the revolution, Trotsky. He wrote a detailed work about this somersault, “Betrayed revolution” (“What is the USSR and where it goes” – the old name of this work)). We do not understand how in China, where adherence to Marxism and even Stalinism remain unshakeable concepts, nothing like this happened. The degeneration of the party and the elite did not happen and did not affect the Chinese reforms. Capitalist reforms in China have been successful. There is no close merger-a symbiosis of powerful corrupt officials and businesses in China. If any official is caught in corruption, the punishment will be swift and public. For any money, the corrupt official will not be able to pay off. Billionaires are also executed. If any cog in the law enforcement and judicial system made a wrong turn in the hope of getting a reward from a thief, he would also face execution. All Chinese know this. There are no gaps for fraud. The Communist Party controls the system and, most importantly, the souls of all Chinese, and it is not necessary to scare every screw by unscrewing the head. Chinese comrades from top to bottom resemble enthusiastic fanatics of the common cause. What’s it?