For the reform of the traditional people, changing the fate of clans and tribes should have their prerequisites. And the first prerequisites are the complication of life. It requires a gathering of people of indeterminate nationality and unclear religion. And where is this possible? Only in the empire. Only in the cities. Only in Babylon. And this is all called modernization. We’ll talk about it later.
CHAPTER VI
ZUGZWANG. It was bequeathed by the ancestors
The traditional elite will never change. The Zerots are always for themselves.
The traditional elite will never agree to change the terms and conditions if everything is under her control. In other words, it does not want, will not want, and has never changed anything because of the preservation of the order at the head of which it is. This order is called by one name – tradition. It is the traditional elite that we are talking about. Because of tradition, the most important thing is to reproduce yourself from the previous cocoon. And the most important cocoon of the traditional people is occupied by the traditional elite as the elite of the people. Any other claim will be called a mob claim, in other words, a riot, and will be severely suppressed. So, it was, so it is, and so it will continue, as long as there are and will be the Zerots of the traditional elite.
The cause of the death of all Zerot in the world can be considered as an objective process because they will never settle for second place. But now, we will not talk about the feudal elite, but about another elite that came to replace the Zerots. Sometimes the traditional or completely feudal elite of the Zerots can be temporarily replaced by the Remids, who in Revkon we hold as statesmen. In fact, the Remids are changing the feudal or archaic elite of the Zerots (Ideally, they should have changed the Zerots on the territory of the former USSR, but everything happened the other way around), because of the Russian Revolution and because of the technological and cultural progress in the world. Here we are referring to the new Bolshevik leaders who came in the form of revolutionaries. Well, not for nothing did they call them so – revolutionaries. In the words of any nobility, they are simply rebels.
From these revolutionaries-rebels, a new apparatus of power was formed, which later turned out to be traditional, a new copy of the previous system. Names change, but people don’t! Reflection does not disappear anywhere, and it remains in place. It was also very difficult to push the same partocracy to reform because they were the new elite. So, they immediately began to look for enemies so that no one would prevent them from being ahead. So, that their children automatically remain the elite. This is the law of tradition. And it is in this inheritance of privilege, and the Remids strongly resemble the Zerots, a past feudal elite. The collapse of the USSR and Soviet power showed that the Remids or staff members were often recruited from among the rural inhabitants, where the feudal elite actually comes from.
If the apparatchiks are the city administration, then they did not specifically choose the cities to rule in the old way; the cities themselves are a whim of civilization. However, if the recruitment of employees is still made from rural areas, then so much the worse for society if it wants reforms, and nothing changes. Because the former Zerefs, traditional people, should, according to the evolution of tradition, turn into Zerots, the feudal lords, and not market democrats. It is also difficult for the Remids to understand that the world is changing and that tradition must change with it. And why should they change anything if they are so happy? But just like the past Zerots, like feudal lords, Remids did not want to change the system. Therefore, if something changes, then the Remids of the previous regime change place. Changes occur only when the Remids are literally carried out of the office’s feet first like the dead men. All Remids know that if they leave the office earlier, they will immediately become not interesting to everyone, especially their relatives. If you can’t help or solve questions, who needs you? And therefore, they will sit in one place in the people say until the end of their days. This super-conservatism of the Zerots, who turned into Remids because of Marxism. It is worth understanding answering why when any invaders come in the form of sailors of Columbus or peasant immigrants from the central provinces of Russia, Stalin’s emissaries-collectivizes, then factory builders, conquerors of virgin lands. If the Zerots remained even after the first meetings, they would always be against the newcomers and the changes. But they, the Zerots, did not survive because Stalin’s emissaries were a much more powerful Soviet elite. The Remids are always more powerful than Zerots because they rely on a new technique, literal and indirect. With them came the most advanced methods of leadership at that time.
However, you ask why the Zerots of Indians were not against the sailors of Columbus. Why didn’t they kill such an alien element? With the sailors of Columbus, there was the usual incident of curiosity. What is not clear is first studied, at least felt. If this new miracle does not interfere with performing rituals, does not infringe on the privileges of the elite, then they can walk around and entertain. Clashes begin when the miracle begins to manifest itself and manifest itself as a rival. But it was too late.
At the same time, the Remids, when their power is established, always think that their supremacy will be no less durable. They will also sit in offices and believe in their indispensability. They will suffer from the same disease as the Zerots from conservatism and clumsiness, and the tribal priests always support them.
The facts are simpler.
Even after the fall of the USSR and Soviet power, the editorial and technical staff in the Central Asian republics retain the illusion of their superiority. They did not recognize and do not recognize the changes that have occurred and continued to behave as if they remained in captivity but did not agree that their priority was over. Their time has passed. So leading specialists or just professionals in their field really remain in privileged informal roles and even look like statesmen (next to the natives, it sometimes seems that the old-regime editors hold the entire infrastructure). But this is all an illusion, as mentioned above. You understand, of course, that we are talking about the Russian specialists of the last regime and the free Kazakhs who have become insolent from their independence. Here the empire works against the province even by inertia.
If the new government is not interested in state tasks, it only seems that the Zerefs are not interested; in fact, they are interested, but only from the position of… tradition. That is, power is needed to fulfill traditional dogmas. And they are elementary. So, leading specialists, editors, or engineering staff next to the new rulers perform both traditional and state tasks in the tradition of the new elite of independence. They go into service, whether they want to collaborate or not. This is what distinguishes traditional people. Traditional people are very inflexible in matters of strategy. Tactically, however, as always, they bow to their superiors. In the same way, leading hired editors or hired engineers and other auxiliary material act as assistants to perform the personal tasks of several leading families, although the assistants of traditionalists can make a very arrogant and independent face.