CHAPTER X
THEY CAN’T BE SECOND AND DIE
The tribes did not know nationalism, and they only knew their superiority. They knew dominance, domination over other tribes. No wonder because Zerot led the tribes. The Zerot know only their superiority and authority. You tell me, and civilized (such as market) peoples do not know about superiority? The Refags traders – economists, don’t want dominance? They want and know. But Refags in the mass or the childless tends to get rid of kids, from family, from any addiction. For the traditional peoples of the same family is everything. And traditional tribal fathers ideally see their subordinates as a family. And so, nationalism is more of a disease of urbanization than of backwardness, where new immigrants want dominance, dominance as they understand it, or at least respect as they understand it. But as a result, when faced with urban mores and urban life, they have only complexes. Traditional people again take the situation by their number, which they create through time, following the tradition already in the city, at least half because traditional people follow the precepts everywhere, at least for the first time (the first generation of the city follows the tradition necessarily; otherwise it is not accustomed to thinking). Until their children become different and begin to neglect customs and deviate from tradition, it’s Zerefs solidarity; in any case, this is a bet on teamwork and revenue. However, most can create because of only one sign, even formal kinship. One of these features and the main one may be spoken language. Also, the main sign of the dominance of traditional discourse will be corruption as a manifestation of kinship.
So, the Zerot have therefore disappeared because they cannot be second. They could only be the first fathers. They are carriers of experience. Therefore, age is the first indicator of salvation. The older the chief is, or wiser, or just older, the greater the chance of survival. If the leader is younger, this rejuvenation is sudden, and the new leader shows wisdom and insight beyond his age. The Zerot cannot be rebuilt due to age, this is clear to everyone, but most importantly, he will never want to be the second. The nobler a person is, the dies faster. And vice versa, if the origin is not out, he does not care where and how to live. The Zerot can only be ahead and on the rock like a wolf leader.
Akela can’t live.
High-and middle-ranking officials do not live long after retirement. Even at the level of regional officials. They somehow fade, disappear, often move to another place, to another area where they were not known. But usually, they close up and somehow quietly go away. They get sick and die. Akela can’t live as an outcast.) in fact, it is supposed to be so in the animal world.
So, the Zerot the elder stands guard over the number of his kind. If the clan is discontented, then its overpopulation has come. Civilized nations will never be irritated by overpopulation. They just stop reproducing. They are exempt from tradition—women from custody, men from duty. Women do not have children; men avoid marriage or become like women themselves.
Only post-traditional peoples can.
They show nationalism. Nationalism is a way out of tradition, thanks to tradition. The nationalists also insist on superiority, just as the primitive and feudal Zerot had superiority. Only nationalists prepare a base for domination, an ideological justification for their primacy; feudal Zerots do not need a base. The Zerot base is paternalism, and physically the old wrinkled face of Zerot. Because nationalists are young, young bourgeoisie, the Zerots are the elderly who die because their originality is death (secondary of Zerot is a rejection of the experience of young Zeremid – A.B.) Old and new traditionalists justify aggression by the necessity of space. If in ancient times the seizure of neighboring plots occurred spontaneously, from the overpopulation of the genus, then in the post-traditional period or at the end of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century, aggression is fully conscious. The bourgeoisie claims to be “uber ales”. The Zeremids all the world declare that they are superior to others. And to claim that they are higher, they do not need the moral approval of old people. They have young leaders and provocateurs.
There may be many old men but few Zerots among them. That is why the tribal elite is not so numerous. There is the concept of nobility, that is, Zerots, and there is the concept of old age. Not all old people have to know nobility. On this occasion, it is said that not all old people inherit wisdom, but only old age. Therefore, Zerot social instinct does not tolerate many. The nobles begin to fight among themselves for leadership. The nobility must not be numerous; otherwise, chaos will ensue. (What is normal for democracy is a problem for feudalism-A. B.) Not in the sense of taxes, although they also matter, but in the sense of the nobility. Due to overpopulation, which often occurs due to the ideology of reproduction in tradition, the number of people and the nobility is growing. And this leads to feudal battles. How much does not persuade them, the first post-traditional generation of the new nobility (the new bourgeoisie – Zeremids-A. B.) begins the struggle.
CHAPTER XI
THE TRADITIONAL MAN AND BARON MUNCHAUSEN
To sum up.
Traditional people are hostages of the tradition, which fulfills its main mission-the preservation and multiplication of tribesmen. The function of the Zerot, the tribal authorities, is to guard this number. The more people in the family, the better the chances of survival.
Before the state.
What is surprising is that the Zerots, also tribal authorities, are completely blind if strange people come-modernizers. These are the kind of cultural trappers who want to embarrass the people. They wanted to lead away in the direction of some technical progress. The Zerots can't do anything about the Kulturträgers because they don't look like the enemies of neighbors, don't look like the nomads. And their blindness resembles the blindness of blind puppies that mother nature gave birth to, and fate threw into the bucket of socialism, then the market. The market is certainly not a bucket of water. But the bad thing is that the Zerots can't think of anything to avoid being those puppies and can't tell the people anything. They don't know what to do at the crossroads of history and the fate of the nation. They don't get any hints from their ancestors, and they can't think of anything themselves. Experience doesn't help.
The only reaction of a tribe caught in the market is to accelerate all old habits because the best students of life here are young people. Here, the market and its money serve as catalysts for the passion of the young and tradition at the same time. The Zeref always imitates the Zeremid, which in turn, I want to take the place of the elite. No one will ask the primitive authorities and feudal lords; they do not exist for 100 years. There are no tribal authorities – Zerots for a long time. (In the Revkon, the Zerot are represented as the shadows of the elders, if the market element came to the people, as white Europeans came to the Indians of America. The Indians lost, almost disappeared from the earth’s face, only because of the Zerot reaction because to multiply the physical number of people to win in a face-to-face fight became meaningless).
So, the Zerots is the first function so that the people of their tribe grow in number. This must be remembered. The people need elders to maintain order when they can only physically reproduce. Or save yourself from danger. But if the Zerots have no experience against a new calamity because they don't know how to deal with it, they become useless. They are rejected. And they go over to the winning side. This is how colonies are created.