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CHAPTER XII
ОглавлениеWHO IS EQUAL TO ALL?
A formation where each subsequent unit is inferior to the leader of the link can be called a military formation. Unless, of course, there is no peace after the war. But there is one. After a war there is always peace among the neighbors. And this most peaceful period is much longer if only in order to have time to grow up the next replenishment of young soldiers. This does not mean that building peace has lost the quality of war. On the contrary building peace duplicates military construction in a surprising way. These two twins can be called one word – tradition. We will call the principle of choosing the worst, going for the best, traditional. This does not mean that the first ranks of regime officials are better than the last. This means that each subsequent official in the chain is just convenient for the system. Selecting the worst is just convenient. But first, it is convenient for the chief of staff. This each chief of a link chooses the Deputy worse than itself and worse than itself on all qualities. So that no one sees the superiority of the Deputy in anything. After all, according to the stereotype of war the more talented should be in front.
So it turns out that the leader or leader of a traditional community is superior to all who follow him and in war, and not in war, surpasses all at once. He is simply equal to all one, in one person. This is probably where his praise begins. But what man is superior to all the people? Only one superman. Such a person is worthy of love and glory. Especially those who follow him in rank will shout-you are our idol, you are our leader never was such a bright sun born in the world.
But what would alert him?
The super leader will suspect insincerity and will not even believe that he is above all, cooler than all, stronger than all, that he is equal to all at once. One leader against all. It turns out an approximate equality of peacetime: one super-human leader against the rest of the mass.
As for the lowest level where the most unworthy are supposed to live, here they also praise, or at least are obliged to praise their immediate superior-flatter him, please him, the rest of the praise of the most important they do by order. On the orders of this chief as subordinates who carry out his instructions. For negligent soldiers the bureaucrat can suffer a career or even a head. Let his people officially shout about the sun of the nation and only obey him. And you don’t have to shout any more. Today, of course, anyone risks their career and money, if their people are lazy and incomprehensible and do not shout at all, they walk quietly, stupidly. Which is very important when all the officials are watching each other. This is how a cult is gradually created or its mechanism unfolds. And not because the leader is so insecure that he needs an hourly reminder of how great, how beautiful, how smart and visionary he is. This is just the natural mode of hierarchy. And only traditional people support such a regime. Just them and no one else.
Traditional people are always brought up on a cult and on authority. Without teachers, mentors, there can be no tradition itself and the meaning of life for traditional people is to serve. Of course, negative selection is also possible. The appearance of a diligent student is welcomed by all teachers of the world. It’s just that the view becomes a way of undeserved reward and then a duty in the most unexpected places. From here the whole society is quickly overgrown with a General, no universal, just total hypocrisy that makes the rest of the world laugh. And forward, too, are selected almost flawed but quirky hypocrites. In a crowd of hypocrites, scoundrels and hypocrites absolutely impossible to know where the old team new who first who second. Who in the line is inferior to the first warrior in strength and courage. But to check the combat capability of a group of hypocrites and thieves, any incident is enough even a simple economic crisis is enough to find out whether there are no professionals here. The time of troubles is an artificial substitute for some aggressive neighbors from the past far away. With all their traditions and discipline such peoples begin to prepare themselves for this objective circumstance-a meeting with an enemy that is not yet visible. The crisis in sight? No, I can’t see it. But they are not preparing for it together. After all the worst is already sitting on even worse than himself. And if the worst is ahead, it does not mean that it is the best. It is the best in adaptation, in traditional servility, mimicry, otherwise it will not be able to climb up the steps of capacity. There is a General sense of unease in the air. More than that, fear. And even the band of hypocrites and thieves is not sure where the punishment for lying and opportunism will come from. The entire population does not expect anything good, although inertia praises its immediate and formally first leader. There is no war but there is anxiety. There’s something wrong here.
It would seem that to get out of this situation of anxiety and believe in the future, you just need to choose the worthy ones. Responsible people. But where can I get them now? The problem of selecting the worst in the name of fulfilling the will of the “best” (for today, conditionally the best) creates a depraved and cunning population. Each of the traditional crowd wants to get somewhere higher and for this purpose assumes a submissive appearance. The trick becomes pervasive and widespread. All are cunning and at the same time dissatisfied with something. Is this culture? This is culture. Exemplary fathers of families begin to raise compliant and cunning sons already in their families. The entire system begins to reject any deviation from the norm, even during rest so as not to waste time. The entire regime seems to be mobilising. Any alternatives are rejected and pursued, perhaps not even literally but carefully, everything superfluous is cut off. In all areas of the battle with invisible intruders, there is a struggle as if it is the struggle of a traditional person with his shadow. It’s hard to find a cat in a black room the Chinese say. There seems to be no war but the fight is on. At the moment of praising the ruling elite both officially and informally, when no one is watching, everyone is watching themselves as if they are walking in an invisible line of spies. Where do decent people come from? The whole regime works against them. The real decent ones disappear as a species. They are decent inside but everything is in the outer shell. Everyone tries to get rid of such an acquaintance. Being decent here is quite consistent with the only discipline Decent huddle together to collectively Express contempt for the white crow. Even parents may regret at some point that they have a decent (actually decent) son, and not a respected scoundrel. And I would be a hypocrite like everyone else, maybe I would please the old people, my career would be set and people can brag.