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Father of the people

The traditional people are child people. If you know the child, it is easy to direct them. The opposition says that the autocrat was lucky with the people. This is at first glance. Any Ulugbek Khan, leader Trotsky or President of the Kyrgyz people Akayev can lose not only the country but also the people of the child. Any of them lose control of the people if will play the soft, wise rule. These are facts from history. Are the same Kazakhs at the level of the Soviet people of the 30s? And this is not a coincidence, because such a coincidence is dangerous for everyone. All of Central Asia consists of the traditional (zerefs) peoples. Even the Soviet government they met traditionally quietly, modestly, and not noticeably. Nothing has changed and nothing has changed even now. Everything just went back to normal today. Such a life such peoples have always had.

In the meantime millions of traditional Kazakh people from the villages rushed to the big cities-administrative centers, where mostly non-Kazakhs lived, because the urban population was advanced (and newcomers looked them in the mouth, how all children look at their teachers at school). That’s what cities are for, so that students look into the mouths of teachers. A new culture has always been formed in cities. Although any person could then and today break out of the traditional village environment and move to the city. There you can learn and become the same authority for your relatives. No one was hurt. And looking in the mouth is a culture of almost filial deference. All traditional people look in the mouth to all authorities and teachers. It depends on education and discipline.

Kazakhs were absorbed in urban life, Soviet urbanization, and now the market has literally swallowed them.

And the Kazakhs, who are accustomed to answer only to their own kind, (before the clan, but not before the state – A. B) learn to answer, while only to their families. If you are lucky, the steppe people in the past and now are willing to invite you to their feasts. The lucky respected Kazakhs invite everyone to visit, this is normal. To show your high level. Traditional peoples have no other reason to invite guests. This is the culture. It’s a tradition to invite guests. One doesn’t interfere with the other.

Finally, former nomads are afraid to lose, even they do not know what. The child is also afraid of getting lost. That is why many Kazakh Muslims say Shukur all the time, that is, they do not look for good from the good. So we’re good and we say Alla Shukur!

This is still the level of prohibitions or the very first level of taboos.

Not losing face is like not losing sheep. This is such a loss. That is why the steppe people in the past are not accustomed to any other type of responsibility, except for responsibility to their relatives, and now just acquaintances. But don’t show yourself to the rams and don’t show your status to the rams? (although of course this «responsibility» to friends and relatives is more like a show-off, show-offs in modern terms). So why doesn’t Yelbasy (or Putin in the North), who is lucky with the people (the people who are afraid of losing a non-essential show-off or don’t know what), rein in their corrupt officials, or rather their servants? After all, all corrupt officials are officials of his system. Do not forget that Stalin led a policy based on state ownership, and Elbasy manages the Kazakh market after the General privatization. It’s easier for him.

If the people are a child, then the people of the child must have a father.

Or the father of the people, he is the greatest authority Elbasy. Cult and fame do not arise from scratch. The same phenomenon has been and will continue to be the case for all non-urbanized traditional peoples who are afraid of losing any crumbs that fate and history have measured out.

Corrupt officials as market participants.

And no one is in a hurry to repress anyone, because market aggregates are somewhat different from the motives that guided Stalin. For the market needs of the market actors. In order for the market to function even in the form of a demonstration or global show-offs, market participants are needed, which means that corrupt officials are also needed as subjects. So Elbasy can take away everything from competitors, if he wants to, of course (In this sense, it is much more difficult for Putin). But then he would be alone. Or maybe he will try again to raise young people around him?

The traditional world can’t live without corruption?

And in this very market, the subjects of corruption feel great. The answer is simple. Because the basis of tradition is family. A traditional person thinks about the family. This is the will or law of the ancestors. There’s no getting away from it.