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You are a person!

This phrase is just a reworked «You are a citizen, and you are not a plebeian, so get bread and circuses.» This modern phrase is a democratic cliché. Today, there seem to be no slaves around, slavery has been abolished everywhere. Perhaps this phrase allows all impoverished people to be proud, they can die with their heads held high.

To win over the crowd during the late Roman period, the aristocrats flirted with the crowd and practiced free distribution of bread to the urban outcasts: slum dwellers, vagabonds and semi-vagabonds, residents of the surrounding hills, and also held gladiatorial fights where slaves cut each other to the delight of the crowd. While the misfits chewed their free bread, the blood of gladiators flowed in the arena.

That is, the heyday of populism today is off the scale from total marginalism when every buyer is told: «You are a person,» instead of: «You’re just a customer or even a sucker.» If you repeat these affectionate words to the crowd of Zerefs, distribute halva right and left, and don’t you want to see something else, then, in the end, populism of various caliber and scale will flourish, it already exists. And the political phenomenon of Vladimir Zhirinovsky in Russia came just when the prospects of bubbling Coca-Cola, unbridled sex, and forty varieties of sausage loomed before the scoops. Whoever promises the crowd the most material goods and says that he loves and respects it, he will be a politician in such a moment. Then the modern plebeians wonder every time when the thieves come one after another, and all the revolutions, coups against the thieves end up with a new, most unbridled theft.

Again, the reason for this result is a lack of experience. Traditional Zerefs have never heard so much flattery in their address. Under socialism, all people were equal. No one praised each of them individually. The bureaucracy singled out only labor record holders. And populist politicians in the market began to distribute flattery to the right and left, in all directions. Even a nonentity can think of himself as a giant. Any seller in the market praises his product, but also the buyer so that he buys this product. In the traditional world, people are still humiliated if they belong to the lower social stratum. Market relations allowed even nonentities to feel inspired. If a populist politician plays the buffoon and the fool, it inspires the crowd even more, and they choose such a humorous buffoon as their leader. In the traditional world, where there was a lot of humiliation, people choose people even worse than themselves. If you don’t believe it, you can look at popular bloggers on social networks. The more stupid a blogger is, the more friends they have. The more vulgar the information, the more people gather. This does not mean that all these people are humiliated at the moment, although everything is possible. If people are lied to from all sides and especially the authorities are lying to them, then they will look for an outlet in social networks and there they find people more stupid than themselves. This saves them from depression. But populist politicians take advantage of such sentiments, they run up, sneak up on the crowd and start entertaining it.

Glossary:

Zeref- a traditional person with rigidly set social actions, low reflection almost zero, hence the word Zeref-reflection zero (zeref)). Has no semitones, serves the idols of the genus, communicates in the circle of native blood. Zeref has no semitones of perception, is categorical, irreconcilable, hostile to others and to another opinion in the development of rejection of «not your own»

Zeref’s loop – the baby boom, overheating of the population.

Zerot (zeroot = zeref+root) – the traditional feudal elite

Zerot’s loop – the creating a solid cast, an impenetrable social barrier. None of the lower castes can enter the feudal elite. The lack of social mobility pre-revolutionary situation.

Remid – a new traditional elite, rulers, officials, authorities, teachers; Remid put actions for Zerefs, determine morality, laws, politics, reflection average-middle (remiddle).

Remid’s loop – the struggle of the elite with the brightest personality, the collusion of second and third parties against the hero and the prophet.

Refag- a person of a trading civilization in several generations, reflection is high, selfish, utilitarian Refag (re + high).

Zeremid is a first-generation city person, has a half-rigid social reflex of custom and new skills of city life, half-urban, half-rural.

Zeremid’s loop – the Zeremids are approximate imitators. They imitate the elite, any idea, any direction just to be good for their families. By imitation, hypocrisy, and even fanaticism, they harm any cause, state, or idea. The first traditional generation to undergo industrial and cultural modernization.

Zefa is a man from the first generation of the city with a tendency towards the market and speculation, and to trade at least something, he was forced by circumstances. People who have passed socialism and met market relations.

Revcon – revolution conservatism