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The Sun of the Nomads

In chemistry, there is a concept of catalysts. These substances are added to the mixture so that a quick reaction occurs. The former nomads of the Maghreb might have seemed like radicals to someone in 2010. If you look at natural nomads in general, they don’t care. They are not interested in any idea. In this sense, all nomads, including former nomads who grazed cattle or drove camels in the last generation, are great conservatives. They look more at the sun and the weather, they are interested in comfort for livestock, if I may say so because economic well-being has depended on cattle alone for a thousand years. Cattle are the fate of nomads. If there will be more cattle, there will be more authority. This means that the nomads will have many children, and no neighboring tribe will dare to attack.

But what kind of cattle are we talking about? All the nomads of the world have been exposed to urbanization for half a century. In Egypt in 2011, something happened the population was outraged by the rule of the progressive president Mubarek. This is despite the fact that Egypt’s economy was almost the best due to the tourism business and thanks to the income from the Suez Canal. A fifth of the population remained to live in rural areas, these people have been farming for five thousand years. But it is these people who hunt crocodiles and start nurseries. The population of Egypt has grown by seventy million, that is, it has tripled in number. This is the highest increase among African countries in those years. That’s what Nasser’s action and the nationalization of the Suez Canal means! Huge revenues went to the state treasury. No sun and astronomy are needed to have high wheat yields. The tides of the Nile also moved to tenth place although the entire population of Egypt has depended on this great river for a thousand years. It was at the expense of this population that radical urbanization took place. But the Suez Canal became the main sun of Egypt. The Suez Canal became that new sun and wind that interested all the nomads before and after. Stop! What kind of nomads can there be in Egypt? Aren’t the Arabs nomads? The indigenous population of Egypt is Copts, now they make up several percent of the total population. What does it mean? Does this mean that nomads will remain nomads, even if they have been sitting in one place for several centuries?

Was there an orange uprising in Iran in 2010? No, it wasn’t. Because the Persians were not nomads. Were there Maydans in Central Asia? In Central Asia? No, it wasn’t. Cotton is harvested in Central Asia. Highlanders live in Afghanistan. (Mountaineers also live in Kyrgyzstan, but they are sharply urbanized, so there have been several coups. Afghans can be said to be non – urbanized mountaineers therefore, they are not interested in human rights. Only in Kazakhstan, in January 2022, there was an orange demonstration against the autocratic regime. But why is it so late? Why not simultaneously with the Arabs? After all, Arabs and Kazakhs are Sunni nomads).

In 1937, there were 80 million people in Japan. In 2010, 110 million. In 1956, 25 million Egyptians lived in Egypt. Now there are more than 100 million. What happened to the Egyptians? What has replaced the hot desert sun for them? As I said, revenues from the Suez Canal dramatically increased the birth rate. The Suez Canal is the sun of Egypt at that time! Any improvement in conditions immediately increases the capacity of life. Why are traditional peoples born and live? They want to live! All the traditional peoples (the Zerefs in Revkon) have a huge life force. Because all the traditional peoples lived in extreme conditions. In order to survive, they had to fight for a thousand years: with nature, then with hunger, with aggressive neighbors, that is, also with mediated nature, because the man of the enemy tribe lived in exactly the same conditions. Those who have more population, especially nomads, are physically stronger. (That is, it turns out: do the Zerefs still live in the Middle Ages? Yes, in the subconscious, the Zerefs live in the Middle Ages. At the level of reflexes, they are forced by tradition to live «according to the precepts of their ancestors.» All Zerefs have a cult of ancestors and old people. Sometimes it’s good. Sometimes it looks bad.) Any change in conditions towards comfort and the traditional population literally gushes with population growth. And why do such peoples gush with children? To defeat the neighbors and take away their territory. This is medieval informal law, the right of the strong. In modern conditions, no one will allow aggressive Zerefs to attack their neighbors. Although local conflicts arise in different places, just for the same reason of overpopulation. Today, Asia and Africa are showing tremendous population growth. Then these people migrate to Europe and America. Not all of them, this is a certain rural contingent who has no place among his people or tribe, because all the places are already occupied.