World under clowns
Almaz Braev
When I look at these clowns, I think I’m watching a child’s game, imitating adults. Here some teenagers are trying to solve adult problems. They have silly young faces. How did they get to such a height? This is a democracy, baby. In a democracy, they love the funny, naive, stupid, and entertaining crowd. Democracy is the excited self-esteem of billions of people. This excited self-esteem places in all places an obvious sweet mediocrity, or the most harmless and sick old age.
World under clowns
Almaz Braev
© Almaz Braev, 2023
ISBNВ 978-5-0059-0141-5
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Introduction
Famous director Ridley Scott very accurately remarked after the box office fiasco of his film The Last duel: “I think what it boils down to – what we’ve got today [are] the audiences who were brought up on these f***ing cell phones. The millennian do not ever want to be taught anything unless they are told it on the cell phone”.
Ridley Scott is, ofВ course, aВ monster ofВ Hollywood directing; well, what do we care about the crisis ofВ American cinema? However, we still have aВ case. Ignoring and even rejecting any classical, therefore, traditional direction at the same time is already aВ total crisis ofВ world culture. Where is that audience increasing if the mass show industry loses an audience?
Previously, the classics of literature owned the minds of the planet. Today, clowns are on the mind of the planet. It is not even necessary to compare how much airtime is spent on all kinds of humorous shows today, and humor is in the price. The planet entertains itself as best it can. In addition, the entertainment world is supported by big business and, therefore, by politicians. Politicians worldwide got so carried away by populism that they became clowns. No, they have not yet appeared all in a row as clowns, although in some places, clowns really took power. And this is not the limit of humor possibilities for the future. Literally, all politicians in the world are engaged in the hype, and they want to look like their own among their own. Diplomatic departments are overflowing with all kinds of talkers, although the language of diplomacy has always been specific and conservative. Now, because of technological capabilities, everything has become possible. And already diplomats hype, the highest politicians hype – do not lag behind. They say they will push the nuclear button if necessary. When was this possible? Baby, this is democracy! Each politician will then refer to his popularity on social networks.
This book considers not only democracy as a stage for presidents – future clowns. If world politicians come to power after social networks to entertain and please again for five minutes, then politics will disappear as an activity. Only the politicians – clowns will remain. The planet has such a prospect because of the dominance of populism. In other respects, democracy has always been distinguished by flirting with voters since the days of Ancient Athens. Today, technology allows politicians to make noise and be publicly rowdy so that they are watched more, for they are watched more and chosen faster.
InВ addition toВ the degradation ofВ the profession ofВ politicians, this book will show the degradation ofВ authoritarianism. All monarchies, then the autocracy ofВ the world, have always had and will have aВ request for stupid executive officials. Moreover, all officials ofВ such regimes have never had leadership qualities; even inВ the USSR, they were recruited toВ power not byВ talents but byВ inoffensiveness. Empire versus nature? Yes, empires during the decline overflowed with weak officials who made careers for minor services toВ dictators. All empires inevitably ended because they lacked heroes, but thieves and corrupt officials were always inВ abundance.
With such aВ joint degradation, the two main systems ofВ the world have come toВ this point inВ time.
Since we started talking about cinema, inВ 2006, the American film company 20th Century Fox made the comedy Idiocracy.
IВ also advise you toВ watch this comedy, for there is aВ joke inВ every joke. InВ 2022, the world will be several years closer toВ its future. Although inВ 2006, no real clown had power yet. This is just the beginning.
ChapterВ 1
People want toВ laugh all theВ time
IВ propose toВ raise aВ revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly ofВ the truth
Henrik Ibsen
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
– Aesop
They say that this world appeared thanks toВ the explosion. InВ aВ few billion years, this world will disappear thanks toВ laughter. The laughter ofВ all humankind will be so strong that the planet will not stand it and will be flooded with nuclear laughter.
Moreover, humanity will laugh heartily five minutes before the launch ofВ ballistic missiles when the clown rulers jokingly press the button inВ the last reprise, which can still make people laugh. People will have no more reason toВ laugh because they will be under the impression ofВ the next planetary news as stoned with marijuana. Nothing will cling toВ humanity anymore: neither grief, nor suffering, nor the troubles ofВ people, nor even pornography as aВ manifestation ofВ the very interesting instincts. Just laughter. And only laughter. As aВ forerunner ofВ such aВ scenario, the appearance ofВ clown presidents all over the world.
Someone says: clowns are given to people by world mafiosi. It benefits them that nations laugh during the pandemic. In fact, it is. But haven’t people wanted to see a funny freak for all the past ages? It also distracted them from their worries and mental problems. It’s better to see the freak and calm yourself down. Not everything is supposedly so bad. O.K. Here he is, a freak, making me laugh; he’s funny, pathetic, and wants to make me laugh. And it’s funny to me, I feel good. Where did all these political puppets come from now? They even declare they are ready to press the nuclear button. Why are they saying this? To make you laugh? No. Bye, to like. Politicians and diplomats of the past centuries are all boring and speak an incomprehensible professional language. And modern politics speak like real clowns. They want to please you and me. Let’s elect such politicians as presidents! It will be funny and pleasant for us.
IВ did not draw the appearance ofВ clowns as aВ conspiracy ofВ world elites who need clowns as presidents. IВ drew that clowns are the evolutionary need ofВ the crowd ofВ all time and people toВ laugh and forget their problems byВ observing aВ freak. Yes, since the time ofВ Rome, rulers have used spectacles toВ distract the crowd from economic problems and political crises. But what kind ofВ crisis are we talking about with the triumph ofВ democracy? No, there is no crisis. There is aВ need for people for drugs. And laughter is aВ very good drug. Presidents clowns want toВ please the crowd, and its passions, so they try. What can there be anything else under aВ democracy?
ChapterВ 2
There are other situations
People need heroes only on the pain ofВ death. During aВ democracy, all ofВ humanity is moving towards the abyss inВ order toВ get smarter throughВ war.
Modern humanity resembles a dinosaur.
The main problem of modern humanity is the fear of leaders. Modern humanity agrees with the official government because it cannot do anything: every current government cannot be banned or ignored by the type of social networks. Social networks show a massive choice – buffoons, clowns, comedians, at the very least dogs and cats, on the basis of which the choice of helpless old men and other inarticulate leaders is made "with the help of democracy" – as we see, the current political bohemia and the world behind the scenes enjoy the fear of the crowd in front of real, natural leaders and itself already consists of such people.
Such a state of fear of the crowd in front of whole people, each of whom causes envy and complexity of the electorate itself at the same time (social networks are an excellent slice of envy and complexes), gives an outlet to all sorts of scammers, hypocrites, spineless conformists, that is, populists who even outwardly look miserable, but do not cause envy and complexes at the moment of their screams. Populists, like flesh and blood of a complexed inert crowd, "their guys" are taking great advantage of the situation. The crowd enjoys the impudence of an active crook, and it turns out to be self-satisfaction, another show of a political clown now.
Is it possible to blame a crowd of small, squeezed in their shell people in the current clowning, balancing at the moment on the brink of nuclear war, as the last show? Yes, it is possible and necessary. But first of all, you need to know that this is a democracy. And little people really want to see a show relaxing their self-esteem; the dinosaur of humanity turns out to have a very small head, and a huge body falls into the abyss when the dinosaur's head chews a fern leaf.
Zerots are not afraid of death, and they are afraid of shame.
The elite that doesn't want to change
So why does the traditional elite, the elite of the tribe or the elite of the feudal lords – the Zerots – not want to change?
Actually, why should they change if that's what you want?
The Zerots are not just unwilling to change; they are simply not trifles on the example of the clowns of democracy, to which everyone is accustomed. Modern people do not think strategically, do not plan, and do not anticipate fate for years before; they would like to live today’s day to the end and have fun, and Zerot is not. The Zerots don’t care about modern dance. They live like the characters of the Bible. They don’t just live for a few centuries. It doesn’t happen that way. That’s about how all the feudal lords of the nobility think. Zerots rule and change places only when the time is right. When he grows up, the replacement will mature. And this replacement is their children. If not their sons, then the most worthy of the relatives change the ruler. Everything else is the whim of idiots who are used to living with the main characters all their lives in one movie session. And the crisis also plays on the desire to change the rulers. And again, only the selfishness of consumers generates a desire for the manager to leave. But he’s not leaving. Not because he is waiting for the next election. If he is a Zeroth, he is preparing a replacement for himself. The traditional elite has never consulted with the rabble. Only in very wild times, when anyone could reach the leader, would the leader yield. Well, then, not everyone would dare to take responsibility for the life of the people. The elite is the elite. While some just live and perform the function of life from birth to old age, others are already waiting for death. The rabble is afraid of death, Zeroth is preparing for it. Zeroth cares what they say about him. The Zerots inherit their name.
They behave as if they were born a long time ago.
And if a crisis has happened, what does it mean for Zeroth? Let's get rid of our problems a little bit.
What is a crisis for tradition in general, and how does a traditional crisis differ from a market one?
That's just the mechanism or reasons for the replacement that will show all the difference between traditional thinking and consumer-uniform.
For traditional peoples, a crisis or, more precisely, force majeure is when circumstances threaten life. And what threatens the fate or the prospect of living as always? This is if some disaster has struck. The people do not get what they need to complete the annual cycle. And what made it possible to complete the annual cycle? These are, of course, edibles. Primitive technology and dependence on nature forced us to narrow it down. And first of all, to reproduce. If the farmers could afford to sit still, then the nomads were driven by the lack of food wherever they looked. All the weak and sick died. But as the leader responsible for these losses? Only a modern fool would come up with such an idea. No natural cataclysm would damage his authority. The first thought is a common punishment. Supernatural strength. But here, the leader is not responsible for communicating with an unknown force. The time of such a crisis is the appearance of a priest on the stage. In modern terms, let's say the Prime minister. It is his servants who have not given something to the spirits or to God. The leader or leader is responsible for defense or attack. If he is a farmer and a leader of farmers, then for defense; if he is a nomad, then for the attack. That's what a traditional force majeure is! Only the failure of a military campaign (foreign policy in modern terms means) or even death causes rotation among the leaders. One, he's a young replacement, changes the old one or the loser or the deceased. If he loses, he is a coward; if he wins, he is a hero. And glory to him!
That is, every crisis, in modern economic terms, is the beginning of the movement of the elite in any direction. If the elite is nomadic in the past, it comes; if it is agricultural, it holds the defense. In the modern case of universalism, the crisis is overcome systematically – both by the defense (against sanctions) and attack (by an active foreign policy when shit is in your camp). And even despite the general system and the surrounding universalism, Zerots are not chosen from the crowd by the so-called democratic elections; they cause only a lot of noise and confusion from their environment. Even modern oligarchs, for whom, it would seem, the gods are money, behave as if they were born under ancient feudalism.
ChapterВ 3
The last battle. Smart vs. Traditional
The whole recent history of the world is the story of the confrontation of the smart against the traditional. Today, this confrontation is most acute and relevant. The clever Refags of the West are gaining the upper hand. Traditional communities will have no choice but crypto fascism, although fascism was not formed everywhere in Asia and did not even have such an opportunity. In Asia, fascism and communism converged in the face of traditional communities that did not clearly understand either the concept of a nation or the concept of communism. According to Marxism, the similarity turned out only in the form of terror of the poor against the rich. But, once again, Marxism or crypto-Marxism prevailed because market relations were poorly developed, nations were not formed, and peoples did not turn into one whole and in one form. Even today, Chinese communism or Korean more closely resemble feudal regimes with their ethnic specifics – an ancient culture based on an industrial revolution. Coups seem to have happened, modernization has taken place, and there has been stagnation in reflection. Reflection remained the same. From the tadpole of the collectivist, a master frog can always appear. The regimes will always be teetering on the brink of restoration according to the type of Russia. Because in Asia, traditional community members have put individuals under control, the Zerefs have prevailed over the smart ones. They prevailed physically – as always – with quantity and traditional morality. But who are the smart ones? How is this confrontation understood through reflection?
