ChapterВ 10
«I’m not like that!»
The last politician ofВ the XX century
Since the XVI century, the fashion for freaks has appeared inВ England. This fashion has appeared inВ conservative Britain.
In 1814, a coalition of united monarchies entered Paris. Excerpt from the work of Guy de Maupassant “Mother of Freaks” show: “I remembered this disgusting story and this disgusting woman, having recently met on a beach favored by the rich, a Parisian woman, well-known in the world, young, elegant, charming, the object of universal admiration and respect. My story is old, but such things are not forgotten…” The writer reports on an elegant and respected woman who gives birth to freaks for sale. Who is the ugly, really, woman or Parisian society?
The coalition troops of the Conservatives, of course, entered Paris. But they could not stop the development of capitalism. I am sure that the citizens of new France have always talked about democracy: you can’t put what is released from there in a cage. Even when the Bourbon monarchy was restored, the bourgeoisie was the dominant class. The proletariat will notice only thirty-year-old Karl Marx after a series of riots in France in 1848. From the Code of Napoleon (1804) to the Manifesto of Karl Marx (1847), this is not just a biological time of two generations. This is a time of rapid development of capitalism. This means passions: fears, pain, anger, – experiences, that is, all market stresses that President Putin’s contemporaries should not be introduced to.
We can say that Russia, from 1991 to 2022, went through the same «excursion» as France from the Bourbons to Louis Napoleon. Only France was preparing for total industrialization, such were the values of that time, and democratic Russia was monetizing, that is, deindustrialization, all this time (the hard coin fell into the pockets and entourage of Louis Philippe – the penultimate Bourbon on the throne, the Restoration time and corruption is very similar to modern Russia and all the regimes of the former USSR).
The behavior ofВ Russian compradors is explained as follows: inВ the middle ofВ the XIX century, there was no common market and globalism inВ Europe; the French oligarchs did not suffer from inferiority complexes, although they were also the offspring ofВ peasants. Not only revolutionary France but even monarchical France have always been the trendsetters ofВ European fashion.
But not the fashion for fools.
Since the XVI century, as was immediately noticed, the fashion for freaks appeared in England. The Komprachikoses traveled around the country and bought children from needy, declassified people to disfigure their appearance, then exposed the freaks to the crowd’s amusement. The compromises did not monetize the horror of the freaks. The Komprachikoses monetized the population’s need for other people’s suffering. Capitalism spreads across the territory through overwork, deprivation – over, tension, and over-competition. What ethical conclusion are all moralists asked to make at the sight of cripples and beggars on the street? «You could have been among them. Rejoice, you are lucky.» The Komprachikoses monetized the human passion for seeing an unfortunate freak after another – the most important passion of a man of the market – the passion for profit. The officials of Edward V began to drive the English peasants from the communal land. Hundreds of thousands of vagabonds flooded the roads and squares of England. Only the kompracicoses could compete with the vagabonds in the spectacle. Only they created their freaks t with their hands. So that tramps look at cripples and laugh: «I’m not like that!»«I’m not like what the king made from all.
Why all this digression into the past?
To demonstrate the ferocity of capitalism?
Only partially. The need to see freaks is the main ideology of the market. Officially, this is called culturally, decently to democratic and liberalism. Hordes of dressed-up and official hypocrites talk about democracy at every turn. The people are ready to tolerate this and even dream of big money, so everyone will be lucky one time. Otherwise, Alexei Navalny would not have millions of small and large Democrat supporters. Nobody needs a red idea of socialism or a conservative idea. The crowds of left-wing Pharisees and talkers who chatter in response to the liberal flock about the dictatorship of the proletariat only add strength to future compromises. For the people to be silent, they must see freaks. I'm not like that! I was lucky! The presence of freaks on the official air and especially on social networks – the focus of modern anger against fencing – saves any hypocritical democracy, which cannot be anywhere in the world. But they talk about it brazenly, defiantly hypocritical, cynically. This increases the passion of the masses to see not politicians around but freaks – not just freaks, but political freaks. People are ready to laugh at the system, even looking at one clown at the very top, the leader of the parliamentary faction. This is enough to rule for a long time. One cry of the socialite Buzova into the crowd is enough: "I'm a fool!" The whole crowd will howl from self-satisfaction and stress relief. I'm not like that! I was lucky!
Exactly the same sentiments were among Europeans, the French, and the British in the XIX century. At that time, there was no Internet, but there was a circus. All the freaks were collected and shown there. Even circus troupes of people carrying anomalies of appearance traveled across America. But everything that I have described is only the beginning of the process of the triumphal march of capitalism around the world. This is just the beginning of the freak show. At first, ordinary people, the crowd, were not lucky enough to calm down at the sight of the unfortunate. With the development of democracy in-depth, and not only in breadth, funny politicians appeared over time – harbingers that further on Olympus there will be solid Guemplens. Democracy is a selective process, and it is not a choice of the best among the best. Democracy is a choice to laugh to yourself. Millions choose and take revenge at the same time. Amazingly, the manipulations of so-called dictatorships and autocracies save a country from another clown in the role of president. The fact that those who play the presidential role in the modern world are buffoons and empty seats is shown by the fight against a catastrophic treacherous virus…
And only aВ politician who can challenge all the freaks and all the buffoons mumbling about some kind ofВ democracy is aВ real imperial politician. This is aВ greeting from the XVI and XVIII centuries toВ Russia. But how and why he became like this, even though he was chosen toВ be an empty place and not interfere with the enrichment ofВ the court, this is another question, another topic that requires disclosure. The last strong politicians were inВ Europe inВ the XX century. The last strong ideologues were inВ the world, too, inВ the XX century.
ChapterВ 11
Shorties
"People are like people. They love money, but it's always been… humanity loves money, no matter what it's made of, whether it's leather, paper, bronze, or gold. Well, they are frivolous… well, well… and mercy sometimes knocks on their hearts … ordinary people… in general, they resemble the former… the housing issue only spoiled them…
M.В Bulgakov "Master and Magarita"
Until about 460 BC, the Athenians did not like money. Money did not play a major role. After the victory over the Persians, Athens consolidated other Greeks around itself during the conflict – headed the Delos Maritime Union of Greek cities. Over time, the union's treasury was also moved to Athens under the pretext of better preservation of money. From that moment on, the aristocracy of Ancient Greece began to suffer damage, not in terms of loss of authority and influence; however, the aristocrats themselves became bourgeois in thirty years. Rootless oligarchs appeared in Athens, who supported the strategist Pericles. To finally finish off the aristocracy, the oligarchs used the so-called "shard court" – ostracism. In just two generations, Athens got rid of outstanding citizens: Aristides, Phimistocles, Cimon, Thucydides, etc. They drove all ambitious people out of the city. Only Pericles remained.
However, the sword of the crowd hung over him in the form of ostracism. It may seem strange to refer to some Ancient Greece: where is Ancient Greece, and where is modern world? Ancient events and modern facts are separated by 2500 years. (What are you, they say, a blockhead, carrying a blizzard. However, each material is not a fairy tale or a saying. I cannot tell white patriots and fascists that there are instructive examples and analogies. Here is the fate of the Greek Atlantis, as Ancient Greece and its democracy rested in the Bosom, just right). But it is precisely Greek democracy that creates a vivid example of a short—term rise and a long fall and degradation, and then complete disappearance – the oblivion of the famous ethnic group. (The Greek landing in Smyrna in May 1919 and the Second Greco-Turkish War cannot be regarded as a Greek revival. The Greeks were expelled by the Kemalists and left Asia Minor forever. However, these were completely different Greeks already. But what's the difference? These were also considered Greeks).
For the traditional ethnos to disappear along with the de facto disappeared aristocracy (no matter what, it may even be modern and socialist), the activity of only two "market" generations is necessary. Just two. And now, one is enough. Ancient Athens, until the complete defeat of the semi-savage in the opinion of civilized and tolerant Athenians of Sparta, lived in the struggle of the ancestral aristocracy, its clans among themselves, and the so-called newcomers. Who are these visitors? These are poor relatives, as they would be called now, poor relatives were then, and now, residents of other Greek cities are meteks. The youngest son of that very famous Pericles was not given an inheritance, thereby the position itself, because his mother was from their other Greek city! After the Greco-Persian Wars, the Athenians stopped working, or, more precisely, it became not prestigious to work. But trading is, yes, it has become prestigious. In addition, it has become fashionable to rally at the Agora – Athenian Forum. The whole V century before. The witnesses watched the decline of the Athenian school of philosophy. Quick and easy ones replaced deep thoughts. Oratory and populism have become fashionable. The Greeks stopped appreciating whole natures and people with a core; they fell in love with populist demagogues. With the heyday of Athenian democracy, Athenians stopped literally thinking, stopped learning, and not only from philosophers; philosophers, moralists, and intellectuals were not needed for nothing (by analogy with modernity, they stopped reading books but only began to hang out in Tiktok and Twitter). All the townspeople began to hang out at the Greek theater.
The Greek theater had just blossomed at this time in the form of entertainment. The Athenians did not think long – to execute and not to execute Socrates. Actually, the death of Socrates is symbolic of the rearrangement of values. First, the Greeks expelled the aristocracy, then ignored philosophers and all other knowledge, except management in the Aegean Sea and olive macroeconomics. The Athenian slave market supplied manpower. Of course, there were patriots. They were shouting: Drive guest workers into the neck! We can do it ourselves! But it was one of the subspecies of fashionable populism. What will develop in the form of a new-fangled philosophical trend of cynicism – cynicism precisely in Ancient Greece until it falls from even more semi-savage Macedonia and its king Philip (the father of the great Alexander the Great). Does everyone know Diogenes of Sinope? Who lived in a barrel and despised the crowd with the words: "Where are the people? I don't see people?"
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