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Moreover, though Germany was behind in the market from other major European powers, it was much surpassed Russia in the degree of industrialization. The concentration of the Remids, an independent thinking elite according to the Revcon, was also significant in the urbanization.
If we consider the prism of tradition, Germany was 1/3 traditional, and Russia 4/5. The crowd of huge Zerefs and Zeremids roamed the cities and mastered not by choice. The crisis was the most important reason for such migration, also driven from above in Russia. And worldwide, the main catalyst for both the crisis and the crowd of “ideological” people is the crisis. The crisis is like disinheriting all people all at once so that it is even more clear within the topic of older and younger sons. (In ancient times, famine was also the main reason for the migration of peoples. In those days, the whole people, the whole tribe, moved in search of a better place to live. According to another name, the Great Migration of Peoples, the great migration of nomads took place in a monotonous crowd. After modernization, only younger children moved from the countryside to the cities. This is the effect of progress on the structure of migrants. However, modern migrants may have mixed migration from Asia to Europe.)
Have you noticed how the so-called conditional elite of society degrades during the famine? If you have not seen hunger, then at least during the distribution of products on the cards. That’s nothing. Suppose the crowd of citizens is stable and stands in one place. But if the so-called elite also migrates from the former Soviet republics to Russia, it is like peasants fleeing collectivization; it turns into these freshest citizens. With this migration, the entire past elite of prominent citizens in their former place turns into “eldest sons” in the new place. Russians were actually the elite, the vanguard of culture in the USSR. At least for the periphery of the red Empire. Are these the last of Remids to transform to Zeremids and even Zerefs? They degrade for a whole generation. They have nothing to pass on to their children.
Furthermore, they all turn into a national concern for the patriots, so that you can understand how the nation of Goethe, Schiller, and Bach turned into conditional savages (from the perspective of left-wing humanists ). If the entire group of the former elite is ruined, humiliated, lowered, then they become Nazis, quite naturally.
And in Russia.
If there are only two important megacities in the state, and the population remains almost traditional, then this is the time of younger sons who are hungry for justice.
CHAPTER VII
COMMUNIST THALMANN IN THE ROLE OF IVAN THE FOOL
So, in order for the ideas of the people’s state to be at the top or dominating, it is necessary to have a certain number of conditional older brothers. Younger brothers get the upper hand when this absolute authority is not present. All the old city elite, all these doctors, teachers, lawyers, and officials are once again turning into supporters of a hard hand, authoritarianism, do not recognize any tramps from the street, no proletarians with their equalization and social justice fake. Everything that these ragamuffins shouted under the direction of their leaders, all these slogans painted on marching banners, all this was a lie, hypocrisy from the perspective of the urban elite. The traditional perception of caste has not disappeared anywhere. It took a slightly different form. All civil servants and intellectuals turn into conservatives at once. But not in the form of those retrogrades that want to return the feudal castes. No one has yet gone mad to reverse the history of the Revival of feudalism with its rigid castes is possible only with little urbanization at all. Only for nomads is possible. For urbanized peoples, such a revival of history is de facto impossible. The past elite in the form of Remids wants to stop this farce of legal equality, even at the cost of curtailing their rights. After all, the Republic is always a Horde of all the younger brothers. It was their democracy, their endless chatter, their permissiveness that led to the crisis. In fact, they violated the law of social hierarchy and led to anarchy. If it is not the elder brother who rules or even the father, but the younger ones who want authority, this will inevitably lead any family to ruin. If you gather the will of all the younger ones in the Republican Parliament, you will get a violation of tradition within the entire society. This is how all the old intelligentsia turns into supporters of the autocracy, dictatorship, and then Nazism if there is a need to unite everyone with one idea from teachers to lumpen.
But wait because in Germany in the 30s, the Communist party also marched cheerfully on squares and streets. In the ranks of the KPD and under the hand of the Communist leader, Telman was a million workers. How did they differ from the Republican younger brothers? Why were they for an even more left-wing social Republic? At least in words, in their slogans of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
By definition, everyone who stands for the Republic is a younger brother because it is inferior to others in Patriarchal law. In turn, the one who is inferior in age to all the brothers is a Communist. There are no real brothers in Revcon. But there is a similarity of interests in mass reflection. Proletarians are the young of the townspeople. They are Zeremids. Why did they not join the ranks of the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois Democrats? Because all the places in the market and especially in the parliament were occupied when they arrived. The burghers have already filled the city. The only places left for survival are in factories.
Now, the younger brother is not only due to age, but also the practice of life is obliged to get a family by the deadline. He will have children. He becomes a father too. Now he is not even an older brother but a father, which is even worse for the Republic. Each time, he will rule and take the side of all the older brothers and the existing elite. Right or wrong?
The fact is that every father is the founder of a dynasty and, therefore, of a family tradition. Whose footsteps will his son follow? Even if it goes to the same factory.
Of course, under more favorable circumstances, the Germans could prevail not against Bolshevism, but Nazism. That is the Institute of Junior Republicans of the proletarian type. In this case, the German service elite would have changed its Nazi orientation and become entirely international? Quite possible. For all Remids, the state comes first. Let it be not German, but international German – what difference does it make? It does not matter which leader would curb the market bacchanalia.
But Stalin himself would not have needed an advanced Soviet Germany. Stalin needed a German leader-the younger brother and puppet, the sexless leader Telman. Telman must fulfill the will of another form of seniority – the Communist Moscow regime, which by this time was a continuation of the Russian feudal tradition. Stalin’s officials and nomenclature were only called Bolsheviks. The real Bolsheviks, world internationalists, were not yet killed by Stalin de facto but removed from power. He leaned on his “sons,” looking into his mouth, also almost ideologically sexless but willing to start a family—all according to the same laws of tradition. A quiet heifer sucks the two cows. You don’t have to be the oldest in the Russian tradition to get an inheritance. In the Russian tradition, obedience itself promised pies and the love of parents. Any poor Ivan is a fool or Emelya on the stove are not just folk heroes.
CHAPTER VIII
REMIDS STATESMEN
Why did the German statists, supporters of the state, still choose Hitler but not Telman? Although, Telman was already placed in the category of second-rate German deputies of Stalin. In the years 27—29, Stalin purged Lenin’s third Comintern from leftists. They left people similar to themselves, to their conditional family because the similarity of brothers is not necessarily external similarity. But it was not the figure and size of Telman’s personality that played a major role in the German’s strategic choice.
So, unlike the Russians in 1917, the Germans preferred the right-wing statists-the Nazis. Although, the success of the Russian Zerefs was before the eyes of the whole world. And the German Communist party was not a small one. And where else did Marx’s teaching receive the approval of peoples and development? We will say immediately, pursuing the reason for the choice of the German people. But why? Everyone knows that the dictatorship of the proletariat in various forms of its understanding and interpretation took root only in underdeveloped agricultural countries, and to be more precise – in Asia. In Asia, the word despotism was more consonant with dictate.
From the history of the development of all social systems in the world (and from Engels), we know that the state can be where there is property. The most important owner and his vassals dictated where there was no property, and no one could confirm their capabilities.
Even the comparison and evidence of the backwardness of the future Communist communities does not clarify the specifics. Yes, more technically underdeveloped. Yes, the culture has more emotions and a tilt towards mythology. Rational people do not believe in fairy tales at all. And traditional ones avoid rationality. Rational and meticulous Marxism appealed to the traditional peoples not by its content but by its completion. At which the end of the Marxist teaching good overcomes evil, there was a coincidence of myth and Marxism, and they met without logic for love.
But did the Germans abandon the tradition?
No, the Germans did not abandon the tradition. They remained loyal to their German state. Do you think that the ancient castes were abandoned in the rational, cold world of property and money? No way. The teaching of the Revcon says from the very beginning: the traditional (the Zeref) world has no semitones. The world of citizenship, the market, and money have many such halftones. They are like rubber shock absorbers, spacers between strata, cellophane with bubbles-they soften the relationship of superiority and humiliation. In the bourgeois world, it is not clear who is the master and who is his servant. Outside, everyone is walking the same way. Only very fine details are visible to old-timers and professionals. Castes are everywhere. The details and signals of the elite have stopped shouting and are located outside so that a hundred steps away, you can see who is who. Among primitive peoples, all the virtues are shown by clothing and drawn on the face.
The Germans remained true to the tradition of German semitones. They did not turn over their social pyramid. They didn’t destroy their middle class.
The Remids are simply fanatics of the state. German revolutionaries, German waves of indignation, approached the Remids just as the Russian peasants approached their landlords in a tight line. But they (the German middle class) were not liquidated, beaten to death, or stabbed. The German Remids, these German fanatics of Germany, the second Holy Roman Empire, and state, seemed familiar to them. They saw themselves in them, but eventually, the Zerefs become Zeremids, the Zeremids become Remids, everything is consistent and evolutionary. Even in reflection. (Who is this teacher or doctor? His great-grandfather or grandfather was also a peasant, and his father was a Philistine. A doctor and a teacher are successful careers. Well, a modern state cannot exist without them).
In the countries of the age-old despotism, the pyramid is reversed radically. There is no gradualness, but there is a jump. In addition, the proletarians did not come to lawyers, doctors, and teachers for advice. And the doctors and teachers tell them silently about the great state with their lips. They were a pitiful, defenseless lot, just as clenched and disenfranchised.
In addition, they destroyed them if excited peasants came to the feudal lords, and they did not agree. What kind of peasant revolt is it? The meaningless and merciless… as the poet Pushkin called the Russian revolt.
Suppose we look at the facts. Then the new leaders of the workers cut out the “exploiters” as the Eastern despots, but not vice versa. Not the feudal despots cut peasant uprising of peasants, as it was not once but many times over the centuries, but now the Marxist leaders cut all feudal lords. They change places. The results of local evolution were carved with feudal precision. This is not only evident in Stalin’s repressions. Look at the exploits of the revolutionaries in Kampuchea. All the local intelligentsia, more or less educated people, were cut out at the root. Even the bespectacled, the person who wears glasses was the enemy.
Remids-statesmen cannot be destroyed. The middle class can’t be touched.
Suppose this happened under Marxism or at the direction of the leader of the Asian peasantry. Then they, like the Hydra, will have to replace the severed heads. Instead of demolished ones, put your own. But the whole problem is that the state will lose from the new evolution. The newly raised heads of the officials will look in the wrong direction. Not in the direction of state property, but in the direction of oneself. The idea of a new state in executing upstarts or blanks to manufacture the old form is doomed from the very beginning. For the fate of the state, this means failure. But now, there is only the body of the state and the eternally hungry heads of officials. But why are they always hungry?
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- the traditional feudal elite
Zerot’s loop creates a solid cast, impenetrable social barriers. 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 elite’s struggle with the brightest personality, the cooperation of second and third parties against the hero and the prophet.
Refag is 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. Imitation, hypocrisy, and fanaticism harm any cause, state, or idea – the first generation of the tradition after industrial modernization.
Zefa is a man from the city’s first generation with a tendency towards the market and speculation, and to trade at least something, he was forced by circumstances.
Revcon – revolution conservatism
CHAPTER IX
THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS STATE!
When German Zerefs and Zeremids turned to their authority figures – evolutionary examples of how no one became someone: a doctor, a teacher, a lawyer – what were they told? Although they never communicated, I will assume here, for discussion, that they did – and that the doctors, teachers, and lawyers did have something to tell those following in their footsteps. How did this German solidarity come about?
All those doctors, teachers, and lawyers (not to mention the small merchants and street vendors defined in Marxism) were the bourgeoisie (also defined in Marxism). Or the middle class, as we call it today. So, who approached them, and why?
Recessions affect people regardless of their social class. But it is manual and office workers, peasants, and the poor who take the brunt. Bourgeois classes are different. As we can see, and as has been portrayed to us in the past, the uncontrollable greed of the upper bourgeoisie caused the market to overheat (as far as goods, capital, and speculation go). That adversely affects the market and agents and then the state itself. Mass layoffs result in unemployment. Small profiteers stand as good a chance of going bankrupt as major factory owners. The state cannot help them (except maybe by giving out soup). Prices first soar such high public servants cannot afford to buy things they can’t do without and then plummet as the market begins to lure buyers. Still, the public servants are essentially broke.
Times like these see everyone pointing their finger at the prime minister, not the largest exchange speculator. The prime minister is the one to blame! He has failed to prevent speculation. Ordinary people blame the recession on the government and, by extension, the state. Land-poor peasants and tenant farmers go bankrupt; they have to flock to cities, either because they don’t earn enough to pay the rent or because no one buys their produce. These Zerefs, heirs of tradition, join the army of unemployed urban Zeremids. The Zeremids know for certain the blame lies with the state. But the rural Zerefs go even further in searching for an answer to the question, “Who hung the government out to dry?” Those on your side could have never done such a thing. Only an enemy could. An enemy of the people and of the state.
To Zerefs, all the harm comes from the enemy of the people, of the ethnos; to Zeremids, the prime minister is the enemy. Doctors and teachers, however, have no enemies. With that said, they might have some enemy. After all, Remids are former Zeremids and Zerefs. They, too, may know what office the enemy holds and what ethnic group they belong to. But Remids are statists. They are the ones who weigh the public on their shoulders. That’s why they agree that public officials are to blame, but they don’t think the state shares that blame. The state is sacrosanct. The state – the land of the fathers, Alemania, Fatherland – is paramount.
Remids’ self-reflection is highly developed. They may disown the specific. But they save the state and declare it innocent. The confluence of the low notes coming from Zerefs and the high tones from middle-class clusters brings German statism to life in the form of Nazism. Silent appeals are then heard by Zeremid leaders – who also come as a rule from provincial regions and families of the rural intelligentsia – and the leaders turn those appeals into a choir, a cacophony of yelling throats.
German Nazism resulted from a combination of Zerefs’ grievances and Zeremids’ complexes on the one hand and the romantic haze of the German state (brought about by Remids) on the other. German doctors, teachers, and public officials were saving their state while Zerefs and Zeremids were inflating the enemy’s guilt. Each reflection group contributed to German Nazism. The concentration of the middle layer or the high urbanization rate blocked another way to outclass struggle. Tradition led the people, though they were unaware of it.
Everyone, not only Germans, wants to start a family, which requires taking your status up a notch. Some societies and peoples consider it to be the wellbeing of their families and ethnos; others, as the prosperity of their state. Thanks to Remids, the state can guarantee prosperity for the people and the ethnos, even though the initial groups of tradition (and reflection) do not concur.
In Russia, the middle class was insignificant. During a crisis, armed workers and sailors (peasants disguised) entered into a fateful dialogue not with doctors and teachers but with the nobility. Did they have no one to tell about the Russian state? And about what state, one of the tsars and the priests? The discussion revolved around the public, not the state. There was no state anymore. It had all been self-deception.
CHAPTER X
ARE THERE LEVELS TO TOTALITARIANISM
How many industrial generations was Germany ahead of Russia?
From the so-called average, we can infer the population’s self-reflection level. Which level was it – Zeref, Zeremid, or Remid?
The Remid level, as we have found out, gives the informal elite of civilization a chance to stay alive.
After all, Germany still was a country of tradition, something that all nations feels like a phantom pining for the past. This manifested itself most clearly in Italian fascism. But the Italian fascists didn’t annihilate the local socialists until 1920. Russia was close in all ways to agrarian Italy. For that reason, in 1919—1920, the Italian socialists seized factories in the industrially developed central and northern Italy, following the example of Russia’s proletariat. Italy was a country of active anarchism, meaning it didn’t need the state.
With that said, Italians had spent 300 years fighting to free their homeland and unify it into a single state. The state meant ownership, the state scale, and that there are Remids. Italy’s statism took the form of fascism. In two years, all socialists, advocates of a socialist community, were killed off (with some help from the residents). That left the upper bourgeoisie, factory owners, and latifundistas pleased. The local administration sided with the fascists. In Russia, the proletariat and the peasantry followed Lenin, not Savinkov. Italy followed the former socialist Mussolini precisely because of the Risorgimento. The Italians wanted to order: they had suffered for centuries because of the lack of a single state.
The Witch-Hunt
Someone must be called to account for epidemics, disasters, crop failures: the practice of declaring the innocent guilty has existed since ancient times. In the Middle Ages, the Inquisition hunted down witches. This kind of hunting – searching for scapegoats – is something typical of all times.
The Inquisition chose not to reinvent the wheel. Catholic priests could not have a family. So, what reason was there for the Inquisition to love women, even the most beautiful of them? After all, when some kind of misfortune happened in a village or even across a whole city, it was all because some woman had evoked evil spirits. In female witchcraft, the dark people saw the cause of their troubles. This is the Zeref level. It doesn’t rely on facts or needs evidence. The Zeref level is one of the conjectures and black thoughts of loathing and envy.
The Zeremid level is one of wider practice. This kind of hunting involves someone specific and even logical, going from the specific to the general. Even though the specific here borrows a lot from the subconscious. But the Zeremids name the perpetrator’s name. They even have the temerity to call the ruler the culprit, even though they do so at the instigation of liberal Refags and, often, other revolutionaries. The thing is that traditional practice has several idols – ideals it lives with as people grow old and die. When saints’ names are secularized, people, it seems, no longer have a reason to live. But if people – soldiers, for example – don’t want to die for their king or fatherland – this level is that of Zeremids. Zeremids have primitive designs. They invariably want to stay alive. That was precisely why the Bolsheviks blamed their troubles on soldiers going to their deaths and on the tsar and his henchmen. The tsar wasn’t a witch – he was the people’s saint, God’s Anointed.
But they laid the blame on him all the same. This qualifies as the Zeremid level, with the entire ethnos declared guilty. This fits right in the middle of the dark tribal subconscious, which looks for the enemy without, as in primitive times, while the enemy is actually within. Is this cunning? Yes, it is cunning. Antisemitism can attain a Remid scale. But it is second-generation Zeremids and Remids that bring it to that level.
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- the traditional feudal elite
Zerot’s loop creates 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 elite’s struggle with the brightest personality, the cooperation of second and third parties against the hero and the prophet.
Refag- the 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. The traditional people in the first generation have undergone industrialization and cultural modernization.
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.
Zefa are men from the city’s first generation with a tendency towards the market and speculation, and to trade, at least something, he was forced by circumstances. People from the socialist camp were faced with market relations and market values.
Revcon – revolution conservatism
CHAPTER XI
THE OUROBOROS
You might have heard of the ancient symbol depicting a serpent eating its tail. It’s called the ouroboros. It is held to symbolize eternity, the cyclic renewal of life. The rapid change of the state elite leads to the demise of the people.
“Between 1933 and 1935 most of the czarist engineers were rounded up. In Soviet Russia, large-scale transfers of people were to different provinces, so they could not communicate with each other. Many innocents were executed immediately; others were banished to Siberia”.
“By the spring of 1936, almost all the young people who had received secondary or higher technical education between 1927 and 1932 had been arrested. Before getting rid of the qualified technical elite, the party and the government prepared successors to take that elite’s place. Thus, the regime first created a whole class of specialists and then, seeing in it a threat to its power, destroyed it.
If they hadn’t, industrial development would have faced a dead end.”
“On graduating from the academy after two years of studies, the wunderkinds (as the old workers at our factory called them) were appointed to managerial positions as soon as the specialists who had occupied them disappeared. This clearly planned and thought-out policy was carried out openly and rigorously for several years. That solved the problem – creating a class of ‘devotees to the party, truly Soviet specialists’ (in the parlance of the slogans of that time). But the young managers lacked both experiences operating machinery and theoretical knowledge, which two years at the academy could not provide. These wunderkinds had an adverse effect on factory workers, secretly despising them.”
“As soon as new – truly socialist, from the party’s standpoint – workers came into the industry and thousands of others filled the rooms with industrial academies, a large-scale purge of experienced specialists began. First, it hit those who the government had sent to study abroad to replace the old engineers, who had been educated before the Revolution, and foreign specialists.
Now they were considered hopelessly tainted, especially condemned by the bourgeois influence of their association with foreign specialists. The foundation upon which the country’s technical development developed began to disappear rapidly.”
These are excerpts from a book by a Jamaican-American, a black engineer hired by the Soviet government during industrialization, about his life in Stalin’s USSR.
Someone neither white nor red took stock of the situation as an impartial observer uninterested in politics and drew his conclusions about the regime.
As we know, such purges happened among engineers and in all sectors of the government machine. Purges reached the highest establishment of the ruling party and the military, bringing the most tragic results of all. I have long included in those tragic results the number of people the USSR lost to the German attack. But who needed to purge the country of its “enemies”?
Even Stalin – the USSR leader – did not want to live in fear when Wehrmacht troops were near Moscow. He wasn’t that stupid to eliminate his military leaders to bring his collapse closer.
A reason will be given here that was big enough to pull the rug out from under the omnipotent dictator, whom some former soviet ordinary people still hold in esteem until now.
But what he did or had planned to do to leave people with no memory of the past – a crowd of devoted fanatics – is an indicator of common self-reflection. We must understand why today the state’s body, while it seems to be where it’s not supposed to be, has a hydra of ever-hungry heads that fail to understand the sense of state. Where do those heads come from?
CHAPTER XII
THERE CAN BE NO TOTALITARIANISM WITHOUT REMIDS
All totalitarian regimes share a problem no less totalitarian in its essence than they are. The conclusions about their totality are just the final point, like an ocean that opens up before everyone instead of the rivers – events – that run together in streams to form that ocean. Still, the drops making up those rivers are people – their thoughts. At the very beginning, when they start thinking similar thoughts, no one knows yet where that might take them. And after a while, this results in a regime, a manifestation of the totality of myriads of thoughts. But who are these people? And why does responsibility for that totality rest with the leaders, not the people?
Answers should be sought in the people’s similarity, of course. With time, people will gather to form an order – first a group, then a political party that brings everyone together in one place or directs them to that place. Before people assemble in a square, their thoughts will get together. And before the similarity of indignation, vexation, and negation materializes (elsewhere in the world), one needs to find the origin of this similarity. The origin of their reaction and the source of their indignation lies in tradition.
Tradition. Tradition-minded people take care to first observe their rituals. And then they respond to crises, all similarly. That’s what the cause of totalitarianism is. Don’t look for similarities in city residents who have lost touch with the place that, while not their birthplace, still holds their roots and is home to their relatives. Refags remember no one, making it difficult to bring them together. Their thoughts are like cockroaches scurrying on the kitchen floor. Everyone thinks they are someone. Everyone is on their own. The totality of Rrefags is yet to merge into their ocean, their own world order. But we are still concerned here with tradition and tradition-minded people. We are investigating why they have their totality.
Crises don’t turn everyone into a Nazi. Many Zerefs don’t really know what the essence of fascism is. What they do and think doesn’t depend on them: Remids do all their thinking. Just to make things clear, traditional Zerefs are like little kids imitating adults. They are provided with ready-made social reflexes, as they would be with food products that someone else grows or makes for them.
Their ancestors are another influence. That’s why Zerefs, just like all traditionalists, are raised by their ancestors and rely on their precepts so often. And their parents, in turn, inherited behavioral models from the parents of their parents. And so on. That’s not to say Zerefs are born conservatives. No one is born somebody. Rather, life itself turns, when it’s born, into a routine, monotonous ritual.
But, among all the reflection groups, the most self-aware conservatives are, of course, the Zerots, or the traditional feudal elite (see my book entitled Hierarchical Man). All the groups – Zerots, Zerefs, Remids, and the Remids are the new elite. Teachers, lawyers, distinguished, honored artists, writers, and, needless to say, public officials. They put in a lot of their energy to appear as the new elite. They sacrificed their lives for their careers. We chose them as the new elite or new teachers, and they didn’t put in so much effort to have someone take away all the fruits of their hard work. A career, including reflection, means work – very energy-consuming work. Some want to grow materially; others, spiritually. Ultimately, they get what they deserve: honor and respect from the public. And then a crisis comes up…
