budget) of the second leader of the revolution, Trotsky, after Lenin. It is even possible that the Second World war would not have happened, but there would have been a world revolution with a series of coups in the likeness of the modern orange Maidan. And of course there would not have been a demarche of the two unfortunate ambitions of Zinoviev Kamenev, who fell the first victims of the Stalinist struggle for power. This means that modern corrupt regimes might not exist either, if Lenin had the health of a bull. Rampant theft and embezzlement of money by the highest elite of all possible republics, too, might not have happened, because Lenin’s “cook” in the face of the army, trained and educated zeremids, would have been under the control of a reflexive and not shot as a kind of intelligentsia.
And yet, why is there no such proverb in China?
A holy place is never empty. Is it because the main ideological base of the inhabitants of the middle Kingdom is tradition? And its most important Foundation is Confucian morality?
What is Confucianism?
This is a strict adherence to paternalistic ethics. First of all, submission to the state, then reverence for the father and parents and the third condition is respect for the elders. Yes, it seems to be true. For Confucians, brought up in the spirit of respect for the old, the state of the Emperor is something like a deity. How can you steal from God? However not everything is so rosy. China has made a rapid radical leap from an agrarian society to an urbanized industrial one. This means that the population is mixed. No one can monitor ethical standards. This means that it is very difficult for people from their deep villages and from the poor to resist material temptations. Evidence of this is public executions of corrupt officials. There are not enough of them, corrupt officials, they are not so echeloned, they have not penetrated like rust into all authorities and society, but they are there. More like exceptions against the backdrop of a rising giant economic monster.
And yet, during the cultural revolution and the struggle with its consequences in addition to the overthrow of defense Minister Lin Biao in 1974, there was such a poster: “Criticize Lin Biao, criticize Confucius – this is now the most important thing for the Party, the army and the people. Young schoolchildren and students red guards or” guards"Mao protected the chief from all party leaders and prominent intellectuals, teachers who were much older than their executioners and rapists. In other words, the revolution and Mao’s experiments in remaking consciousness were not in vain.
What is the secret that Chinese, Korean, Singaporean, and Japanese officials do not steal? I list not only ethnic Han Chinese, Chinese from Singapore and Malaysia, but also Koreans and Japanese – all participants in the Southeast Asian miracle.
Japanese Shintoism preaches no less an ethic of honoring the Emperor and the elders (all peoples of today’s Christians and Muslims of different faiths have reverence for the elders). But Japanese Shintoism differs in that it is very close to liberal norms-here and now. Life is short, but you need to live – help me kami (spirits).
Finally came the moment to explain why the leaders of the Soviets Zinoviev and Kamenev made an attempt to take the wrong path and thus confused the Soviet way (Tao). Not because they were ill-bred nonconformists, any revolutionary is a subverter of the foundations, but not in the case of his party comrade Trotsky. They acted on the principle of I will take that badly lies and the Holy place is empty does not happen – very popular (also tradition) councils of the people. But the point is that both of these fellow leaders were not… enlightened.
Who is such a teacher, who is such a bodhisattva, and finally, who is a Buddha? This is a very rare example of a large and small chariot! No follower of Buddhism, that is, no disciple or just a visitor to the temple will attempt to take the place of the Buddha. That’s why Buddhists don’t have impostors. But anyone can be a Buddha! The place of an enlightened teacher is a Holy place. That is why power is not needed by anyone who does not feel that he is achieving enlightenment. In plain language Buddhists have an ethical norm in relation to the chosen people-geniuses. They will never take power as a thing that doesn’t lie well. Hence, all the reforms in the countries of South – East Asia are doomed to success.
CHAPTER XII
WHO IS EQUAL TO ALL?
A formation where each subsequent unit is inferior to the leader of the link can be called a military formation. Unless, of course, there is no peace after the war. But there is one. After a war there is always peace among the neighbors. And this most peaceful period is much longer if only in order to have time to grow up the next replenishment of young soldiers. This does not mean that building peace has lost the quality of war. On the contrary building peace duplicates military construction in a surprising way. These two twins can be called one word – tradition. We will call the principle of choosing the worst, going for the best, traditional. This does not mean that the first ranks of regime officials are better than the last. This means that each subsequent official in the chain is just convenient for the system. Selecting the worst is just convenient. But first, it is convenient for the chief of staff. This each chief of a link chooses the Deputy worse than itself and worse than itself on all qualities. So that no one sees the superiority of the Deputy in anything. After all, according to the stereotype of war the more talented should be in front.
So it turns out that the leader or leader of a traditional community is superior to all who follow him and in war, and not in war, surpasses all at once. He is simply equal to all one, in one person. This is probably where his praise begins. But what man is superior to all the people? Only one superman. Such a person is worthy of love and glory. Especially those who follow him in rank will shout-you are our idol, you are our leader never was such a bright sun born in the world.
But what would alert him?
The super leader will suspect insincerity and will not even believe that he is above all, cooler than all, stronger than all, that he is equal to all at once. One leader against all. It turns out an approximate equality of peacetime: one super-human leader against the rest of the mass.
As for the lowest level where the most unworthy are supposed to live, here they also praise, or at least are obliged to praise their immediate superior-flatter him, please him, the rest of the praise of the most important they do by order. On the orders of this chief as subordinates who carry out his instructions. For negligent soldiers the bureaucrat can suffer a career or even a head. Let his people officially shout about the sun of the nation and only obey him. And you don’t have to shout any more. Today, of course, anyone risks their career and money, if their people are lazy and incomprehensible and do not shout at all, they walk quietly, stupidly. Which is very important when all the officials are watching each other. This is how a cult is gradually created or its mechanism unfolds. And not because the leader is so insecure that he needs an hourly reminder of how great, how beautiful, how smart and visionary he is. This is just the natural mode of hierarchy. And only traditional people support such a regime. Just them and no one else.
Traditional people are always brought up on a cult and on authority. Without teachers, mentors, there can be no tradition itself and the meaning of life for traditional people is to serve. Of course, negative selection is also possible. The appearance of a diligent student is welcomed by all teachers of the world. It’s just that the view becomes a way of undeserved reward and then a duty in the most unexpected places. From here the whole society is quickly overgrown with a General, no universal, just total hypocrisy that makes the rest of the world laugh. And forward, too, are selected almost flawed but quirky hypocrites. In a crowd of hypocrites, scoundrels and hypocrites absolutely impossible to know where the old team new who first who second. Who in the line is inferior to the first warrior in strength and courage. But to check the combat capability of a group of hypocrites and thieves, any incident is enough even a simple economic crisis is enough to find out whether there are no professionals here. The time of troubles is an