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      For example, if there is a sharp change, people immediately switch from cattle breeding to market relations. But they again weed out from his environment the smart but weak, or the poor but noble – I don’t know, both qualities are shameful here, so all the changes that have occurred have suddenly occurred. No one was preparing for them. And why? The main thing is to show again that you are no worse, no weaker than the most arrogant.

      Chapter 7

      How Asians turn into personalities

      There has never been such a thing in the East. There has always been a hierarchy in the East. No personalities. The very concept of personality is a bourgeois invention. The rootless bourgeois invented their personality so that the feudal elite would understand who they were dealing with. From now on, it means we did not with despicable philistines but with worthy people. Bourgeois personalities exuded an elitist informality. Formally, they were despicable people in the feudal report card; in fact, informally, the bourgeoisie had the meaning of a new rank. With a fierce desire to prove the opposite, this suspended state or formal insignificance manifested itself in the soreness or vulnerability bankers constantly carried with them. Today, when the “personalities” of the conditional East or all former citizens of the former USSR talk about personality and rights, they certainly do not know what it cost Western personalities, how many generations of Europeans and Americans have gone through the market test. Even what passed to the East as remnants of Western dignity after the fall of totalitarianism does not convey the torment that future rootless bankers once experienced. But that energy of humiliation and overcoming humiliation was still transmitted. I don’t know how; rather, by genetic memory, the memory of humiliation turned into reflexes of resistance. Eastern people who had never lived in the market, in any case, had not reached the moment of the triumph of bourgeois law according to the type of the Napoleonic code, did not understand and could not understand Western protests. But they liked that they were called personalities in absentia. That’s all. And who wouldn’t like to be one? Life is bad without a loser. That’s what Oriental vanity means. Find me a man in the street who would avoid fashion. Especially if it needs very average, mediocre, ordinary money. Nobody would get the status simply. And they got it without bothering. But simply because world socialism collapsed. On the contrary, formally, everyone was equal; in fact, there is the same medieval hierarchy here. It turns out that the Western personality was born in a centuries-old market struggle; the Eastern took this victory from the Western personality. Although it seems that she also fought for her rights, but rather for status. But in the East, civil rights did not matter at all. Although even communists or people who fancied themselves radical equalizers wrote the Constitution, they wrote and changed it several times. But if no one here was really interested in rights, even with a radical equation, if communism was just a new form or kind of an old tradition, and in fact, there were elected communists of the top and all men the rest, in general, the rights remained on paper, life has shown that the one who has more is right he is right, and officials always have more rights. It is repeated in all post-Soviet states. The Western tracing paper of the confrontation of feudal lords and urban philistinism received in the East the confrontation of party bosses and ordinary Soviet people, once again, with social justice declared to the whole world. There was never any struggle in the East. Soviet citizens automatically became personalities in the Western manner, without a market and money, that is, without the banal practice of fighting for money and rights. This very lack of experience in fighting for their rights has shown that no one in the East needs rights but money. Nobody wants to be called nobody comrades, as it was in the past, and everyone wants to be a new personality. Consumer personalities. Consumers of goods, which would be even more accurate. No one wanted universal equality through consumption; Western tracing paper was taken literally at face value. In the East, another Eastern hierarchy was immediately lined up to be someone; an oligarchy appeared and immediately an elected non-judicial elite. None of the disenfranchised in the future, and constantly Eastern personalities without money, did not occur to them that this – their old culture and practice would happen again. However, still, they were seized with the hope that someone would be able to climb up into the company of the chosen ones. That means one thing. Until something like a new hierarchy is formed in the East again, everyone will be busy with their own, only their own business. But even when everyone sees or is pointed out to them, they will rather feel a new corvee themselves. But now, nothing will save the eastern losers. According to their culture, they received, were obliged to receive a new feudal elite. Does it have a different name now? Nothing. But now there is a real market. Understanding what it is like to be a disenfranchised slave in the market with arrogant, arrogant feudal lords is necessary. Do I want to say that Eastern personalities should go through the experience of Western personalities externally as it really was with the West? I’m not sure. A new world system has been formed. And the eastern oligarchy has integrated into the Western one. The fresh descendants of the rootless communists, raised from the bottom by the revolution, found mature descendants of the rootless status burghers for a union. And the Eastern people began to play by the Western rules; that is, they hoped they would be accepted into the club of the elect, in any case, all the oligarchs. Who trades is a person, isn’t it? But the oligarchs from the East were mistaken. The Western elite did not accept them as equals.