Аннотация: Civilizational outcomes of Russia. A scientific and art treatise.
Civilizational outcomes of Russia. A scientific and art treatise.
Russia has always liked being a good barin [a person, who is over, who is above a peasants, a serfs].
A good barin - this is such a kind, gracious, wealthy man who lives himself and helps others financially. To whom everyone is grateful, and who enjoys his own importance.
In the 1930s-40s-50s, Russia (USSR) focused on its own development. But when she gained strength and entered the wide international arena, the complex of good barin again appeared.
Someone was sincerely grateful for her help. But, basically, a running through, along and across Asias-Africas and other territories has not produced any positive results. The good barin did not feel to himself a much gratitude.
The 1990s partly resembled the play "On the Bottom" by Maxim Gorky (with the respective heroes).
At the end of the 20th century - the beginning of the 21st century, another attempt to play the good barin began. But with a certain adjustment.
Now it was not only kind, but also practical barin.
Of course, his clientele needed help. But the clientele had a significant volumes of raw materials that were supposed to be put into circulation.
With the start of 2020, Russia seems to have a new role. It is a kind of raznochinets [a person of miscellaneous ranks] - a hero of works of Fedor Dostoyevsky.
A raznochinets [a person of miscellaneous ranks] is a person with knowledge, with education, with a sense of dignity, but without capital and without belonging to a high public layers.
The hero of Fedor Dostoyevsky hesitates. Or he 'll start fighting against the government. Or he will make a career (scientific, state or some other).
Dostoyevsky made a choice for himself: "Humble yourself, proud man!" And after years of meagre life to carry out five-year plans, the country has launched human into space and emerged among the world 's most developed countries.
Why to "humble yourself"? Why not put pride at the forefront?
In a civilization depth under a "people of miscellaneous ranks" (and other figures), the collective rentier - the owner of wealth of Siberia and the Far East is located (since about the 17th century).
He is not a such type, kind, variant of a rentier, who, like Robinson Crusoe, organizes his life in any conditions, floats on the seas, goes to theatres, actively trades with the whole world and enjoys various scientific hobbies.
It 's quite calm, slow, economic rentier...
But if you combine him with a restless and inclined to education the East-republican, who have a broad outlook, a skills to independently carry out (fulfil) a complex social projects, then you can get a developed advanced economy, a well-organized social sphere, and the first space flight in world history.
In order that the proud man of Fyodor Dostoevsky, an East-Republican, integrates with a quite calm, slow, economic rentier, the owner of Siberia and the Far East - for that aim a proud man had to humble his pride.
But a developed state was built. And some later it half was down in a known direction.
The space project was implemented. The (relay) baton seems to have been handed over to the heirs of Robinson Crusoe ...
And a person who is a rentier and has the habits of a rentier represents himself as raznochinets [a person of miscellaneous ranks] and plays various kinds of a foreign policy plays (sometimes very stupid) ...
These are some civilizational outcomes - the outcomes of civilizational development - of Russia.
March 24, 2020 22:10
Translation from Russian into English: March 26, 2020 11:43.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Цивилизационные итоги России. Научно-художественный трактат'.