Reflections about the village and the city

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Visited the village … horror! I'm a city dweller. And by birth and throughout life. Moreover, I was born in a city of (almost) a millionaire and lived all my life in the city too.

I've been to the village three times! Once, at the age of 13-14, visiting his brother's wedding. The second - at the age of 25, also visiting - drank vodka with honey, dug potatoes and again - all surrounded by attention. And the third time already recently - at the age of 48, also visiting, but already more consciously. And only now I have been in the village for two weeks - no longer as a guest, but almost as an independent resident of the village. The impressions are stunning!

But those who thought that I was horrified by life in the countryside are mistaken. I was horrified by the city and the townspeople! I was horrified at how dishonest the city was in relation to the village; how vile he is in his attitude to the world around him; how empty and meaningless he is with his whole life …

The brightest impression from the village was the absence of garbage cans! Driving along the St. Petersburg ring road, you have to drive about five kilometers in the stench of the landfill. It directly rests on the road and you can see that its size is definitely more than two hectares. And it is growing! And this is precisely the abomination of the city! He blatantly shits and does not think about it! Moreover, somehow it appeared in the news that Muscovites decided to fight the incineration plant: do you see some kind of dioxin that will harm their health from burning garbage into the atmosphere? And they cynically ignore the fact that the rubbish from their, Muscovites, life activity contaminates the entire Moscow region. This does not exist in the village, and it cannot be. The remnants of human food - are eaten by animals; manure - falls on the fields; all kinds of wood and paper are burned up, heating the village houses …

And there is little used paper and wood. Simply because they do not eat semi-finished products in the countryside. Wallpaper and furniture are not changed every three years. There are only two TV channels, on which there is only one program, thanks to which people are infected with the mania of perestroika and repainting. Therefore, super-hypermarkets selling wallpaper and roofs, furniture for home and garden, plaster busts and cast-iron benches are in no hurry to go to the village.

The dishonesty of the city is that the village can easily live without the city. Well, quite easy! But the city does not, the city without the village will die in two or three months. And the city went into deception. He inflated his role and significance completely unreasonably and arbitrarily. He convinced the village that he needed the goods produced in the city, and that these goods are more expensive than the products of the village. But in fact, the village does not need anything from urban goods! The peasant does not need tractors, cars, chemical fertilizers. The city needs them in order for the village to produce food that would be enough for the city. That is, the city needs a tractor in the countryside! And the cunning city did not just give it to the village, but sold it for a lot of money!

Just imagine. You entered a house that contains food. And tell the owner - cook me borscht, fried chicken, cabbage salad and compote. The owner replies - I have no saucepan, no utensils, no utensils to prepare such a meal. And you tell him again - here's a saucepan, and plates, and cutlery. Dumbfounded from such impudence, the simple-minded owner takes the dishes and prepares dinner. You eat it and, wiping your lips with a napkin, say that the owner also owes you for the dishes handed over to him, and therefore you will come to dinner with him five times … How do you like such impudence? It was this impudent deception that the city did in relation to the village …

Now many psychologists-sociologists are discussing the topic of people leaving for the virtual world. And they associate this unreal world with computerization. But in fact, the virtual world has existed for a long time - this is city life. Nothing is real in the urban world! All the problems, all the tasks that the city dweller must solve, that is, that around which the life of the city dweller revolves and passes, are created artificially, that is, they are virtual. The garbage dump, which I wrote about above, was created artificially and now there is a problem of garbage disposal. The configured high-rise buildings have set the task of supplying water, heating and sewerage - and now the city is struggling with these problems.

The natural desire of a city dweller to work on the earth, as the simplest way of realizing his creative aspirations, leads to the creation of summer cottages around large cities and, as a result, the problem of transporting the population there. The accumulation of a huge number of people who, living in the cages of their apartments, are deprived of meaningful activity - to lead to the problem of organizing the leisure of these masses … And so on, on, on …

Take any aspect of the life of a city dweller and find that they are all artificially created or sucked from the thumb. Yes, sucked from the thumb, like, for example, the annual shutdown of hot water for 20 summer days. How many journalists write articles, conduct TV programs on this topic … And it is enough to remember that hot water in the village is "turned off" for 365 days and it will become clear that 20 days of a city dweller without hot water in summer is such a trifle that you should be ashamed to even speak in a whisper. be.

The villager is not preoccupied with these virtual problems. He doesn't have them. He doesn't have to worry about the question of which bar to drink beer in - he doesn't have a single bar. Newlyweds do not choose a prestigious restaurant for a wedding - there is only one in the nearest regional center. A villager does not have to worry about how to fill his leisure time - he always has chores around the house - REAL BUSINESS. And it doesn't matter! This is happiness! Because constant activity is something that is vital for a person. Literally vital. Look at the centenarians that are sometimes shown in the TV box. They are rarely city dwellers.

Spreading out on the sofa, people only shorten their lives …

But, most importantly, who lives in the city, and who can appear there?

So, the city is meant for slaves. It was formed precisely for this. When teachers, professors, journalists talk about the natural process of urbanization, they are lying, to put it mildly. The influx of rural population into cities, which is considered a characteristic feature of the urbanization process, is not a natural process, but a planned and organized one. Dm drew my attention to this. Nevidimov in his book "The Religion of Money". But everyone who wants to check this conclusion can do this by understanding what the policy of "fencing" is. The essence of fencing is that free people who lived in their homes and on their own land were driven from this land and from this house. And they had to go to the city and become hired workers. Moreover, those who did not want to "go" into hired workers, those were caught and … sent into slavery.

That is, the city was created for the maintenance of slaves and for their … reproduction. People who have never worked on the land, have never had their own homes, that is, those who cannot exist on their own, live and are born in the city. A city dweller has no housing, food, water, heat … All this a city dweller can get only by selling his labor, as they wrote in the Marxist-Leninist literature. As a result, this led to the formation of another - NOT a free person who cannot think like a free person. Do not believe me - turn on the news channel and watch the news about Pikalevo. Or about another town where a city-forming enterprise was closed. Even expressing protest, seizing the administration building, the townspeople only ask.

But the characteristic feature of slave psychology is the desire to rise. To rise, at least in your own eyes. This is not my idea. These are psychologists - they even found a word for this. Only they write about this in relation to the perverted maniacs, who in everyday life turn out to be quiet and downtrodden. Or in relation to tough leaders who go to the sadists after work in order to experience masochistic humiliation.

And what is the easiest way to prove to yourself the viability, how to rise? It is necessary to place someone (namely, to "place") in your perception of the world on a level below yourself. And the citizen placed the villagers on this level. The common motto expressing this is: "Hey, you are a village!"

And now the next question: who sits in the State Duma and the offices of the ministries? All these offices are occupied by the townspeople. That is, people who grew up in the virtual world and with a slave psychology! Is it any wonder that these people buy chairs for sorting in their offices at a price equal to the national average annual pension? Is it any wonder that for the sake of one solemn reception of foreign guests, buildings are being built or renovated for money, which would be enough to maintain a dozen village schools or hospitals?

Even if we assume that this person came to power with a sincere desire to serve his native country and his native people, he cannot do this. It cannot, because he DOES NOT know how - because he grew up in the virtual world; and CANNOT - because he has a slave psychology. What were the last "important" laws passed by the Duma? An increase in the fine for drivers who did not let a pedestrian pass at the crossing? There are no crossings in the villages. The State (!) Duma adopted a law for two dozen large cities. Changes in utility rates? There are no public utilities in the countryside! That is, again for cities. What else is there? Take it, read it and see - laws are passed on virtual problems that are understandable only to city residents.

Someone will say that villagers also sit in the Duma. Show. Even if there are ten or two peasant deputies, as they wrote earlier in the questionnaires, it turns out that even in Soviet times, they left the village and crawled into the chair of some district committee or other "coma". And - what a village is - they have long forgotten, and now they reason like any other citizen. You can analyze, of course, by surname … But judge for yourself: if a person has a household, can he leave him and engage in political activity?

Of course not. Only a peasant who does not like life and work on the land can engage in politics; one who does not know how to live freely and joyfully on HIS land. That is, he has already become imbued with a slave psychology, he has already become infected with the virtuality of city life.