Why is the Russian bear lazy?

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

First of all, the bear is big and strong. He is much stronger than the rest of the inhabitants of the forest and can tear them all to shreds, individually and in bulk.

It is not easy for Europeans to live with such a neighbor in the East, they are afraid of them. The Russian bear has never attacked them himself, but he can kill them if he wants to. How can you … Hence - the inescapable Western Russophobia, that is, the fear of Russians.

The flip side of a phobia is aggression. A subconscious inferiority complex prompts Europeans to try to eliminate the source of the threat - to kill the bear. Catch the moment when he seems weakened, and kill. Twice in the last two centuries, they have gone on a bear hunt with the whole European company, under Napoleon and under Hitler. They secured for themselves a crushing, as it seemed to them, numerical and military-technical superiority over Russia, they calculated everything, planned everything and attacked. Both times they barely carried their feet.

The bear, of course, is partly to blame, by his own behavior he provokes animals. He is too lazy and good-natured. Too patient and too much allows others, it is difficult to anger him. And before entering the Russian den, whoever growls and barks, and in the den itself, small animals tease the bear, strives to grab the heels - zero attention. He will not even move, realizing that if he starts tossing and turning from side to side, he will simply pass on trifles in the den, and if it gets out of the den, it will not be good for everyone.

Most of the time, the bear generally hibernates. This is because of the climate. Thousands of years of agricultural life in extreme conditions, when the vegetative period lasts three to four months (for comparison, in Europe, eight to ten months) have made the rhythm of life of the Russian people tattered: the summer emergency, requiring the concentration of all forces, is replaced by forced winter idleness, when only what to sleep. The organism of the nation is accustomed to a pulse mode, in which short overvoltage alternates with prolonged relaxation and drowsiness. Ilya Muromets spent thirty-three years on the stove, and then he got up and started doing this …

Here the hunters attack the sleeping bear. They try to stab in a dream, stick spears into the den. Anyone will wake up at this point. Then watch out! The lazy bear transforms into a ferocious crank that destroys everything in its path. Nothing can resist the bear's rage, and all the calculations of the hunters go to dust.

Why are there hunters! The connecting rod, asleep, is dangerous for itself: it falls into meaninglessness and ruthlessness, so much so that it even destroys its own den. It happened twice in the last century, in the 17th and 91st. The consequences of the last bout of bear madness have not yet been eliminated, the den has not been repaired.

And all because the bear, feeling its irresistible strength, does not look out, underestimates the threat and does not prepare for a fight. The Russians were going to throw their hats into the twelve languages of Bonaparte, and to smash the Hitlerite Germans only with little bloodshed and on a foreign land. At first, the bear had to move back, abundantly irrigating the land with blood, his own and that of others.

Then, of course, the bear takes it, but then later, when he wakes up completely. In the meantime, the roasted rooster does not bite, it will doze off. We say the truth: until the thunder breaks out, the peasant does not cross himself. Russian "Maybe!" also from this series.

And all why? All from immeasurable strength. There is in the national subconscious the confidence that there is no really dangerous enemy on earth, at least comparable in power, both physical and intellectual, but especially spiritual. There is no one to be afraid of the Russian nation, and it feels it. It is he who feels, but does not know, he cannot explain in words. Nods to a miracle.

It is no coincidence that a miracle occupies a central place in folklore: a man is lazy on the stove or indulges in fishing, and suddenly from somewhere come a pike with a human voice, or no less talkative goldfish and begin to fulfill his whims.

And how it "smells" of Russia at Pushkin? This is an oak with a golden chain, walking along which a learned cat entertains the audience with songs and fairy tales, and a mermaid with a goblin, and a hut on chicken legs, and so on. Miracle after miracle. There is a certainty among the people that, if necessary, a miracle will surely happen and any troubles will be settled.

The most striking thing is that history confirms this confidence. Well, Russia could not overcome either Napoleonnor Hitler, could not in any way, an elementary comparison of military-economic potentials demonstrates this unambiguously. However, she won. Isn't it a miracle? And during the lifetime of one generation, she made a scientific and technical leap from the plow to the atomic bomb. Moreover, from the plow - this is literally, because the civil war and terror destroyed the development potential accumulated by Russia, the human one is generally at the root. It's also a miracle, you can't say otherwise.

As you know, a miracle does not lend itself to scientific analysis. The poet wrote correctly: "". On the other hand, faith, of course, is a necessary thing, but this is not exactly the category that should be guided in politics. Therefore, we still try to spread our minds and try to find out the nature of the Russian miracle, to understand it, as scientists say, its genesis.

So, where does the bear power come from for the Russian people? In particular, in comparison with Europeans, our closest relatives by blood and culture. Here the following should be borne in mind.

The average Russian does not surpass the European either physically or psychologically, it is. There are more Europeans than Russians, it is. Europe is steadily overtaking Russia in scientific, technical and industrial and technological areas. Our territory, of course, is much larger, but the territory, unlike people and guns, does not fight … Logically speaking, Europe should be stronger.

But the opposite is true for verification. Why? At the expense of what secret resource did the Russian people defeat the armed European hordes to the teeth, headed by brilliant politicians and commanders and? Neither the capacity of an individual, nor the number of people who participated in the armed struggle and worked at the front in the rear, nor the state of the economy, nor the combat conditions of the armed forces, nor other factors external to the people give an answer to this question.

This means that the answer must be sought in the Russian people itself - the original biosocial essence, considering it as a whole and bearing in mind that, according to Aristotle, the properties of the whole are not reduced to the arithmetic sum of the qualities of its constituent parts, in our case, people. In some ways, the Russian folk essence surpasses the European one, there is no other explanation for what is happening, except for a miracle, of course.

This superiority is realized most clearly in a war - in an extreme situation that reveals the essence of things. Remember u Vysotsky: "". War is more extreme than mountaineering, death in war is closer. Therefore, the outer tinsel flies faster in war, and the inner essence manifests itself more fully.

War can be defined as work, that is, as the production of energy by the warring community of people - the people. The winner in the war is that participant, that is, that people (or part of the people, if the war is civil), which generates more energy, at the front and in the rear, in other words, does more work.

From the school physics course, it is known that energy is defined as the product of mass by the square of the velocity (to reduce the error, it is divided in half, but in this case it is insignificant). In terms of mass, we are inferior to the Europeans, both in human and technical terms. This means that the point is in the greater speed of the generation of social energy by the Russian people in the extreme conditions of armed confrontation.

How does this happen? The main reason, of course, lies in the national spirit. Even Napoleon argued that in war the spirit refers to the body as three to one. This means that a strong spirit has equal chances with an opponent who is three times stronger physically, but weak in spirit. The Russian spirit, apparently, is stronger than the European one, which allows the Russian people to do more military work in one and the same time, which brings victory.

It should be understood that the spirit of the people is a constant value and, by and large, does not depend on the current conjuncture - religious, social and political. United Europe was crushed by both the Russian Empire, Orthodox and monarchist, and the USSR, godless and socialist. The systems in the two states are opposite, but the Russian spirit is the same, it brings victory, and not at all an ideology and not a type of social structure.

Father of dialectics Heraclitus two and a half thousand years ago I noticed that everything flows and changes except for the human soul. And the people's soul, therefore, too, for the human soul is only its infinitely small particle that exists for a fleeting moment in the historical being of the people. The soul of the people, its spirit is a permanent attribute, independent of ideology and politics.

Here the question arises - why does the Russian people have a strong spirit, while the European peoples have it weaker? It is customary to look for the answer in God's providence and other things that are not accessible to the human mind. Perhaps this is so. But from the standpoint of the scientific worldview, it is still preferable to link the ideal with the material, in this case the spirit of the people with its flesh and blood. After all, no one has yet seen the spirit outside the flesh, and it manifests itself exclusively in human affairs, which, in their substance, are purely material. From this point of view, the peculiarity of the Russian spirit in comparison with the spiritual qualities of the peoples of Europe receives a completely logical explanation.

The fact is that the matter of the Russians and the Europeans, their blood, as they say, is different. We have various biological markers in DNA in the form of a stable nucleotide sequence on the Y chromosome in men, which geneticists call a haplogroup (in women, the ethnic mark is located in the region of the mitochondrial rings of the cell).

The living Russian people are the descendants of the same person who was born about four and a half thousand years ago on the Central Russian plain with a mutation in the Y-chromosome of DNA in the form of a nucleotide sequence that his father did not have and which geneticists classify as haplogroup R1a1. Since then, this haplogroup is passed unchanged along with the entire Y chromosome from generation to generation from father to son, marking their biological identity.

Over the past millennia, the offspring of the Russian first ancestor has multiplied and settled over a vast area. Now, all over the territory from the western borders of Poland to the Pacific coast, from two-thirds to three-quarters of the total male population has an R1a1 ethnic mark in their DNA.

Accordingly, haplogroup R1a1 is a biological sign of belonging to the Russian people. Nevertheless, it is wrong to call this haplogroup "Russian". "Russian" means inherent to the Russian people and to them alone, but in this case it is not so. The fact is that the "people" is not only a biological entity, determined by genetic identity, but also a social entity, represented by sociocultural identity, including language … On the same biological soil, due to objective circumstances, several human communities can grow - peoples that differ significantly from each other in socio-cultural terms.

So it happened with the owners of the haplogroup R1a1. Some of them, about three and a half thousand years ago, migrated from the Urals, from Arkaim and the "civilization of cities", known for its mining and metallurgical industry (archaeologists find products of that time from Ural copper already in Crete), to the south, to India and Iran. In India now live about a hundred million of our blood brothers - carriers of the same ethnic mark in the DNA (about half the number of the higher castes). But Russians, although the blood is the same, they cannot be called, since the culture there over millennia of isolated life has developed a different one (although the ancient Indian literary language Sanskrit is strikingly similar to modern Russian). This is a different people.

How, then, is it correct to determine the common origin of the owners of R1a1 - people of the same clan, but different peoples? Apparently, in this case, it will be correct to speak of a certain biological race that is localized outside the framework of the classification adopted in modern racology. It is logical to call it based on the self-identification of the tribes that brought this haplogroup in their cut from the north to India and Iran - in the most ancient Indian written sources of the Vedas, they are called Aryans.

That is, not Russians live in India, but Indo-Aryans (approximately 16% of the total population). Modern Poles with the same biological identity cannot be enrolled as “Russians” either, they won’t understand, and they are not Russian by culture. Aryans are another matter, no one is offended, even those Ukrainians who are fixated on their "non-Russianness".

So, the Russian people are Aryan by origin. Other peoples live in Russia, but they have different biological roots. Russians are the descendants of the ancient Aryans with the haplogroup R1a1. All Russians are Aryans, practically without exception (the percentage of people who identify themselves as Russians, but have other ethnic markers in their DNA, is very small).

In Europe, the picture is different. Who are the British, Germans, French and others? What is their biological identity?

The history of these and other peoples living now in the western part of the European subcontinent began on the remnants of the Western Roman Empire a millennium and a half ago, when tribal associations of the Germans migrated to the lands inhabited by Celtic tribes from across the Danube and the Rhine. The authorship of the terms "Celts" and "Germans" belongs to Guy Julius Caesaryu, who faced these peoples during the so-called Gallic wars in the territory of modern France.

It is important for us that these two groups of peoples are different in blood. The haplogroup R1b (which, by the way, is closest to our R1a1) in DNA, is characteristic of the Celts, the I1 for the Germans. In the course of the migration of peoples, the alien Germans mixed with the aboriginal Celts, and in our time all the countries of Europe in ethnodemographic terms are a conglomerate of the descendants of these two biological groups. Other genetic identities are also represented there, for example the Semites (mainly in the south) and our blood brothers Aryans, whose share, as we approach Aryan Poland, increases from 3% in England to 20% in Germany and up to 40% in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Latvia. But the Celts and Germans dominate, somewhere more than some, somewhere more than others.

The diverse European community is brought together by two main social factors. This is the cultural heritage of Ancient Rome, which is the basis of all European civilization, and the Christian religion. But Europe is not united. It is not for nothing that they speak of it as "Romano-Germanic": the north of the subcontinent is predominantly Germanic, and the south is Romanesque, that is, to a greater extent inheriting the ancient Roman culture. The border between them is not only cultural, but also linguistic and, most revealingly, religious.

It was along this border that the split of Western Christianity took place, which went down in history as a "reformation", as a result of which Protestantism spun off from the Catholic Church. This once again illustrates the relationship between blood and spirit - Catholicism was preserved where the Celtic principle predominated, and the Germans preferred the Protestant version of Christianity.

In addition, the European peoples, with all the similarity of their ethnic composition, everywhere Celtic-Germanic in the bulk, differ significantly from each other in language and culture. These are different biosocial entities, each with its own history and its own characteristics.

Thus, the population of Europe is an ethno-cultural vinaigrette, divided into north and south and consisting of different ingredients-peoples even in these two parts, and each of the ingredients, in turn, being a social whole, is biologically heterogeneous, that is, heterogeneous. This is something completely different, and qualitatively different from the Russian people with its biological and social homogeneity. The Russian people are a single whole, while the population of Europe consists of many separate parts, each of which is also fragmented into smaller parts.

Meanwhile, more Aristotle formulated the law of being, according to which "" in the sense that the whole has other properties that are not reducible to the arithmetic sum of the properties of individual parts. In this particular case, this means that Europe, while not being a whole in a biosocial sense, is "less" than the Russian whole. That is why the sum of the European parts-peoples in the war cannot prevail over the Russian people - because of its integrity.

There is, of course, the racial factor as such. The Aryan biological race, in particular, has a high potential for civilizational building, moreover, in different natural and historical conditions and in different ethnic environments. The great civilizations of antiquity, namely the civilization of cities in the Urals, the Indo-Aryan and Iranian-Aryan civilizations are clear evidence of this, not to mention the modern Russian civilization.

But the European races also succeeded in this field, giving rise to such phenomena in modern history as the North American and Latin American civilizations. About their ancient achievements, it is only known that the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun was a Celtic by blood (the biological origin of the ancient Greeks and ancient Romans is still unclear).

So there is no reason to assert, following Hitler's racologists, that the Aryan race is "superior" to all the others, just as there is no linear scale for comparing the merits of different races. Moreover, the German scientists did not consider the "Aryans" at all those who they really are - otherwise Hitler would have come up with some other ideological justification for his "". The point is not in the racial superiority of the Russian Aryans over the European Celts and Germans, but in the heterogeneous racial structure of Europe, which makes it weaker than homogeneous Russia.

If we count without taking into account the "factor of the whole", as Napoleon and Hitler did, then Europe is stronger. But life shows that it is wrong to think so. The mistake in the invoice cost them dearly, and not only them …

Since a people is a living organism, an analogy from the field of psychophysiology is appropriate to illustrate the importance of biological integrity. The greater than among the Europeans, the speed with which the Russian mass generates social energy is explained by the homogeneity of the Russian material-ideal substance. There are no obstacles in it for the passage of the control impulses inherent in Europe due to the heterogeneity of its parts.

Overcoming, in the course of joint work, natural boundaries between individual peoples, and within each of them between different ethnic groups, is associated with a waste of time and energy. So it turns out that the European sum of parts cannot act as if it were a single whole, because its internal structure itself absorbs a part of the energy produced by the parts.

Western "rule of law" - not from a good life. After all, the law is required where relations in society are not regulated by culture, its traditions and customs, which are the historical product of the long-term life of the people. Among the European parts of the peoples, and within them among ethnic groups, traditions and customs are naturally different due to their origin, which is why the dictatorship of the law is necessary even in the smallest details, otherwise the entire social structure will crumble.

This is especially pronounced in the United States, a country of lawyers, where in a motley immigrant environment there are no common traditions and customs even in their fragmentary European form, and where the force of law is the only factor keeping society from decay and annihilation. Therefore, in North America, the state is even more "right" than European ones, and legislative and law enforcement activities devour a huge amount of social energy, which in a less rule-of-law state goes to more productive affairs.

In addition, the dictatorship of the law as the highest value corrupts public morality. So, in the West, a person who stole an oil rig, but proved in court that the letter of the law was not violated, is a respected member of society. In Russia, he is a thief, he is a thief, whitewash him at least a hundred times in the courts, because morality and such fundamental categories as truth and justice in the popular mind are above any law invented by people.

In a word, they are weak there, in Europe and America, and they do not live according to the truth. That is why the evil ones strive to rob and even kill the weaker ones. Alone Indians in the Western Hemisphere exterminated about a hundred million in order to appropriate their land.

The Russian bear is not like that. He is strong and treats the rest of the animals with justice and care. During the construction of the Russian Empire, not a single non-Russian people died, even the smallest. On the contrary, the Russians treated them, taught them, and introduced them to their civilization. The result is obvious - even the most savage tribes in the pre-imperial past, after the collapse of the USSR, created their own states on the outskirts of the Russian state, not very viable, of course, but still cannot be compared with what it was.

Now the bear is hibernating again. I got tired, destroying my den in another attack of meaninglessness and ruthlessness at the end of the last century. And again, many, in Russia and abroad, fall into the delusion about his weakness - they say that the Russian people are no longer what they used to be. But this has already happened in the past, and more than once. Even Lermontov wrote: "". But history corrected the poet - the tribe is the same as in the past. It will remain the same in the future as long as there is Russian blood and the Russian spirit that lives in it.

It is true that history teaches that it has not taught anyone anything yet. She neither taught us, nor adversaries. The Russian peasant does not cross himself again, he waits for the thunder to break out and the roasted cock will peck him, considering him half-corpses. Already such a rooster crows across the ocean, not yet roasted, but already charred. He is now the chief among the western animals - screeching, flapping his wings, bullying.

But again, the bear is not afraid. It seems that the bear is going to wake up from hibernation, begins to come to his senses, remember who he is (the process is called the revival of national identity). But somehow it’s lazy, no one has pecked yet. And as it bites, there is always a miracle for such a case.

And the bear does not know that he himself is a miracle.