Civilization, of course, cannot be measured by the financial result, it is measured by the daily energy expenditures of a person, including here both responsibility and a sense of duty, and the everyday situation of the average citizen, his comfort, his safety. What a man snatched for himself is a zoological prey. What society has given to man is civilization. There is a quite understandable and obvious dependence of the level (quality) of life of members of society on their responsibility to society. The more people as a whole care about the welfare of society, the more, as a result, society can offer benefits to each individual person.
This is how the dialectic of a civilized way of life is formed: Here a person acts as both a means and an end, he is a donor, a donor - but he is also a recipient, a user. Taken in a generalized way, as an average figure - a person himself produces televisions, and he watches them, he builds houses and he himself lives in them. He grows what he eats and sews what he then wears.
But this is a generalized-average image of a person, born of the ability of developed thinking to generalize ideas, create abstractions. With the loss of the ability and desire (nominalism) to generalize specific cases of life, we get a lot of individuals whose participation in production and consumption does not coincide.
In the animal kingdom, there is no dependence between benefits and responsibility. The essence of this world is that an individual acts only as a consumer, having nothing to do with the reproduction of consumed goods. All animals, like liberals, their reflections in the human world, love consumption. There is no animal that does not like to devour, bask in a cozy nest, and there is no one who, between tasty and tasteless, would choose the tasteless.
The whole life of an animal is an endless consumer search, both quantitative (where to eat) and qualitative (where to eat tastier). Animals easily master new niches of consumption - cats settled near the grain barns of ancient people (they found there an abundance of rodents), and gradually became domestic animals, wild boars or raccoons love dumps and garbage dumps that are not in their natural habitat.
But no animal produces what it consumes. Wolves do not breed moose and deer, and if they devour all available, they themselves die of hunger. Rabbits devastate green fields, but do not know how to reclaim them even under pain of painful death, etc.
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The dialectic of the COZH (civilized way of life) - raises the question of both the necessity and the trouble, the inconvenience of personal household energy costs to maintain the artificial environment of obvious conveniences.
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Household energy costs are a combination of efforts, nerves and household losses that a person spends on business. A person, perhaps (most often it happens) - worked a lot, brought a lot of benefit, but earned very little or nothing. Or the opposite option: incomes above the roof, flourishes, but as a parasite of society, not working for the good of society and not bringing any benefit.
It is easy to see that the construction of civilization is a progressive process of creating an artificial environment throughout the life of a generation, successive between generations. Just as it is impossible to build a house by piling stones in a heap, so it is impossible to build a civilization without progressive and successive actions - all the time in one direction. Which one? - the question of the century!
But the fact that there is one direction, and that every turn, especially a turn of movement, is a regression, undoubtedly. You can build big cities if you build them all the time, but you can't build them, if you build, then destroy. Obviously, if you add "+1" and "-1", equal to each other, we get zero.
In the same way, it is obvious that if movement in one direction = movement in the other direction, then, having formed into history, they are equal to zero. We built a city, then destroyed it - in the end, just as there was no city at the beginning of the process, there is none at the end. All that was left was the exhaustion and fatigue, which would not have happened if we hadn't started anything at all …
So, civilization is a forward and successive movement in one direction. It starts with a project, continues with provisional works, turns the project idea into reality. In this, purposeful movement differs from chaotic, and as a result, always meaningless throwing from side to side.
The result of many mutually negating movements will be fatigue and zero progress.
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Each part of a civilization is built on a principle similar to the general structure of a civilization ("a pyramid made of pyramids"). For example, a separate science is a progressive and successive accumulation of knowledge both by a single scientist (school-university - defense of scientific degrees) and by generations of scientists. That is, the early scientists become the primary school for the followers. Each researcher, in order not to "discover the bicycle", is simply obliged to study the achievements of his predecessors, and build his work on this basis, and not just randomly.
Culture is also built by "plus", while lack of culture, which is noticeable even in a simple philistine life - "minus". In culture, medieval authors are added to ancient ones, modern ones - to medieval ones according to the "+++" principle.
The lack of culture throws out the elements of culture recognized as "unnecessary", and as a result strives to discard everything except the primitive zoological needs of the instinct of a man who has become obsessed.
Culture overcomes oblivion - lack of culture increases it. A cultured person constantly expands his horizons - an uncultured person constantly narrows it. From narrowing the horizons of a zoo, a long time ago (even in antiquity) the described "complex of self-righteousness of a know-it-all" arises: the less a person knows, the more it seems to him that he knows everything.
For example, someone who has spent his whole life in a cramped basement believes that the entire Universe is a basement, and he has studied every detail of this “universe” reduced to a basement perfectly …
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Understanding the construction of civilization as creation, we also understand the general principles of the creative work of generations and communities. The bottom line is that any natural phenomenon arises "by itself" (for a person), and any artificial structure - only with the everyday energy costs of specific people. Without any effort on our part, a hurricane can fly in, but nature cannot assemble a house or plane without our efforts.
The everyday energy costs of a particular person to create (and maintain) a common civilization is the most vulnerable part of civilization with all its technical wonders, everyday conveniences and magical prospects. The paradox is that everyone wants to enjoy the benefits of civilization (including domesticated animals and ravens-boars who simply nailed to the dump), but not everyone wants to bear the energy costs of maintaining it.
In other words, not everyone who loves to ride loves to carry sledges. Not everyone who loves honey loves chill. Not everyone … However, there are thousands of popular sayings on this score, reflecting the dialectics of the // use of the benefits of civilization, thousands, not all of them!
Civilization is a building made of elements, like a house made of bricks. Every element (brick) has, in addition to its systemic value, its own value. That is, useful in bulk, it can also be useful at retail. The structure as a whole is constantly growing in value, because it is composed of valuable elements, the number of which is growing from generation to generation.
This is not hard to understand.
If you build a house slowly, but for a long time, you will eventually build a large house.
If you build a house very intensively, you will build a big house very quickly.
And if you build a house intensively and for a long time, then something very grandiose will arise, because the high speed of construction will be combined with long construction periods.
But this logic works and vice versa!
If you drag bricks from a common construction site little by little, but for a long time, in the end there will be nothing left.
If you drag the bricks for a short time - but very intensively - then in the end you will quickly pull everything apart.
And if you steal vigorously and for a long time, even a gigantic structure will be dismantled, because the high rate of thefts will add up to their long duration.
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The parasite of market liberalism presupposes nothing more than the pulling apart of a structure built over the centuries. There is something made up of valuable elements - if you pull out these elements, and do not insert new ones (do not follow the path of personal household energy costs), then a person begins to live easily and richly.
And if you look from the outside, with the design mind, it is very clearly visible. But the parasite looks from the inside, not from the outside! It seems to him, a parasite, that he is the pinnacle of human knowledge and culture, because he is at the top of the food chain. He, the parasite, eats last - therefore, everything that has not been saved up - was saved for him. Any person inclined to serve and sacrifice is perceived by the parasite as a dark and limited savage. All the shrines of this "savage" are idols for the parasite, and the parasite has only one idol - himself.
Hence the paradox of the media of our days: it is those who most of all contribute to the pulling away and collapse of human civilization - most of all squeak about themselves as a civilization! The liberal-market parasite, which has locked both time and space at its biological location, has no idea of either the structure, or the dynamics, or the goal of human civilization.
But precisely because of this unclouded total ignorance, the liberal-market parasite of privatization equates civilization with its own consumption. The more things he personally devours and spoils, the higher the level of civilization.
So the mice would associate the barn ideal with the complete extermination of cats and other means of fighting rodents! It is clear that such a barn, as long as there is grain in it - for mice and rats - is an example of perfection.
And what will happen when the grain ends? Rodents don't look that far …
Alexander Leonidov
