“Restless people can be kind and evil.
If there are many restless and kind in the world, it will be good. " - ("King Matt on a Desert Island", J. Korczak)
There has been no large-scale war on Earth since 1945. Those wars that were, were of a local nature, but they nevertheless took place, and people died in them too. Military clashes are going on now. But what are their goals? At first glance, the goals of all wars remain the same at all times. However, modern science allows us to conclude that even today the causes of armed conflicts can be very different from those proclaimed. And they may be based on something completely different from what is seen at first glance.
One of the main provisions of cultural studies as a science is the statement that culture is not inherited. And the fact that this is so has been proven many times. A legend (or not a legend?) Says that a certain king (or was it an Indian maharaja) decided to find out which language is the most ancient. To do this, he locked several male babies in the tower and assigned deaf-mute servants to them. Then, when the children grew up, he invited them to his palace and began to ask questions, hoping that what language they would speak would be the most ancient. However, the children were silent. They couldn't speak at all.
In the same India, two girls raised by wolves fell into the hands of scientists. The eldest eventually died without adapting to human society, and the other, at the age of 17, behaved like a seven-year-old child and did not rise higher, although she learned to wear clothes, eat from a plate with a spoon, and also talk a little.
On the other hand, there are many examples where children who have never seen their parents behave exactly as if they had lived side by side with them for many years. That is, something is being transmitted, isn't it? Abilities are transferred, character traits are transferred, a lot is transferred …
And now let's see how all this has defined and continues to define the life of human society.
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Noble fun
Let's start with the fact that on February 18, 1762, Peter III signed a legislative act, according to which, for the first time in the history of Russia, noblemen were exempted from compulsory civil and military service, could settle in their estates and even freely travel abroad. This decree, called "On the Liberty of the Nobility," confirmed by Catherine II in 1785, had very important consequences for Russia. A huge number of landowners went to their estates and engaged in … idleness: hunting, breeding horses and very soon noticed a seemingly banal thing: purebred dogs bring purebred puppies, and outbred dogs bring outbred puppies. This was all known before. But now the landowners have a unique opportunity to test this postulate on people!
After all, they had serfs with "exemplary behavior", which did not cause trouble, but there were "presumptuous brawlers" and … what did the landowners do? They began to get rid of the latter - to hand them over as soldiers! And those about whom they say "even eat them with porridge, even buttermilk butter", began to marry the same stupid and docile girls on the principle - "harosha girl, full!" In conditions when natural intellectual selection in society had not worked for millennia, it turned out that the docile and stupid multiplied en masse, and the smart and restless (both good and bad) were sent to the army, where the chances to reproduce and pass on their genes to descendants from they were small, and even in this case, their children fell into the category of cantonists and again went to the army.
So you shouldn't be so surprised by the victories of Rumyantsev, Suvorov and Kutuzov. They had … wonderful human material: smart and brave soldiers, one might say, the elite of the Russian nation! Well, in the village remained the most agreeable, the most patient and slow-witted. And progress in the Russian pre-revolutionary village went at a snail's pace.
European experience
However, large-scale genetic experiments were carried out not only by Russian emperors. So, the Prussian emperor Frederick II wished to have the most powerful army in Europe and figured out how to achieve this without much difficulty: he issued a law according to which all escheat property is inherited by the smallest son - everything, entirely, without exception! The question was resolved after the death of his father very simply: the children were lined up in a row according to their height and … the smallest one received all papa's property, and the tall and tall guys had only one thing to do - to join the army!
Frederick constantly fought, besides, he sold his soldiers in whole regiments "to the left". As a result, all the tall people in his country were simply knocked out. And Germany today in terms of the average height of men for a long time occupied one of the last places in Europe. It has leveled off to 187-190 centimeters only in the last decades of a wealthy life and quality medical care. In addition, after the Second World War, migrants slowly but surely began to move to Germany, bringing with them "fresh blood." So today the Germans are doing well with their growth.
Napoleon gave a similar order - to recruit people no less than 180 centimeters tall in the guard. Then all his guards perished in the Battle of Waterloo ("The Guards are dying, but not surrendering!") And … after all the Napoleonic wars, there are practically no tall men left in France. That is, the shortest Europeans were supposed to be there? But no! It turned out that the Russian army entered Paris! Our serf soldiers were … fascinated by everything they saw! The women "welcomed" them, and mass desertion began! The numbers range from four to 40 thousand people, and which one is more correct - it is very difficult to verify now. Although the tsar's decrees to forgive the deserters who returned from campaigns were in effect for a very long time. And if special laws have already been adopted, then that says something.
Whatever it was, but the growth of the French has leveled off. True, then Hitler, in his Mein Kampf, began to blame them for incest with Annamites and Algerians. How much he is right is again very difficult to say, but the type of French woman - white skin, blue eyes, golden hair … has disappeared, or at least has become very rare, hasn't it?
Breeding revolution
But we are talking about the external manifestations of massive genetic experiments. But there were also internal ones …
So, after the law on allotting land to everyone in the United States, many of the most active and enterprising people from Europe left there. Weapons were freely sold there, and many of them simply shot each other in saloons or were killed in battles with the Indians. The rapid development of the United States is precisely due to the fact that the most active and enterprising people left there, while the "terpily" remained in place.
But let's go back to Russia again. The revolution, and then the Civil War, tragically changed not only our society, but also its genetic component. On the one hand, "thoroughbred" heirs of noble families were either killed or emigrated. On the other hand, the very same "terpily" who "even eat with porridge, even plow butter" came up to the top, and they endured what happened for a very long time - as much as 74 years. Moreover, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, the best part of our male population perished again - responsible, courageous, decisive, decent people. Survived, among others, just the carriers of other qualities - opportunists and careerists, although not only they, of course. But there are more of them than there were before, and they passed on their genes to their children, and those to theirs.
Not so long ago, it turned out that a bullet, getting into a human body, also causes genetic damage. How much? For about one year, then the body is restored. Can I shorten the term? You can, if you have black and red caviar and citrus fruits. But what happened after the war? A soldier came from the front, a year after being wounded, he had already begun to "make children." His damaged genes were passed on to offspring and, although this does not mean that his children became morons, they, of course, did not become better from this. And small “defects” began to accumulate and turn into large ones, plus “drunken conception”, plus the consequences of mass smoking, plus radiation, “chemistry” and much more. Taken together, all these factors have reduced the level of intelligence and indicators of mental and physical health of modern Russians, which, of course, is very sad. So today's "victims of the exam" are also the victims of many, and the most different circumstances.
Can't do without ISIS?
But what about the war? There will be a war, but what about without it … Probably, many today pay attention to the same war with ISIS, banned in Russia by an extremist religious organization. How strange: it arose, was financed by someone, somehow supported, then they began to destroy it. Of course, the simplest thing is to say that it was created by the American imperialists solely for the sake of harming Russia. But … look at the genetic makeup of what's going on there. Like a vacuum cleaner, ISIS is pulling people "restless and angry" out of European countries. She concentrates them in one place, after which they are destroyed from the air, and at the same time they do not reproduce and do not pass on their disturbing genes to potential heirs. You can identify such people in your countries. But how to get rid of them legally? In ancient Greece, such "restless" were ostracized. But this did not solve the problem with their reproduction.
And here two birds with one stone are killed at once - some political tasks are being solved and at the same time humanity is getting rid of people potentially dangerous to it. In the future, this practice will obviously continue. That is, we should expect the emergence of new movements of the messianic persuasion, attracting "restless but evil people" under their banners, the introduction of destructive ideas into this movement, allowing the use of force against them, with subsequent total destruction. Thus, it will be a kind of "ostracism", but not so much at the social level as at the genetic level, which does not allow people to reproduce, whose genes provoke them to antisocial behavior.
That is, in the future, wars like the war with ISIS will arise and take place until … somehow (the question is how?) Humanity will not manage to find a completely humane and civilized way to "sell such people to the side". Well, let's say, send them to colonize the Moon or Mars, explore underwater cities, that is, direct their anxiety in a channel useful to society!