CHAPTER I
HOW TO MAKE A CAREER
Who they choose and why (negative selection).
Command and administrative style.
What is everyone knows about the command and administrative style of leadership?
Where did it come from? Where does the philosophy of totalitarianism grow from?
Soviet people do not need to explain. They all lived under the command-administrative system, often called socialism; these words are sometimes uttered together, sometimes alone, but this does not change the essence. This is a style or organization where the non-initiative majority, you can call this majority the people, society, brigade, or collective farm, is subordinate to the head — the chiefs of different levels and caliber- from the General Secretary-General, director to ordinary caretakers. When the chief-the head of a smaller type of director or foreman, comes and tells everyone the will (plan, instructions) of the Secretary, and the Secretary tells the will of the General Secretary. And everyone starts working together to solve this will-plan depending on the number of employees. The proletarians, workers, and collective farmers are working, fulfilling the plan — will, the whole country is fulfilling, straining, or pretending. Agitators discuss the need and importance at fiery or hypocritically pretentious gatherings, or just formal and tedious, depending on what experience, meetings, workers shed three buckets of sweat. They can also pretend that they automatically go to work every day,; it does not exempt anyone from responsibility.
Let’s assume one option from the early versions when the responsibility was not only moral: the head of the correctional labor camp for the enemies of the people comes out. It informs: “Today, the plan increases by 5 percent. Every day now, you will give 5% more.” The prisoners are silent. “Any questions?”, — asks the head of the camp. “No question”. Escort! Here from the gloomy, impersonal, gray, melancholy crowd, a voice is heard: “Chief, will be increased the ration of bread?”. The Chief of camp snapped to voice: “Who said that? “One step forward!”
Of course, no one will take any steps if the boss doesn’t insist. Here is a grotesque version of the command-administrative extreme: I am the boss — you are a fool, and the conditional fool was not given the word. Everyone who has learned from their life experience knows that in such a system, the initiative is punishable; it looks almost like impertinence. It is better to mix with the crowd, and then the bosses will not take revenge, and the boss will certainly want to win back, to show others. To beat squirt so that others be afraid. In the camp, the camp commander may appoint the punishment, cancer, among free citizens the head will just lift the braves to laugh or try to do it, to show who is boss.
Why do people say keep quiet?
You can pass for a smart guy or a quiet calf sucking two cows. But in fact. And this is not a simple retelling of popular wisdom. This is a welcome paradigm of communication from top to bottom. It’s a tradition. A quiet heifer or the son of a strict father actually has many things, a bowl of soup, but most importantly, a greater chance of inheritance than the obstinate son, a man with a strong character. Traditional fathers and parents don’t like proud sons. They love compliant, obedient, maybe even cunning sons. Such a quiet little son will surely increase the family’s capital. And the rebel will spend everything on empty fantasies or just drink it up as wine. Idealists, romantics, and dreamers on the farm were to anything.
That’s why bosses don’t care that their subordinates are careerists and sycophants and that they lie. They themselves once adapted to be stroked by their fathers. The picture does not change what is down in traditional families, what is in power.The system is looking for heifers, sly, obedient, hypocritical, but not contradicting the authorities, and pleasing — honoring. Humble sons honor anyone, even an unworthy father. They don’t care what their father is, he’s their father, and that’s it. Even if he is a nonentity, a thief, or some other moral violator, the main thing is that he bequeaths business and money. The same personnel policy in power. One in one. And careerists do not care what kind of power, even if it is total, even if it is administrative and command, even if it is corrupt-stealing, rotten, immoral-at at least some. The main thing is that the power will let in the state’s coffers and, like fathers, give inheritance. Well, does not the command and administrative power want the sons to be truly submissive and executive?
The provincial government is gaining provincials.
In this system, there is a counter-evolutionary selection.
Negative selection. Provincials are not the front of society, and they are its backside. Middle-class fathers and party secretaries choose identical heifers in their image and likeness. Hence, this system of stagnation and decay. An oven is being built in the center of the state. The system of adaptors has no other morality or ideology than the traditional one, which is the traditional morality of survival. Therefore, in the center is built an ovine or corral for a cow. Only the application system is good for peacetime, and then not for very long. As soon as there is a danger, the owner’s people go to the woods or move to the steppe — you do not touch me, I do not you. Simultaneously, I’ll sit out until better times come. Bad boys give way to others for the feat. Why risk it all? At the moment of force of circumstances, all potential adaptors hide and good and their smiles. The life-loving, radiant smiles disappear behind the lips. They don’t just suck their tongues, and they just clap their lips in silence. And their antipodes, the adventurers and scoundrels, come on the scene. And they start. If, of course, the risk is not great again, then it will certainly be crooking. If the risk is limited, then the scoundrels will be behind the bushes with their life-loving, adaptable brothers. This is more suitable for the heroism of modern Maidan when the crowd can be controlled like a herd.
Scoundrels and cynics, this is a new version of a quiet heifer for the time being. They know that they will still win at the finish line when the chip is right. The enraged citizens will bring it themselves because they will no longer recognize meek and comfortable rulers. And losers voters will bring their pennies, not their poor fathers.
But when do the real characters come on stage?
This is when there is no benefit to look faithfully in the mouth from any situation senior-junior son, father-son, boss-fool. At the same time, there is no profit in deceiving the maddened and embittered crowd of the so-called electorate, which has been changed many times for affection from the next boss by the most docile heifers of the proteges. Moreover, the same active or creative new heifers perfectly know what the maddened and brutalized electorate wants. He’s not looking for any justice. Everyone wanted to. This is democracy and market relations now, baby! They wanted to be humble themselves. But they were cheated on and robbed.
This is the culture.
In the traditional system, the authorities choose the most docile and comfortable heifers regardless of the existing ideology. At the same time, the people pretend to be submissive to the point of stupidity because, in the traditional system, this is the only way to make a career. Regardless of ideology! It’s just the fashion to talk about socialism at first. Or they spoke, loyally and pompously, for the chance. Then those who said that this is socialism, this is a great invention, easily exchanged socialism for the market. The one who spoke about socialism betrayed socialism. Why? Because the other system (the market) is more profitable already.
You need to look at it faithfully and differently but creatively. All the people are still making loyal eyes out of habit. As all existing leaders did yesterday, and they do today. Everyone in the crowd hopes that their dull gaze will please the next chief (of the camp). This is a culture you prefer not to understand! If the people are traditional, it doesn’t matter what ideology is in the offices what banners are flying in the wind. Every traditional son wants to inherit. Therefore, he is silent and stares loyally into the distance but not in the distance and where it is necessary.
And now the scammers or other hypostasis of the heifer-the sons of Maidan. What they want and where they look. But you know exactly where they are going. They’ve already chosen the roof. It is the most powerful nation in the world. Both are money. But they do not look only there with quiet devotion. They are looking at a crowd that is raging and at the same time quiet in its root, which itself would not mind looking calmly, but patience has run out. And now these eyes meet. The crowd recognizes that the activists- a new emanation of heifers- lies to it. The meek have changed the fashion and understand that today’s expression of loyalty is entirely different from yesterday’s. They all want to suck. To suck the American cows for free just formed a generation of freeloaders. They don’t just show a denial of the camp’s morality. They had their last dance in the camp. One day, but it’s mine!