Who is not given the ability of large scale thinking,
will not have the heart to take on a big task.
"Only a handful of thinking people need the truth, and the crowd must just "obey", but what to believe in - this is no longer of great importance. The main thing is that people obey. And what is presented to them in this case - this is actually secondary. The truth is dangerous. The world has always been based on lies... The main thing is that this lie is interesting enough for a “short-sighted minds” to follow it... And if in this case you begin to prove to the crowd the real truth, disproving their "faith" in God knows what, you will be torn to pieces by this same crowd." 1This was said in the middle of the sixteenth century. Is it acceptable now, in our time? The reader will answer this question on his own.
In the presentation of the historical picture of MODERN RUSSIA that is happening before our eyes, there are quite enough varieties. However, such initiatives generally DO NOT HAVE a true systemic basis, but rather represent a generally recognized opportunistic stencil, as a certain paradigm that HAS FORCED TO ABSORB the entire complex of established "natural historical circumstances" that irreversibly require a target-oriented mandatory focus on finding enemies and the guilty, but NOT an OBJECTIVE essence. Unfortunately, some of them are of an ordered nature by their origin. The roots of such a stencil approach and ordered nature are linked, as it were, to certain forced measures of "an increasingly harsh struggle for one's own survival", both in the political and power arena of any local and global nature, and in the arena of ALL DIRECTIONS of "market battles", which are a consequence of the strategy of aggressive foreign policy pursued against OUR COUNTRY by the Anglo- American-European parasitic community. But is this the reallity, and is this of interest to us? Most publicly presented attempts to demonstrate a civilization picture by their spectrum width are connected mainly with the SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT of the current economic, financial, political, military potentials, as well as with the analysis of the demographic consequences of the DESTRUCTIVE CHANGES that have taken place. Which are each time conveniently “painted over and aimed” at some thematic PR or protection of the personal interests of some “seasonal” politician, using various forms of implanting “his analytical” conclusions into the “general field of public opinion”.
By placing the applied indicators within the framework of comparative ratios of the past and present states of our country as a whole, the provided civilization pictures mainly ORIENT THE ATTENTION of the whole society to the results of some political, diplomatic, military, economic, financial and other confrontations, as consequences of the interstate "extreme egoism". But, in fact, this is only the statement of the results of the activities of NOT the SOCIETY as a whole, but only some ambitious fuss of a very narrow circle of people of the so-called "governing class". 
This organized fuss (to put it mildly) is NOT ALWAYS for the good of the country, but more often in defense of the interests of an ordered nature of the limited circle of officials, presenting their personal instead of the state, but on the scale appropriated on behalf of the state, and only FOR THEMSELVES. This is the essence of the ongoing today, as the visualization of the processes that MUST NOT BE.
The transition from the old to the new is like the transition from the times of a tropical climate to a glacial one. Let's imagine that we are transferred to the pre-glacial period, to the world of reptiles. They were a PERFECT SYSTEM; they existed without food for a long time, fed from the sun (warm up and get energy) - plus - the size. Only a dinosaur could resist a dinosaur, just as only a knight could resist a knight. In comparison with them, shaggy and warm-blooded mammals looked like food. Dinosaurs ate them WITHOUT THINKING of any justice. As a pike ate a crucian carp, which began to tell her about universal love and equality, and also about the fact that crucian carps cannot be eaten. The pike "opened its mouth in surprise. Mechanically, it drew in water and, not wanting to swallow the crucian carp at all, it swallowed it."2
But then the climate changed — it got colder. The big pluses turned into big minuses. 
The enormity and cold-bloodedness killed yesterday's elite — dinosaurs froze. If small individuals could hide in cracks from the cold (lizards, for example), where they survived until the next sun, then the big ones had nowhere to hide. Big minuses for the past conditions turned into big pluses in the NEW SITUATION. Warm- bloodedness and shagginess became competitive advantages. Yesterday's elite became food for yesterday's outcasts. The most insignificant rodent in the new conditions TURNED OUT TO BE SO COOLER than the most gigantic dinosaur that it looked from its hole at the freezing giant NOT AS A king, whom it was afraid to approach yesterday, but AS FOOD, which would freeze a little more, and you could start eating. And the freezing giant, understanding the intention of the shaggy "nothingness" looking at him and licking his lips, THOUGHT with HORROR that the world had turned upside down. NEITHER the mind NOR the heart of the reptile COULD accept the new.
Today's traditional states are dinosaurs in the transition from the tropical to then arctic climate. While conditions are stable, they are the STRONGEST, and their status is unshakable. But since life does not stand still, the civilization climate changes. Then the political flora and fauna change. And those UNABLE to TRANSFORM for the new climate – they die.
The world, as such, is CONTINUOUS PRESSURE of new forms on the old ones. If the old cannot withstand the pressure, it collapses, and the new takes its place. After a while, the new is no longer the new and becomes the traditional nature of the current moment. During this period, the NEXT NEW is born, which begins to put pressure on YESTERDAY'S NEW. It is impossible to stop this process, because the world is always in motion. Motion generates changes. The accumulation of a critical amount of novelty initiates the transition of quantity into quality. The situation-climate begins to change at a fundamental level.
There are always forces in the world interested in the destruction of the old and the establishment of the new. And there are forces interested in the opposite - in preserving the old and NOT ALLOWING THE NEW. As long as the structure corresponds, firstly, to the ideological situation, and secondly, to the political and economic situations - it is IMPOSSIBLE TO BREAK. When it no longer corresponds to the situation and the spirit of the times, it is IMPOSSIBLE TO PRESERVE. Those who sit at the key nodes of the existing system always defend it in the fiercest manner. No arguments of reason work on them, because their way of life depends on the system. The destruction of the system will lead to the destruction of their lives.
The nobles loved to talk about the liberation of the serfs sitting by the fireplace over a glass of wine. But it is one thing to talk, and quite another to liberate - to lose a source of income. If the serfs rebelled, trying to free themselves, the nobles suppressed the rebellion and again sat by the fireplace to talk about the barbarity of the feudal order.
To protect yourself from danger, first of all, you NEED TO UNDERSTAND its nature. If a wall of water is approaching, you need to build floating platforms. If a wall of fire is coming at you, you need to bury yourself in the ground. If there is a danger of plague, you need to use medicine. Each type of danger has its own protection. In order to protect yourself, the first thing the "Papuans" must do is realize their ignorance, their "Papuanness". This is the first SERIOUS KNOWLEDGE from which you can push off. As long as people think they know everything, they have no chance to start acting. We are all like a man with his nose buried in the ground. He sees only insects. To see grass, you need to rise higher. To see trees and animals, you need to stand up. The direction of the river can be seen from a bird's eye view.
And what is happening today? What is the role of the public opinion in relation to society as a whole? Why should the society bear responsibility for the mistakes and IRRESPONSIBLE DECISIONS of individual government officials? This is a question of a completely different nature. The assessment of the society MUST NOT be universal, it should be aimed at analyzing the “quality of professionalism" of those who govern and MAKE DECISIONS. The question is - how are these people currently able to fulfill their duties, TEMPORARILY DELEGATED to them powers and rights granted by the society. The negative from a single inability and unprofessionalism should not spoil the general color of the picture of the entire society with its dirt, but, unfortunately, this is far from the case. Most of the "heralds" are increasingly trying to replace the guilt and viciousness of the results and consequences of the existence of the insignificant parasitic minority with some INCOMPREHENSIBLE "mentality" of the entire society, the unwillingness and inability of individual layers of its population to self-development, irreversibility and insufficient "obligation" in the execution of some strategic decisions, but in reality they cover up the forcibly imposed duty and slavish worship of the overwhelming majority. Unfair (parasitic) distribution of goods and services produced by the entire society (including with the use of imposed state violence), - these are CREATED VALUES not for everyone, but only for a circle of "chosen ones". This will somehow be sorted out at the "top" and this SHOULD IN NO WAY concern taking into account any interests of the useless and abandoned existence of the overwhelming majority of the society, ways to solve the enslaving social problems imposed on them, etc. But the emergence of various forms of external state threats and corresponding "concern" about them, the solution of the problems with conscription into the army and navy that for some reason "cannot be solved voluntarily", the growing threat of non-repayment of borrowed funds to commercial banks (previously stolen from the state budget or taken from the same people through the USSR Savings Bank), the growing power of protests, the depletion of the "power of human capital" and other troubles and headaches among the ruling class, deriving from the "wrong existence of the overwhelming majority" - this IS the PROBLEM of the whole society! Isn't it an interesting custom-made approach, which, unfortunately, is encountered most often and the tone of such tribune fabrications sounds LOUDER and LOUDER. 
The country is fed up with "its own public opinion", spewed out of the mouths of the same "subjective heralds" who have captured the entire information space of Russia. Against this background - what kind of UNITY of ALL PEOPLE can we talk about to solve specific problems? Of course we can talk about it, but there WILL BE NO result and many people already understand this very well.
They do understand that there is no history. There is an interpretation of available information, a cocktail of fakes and real events. Through logical far- fetched comparisons, these "facts" were combined into a fragile structure. The history of any state, any church, dynasty, as well as attempts to tie all this into a single world history, is a set of POLITICAL FABLES to suit the moment. Any global decision is always made behind closed doors. The true motives are always hidden and not obvious. Tenth-order reasons are passed off as the main ones, while the main ones remain an INACCESSIBLE SECRET. Naturally, there is a sequence of real facts that formed history. But we HAVE NO idea about them. We only know what we are provided to consider real facts and the history derived from them. This is precisely what allows us to assert: there are no facts. The world will NEVER KNOW what the historical figure and the team behind him were really guided by when making a decision. Yesterday's, today's and future key figures had and will have every conceivable reason to CONCEAL the TRUE MOTIVATION of their decisions in order to increase their legitimacy. After key decisions are made, justifying mechanisms come into play. Press secretaries and image makers adjust the decision to the situation and norms. The real motive is replaced by a legend and reinforced with "facts". The "cogs" of the state machine write real documents. Ministries exchange memoranda and notes, declare protests, etc. In parallel, there is an INFORMATION LEAK, which is superimposed with fakes, provocations, etc. In general, there is no point in listing the tools by means of which FIRST FAKES are created, on the basis of which "REAL" FACTS arise, and from them a house of cards of reality is built, which later in its course becomes history.
Information forms the elite. The elite organize society. Society makes the epoch. Shortening the chain, we get: the creator of information forms the epoch. Whoever creates the main information, on which our consciousness and subconscious grow, sets the MAIN DIRECTION for the world. The attitude to information determines the source of information. For many, a reason to turn away from the truth is a contradiction to the generally accepted interpretation of an event. Agree, few people will double-check the arguments of this or that scientist-historian or today's "herald of politics" who HAVE NOT LEFT the TV screen for the past few years, if only because it is unrealistic due to the huge amount of work that needs to be done to understand the reality. The majority always chooses the beaten path, WITHOUT THINKING where it leads. This is neither good nor bad; it is the same reality as the statements: water is wet, darkness is dark, and the masses are blind. I want to say that from my point of view, in power today there is a conflict not between the proletariat and capitalism, or not between the bureaucracy and business. There is a conflict between the neurosis of well-being and the instinct of self-preservation. NEUROSIS OF WELL-BEING is the main thing that is already visible and becoming a reality. The more confidently the "heralds from the tribunes of all levels" speak about how everything is successfully and wonderfully moving in the "set direction" (though it is not clear who set this direction and for what purpose), the more it is seen that this person is a neurotic. Neurosis is a defense, therefore, in a sense; this neurosis of well-being must be defeated by the INSTINCT OF SELF-PRESERVATION.
Any such situation, and especially in today's military sphere and military actions, must be viewed only from some GENERAL POSITION. If there is no common position, then all situations fall apart, because there is no more chaotic activity in the world than military actions, and precisely those military actions that have been going on before our eyes for several years now - military actions expressed in the so-called " SМO". L. N. Tolstoy described similar situations in his novel "War and Peace". Many of us have already seen that this is an APPARENT ORDER. In fact, the army created by today is a place of concentration of all kinds of disorder. Therefore, when we conduct military actions today and cling to these and other very fair comments on the existing army and everything else, we seem to be entering a double situation. Something like this is constantly being sought out, even if the army were close to the ideal. But it is very far from the ideal, and this is the second question. In the society that we have built over the past 35 years, the army WAS NOT something core, central, etc. Because we were convinced that we should know - there will be no more BIG WAR, there will only be thermonuclear war or small conflicts. For this, the ENTIRE SYSTEM of cadre management, under which only troop deployment can take place, the ENTIRE SYSTEM of mobilization readiness, the ENTIRE SYSTEM of deployment of large military units was destroyed. For this, divisions were destroyed, which are now being restored. They were replaced by brigades. The entire concept of post-Soviet existence was based on a certain number of points.
Point one. We have ceased to be an ideological opponent of the West; therefore we WILL NEVER fight with it. We were convinced - "we are bourgeois now, why should we fight"? As if bourgeois countries did not fight each other in the First World War. Or India is not at war with Pakistan. And so on.
Point two. That is why there WILL NOT be any big wars and that is why we are cutting defense spending. An arms race is NOT NEEDED. We will never spend more than 3% on defense. And then we knew that in parallel with the thesis that WE WILL NOT spend more than 3%, we are already spending 6% or something, according to official data, without classified articles... The society that was built on the basis that there would be no war, that the main thing is private interests: you live for yourself, and then everything will be good in the society. This entire concept collapsed before our eyes. And what we have discovered today is that we must understand that in these conditions there cannot be a truly strong army, that all these are decorations for victory. Now we learn that the military budget of recent years has been short not billions, but trillions of rubles, that is, more than a hundred billion dollars. This is no longer theft. Stealing is when a million, a second one is stuffed into pockets, and when a hundred billion dollars – it is already a planned MEGA OPERATION. All this became natural derivatives of the country's existence in the so-called "post-Soviet period". 
But during this time, we managed to build a good car for driving on a very good road. Let's say we built a Rolls Royce that WAS SUPPOSED to drive on a top-class highway. And we thought that we would travel on this highway. Now this Rolls Royce HAS TO DRIVE off-road, force water obstacles. It found itself drawn into the situation diametrically opposed to the one for which the state was built. In justification of what was created, it is said everywhere around that the state is a universal structure. Today it works for peace, tomorrow for war. We built a good state, now we will twist it where it is necessary. Of course, from 2011-2014 (after the New Control System started working), quite a lot has been done, but what is being done is being done to upgrade this Rolls-Royce. "...let's give it armor, and put an anti-drone on top and put three machine guns. Well, you see how good the Rolls- Royce has become...” But IT IS STILL a Rolls-Royce. So what should we do...? We should do least a T-34 or T-90M tank, which can not only move off-road, but also overcome water obstacles, and also provide real defense in an unpredictable and aggressive environment.
I will give you a simple example, in my opinion, quite understandable to everyone - the recent negotiations in Istanbul, where an agreement WAS REACHED on the exchange of prisoners according to the formula of 1000 for 1000, caused delight in all of us and rightly so - THIS IS THE LIFE OF 1000 of our fighters3. The event is certainly important and necessary, but there is one aspect that for some reason REMAINED UNNOTICED by us and was not "covered" by the majority of "tribune heralds" at all levels of the current situation. How could a whole thousand of our fighters end up in captivity of the enemy? At first glance, this is the number of an entire infantry regiment. Probably, this figure IS NOT random and does not indicate an isolated incident - it is the result of our multiple losses (prisoners are also losses in the troops - in reality). But why in this context do we HEAR NOTHING about those commanders who allowed such losses? Where are they now, and what consequences have those who were supposed to ensure security and strategy suffered? This question is the basis for a realistic assessment of the state of our army today, where the most important indicator of effectiveness is not the number of victories, but the ability to avoid SUCH CATASTROPHIC mistakes...
Active people, NOT BUILT into the system, always strive most fiercely to destroy the old. If the attacking side presents the idea whose time has come, persecution gives the opposite effect. Sacred victims and martyrs for the idea appear, playing the role of a banner AROUND WHICH even more people gather. If the time of the idea HAS NOT COME, the victims are still not in vain. When the time comes, they will be made into a banner, as, for example, Giordano Bruno was made a martyr of science, although there was nothing scientific in his activities. He was burned because he OPENLY PREACHED a non-Christian religion - Hermeticism4. He claimed that the Universe is a deity, HAS NO beginning, consists of many worlds in which God is dissolved. This fundamentally contradicted the Christian understanding of God. Bruno was persuaded for eight years and at the very end was forced by torture to renounce his views and to refuse to preach them. But Bruno was very stubborn. He called his teaching "the philosophy of dawn" and was ready to die for it. What science has to do with it is unclear. One thing is clear: when the new fights the old, all means are good. Myth-making is one of the percussion instruments. It allows you to dress up real motives as justifying ones, thereby strengthening your position.
To see the depth of the conflict between the old and the new, imagine two forms of life. One can live at temperatures below zero. At zero, IT DIES. The other form can live at temperatures above zero. 
At zero, it also dies. And here are these two lives in one closed room, where you can set the temperature to minus and plus. In this situation, there is no room for compromise. A compromise of 00 for both MEANS DEATH. A fatal clash of these two forms of life is inevitable. Either one will survive, or neither. Under such conditions, there is no room for an option where both lives are preserved.
The new is always a nightmare for the old, because it comes with one goal - to KILL the OLD. The old always feels this with every fiber of its soul and therefore resists with all its might, until its last breath. It has nothing to lose...
When Christians came to the pagan world, freeing up a place for themselves under the sun, they did not just deny the pagan gods, they desecrated them as best they could. Priests and believers who stood up for their faith were killed. They destroyed temples, denied the SYSTEM OF VALUES, ridiculed old traditions, openly violating all pagan norms. By the standards of the pre-Christian world, Christians were moral monsters and the mortal horror of hell. When humanists came to the Christian world, they began to do exactly the same thing that Christians did to pagans in their time. They destroyed churches, ridiculed, humiliated and desecrated Christian norms, openly mocking at them. Naked girls danced on the altars and defecated in the Holy of Holies. They came to the service, and when the communion began, they shouted that Christians EAT their God ALIVE. Voltaire puts forward the slogan "crush the vermin!"- pointing to the Church. Priests and parishioners who defended the faith were killed. By Christian standards, humanists were the fiend of hell and moral monsters.
Nowadays, something new is knocking at the door of humanists. The new force will sweep them away just as they once swept away Christian civilization. The humanistic civilization, which now calls itself traditional (that's what every civilization calls itself), has NO ILLUSIONS about the intentions of the new, just as Christianity had no illusions about the intentions of humanism. Therefore, it considers the new as a horror flying on the wings of the night.
If, at the time of the conquistadors, the South American civilization had been at the same level of development as the European one, an irreconcilable conflict would have occurred between them when the Europeans saw that the Indians were sacrificing children to their gods. For them, there WOULD HAVE BEEN NO doubts that the Indians were serving Satan and were making terrible sacrifices to him. Faith would have obliged Christians to go on a crusade against the Satanists. The Indians would be horrified by the Europeans' intention to prevent children from finding eternal bliss and the deities from gaining the power to protect the world from the dark forces. (According to the Indians' belief, the deities drew new strength from human sacrifices.) They would also have no doubt that the Europeans were the servants of Satan who had come to destroy the world. And their faith would also oblige them to wage war against the servants of Satan.
If the parties have different worldviews, different reference points, each party is sure of its rightness, in such a situation there is NO PLACE for any negotiations. 
Compromise is possible if the parties are represented by normal people who have normal views of the world, normal goals and values. But since the concept of norm 100% determines the view of the world, and the conflicting parties have different views, they will have DIFFERENT CONCEPTS OF NORM.
The difference in views at the fundamental level turns opponents in each other's eyes not just into abnormal people, but into the devil and absolute evil, which cannot even be called people. Most people today have NORMAL VIEWS. For those who have abnormal ones, there are special negative epithets with a strong emotional component.
An old civilization, finding itself in a new situation, always begins to collapse from two sides. On the one hand, it is pressed by its own growing mass. On the other hand, the new is pressing on it, the pressure of which is also growing. This process is called evolution.
There is no doubt that the old world WILL INEVITABLY COLLAPSE. This is not a question of principle, but of time. But the faster it collapses, the faster the space will be freed for the creation of a new model. The faster we build it, the faster the resources scattered today in the confrontation of states will be concentrated on solving the MAIN TASK - TO DEFEAT DEATH. This means that we will all have a better chance of surviving until the moment when a solution is found. From this arises the need to increase the evolutionary speed of collapse to the revolutionary one. This call makes us for humanists approximately the same as they were for Christians. Or what the bourgeoisie was for feudal lords. But just as spring always defeats winter, so a NEW IDEA, whose time has come, defeats old ideas, whose time has passed.
Consumer civilization is the last stage of the degradation of the era of humanism. The AGE OF INFORMATION comes into its own. Today, everyone is connected to each other, can create content, and has access to a common volume of information. "The possibilities of billions of people connected to each other by mobile devices with unprecedented processor power, memory capacity, and access to knowledge are limitless."5
This is RAPIDLY CHANGING the design of society. As a result, the political and economic design will change. Today, dinosaurs sit at the key nodes of the old system - people born in the pre-computer era. Tomorrow, they will be crowded out by hamsters - people born with a computer in their hands, who do not know how to dial a number on a rotary phone. Hamsters are funny compared to dinosaurs from the dinosaurs' point of view. But he, who LAUGHES LAST, laughs best. When the tropical climate ends, the conditions change. In the new climate, dinosaurs become not just funny to hamsters, they are now their food. It is precisely all this that must NOT BE REFORMED, but liquidated to the ground without any residual elements of a temporary or long-term nature. It must be replaced by a fundamentally new constructive arrangement of the world community on a different basis, excluding violence and former parasitism, and not only at the level of UNRESOLVED problems of social justice, but in all spheres of the newly formed existence of a new Civilization - a Civilization of Reasonable orientation!
The new generation thinks in a different paradigm, the old is alien to it, it strives for the new. As long as this aspiration has no direction, it is like diffused light - it illuminates, but does not represent any power. But if you pass it THROUGH THE PRISM OF AN IDEA, it will turn into a laser. Quantity will turn into quality - the caterpillar will become a butterfly.
1 Pope Paul IV, originally named Gian Pietro Caraffa, was the head of the Roman Catholic Church from 1555 to 1571. He is known for his active role in the Counter-Reformation, a movement aimed at reforming the church and countering the rise of Protestantism.
2 Saltykov - Shchedrin - "Karp - an idealist"
3 Military formations in Russia are ground forces, this is a squad (from 5 to 10 people), platoon (from 10 to 60), company (from 60 to 300), battalion (from 300 to 950), regiment (from 950 to 2,000), brigade (from 2,000 to 4,000), division (from 4,000 to 20,000), corps (from 20,000 to 40,000), army (more than 40,000 people)
4 In a broad sense, Hermeticism, or Hermeticism (English Hermeticism), as well as Hermetic philosophy (hermetic science, Hermetic art) is a conglomerate of esoteric traditions of the West, including mystical-philosophical, alchemical, astrological, magical and mantic teachings and texts
5 Professor Klaus Schwab is the founder and president of the World Economic Forum, an international organization in the field of public-private partnerships.