Алмаз Браев – Kazakhs and Jews (страница 4)

Chapter 7

Unusual laws. 613

«The closer a state is to falling, the more laws it has.»

Cicero

«The ruin is not in the closets, but in the heads.»

Bulgakov. A dog’s heart

Formal laws and regulations are laid down in codes.

There are informal laws. They are more effective in conservative communities, among people who adhere to tradition.

There are many informal laws. But much less than formal ones. However, it is believed that the more cultured and civilized a people are, the more formal laws they have.

What happens if the conservative people «with traditions» have too much civilizational formality, and the laws do not work, after all, total corruption, mafia, and crime?

What is an informal relationship? It’s when you’re to me, I’m to you. You and I are relatives, brothers – in – law, and classmates – we can always come to an agreement.

What to do? How do you avoid «you to me, I to you»? How do you stop writing new laws that don’t work in such an environment?

This means that there is no need to chase after «advanced countries»

But let’s think about it. Let’s look back.

Let’s compare it.

To begin with, the history of all peoples is connected with religion. Moreover, the economic side, or what people were doing, directly impacted spiritual life.

We Kazakhs are Muslims. Jews are adherents of Judaism. This, for example.

The nomadic tribes of Central Asia did not immediately become Orthodox. The adoption of Islam stretched among the Nomads for five hundred years (more than five centuries). Moreover, the nomadic Turks were the main rivals of the same nomadic Arabs before the fall of the Western Turkic Khaganate. Well, intraspecific rivalry is much more cruel than interspecific rivalry – it has long been known if such a strange similarity of a nomadic «species» is appropriate here at all. In those days, the Arabs and Turks had cattle breeding as their primary occupation. Both the Nomadic Arabs and the Nomadic Turks had something to share. The question immediately creeps up: isn’t that why almost all Turks became Muslims? The Western Turkic Khaganate collapsed like the USSR. (When all the newly minted presidents who appeared after the collapse of the USSR republics immediately proclaimed the direction of «democracy.» They built communism, and afterward, they turned 180 degrees. This is all because the winners always dictate the direction: in the case of the USSR, it is the USA; in the competition of nomads, it is the Arabs). Thus, the Arabs, in the form of winners, first rode to the oases of Transoxiana to control the caravans with goods. Then, they took care of the rest of the nomads so that they would not rob passing caravans out of savagery and indiscipline. Everything is logical.

Of course, faith is of great importance already because it determines the future. But this is not our topic: although Kazakhs and Jews come into contact with each other spontaneously and indirectly. Spontaneity and mediation are already in the fact that Kazakhs did not directly contact Jews until the 21st century. However, due to the development of «democracy» and market relations after the collapse of the USSR, they joined the global liberal market trend. There is no need to remind you who the inventor of banking is. The fact that Kazakhs today trade everything (primarily natural resources) and do not roam «according to their grandfather’s habit» is a spontaneous and age-old mediation. As befits all conservative peoples, Kazakhs have never recognized money as the meaning of life. Kazakhs got acquainted with money, and now monetary relations, we can say recently, in the 19th century so-so, in the 20th century in the form of a Soviet salary, and only in the 21st century in the form of a bank loan and a means of enrichment.

And the Jews?

The Jews, both before and after their dispersion and wandering around the world, have always been conservative. They were bullied and persecuted precisely for their adherence to conservative values – namely, for observing the Sabbath and other Torah precepts. They did not want to merge with others in one burst of the deepest feelings because they had specific feelings. This is the most «their,» only their own, which has always looked strange and suspicious to others. Therefore, if all sorts of disasters, misfortunes, and epidemics happened, everyone immediately found the reason – who was to blame for the disaster and misfortune? It was very convenient. The reason has always lived in the neighborhood. Do you know when the first Jewish ghetto appeared?

In Alexandria, Egypt.

This is the Jewish quarter of Delta.

In 38, the Greeks staged the first known Jewish pogrom in history.

Why?

The Jews had a king. The Greeks didn’t have it. The Jews had their ethnarch leader, and the Greeks had a crowd of elders. The Jews did not want to send their children to the Alexandrian gymnasiums, to Greek-type educational institutions where semi-naked young men studied (historically, physical perfection has always been in trend among the Greeks; what can you do). Why didn’t they want to give their sons to it? So that Jewish youths would not switch to Greek culture. Although the Jewish community lived autonomously, at the same time, wealthy Jews wanted to have Roman citizenship in order not to pay a poll tax for like «non-citizens».

Moreover, the Jews refused to erect statues of emperors – the Roman gods at that time so as not to desecrate the synagogues with pagan cults. It’s in the Roman Empire! When Caligula was informed about this, he immediately ordered his statue to be erected in the Jerusalem temple (if the statue had been placed in the temple, it would immediately have caused another Jewish uprising). This order was then safely forgotten (because the conspirators in Rome overthrew Caligula).

You must have a crowned leader (Caesar, kagan, Khan) to have your state.

To have a sacred leader, one must observe rituals. And not just pagan impersonal ones. All pagan rituals are impersonal. All the rituals of the nomads of the pre-Muslim period were impersonal.

To observe the rituals, you need to stop. Take a look around. In the end, you can put any inanimate object, anything, in the center of the village and pray for this inanimate object. When the whole family and all the relatives roam from place to place, no one will carry an extra load. There is no time to erect a portable altar on the way or at the next parking lot. Then, in a difficult moment, no one will remember something inanimate. Therefore, there will be no internal contact. It is easier to remember all the relatives who can help if they can help both the living and those who are no longer in the world. This is how the cult of ancestors appeared. This is how Shamanism appeared.

But when tribes join a military alliance, each clan has its ancestors. How can they unite even deeper to form a single whole? Apart from a common enemy or a future victim, there is nothing to come up with. The motive of «capture and robbery», the motive of «extraction». Nothing more. But there has always been an interest in a long union.

Then the cult of the eternal sky appeared – the cult of Tengri.

The whole problem is that the Tengrian cult did not have rituals.

And why were there no rituals?

When the prophet Moses descended from Mount Sinai, he brought the Jews tablets – stone plates with laws carved on them. 613 laws! Is it a lot or a little?

It is enough to create a strong state because these are unusual laws.

Chapter 8

«You give me; I give you.»

Yes, you are right; it is the laws of morality, or even more precisely, the sacred laws, that consolidate civil laws. Without morality, little works. There are no citizens at all. Actually, with tribal thinking, there have never been citizens – these are all evolutionary bells and whistles. Where shamans rule, prosecutors and lawyers cry bitterly out loud and to themselves because no one listens to them. Or it executes by inertia. If no one sees, he does what he wants. And what does any Zeref want in any part of the world (even now, even before our era)? Provide for yourself and your family.

(This is natural and does not concern the «chosen ones». They created a people-family long ago; over 2000 years, it has contributed to a compacted cortex among in everyone in the «family». The real Goyim that practice you give me, I give you – it’s the opposite – the cortex is thin. These traditionalists have been practicing the same thing for a thousand years and would have practiced another thousand years: brotherhood to their own and hostility to others. You can bring anyone under your own or someone else’s, but do not forget about the intraspecific struggle, which is much tougher than interspecific. Still, the world’s democratizers do not give up, and all the time, they expose the level of some local native corruption. They repeatedly shake their fingers, reproach, and threaten to provoke the Maidan. They scare by Maidan, various dictators, and autocrats who have bred tribalism, nepotism, and corruption. And who helps them? Who are the leading Kazakh liberals from various NGOs helping there to get rid of the costs of autocracy? We talked about the world’s financiers. My friends! I try to present the facts as they are. Unbiased. Anyway, as it turns out. So that everyone can read and then compare.