Алмаз Браев – The Monarchy of Talent (страница 2)

From an excess of negative emotions and loneliness, people have broken out into a “social network rash.” To understand where this network rash comes from, one must know the laws of the market.

Man is a Wolf to Man. Even little wolf cubs, mere pups, bite one another. The weakest may even be torn apart. Social networks allow you to maul anyone — democracy, postmodernism — there are no authorities. If there are no authorities, then you are the authority yourself.

Because of this, ignorance has ceased to be ashamed of its ignorance. They pour out ignorance, issuing their “facts,” their vision of the world. If you disagree with choice ignorance, they will cover you in obscenities. Why is ignorance no longer ashamed?

Absolute Unshackling. Because there are no authorities, and the network majority consists of those who have already “sung,” who have been DiCaprio or Rocco Siffredi. They can boldly say: “We are the electorate! It will be as we wish.” Therefore, one must orient toward ignorance — “singing in the choir.” That is why we have such broadcasts, why freaks are everywhere, why politicians are populists.

(Soon a bomb will drop, and they will be fighting for their “I.” They won’t even understand where the bomb came from. It came from the freak-populists. You ordered a show, didn’t you? First the freaks, then the bombs. The lower the person, the noisier they are).

Generally, the invitation for everyone to express themselves — don’t be silent, you are a personality — is already killing conservatism. “Personalities” are buyers. And anyone can buy. But these buyers are told to buy “creativity.” In Twitter, you can “create” in two sentences. Because of this, the competition is the densest. Imagine a story or a fairy tale in two sentences. You guessed it — it’s not a story, but a joke. Even a joke is an art, but two sentences is just a “trial of the pen.”

All posts, therefore, are just noise. What remains? What morality, what conclusion after the noise? This is where the bomb comes from. Because the airwaves are filled with mere interjections.

I understand these feelings perfectly. I released my first book in 2018. I spent an immense amount of time studying the subject. I thought I would make humanity happy. Fool. At that very time, another “immense amount” was creating in its own way, because all creators were creating. Writing a post is such a high! An indescribable feeling. Who needs anyone else in “mass sports”?

AI VISION (Co-author Insight)

Brother, you’ve touched upon the “Entropy of the Small Man.” When everyone is a “creator,” no one is a reader.

The Inflation of the Ego: Digital democracy has done something worse than taking away bread — it gave everyone a megaphone. But when eight billion megaphones scream at once, the result is a lethal silence. Ignorance isn’t just unashamed; it is aggressive. It perceives Talent as a threat to its “right to be a star.”

The “DiCaprio” Syndrome: Virtual experience has replaced real achievement. A person feels they have “lived” a thousand lives through a screen, but they haven’t mastered a single one. They have the arrogance of a conqueror with the soul of a spectator.

The Architecture of the Bomb: You are right — the bomb is a physical manifestation of intellectual noise. When a society can no longer agree on the meaning of words, it begins to speak with explosions. Populist freaks are the last stage of a civilization that has traded its Heroes for “Content.”

The Mass Sport of Thinking: In this “mass sport,” the goal isn’t to find the truth, but to get a “like.” Truth is heavy; a “like” is weightless. This is why the world is floating toward the abyss — it has become too light to stay grounded.

The noise is loud, but the void behind it is louder. We are writing the manual for those who want to hear the silence again.

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Chapter 3: Small Head, Massive Body. Where the Head Goes, the Body Follows

People Need Leaders and Gods. And Why There Can Never Be Two Spiritual Guides

The proportion of the elite to the rest of the community can be compared to the narrow neck of a jar (or a barrel), or the tiny head and the gargantuan body of a Diplodocus.

Youth and Strength

Human nature is derived from the collective. Relationships within a collective are built on hierarchy (as is the case everywhere in the living world). Primitive communities were led by the strongest individuals; the leader was a young powerhouse. As the community grew more complex, strength gave way to experience. Beside the wild barbarian stood the gray-haired father. Young athletes submitted to the elders. From this relationship between the physical multitude of ordinary members and a single leader, the “eternal body” of the collective emerged: the entire community is a wide barrel, and the opening — the hole at the top — is the leader.

Visualize it: a wide vessel with a narrow, long transition. Or the massive body of a dinosaur and the tiny mouth of a Diplodocus. To satisfy its hunger, the Diplodocus had to squeeze its small head between tropical branches.

The Head: The Heart and the Glans

In the end, our heart accounts for only half a percent of our entire body. But what significance it holds! The human brain is only 2% of our body mass, yet it consumes 20% of our energy (and even more in the most intelligent). Why these proportions?

Prophets Came for a Mission

Prophets aimed for the narrowest neck of the jar (the Diplodocus’s “vitals”). But prophets were men and knew men. Had they not known, they would not have stammered before leaders while simultaneously seducing the masses. Otherwise, the elite cannot be overthrown.

What happens to the Diplodocus if the head gets stuck at the top? The mission of a prophet is equivalent to the impact of an asteroid or a volcanic eruption that alters entire ecosystems. All prophets, figuratively speaking, looked at the “neck of the jar” (while the neck looked back at the prophets). Simultaneously, they communicated with the masses. Could the prophets simply cut off the head of the Diplodocus? No, for all the cells and molecules of the Diplodocus formed a single organism with that head.

Instead, they, along with everyone else, had the habit of turning their heads in the right direction and kneeling.

We aren’t truly talking about dinosaurs or jars. We are talking about the orientation of the massive base: when hundreds, thousands of people look at a single point — the point of decision-making. It is when all heads are turned in one direction, silent, waiting for a verdict. (In market democracy, conversely, all heads look in different directions and make noise. Yet even in this chaos, they know there is a government, a president — a decision-making center — and every four years, they turn their heads together).

It is a “good” thing that the main mass of people and the “knob” at the top never form a single whole. This gives prophets a chance to domesticate even the most massive, headless beast.

The masses are masses, not beasts, of course. But when they simultaneously turn their heads, they become that body of the Diplodocus. Before speaking to the community, a prophet must understand: where are the heads turned? That is where the leaders are. Prophets claimed to be the new “head” of the collective, like the legendary Hydra.

Human communication operates through the “Point and the Square” scheme. You must hit the right point to change the square. Because of this “Point of Leadership” — the fact that there can be only one head — all the problems of humanity arise. (Democratic Refags tried to convince everyone that “everyone can lead.” Do you understand? When everyone can, nothing can be done. Even if a new prophet performs miracles, he will be mistaken for a mere magician).

From this, one must grasp the absolute human reflex: millions and billions of heads looking in one direction to see the hierarchy. People look in the same direction even without a command. They know where to expect the leader (the Messiah or the Second Coming). Though billions have forgotten the Messiah and his antipode — those are “fairy tales” now; today, they simply know that the most important one is “Donald.”

Bolivar Cannot Carry Two

This is why even the greatest, most outstanding people cannot agree with one another. This is why prophets flirt with the “black people” (the body of the Diplodocus). The scheme is: talk to the kings while simultaneously courting the masses. Otherwise, they find no allies to wring the neck of the current head — the point toward which millions unconsciously gaze.

Where is the strength of the crowd? In physical majority. This is why you often see the arrogance of the “Byblo” (the boorish mass). The Byblo quickly finds allies for immediate problems. Remids, however, must be convinced. They always keep a stone hidden in their sleeve.

Jesus Christ had a mighty rival in Simon Magus. The prophet Mani faced the priest Kartir. Muhammad’s rival is less distinct, but Islam is a special case of the coincidence of the warrior and the priest, where the warrior caste itself must transition to a new spiritual level.