Алмаз Браев – The Zero Option. A Protocol for Survival Beyond the Fila (страница 3)

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Chapter 4 “Yes, We are Alarics. Yes, We are the Camp”

…with slanted and greedy eyes.

What the Russians lack, what the Japanese have lost, only the Horde-born possess.

All nationalists play at antiquity. These games are adrenaline for the stifled and insecure. Behind these games lies the claim of the “senior” or “more cultured” party. In this sense, neither the Persians nor the Chinese fuss over such things — they have no such anxiety (and the Jews, naturally, are always present). The concern for “age” belongs to those who are insecure in themselves.

Moscow — The Third Rome.

Originating from Rome — what can be said against it? “Moscow is the Third Rome, and a fourth there shall not be.”

To understand this Roman series, to find the “Third Rome,” let us recall Alaric, the leader of the Visigoths. Indeed, after Alaric sacked Rome, the First Rome suffered great hardships and never fully regained its stature. Alaric was granted the title of Magister Militum, Roman gold, and lands for his people, but he did not know what to do with all this “Roman” junk.

As a true tribal man, he migrated from Rome back to the wild fields. Why? He acted as a nomad. Roman concrete and bricks meant nothing to him. A nomad has no need for paved streets. He needs freedom. He needs bright light and a familiar, natural landscape. Consequently, the Roman state, with its institutions and the Colosseum, frightened him.

He acted this way not out of idleness: pillage followed by retreat is tribal tactics, the strategy of the nomad. First the campaign, then the looting of the defeated, then a rapid retreat with the spoils to the native lands. After this, you are a hero. Beyond literal spoils for your kin, there is nothing here for a tribal person. They do not consume books; they find no use for what is written within them. Among all primordial peoples, laws are not inscribed on calfskin — they are remembered and recited. From childhood.

With the First Rome, everything becomes clear. Despite all their advanced logic, the Latins lost to barbarian passion and barbarian energy. Dry logic, mathematics, and legalistic stratification dehydrate a nation to the limit. In return, “culture” appears. For all their militancy, every savage on earth knows they are deeply lacking something. So, they don certain cloaks, assume expressions, and adopt poses — it is all posturing, a dance, but it has an effect on their brethren.

That is why the descendants of Alaric created the Holy Roman Empire in the 10th century. They decided that tribal strife was endless and that something had to be done. The dancing and mimicry became more akin to civilization. Thus, the Germans created their own “Third” Rome (a German Reich, because by then, the Eastern part of Rome — Byzantium — already existed).

So, who was truly the third? And how many Romes are there, after all? One thing is clear: all these Romes trace their pedigree to the Latin one. Lest anyone wonder where the Japanese came from, I simply remind you: civilization loses the battle to any new barbarians (if that civilization has been dehydrated and drained of life by overly demanding teachers).

Why the Alarics Vanished in Japan

The Japanese had no empire until they encountered European technology and received significant investment before the Russo-Japanese War of 1904—1905. Japan emerged from its islands to secure raw materials for its industry. But the Japanese Empire had a legend of the first emperor — the son of the goddess Amaterasu. This allowed Japanese nationalists to speak to the Chinese: “We, too, have 2,500 years of civilization.”

One cannot say the Japanese elite resembled nomads. Despite their capitalist drive for the material, the Japanese despised “upstarts.” There was no rule of “loot and take home.” If they took things home, that “home” was Japan. They observed the Code of Bushido in the name of the Emperor. (This is why corruption is generally weak in Japan.)

Even the nomads had Genghis Khan’s Yassa. But in those distant times, the unified Horde was associated with the leader. If there is a leader, we do not loot for ourselves — we take it “home.” If there is no leader, we carry everything into our own yurt.

The construction of the yurt and many autonomous yurts resembled mini-states within a state. Submitting to clan logic, the nomads could create a separate camp (stoybishche) alongside the royal one. For tribal democracy, this is normal. (Thus, when certain elites in the modern Empire of Money act autonomously, they show traits of free nomads, not of the Third Rome. They came, took what lay unattended, and carried it home — without asking you, because warriors are allowed such things. Then they came to the financiers and said: “We are making our own yachts, like yours; we are bringing our own chairs, and we will sit wherever we please.”)

So, what does this have to do with the Japanese?

After their defeat by America in 1945, the Japanese made an unprecedented leap into high technology (they had done this several times before, starting with the Meiji era). And they lost the final bit of energy that remained after the 250-year Tokugawa dictatorship. At this moment, Japan is in a deep recession. The Japanese do not buy goods; they sit on shelves. The Japanese do not start families, yet they work themselves to exhaustion. The nation is aging. They received European logic and rationality and combined it with their diligence and contemplation. Now, they have absolutely no Alarics left…

Who are the Alarics? Who was Alaric, the conqueror of Rome?

He came, he plundered, and he left for whence he came. He demonstrated the energy of a new camp. But he did not create a Second Rome. And all other Alarics who act like nomads will not create an autonomous entity either. They will create a Second, imitative Rome (in our case, a monetary copy).

“Yes, we are Alarics. Yes, we are the Camp. But unlike the Visigoths, we will not retreat into the wild field. We will turn this field into a Second Horde, where technology serves the Will, and not the other way around.”

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Chapter 5 The Gertrude Effect (Russian and Japanese): Watch Some Porn Sometimes

I have observed a specific phenomenon: when a mature individual, still confident in their capabilities, is dismissed or removed from their position under the guise of “forced retirement,” they begin to behave promiscuously — and I mean that quite literally.

To understand this tragedy, I suggest we all recall the sensation of betrayal. Friends, comrades, loved ones, and family betray us often. The most devastating blow is delivered by those we love, those to whom we are bound — those from whom we expect nothing but loyalty. And how do you react?

Why even ask?

People react to betrayal by their own with extreme pain. Some turn to drink; others, as I mentioned, succumb to debauchery — risking syphilis and worse — while others suffer heart attacks and other stress-induced ailments. But what is syphilis or any moral degradation compared to the heavy pain within? Nothing. Now, we can understand the primary archetypes at the level of nations (for nations consist of people) and how they react to the betrayal of trust.

The Gertrude Effect

In Hamlet, the Prince rages at his mother: “In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty!” His mother is cohabitating on the throne with her husband’s brother.

But why does she do it?

Sex releases a cocktail of oxytocin, endorphins, and dopamine — creating a chemical storm against melancholy and grief. It grounds the arousal from the cortex and the limbic system into the reptilian brain. The reptilian brain is the most “salvational” part. It tells us: life has not ended; life continues. From this, one can understand the promiscuity and debauchery of a person stripped of all life’s meaning — they voluntarily transform into a reptile. I propose we look at post-revolutionary “reptilian behavior” not as an isolated personal tragedy, but as a sum of all tragedies combined.

Anarchy and terror are nothing but smug, organized “reptilianism.” A ruler channels petty vanity into a single current and controls the “Gertrude Effect.” Because before, during, and especially after a revolution, there is an immense amount of grief — precisely because there was an immense amount of betrayal.

The question remains: why do people betray?

Revolution answers this directly: because “the last want to become the first” (Claudius wanted to be King, to possess the Kingdom, and Gertrude).

The last, indeed, wish to become the first. But the first also do not wish to become the last.

This is where the true hell of history begins.

Betrayal is not born of poverty. Not of hunger. Not of inequality.

Betrayal is born in the moment a person first feels: I deserve more than I have.

As long as a peasant considers himself a peasant, the empire stands. As long as a soldier considers himself a soldier, the army is invincible. As long as a student considers himself a student, knowledge lives. And any government is obligated to provide everyone with the means to fulfill their aspirations (within reason, rather than crushing dreams). Because the migration of the conservative population is possible, not just the “relocants.”