Burden of Tolerance or a Moral Duty of Russians? Our answer to the national question
Migrants … They take our jobs, eat our bread, breathe our air. By their very appearance, they increase the degree of social fermentation, irritate the already bare nerve of popular dissatisfaction with life. Having come in large numbers with their charter to our monastery, they are uninvited guests, regardless of social status, appearance and behavior, strangers in our landscape. We don't want them. Just read: “They're shooting! They beat our children!"
Migrants … They take our jobs, eat our bread, breathe our air. By their very appearance, they increase the degree of social fermentation, irritate the already bare nerve of popular dissatisfaction with life. Having come in large numbers with their charter to our monastery, they are uninvited guests, regardless of social status, appearance and behavior, strangers in our landscape. We don't want them. Just read: “They're shooting! They beat our children!"
It is not enough for us the shamelessness of officials who do not see the boundaries between their own and the people's property, not only are we already lacking housing, medical care, work, we are deprived of elementary security. In a word, there is something to be offended at, and then these "nationalists" also add fuel to the fire. The growth of ethnic criminality is repeated again and again by the press raging on the national question.
The guy hit the guy, hit him professionally - to death. Tragedy. But is there a reason for giving the status of "the loudest trial of the year"? From the point of view of the newspapermen, what another, after all, the killer is a Dagestani, an alien, alien, terrible and terrible "dag"! Newspapers do not spare spreads to cover the event, and a week after the verdict was announced, the tape from the courtroom is broadcast again and again on central television.
Fools or on purpose?
Nationalist slogans are increasingly appearing in the media. Quite often, ordinary events from the category of hooliganism are given publicity, if only representatives of other ethnic groups, first of all, people from the Caucasus "distinguished themselves", because it was they who were heavily fabricated by the press that gave the palm to them as the causative agents of hostility. The guys have to comply - they shoot from joyful excitement to the horror of local citizens.
“Newspaper writers” do not disdain the radical remedy tested in centuries. Having exhausted the stingy arguments against the village teacher, the state prosecutor allegedly calls on the jury not to pay attention to his testimony: it is difficult to imagine that a man with such a surname decided to help the village! Whether or not the prosecutor expressed himself in this spirit, but in almost every message about the fate of a teacher who unsuccessfully went to the people, hints of the peculiarities of his surname are present. I would like to ask you, are you fools or on purpose? Is it really necessary to broadcast everything that the unhealthy Nazi-anal womb muttered on all "radio stations"? Internal censor, ay!
The national question in modern Russia is extremely acute. Historically, multinational Russia is probably the first time ever experiencing a crisis of nations of such strength. It is no coincidence that in his election article V. V. Putin considers interethnic harmony within the country as one of the main conditions for the preservation of statehood. Even those European countries that prided themselves on their tolerance face the aggravation of interethnic contradictions today. At the European level, the “multicultural project” has failed, which means that the very model of a state built on the basis of ethnic identity is questionable. Europe has already had a negative experience. The hastily seceded nation states of the post-Soviet space have yet to do this.
Hatred as the norm of the underdeveloped
Unhealthy agitation on a national basis is possible only under conditions unfavorable for life, spiritual growth and development of a person, when the average person (in a good way) does not see a positive perspective for the realization of himself in society. System-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan analyzes in detail the processes of (non) adaptation of the psyche of people to new conditions of existence for Russia.
It is the opposition of the personal, mental values of the overwhelming number of our compatriots to the requirements of the skin phase of the development of the consumer society that underlies the incredible social tension that we have the misfortune to observe in the country today. Ethnic hostility is just one manifestation of overwhelming hatred for each other.
In modern Russia, millions of people of a certain mental make-up (carriers of the anal vector, in terms of system-vector psychology) are stuck in a state of deepest resentment against society, they are not realized, not in demand, they are deeply unhappy. Throwing such people an idea that "foreigners who have come in large numbers" are to blame for their troubles is not necessary. The anal vector in an unrealized, undeveloped state is the most fertile ground for cultivating resentment and a thirst for revenge.
A semblance of relief, scanty pleasure, is experienced by such an individual when he is pointed out who is to blame for his trouble. Since, for a number of reasons, the full-fledged pleasures of a developed personality are not available to him, in full accordance with the archetypal species role, such an anal defender of the cave rushes to the “enemy”, protects the “purity” of the nation from “dirty” encroachments from the outside, begins to administer “justice” - to take revenge. If the anal vector is also supported by the muscular component, where there is a division into friends and foes in the base, the pressure in the capsule of living matter increases only from the appearance of a nose of an alien shape.
Systemic decoding of the "cultural code" of Russia
In Russia, multinationality has historically evolved over the centuries according to its own special formula. Russia is not America's "melting pot" or a mosaic of mono-national states in Europe. Russia followed the path of "flowing around" rather than assimilating other peoples, uniting them with a common Russian culture, common values, and a single Russian "cultural code." That is why the identification of the Russian in the West occurs regardless of his ethnicity. For a German, an Uzbek, a Ukrainian, and a Moldovan will be equally Russian. That is why almost all the nationalities that were part of the Russian Empire are still alive.
V. Soloviev believed that Russians have a certain duty, a moral duty in relation to other peoples - the preservation and development of these peoples in a common cultural environment. System-vector psychology confirms the conclusions of the philosopher at the level of the mental structure. The urethral-muscular mentality of Russia is called upon to give to others due to shortages - this is its task on the landscape and a condition for the survival of the pack, that is, of all peoples within Russia. These properties of the Russian mentality allowed Russia to maintain its multinational integrity for centuries until the collapse of the 1990s. Now the process of collecting land in the Eurasian space is resuming, which means that the flows of immigrants will increase. Are we ready to accept them adequately?
Ready for death
We go out into the yard and see people who are not like us - they dress differently, move, say, they cause misunderstanding, hostility and … fear. It would seem that they do not threaten anything, but it is not clear what to expect from them - from strangers? Experiencing such feelings, we at the level of the psychic again find ourselves at the beginning of history, when, for the first time, having received the sensations of a neighbor, a person cognized the first social feeling - a deep hostility, mixed with the fear that this neighbor will eat our piece.
If there were no restrictions on this hostility in the form of certain prohibitions on primary urges, the beginning of human history would simultaneously become its end. It was the skin ban on killing within the pack and the ensuing cultural limitations in vision that made the continued existence of humans as a species possible. Now, experiencing a primitive dislike for people, we are questioning these laws and restrictions, that is, internally, in the psychic, we are ready to cease to exist. Fear is a powerful catalyst for breaking down primitive prohibitions.
Slightly slower, primary urge, a little slower …
Fear of other people is nothing more than a lack of vision, that is, of culture. System-vector psychology proves this by considering the visual vector in development between the two poles - fear and love, where love is not an abstract "love your neighbor", but a concrete result of labor, the result of overcoming fear for yourself. Modern visual culture for us puts the preservation of human life at the forefront. Fear in sight also leads to only one desire - to survive at any cost, but not to everyone, not to humanity or even just another person, but to me alone here and now.
From fear to love, the visual vector of humanity rose in its development to create culture as a system of prohibitions on primary urges and a guarantor of survival. Falling into fear, we instantly lose this collective conquest and, on the occasion of the primary urges, begin to move towards death. The emptiness of the destroyed cultural layer is very quickly filled with the virus of nationalism - one of the manifestations of the primary urge. Nationalism can take different forms, stroking a fine-looking beard of "patriotism" or openly waving a swastika, but this is always an expression of the nation's egoism, leading it to a dead end, and not to development and improvement.
Unity of dissimilar
The collapse of culture, along with the collapse of the USSR, led to an avalanche growth of nationalism and separatism, when the peoples uncritically accepted Boris Yeltsin's call to "take sovereignty as much as it can", and as a result, cultural unity was violated, the country collapsed, the ideological basis of which was internationalism for many decades. Many small Switzerland failed.
How to seal the broken unity? Restoring economic ties, rebuilding the destroyed and building new infrastructure is a necessary, but not sufficient prerequisite. All this is possible only on the basis of a common culture and awareness of us as a unity, albeit dissimilar, but close in spirit peoples with a 1000-year-old common history. Until the general culture rises above the call of blood, there will be blood.
False patriots shout that by including other peoples in Russia, accepting migration flows, we will allegedly lose our national identity or something similar. I would like to remind these excited gentlemen that Russia was never afraid of outside influence and for the sake of preserving the integrity of the state, for the sake of future development, it was not even afraid to call on the Varangians to rule, and under Peter the Great it learned from Europe, again without fear that this would damage Russian national identity or violate state integrity.
As a result, Russia only gained. Is it worth it now to be afraid of the migration of peoples? Definitely not, but you need to put things in order before receiving guests. Are we ourselves that cultured, are we worthy to teach others? What can we give these boys from the villages, except for an unheated change house and a doshirak? Large topics and an immense field for working on yourself.
The cultural development of people, their enlightenment begins with small things, with the fact that a person begins to understand why another does not dress like that, why he does not eat what we eat. This is not an imposed tolerance in the teeth, a synonym for the verb "endure", but a deep awareness of the desires of the other as one's own. This is possible only through the awareness of one's own mental, and at the same time the mental of other people, regardless of their nationality. Why am I the one who dislikes people of a different nationality? The correct formulation of the question is already half the answer.
We can wait until the officials from the mass culture are imbued with the vital needs of the people and instead of endless shooters and stupid talk shows they will show us a movie about a charming Tajik janitor, a witty Georgian minibus driver, an oriental beauty from a supermarket or a selfless Chechen doctor. Or you can, without getting up from the couch, undergo the training "System-Vector Psychology", stop tolerating your neighbor and finally start living as written in the original scenario, that is, happily.
List of references:
V. S. Soloviev "The national question in Russia", 1888
V. V. Putin "Russia: the national question", 2012
