About features of national elite
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Each normal society has its own elite. An abnormal society, in particular a post-genocide one, can focus on someone else, but this will lead to its not friendly absorption*
First mainly because of the soft force, and then because of the hard. Soft force is used mainly in order to reduce the resistance to hard.
In our case, a column of tanks at the entrance to Kiev (Kharkiv, Dnipro and further on the list) in 2022 was to be met with bread-salt, as well as choral singing of pops and blatnyak.
The society of a healthy person is divided into classes, while not necessarily according to Marx. Для Великої Британії the newest class structure was described by Ентоні Ґідденс, for France by Pierre Bourdieu. Both authors relied on the results of long field studies. Giddens was a moderate right, Bourdieu was a moderate left. But they were quite sharp.
В Україні ці теорії працюють інакше. Але навіщо ділити соціум на класи, чи шукати інші реально наявні соціальні групи, коли можна його поділити на персональні фан-клуби. І одним роздати гречки, а іншим гречаної вовни з ТБ та інтернету?
Ukrainians have a long negative experience of life under actually foreign authorities. When the elite was either imported to us or carefully filtered among local personnel. Who or what prevents Ukrainians from determining for themselves what their own elite is, what part deserves this title, and what is the casual executor of the duties?
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Згадаймо Януковича. Bezbatchenko, brought up a little grandmother, and a little street. Made a career through marriage to the daughter of an influential person and with the assistance of special services. In general, typical for the household nomenclature. And two convictions - for stealing hats and rape? Well, who in Pivnovka did not sit young. Тому Федорович So I went to the aristocracy, and even painted my coat of arms.
Згадаймо Табачника. He built his social network, Орден Святого Станіслава, catching new elites on the inferiority complex. Here is an order, here is a coat of arms from the Mercedes logo, but here is a certified lineage, at least from King Solomon...
And who was there after Yanukovych called his country cooperative "Династія"?
Looking at such an elite, a person without a special education can quite be a traffit... surprise, speaking politically correct. And then a simple neurotic reaction follows: there were no elites in us, and there is no need. These parental figures are not real, carry the next ones. And if it does not turn out with the next parental figures? Let the chaplains, all the sound will be from Abo.
It is especially interesting to hear this (there was no - no need for an elite) from people with higher education or two who belong to the elite by position. If not business, then intellectual or cultural. They should produce meanings and strategies. This is similar to self-denial, and even self-hatred. Now it will be necessary or still perform the duties of the elite in a proper way.
*Published with preservation of author's style
About the author. Віктор Пушкар, social psychologist
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