World under clowns. Almaz Braev

the modern world? Ancient events and modern facts are separated by 2500 years. (What are you, they say, a blockhead, carrying a blizzard. However, each material is not a fairy tale or a saying. I cannot tell white patriots and fascists that there are instructive examples and analogies. Here is the fate of the Greek Atlantis, as Ancient Greece and its democracy disappeared in the time of history). But it is precisely Greek democracy that creates a vivid example of a short – term rise and a long fall and degradation, and then complete disappearance – the oblivion of the famous ethnic group. (The Greek landing in Smyrna in May 1919 and the Second Greco-Turkish War cannot be regarded as a Greek revival. The Greeks were expelled by the Kemalists and left Asia Minor forever. However, these were completely different Greeks already. But what’s the difference? These were also considered Greeks).

      For the traditional ethnos to disappear along with the de facto disappeared aristocracy (no matter what, it may even be modern and socialist), the activity of only two “market” generations is necessary. Just two. And now, one is enough. Ancient Athens, until the complete defeat of the semi-savage in the opinion of civilized and tolerant Athenians of Sparta, lived in the struggle of the ancestral aristocracy, its clans among themselves, and the so-called newcomers. Who are these visitors? These are poor relatives, as they would be called now; poor relatives were then, and now, residents of other Greek cities are meteks. The youngest son of that very famous Pericles was not given an inheritance, thereby the position itself, because his mother was from their other Greek city! After the Greco-Persian Wars, the Athenians stopped working, or, more precisely, it became unprestigious to work. But trading is, yes, it has become prestigious. In addition, it has become fashionable to rally at the Agora – Athenian Forum. The whole V century before the witnesses watched the decline of the Athenian school of philosophy. Quick and easy ones replaced the deep thoughts. Oratory and populism have become fashionable. The Greeks stopped appreciating whole natures and people with a core; they fell in love with populist demagogues. With the heyday of Athenian democracy, Athenians stopped literally thinking, stopped learning, and not only from philosophers; philosophers, moralists, and intellectuals were not needed for nothing (by analogy with modernity, they stopped reading books but only began to hang out in Tiktok and Twitter). All the townspeople began to hang out at the Greek theater.