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Vladimir Mihajlov - Doctor of Philosophy, Ðrofessor of philosophy of
Moscow City Teachers’ Training University

Drugs as the tool of social management

When the people are silly,
It is easy for operating...

Shang Jan, IV century Â.Ñ.

Vladimir Mihajlov

Various kinds of drugs – from alcohol and tobacco, to computer games and infinite teleserials have so strongly entered into a life of a modern society that as the fact of their presence (many will surprise that tobacco – a drug) and their influence on social relations, culture (is more exact pseudo-culture), individual and mass consciousness very few people are realized.
Meanwhile, the known scientist and the publicist R. Balandin in 2003 has published the book [1] in which has presented a problem neither much, nor it is not enough formation on the Earth a narcocivilization which are one of the major global problems of the present and one of leading threats to existence of mankind. Unfortunately, the book has appeared çàìîë÷àííîé, it obviously was not entered and not entered in the central stream of modern mass consciousness, for which main thing – to be forgotten, drug itself that or a different way not to think seriously and to keep illusory emotional comfort. For many modern inhabitants - emotional satisfaction and comfort it is much more important than real improvement of a life, searches of true, justice, beauty, creativity and other activity that creates the favorable environment for constant, as at the baby, «ñîñàíèÿ beer, cigarettes, infinite viewing of the TV, etc. Thus in a society the complacent relation to the drugs is created, any real struggle against them is not conducted, for example, in the Russian Federation corresponding department is called «ãîñíàðêîêîíòðîëü (the control, as it is known, management function, instead of destructions), instead of committee on struggle against drug-dealing.
«The main danger menacing to mankind is not realised hardly probable not: a definitive celebration of a narcocivilization» [1, p.5]. «That has occurred to Soviet Union, the countries of national democracy and Post-Soviet Russia, - evident and unique on expressiveness an example of a celebration of a narcocivilization. Probably, such is a prelude to more grandiose phenomenon: the spiritual apocalypse» [1, p.11], - was written by R. Balandin. « Easy to consider and understand this phenomenon not so it is simple, as can seem. After all the narcocivilization not only forms certain stereotypes of thinking and behaviour. It interferes in subconsciousness, gradually deforms the person and operates intelligence of the person whereas he is assured that all it occurs naturally and he thinks independently. This process especially strongly affects the majority of modern intellectuals … They are self-satisfied, seldom have firm belief and strong will, easily give in to suggestion … » [1, p.11] (and also« to drink and smoke many not fools »). Really, these pseudo-intellectuals did not sound alarm when to the power to the Russian Federation went and there has been put (it for the clear reasons of it could not make), including with support of a drug mafia 1-st president, alcoholic Boris Yeltsin.
R. Balandin expands borders of habitual understanding of drugs, entering there and the electronic mass-media constantly supporting weights in condition «ÈÑÑ» – the changed condition of consciousness. According to R. Balandin, in narcocivilization «ÈÑÑ» it is perceived as norm. In it is closed with known authors and manipulation concepts mass consciousness However, in my opinion, the weak place of its concept as concepts mental both norms in general and deviations from it are socially caused here consists, âàðèàòèâíû and are in many respects conditional (M. Fuko See e.g.:« Madness history during a classical epoch »). From the point of view of Vedic philosophy – all our world is a dream, the big illusion, the Maya. The reason of formation of a narcocivilization R. Balandin sees in development of mass-media and psychology. If, as U. James wrote, for poor and uneducated people intoxication replaces concerts and the literature mass-media replace to the inhabitant its own real life and experience. In this sense it is possible to name drugs thieves of real, own and active life, life of the person. On Balandin, is rational-intellectual culture of the West (in it is possible to agree with it) depriving people of possibility directly to express the feelings and thoughts (and also, in my opinion, freely to move and show the sexuality) has created favourable circumstances for drunkenness and narcotism development as only in a condition of alcoholic or narcotic intoxication the individual held down by social restrictions can show at last suppressed by a society and culture impulses. Drugs give to the enslaved individual illusory sensation of boundless freedom («drunk the sea knee-deep, but a pool completely»), therefore formation of a class society, the states and religion has coincided with narcocivilization formation. Hence, a mass narcotism in various forms – an inevitable consequence of socially unfair, antagonistic society. In a drunken state the slave wrongly-is illusory and in a wrong way realizes the stolen freedom of feeling, behavior and self-expression. And the problem of drugs in such society – to change real and sober free self-expression of the slave, íàðêîòè÷åñêè illusory. Not casually many modern slaves (free it is only formal legally, and really socially – is not present) aspire to relax after work with "beer" and a cigarettes. In army of formed slaves directly accustom to such way of life: has worked – a smoke break and who does not want to smoke – let works without interruption further; As a result of a choice is not present, or work free of charge more than others and for other slaves, or become the tobacco addict, spoil the health, suppress mentality, intelligence and work at first on tobacco, and then and medical corporations.
In general, in my opinion, smoking of tobacco and the use of other "easy" drugs (beer) is not so much the right, how many a slave duty. For it not an advantage or pleasure question, and a duty on functioning maintenance êðèïòîðàáîâëàäåëü÷åñêîé (in the ancient time openly slaveholding) social system.
Therefore in the teenage environment where social relations are more frank, non-smoking and teetotal for it often beat or subject to other kinds of a social ostracism. Why the slave should to smoke tobacco, for example? It appears, tobacco smoking creates to the slave weight of negative "advantages". The slave should work compulsorily, and buying tobacco, it forcedly works on the tobacco companies. The slave should develop and have in itself feeling and a behavioural stereotype of dependence (in particular, from work and the slaveholder (the owner, the chief)) – tobacco and other drugs successfully form such sensations and stereotypes. Life of the slave has no inner meaning – drugs give it the purpose and meaning of the life. One smoking acquaintance admitted to me that its meaning of the life consists in tobacco smoking, without smoking he felt out of work, to nobody necessary. I believe that for narcotism eradication in the pedagogical purposes gravestone monuments to addicts followed do in the form of bottles, øïðèöîâ, beer mugs and also to model sculptures representing addicts and to do corresponding inscriptions.
Tobacco and other drugs weaken, and the slave should be moderately weak, that did not revolt, did not develop, and did not lose the status. Tobacco fools, reduces memory, intelligence, but to the slave not what for to be too clever. As they say a kickshaw, and it is pleasant. Creating illnesses, tobacco forces the slave to work also on doctors and the pharmacological industry. Tobacco reduces life, facilitating loading on pension system, but on pension it nothing the slave. The case when in reply to attempts of the Czech government to forbid tobacco advertizing tobacco magnates have reasonably objected officials is known that smoking reduces life expectancy of citizens, and, hence, saves social expenses on provision of pensions. Also tobacco smoking (beer drink) forms at the slave important quality – a habit to regular thoughtless and senseless activity.
As it is known, custom regularly to drink beer has taken roots in medieval Europe because of mass insanitary conditions and dirty water which could not be drunk because of threat of epidemics and other illnesses. Today in many countries of Europe water can be drunk freely from under the crane. Conditions have changed, and a silly and harmful atavism - custom regularly to drink beer remained, though for a long time in the past savage cults of human sacrifices, excesses of inquisition, duel, etc. cultural atavisms already have left. Probably, in more developed society will leave in the past and customs of the use of soft drugs.
Smoking tobacco, the slave in vain wastes time – thanks to it brakes the development and preserves the slavery. Spending money for drugs, the slave cannot spend them for something another any more. For any antinational government it is better, that the citizen (citizen) has bought a pack of cigarets or a bottle, instead of the oppositional newspaper or has arranged drunk uproar, instead of revolution. It is known, for example, that the American special services have successfully knocked down youth revolts of the end of 1960th years by means of mass and free distribution of drugs among young people [See 2]. It may seem that the slave owner (boss) is not interested in mass Anesthesia their slaves, as they will be worse as a result of work. However, it's not the quality of the work of slaves, and security considerations: drunk (narkotsivilizovanny) slave, of course, is doing badly, but he did not organize a revolt of Spartacus.
Tobacco weakens the potency, impairs appearance, health, rescuing a slave from the excessive sexuality, and uncontrolled breeding, which, in the opinion of slave-minded sociologist T. Malthus, concealed the roots of all social problems. Smoking tobacco or drinking beer, a slave could still work, but during sex - is unlikely. Therefore, in today's society there is a steady trend of substitution of pleasures higher level cruder, low-grade and primitive. For example, beer and tobacco are much more accessible and sexual services are advertised more than wine. Many ordinary people very seriously believe that the nudists - immoral people that walk in the hot weather in the city without unseemly shirts that touch the other sex or kissing publicly wrong, but to smoke and drink on the street - decent. In modern society, formed a stereotype immorality sexual freedom, but freedom of normality use of soft drugs (smoking and alcohol consumption), while in Christianity, such as drunkenness and fornication sins are completely interchangeable.
The Russian government has banned the advertising of vodka and wine, but allowed the advertising of beer, although beer is one of the most low-grade and harmful alcohol use. In the beer content of fusel oils and other hazardous substances at times more than in the normal vodka and it is empirically well known to all those who drink that drinking more pure vodka, not beer or port wine, who do not believe, can check for yourself. So the government "cares" about the health and welfare of citizens. In addition, Russia and the Ukraine beer often costs less than mineral water, which is an economic absurdity, as the cost of beer above. This fact indicates that the price of alcohol artificially low in order to soldering population. It is obvious that this practice should be banned. Alcohol and tobacco have to be expensive and difficult, but not as in Egypt, where the sale of alcohol is prohibited to the local population and tourists in hotels solder free alcohol in unlimited quantities. In general, the soldering of tourists - a separate issue, what little tour, for some reason do without visiting the restaurant with the obligatory wine, wineries, pubs, almost in every Russian city now has its own "museum of vodka", which required pulling all of tourists and free treated.
Tobacco and other Drug soothe slaves weaker - in perpetuity. But the servant and should not be restless, rage and rebellion. Unfortunately, in modern society, all types of drugs do more, and the role of social control, such Darwinian "natural selection" in nature. So weak and of little value for maintenance and social functioning of slaves simply quickly or slowly destroyed by drugs. Slaves too addicting drug, and therefore very suitable for use deklassiruyutsya with their help, either from the lungs (tobacco, beer, coffee and "energy" drinks, alcoholic tonics) drugs are rapidly moving to the middle (vodka, port, and marijuana) and heavy (cocaine, heroin "pills"). Heavy drugs more quickly and destroy the social unfit addict, allowing for the same drug mafia to seize his property.
In general, drugs and drug trafficking are enormous, though and downplay the role not only in the social regulation and governance, but also in world politics and economy. "According to UN estimates, the annual income from the illegal drug trade up to 1 trillion dollars! This is pure profit. Afghanistan accounts for 300 to 500 billion dollars ... The chart provided in the UN report, is clearly seen when the war began in Afghanistan. This is 2001, when the Taliban had succeeded in reducing opium production by 95%. And then Washington, London and Tel Aviv worked swiftly. They did a CIA agent Bin Laden, who was living in Afghanistan, the scapegoat for the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001. It was found a pretext for the occupation of the country. And opium production has been growing astronomically pace. According to Afghan sources, 85% of drugs produced in southern and south-eastern provinces of Afghanistan, carried an American military aircraft [3, p.55]. And on television, we hear tales of struggle "democratic" President Hamid Karzai to be "evil" extremists Taliban. First, the U.S. backed the Taliban, extremists, they were following the attempted eradication of drug production in Afghanistan. Apparently, the Taliban had still failed to understand the role of drugs in modern politics. It is humiliating and uncomfortable to live in a society in which trade "stupidity" rather than wisdom is the most profitable business.
The last function of tobacco and other drugs - the creation of illusory perception. Marx called religion the opium of the people. Interestingly, in the religious society of mass addiction is often suppressed. According to historian V. Pokhlebkin [4], in antiquity the Slavs alcoholism was not possible due to lack of strong drinks and the economic disadvantages of alcohol production in general. This beer was brewed a few times a year, on holidays and then drank a festive ecstasy meant going beyond the humdrum, routine work. On drinking the rest of the year, the peasants had neither the time nor the resources, and paganism and later, Christianity proscribes drinking. Alcoholism became breeding grounds for some of the boyars, the prince's retainers are not engaged in productive labor, and later - the monasteries became centers of distillation. Since the XVI century drinking artificially implanted by the authorities, especially those narkotsivilizatorami as Ivan the Terrible and Peter I. "By decree of 1721 soldiers received a mandatory allowance - 2 cups of vodka a day, with a bucket divided by 16 cups. It was about 3.75 pounds of vodka, or about 1.5 liters. On the day of simple wine fortress around 15-18 degrees, ie vodka, diluted with water in proportion trehprobnogo wine "[4, s.163-164]. Fortunately for Russia, this idiotic decree was adopted after the victory in the Northern War, otherwise it would have won, probably Sweden. V.V. Pokhlebkin causes a lot of interesting historical data on alcoholic beverages. For example, it appears that the distribution of production and consumption of vodka, economically much more advantageous in the production of beverage than beer and wine in Europe coincided with a religious reformation. That is, instead of Catholicism Germans gave schnapps. A large-scale introduction of drunkenness Ivan the Terrible led to a massive deterioration of morals of the population and has become one of the major causes of the Troubles in early XVII century. Incidentally, the current population decline in Russia and is not so much from poor socio-economic conditions, but from alcoholism and drug abuse population.
Prior to 1991, from the author's book published in the USSR was deleted by the censor last chapter of "Vodka and ideology. The very title of the chapter suggests the similarity of the functions of drugs, religion and ideology in society, must give underprivileged masses of the population illusory emotional and psychological anesthesia and satisfaction. "Even Engels pointed out that the proletariat, at least, under capitalism, ie under conditions of intense labor to wear, objectively experienced "a vital need in the vodka" [4, p.226]. American biochemist, R.J. Williams even argued that the increase in alcohol consumption in modern society has an objective biochemical causes. However V.V. Pokhlebkin rightly pointed out that with decent working and living conditions of alcohol in society totally unnecessary.
Accordingly, we can make an important conclusion: if a society extended use of alcohol and other drugs - is a society and bad conditions of life in it unworthy, at least for the majority.
It is interesting that until 1937 the use of alcohol by the Communists in the Soviet Union was considered unacceptable. He allowed only in the peak year of repression: as the saying goes, relax comrades, you have go ... During the Great Patriotic War, vodka and tobacco in the Soviet military were given free of charge at the front, apparently, that they are not kept for his life (hence, incidentally, and excessive loss of life). Although Russia's history knows of at least two humiliating defeats for drunkenness troops from the Tatars in 1377 on the River. Drunk and capture of Moscow Tahtamyshem for the same reason in 1382 in the First World War in Russia on the initiative from below was introduced partial prohibition, which meant that public understanding of the fact that a drunken army does not win the war. In modern Russia according to some estimates up to 2/3 of the officers of the army and other security agencies smokers and drinkers. Accordingly, there is not a lift of alcohol and tobacco use and army immediately rebel and will not execute the orders of commander in chief and generals, as will the drug mafia, which controls the production and delivery of alcohol and tobacco. In this method, through the creation of drug addicts contingent drug mafia can easily manage the different social processes. Since the introduction of social constraints on production and consumption of drugs can easily create a revolutionary situation in the country, as has happened in Russia in 1914-17 and 1989-91. It turns out to provoke a revolution is quite simple: it is enough to press through a government anti-drug laws, and then using the same drug addicts raise disaffected to riot. A drug addict, as you know, for the sake of the drug will go to all.
Stalin, like Peter I deliberately being fed his followers to get them to talk.
With the slave women have another good reason for drug addiction - is to teach prenatal her offspring, which makes this a hereditary defect and keeps narkotsivilizatsiyu.
History tells us that "alcohol powerful weapon to enslave people. The power of these weapons can be seen in the conquest of America and the war with the invaders, occupiers Aboriginal-Indians. A healthy mind and a corresponding intuition did Indians invulnerable. Europeans had been imported for centuries tested the functionality of "fire water". After pre-addiction to alcohol, the Indians were given moonshine with instructions on how to use them. Further not long to wait. "Chingachgook" ... was defeated by the "green snake. In the U.S., the surviving descendants of the Indians are shown as relics in a specially arranged for them reserve "[5, p.205-206]. Then, of course gives the impression of the insistence of us are constantly trying to fill at least some dose of alcohol. In a normal society, offer a drink or smoke should be regarded as a serious insult or an attempt on the life and health through poisoning. In such situations, you can suggest the following method: do not really drink or smoke when offered, but only to simulate the process, suggesting that the drug fool or a scoundrel etched himself. Actually, according to several authors, the consumption of alcohol completely blocks extrasensory abilities of man. "All sorts of extrasensory capabilities granted to every man is born, but not everyone can actively develop them. The consumption of alcohol completely blocking these normal human capabilities "[5, p.211]. Could this be the cause of obsessive desire to teach all of us to drink?
"Narcotic intoxication distorts and destroys the intellect, as a natural genetically predetermined process. So if someone in the fight against "stress" or in search of pleasure arises in the way of a "strong" or "weak" drug, it is essentially doing so he makes a statement that the reason for it is redundant and prevents live, but he it would be nicer to exist intellectually well-groomed ornamental animals, living on all ready to have fun "[5, page 223, 224]. That is, the propensity to use drugs can be regarded as an atavism, the rate of aborted human damaged psyche. No wonder the Marxists believed that the real human history will begin only under communism, and the bourgeois society in many ways tainted by various forms of animals. It is no accident that a particular fondness for alcohol and ruin oneself by drink nourish the fastest so-called "uncivilized people" have poorly developed emotional intelligence and "centering" of the psyche. It is known that alcohol and other drugs is called substance abuse, stimulant-pleasant affect is on the mental level. At the same time at other levels of human activity, they are useless and do not bring pleasure. So the physical body of their only spoiled, weak, suffering, intellect, consciousness, intelligence, memory, and spoiled, poorly functioning and degraded, drugs do not confer no morals, no wisdom, no beauty, no new powers and abilities, or spiritual, or physical benefits. They provide only short-term emotional satisfaction from the destruction of the mind and physical body. Consequently, in some way brought up and formed a man who does not have psychological and emotional centrality of consciousness, in principle, can not get pleasure from alcohol, drugs, and especially tobacco, and, therefore, will never seek to use them. Employed as they will call him a feeling of disgust and surprise, as pigs, enjoying wallow in the mud. That is the massive use of various drugs - a marker impairment and degradation of modern humanity.
In Christianity, the drug was associated with beauty, the state of a false illusion of spirituality. In shamanism drugs open the doors to the subconscious and the other worlds, but what is important, especially for the weak shamans, unable to get there on their own. It turns out that drug addicts - is impotent psevdoshamany Failed fragmentary parody some of the practices and rituals of shamanism true.
Hitler ironically called Indian tobacco revenge white colonialists. Indians retaliated well ... In the popular media is widely believed that the Indians smoked tobacco, "the pipe of peace", etc. Only now that the Indians smoked it trash, which is now called the tobacco? How much they smoked, how, when, why? Most likely, this was done differently than modern tobacco addicts. Obviously, the "peace pipe" smoking is clearly not every day, and then one tightening. For example, the Siberian shamans smoke to get in touch with the spirit of fire. Tobacco interfered with leaves, bark, deer hair, nicotine in their bodies often do not run ... I guess, and no nicotine dependence in them was not.
In the Tantric tradition of drugs were considered, but only if properly used, means of achieving magical forces and go to the other dimensions [6]. However, drugs can be unpredictable. "Like sex, they can be released or turned into slaves," [6, p.266]. Anyway, they used not for relaxation and fun and does not regularly and ritually controlled by the priests (as did Carlos Castaneda) and with certain goals: travel to other worlds, expanding consciousness, gaining new skills, experience and strength. Tantric tradition shared drugs to potentially useful and harmful (opium and synthetic drugs). However, even the reception of potentially useful drugs may do more harm if taken in unbalanced and bad state of mind (that does just the addict in breaking down and the man in the street to "relax"). Tantric tradition allows ritual, mantras, reading, smoking marijuana, ritual use of wine. But this is not done for pleasure, but to relieve themselves of the restrictions of his own consciousness and social norms, to gain a greater inner freedom. Obviously, once (or several) the resulting "Alcohol initiation" can no longer give anything new a person under repeated, but harm to the health and mind.
Ritually-used wine as a special cleaning - ritually and energetically. The properties of such wines were different than the one that drinks a modern man in the street, badly parodying Tantrikas. It seems to me that the so-called "narrow-minded way of life" with all its idiocy include the mandatory tobacco smoking, drinking, etc. is kontrinitsiaticheskoy (R. Guenon), a parody of a truly spiritual and moral life.
The answer is obvious.

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