Social engineering in international relations
The specificity of the social engineering approach lies in its striving to bring this or that theoretical idea to life, to practically organize life on the principles offered by social theory. Many theoretical concepts and ideas are often used in polemics and ideological battles, but rarely does anyone offer as an argument an experimental model of life built on the thesis put forward. After all, it is known that many beautiful-hearted theories that seduced entire generations gave rise to social monsters, from which even their authors themselves recoiled in horror. You can talk a lot about robots, or you can build one. It is the last quality of practical implementation that distinguishes the social engineering approach to the organization of social life.
Is it possible to find application of social engineering in the field of international relations (IR) as well? And if so, how, in what way will some subjects of the Moscow Region implement the algorithms and technologies of social engineering in the space of other subjects of the Moscow Region fenced with fences and boundary pillars? And what actually can be transformed with such a remote impact? Although, if we recall the previous period of history, we all remember the perseverance with which the West tried to inspire everyone with the idea of the triumph of the idea of freedom achieved by Western civilization. And he succeeded a lot in this. At least some countries and peoples have dramatically changed the trajectory of their development.
Let us consider how social engineering could help in the analysis of this concept.
freedom- this is an expression of the natural desire of people for a better life, for the realization of their plans and abilities, for ensuring their material and spiritual life, for raising their status and influence in society. But this natural desire of people is often used by elites, including those representing other countries, in their expansionist plans. For them, freedom is only one of the means in the eternal struggle between different parts of the elite (or upper groups) for power and wealth.
The use of such weapons to achieve a specific goal is possible only with the help of the people and at a certain level of its development. Therefore, a preliminary stage is needed to disseminate the ideas of freedom, to introduce their importance into the consciousness of the people, to indicate “who” and “what” hinders their freedom, the training of leaders (and possibly provocateurs), naive and devoted to the ideas of freedom followers, etc. . But such people will be needed only for a short time, while the invisible governing forces with real power and wealth are busy advancing their goal. After that, bold leaders, provocateurs, naive and devoted to the ideas of simpletons are not needed and turn into an unnecessary ambitious mass to be eliminated. This process is later crowned with the aphorism: "the revolution devours its children" .
This is a rough design consideration of freedom as an engineering tool. What is the prototype?
Starting approximately from the era of the French Revolution, the concept of freedom acquires a high value in Western societies. Enthusiastic songs are sung about her and people go to death for her. But in a strange way, those who most energetically proclaimed freedom and brought it closer at the cost of their lives were the very first to go to the scaffold. As a result, almost the entire French aristocracy and intelligentsia never saw freedom. They were mercilessly exterminated. The same thing was repeated in almost all subsequent revolutions. So what is this insidious concept that sends to the next world, first of all, its supporters?
It provided them with freedom of instincts, freedom to get even with the part of the elite that had ceded power, freedom from human culture and social norms. But today, this technology of freedom is firmly entrenched even in modern Western-oriented countries and breeds from generation to generation of admirers of the cult of freedom as a new form of idolatry.
Let's clarify more clearly the international and engineering aspect of this cult
The more they get freedomthe more ignorant communities in a given country, the less stable this society is in all its decisions, the easier it will be to arouse passions and topple this competitive or inconvenient state with a couple of seductive ideas of freedom promising them a material paradise, or at least socialism. And the main obstacle to this paradise is declared, as a rule, the state, the government, the leadership, and just the boss, and at worst, even a migrant will do. Since heaven is expected the next morning, by the evening people are excited and begin to growl at everyone. So, at night, the wolf raises its head and begins to howl at the moon.
Mankind is advancing on a long thorny and desperate path, through many sacrifices, towards reason, towards culture, towards self-improvement... and suddenly it runs wild so easily for several years, sinking into the depths of animal greed. Flavored with freshly baked concepts with a civilizational filling, these technologies for inciting freedom are being introduced into the arsenal of international politics, and presented to students who are diligently studying methods ... of provoking destabilization in society.
The concept of freedom today is already being fed to children in kindergartens and schools.
What does it give children who have not yet had time to absorb the necessary postulates of ethics and morality? It gives the right to snap at every reproach for violating social norms, the right to avenge "violated" freedom, the right to ignore the rights of others. Are we dealing with preparations for another destabilization? So where is humanity heading with the growth of freedom? Forward or backward? Who is responsible for this technology and the all-round encouragement of the animal nature in people who potentially do not cause fear at first? Everyone knows that coup attempts are always accompanied by the release of prisoners. And they do not need to specify who is to blame for their captivity.
This technology operates everywhere in Western dependent countries
The more this or that institution or university falls under the influence of Western ideas, the greater the dose of freedom received by the poorly educated strata and the more adamantly they climb to high positions. After some time, it turns out that experts, professors and scientists become consumables for administrators - and the latter become the local elite - these are all sorts of bureaucrats, managerial departments, housekeepers, all secretaries, etc. Even the educational process begins to be done in a way that is more convenient for them. And since the heights of the mind are unknown to them, they are simply sure that everyone is only sleeping and seeing how to steal an extra penny. Therefore, they surround teachers with a triple ring of spies, write down their words and lectures in the hope of compromising evidence, overload them with extraneous petty and empty reports and are glad that they managed to humiliate this high-browed "professorate".
Let's pose the problem more broadly - we are talking about the concept of "freedom", its role in the IR, their impact on the formation of societies and the possibility of dispensing this concept for social engineering purposes. Without rejecting the positive content of the concept of freedom, let us focus on its specific use. Suppose you have freedom, how do you use it?
This conclusion is suggested by the mathematical models and formulas developed in this area.
If a person has a narrow outlook and a minimal set of reactions and actions inherent in him, the less society will get from repeating what he already has and has manifested. He does not need much freedom, since he does not have adequate answers to it.
And vice versa, if a person is widely developed , he has potential degrees of freedom that have not yet been manifested, but have been worked out in an individual way, which can have a beneficial effect on expanding the range of possible interactions, and hence on the development of society.
A tree must grow for a long time before it bears fruit. In order to enrich society with a new useful undertaking, one has to study for decades.
If we approach this issue from the point of view of the internal tension of society, then the unfree state, first of all, of educated and creative people, and sometimes only of them, is a serious source of poverty and conflicts between layers, as a result of which instability in society is growing. First you need to instill these qualities of creation in people, and then give them freedom.
Otherwise, the behavior of the social system corresponds to the following chain of transitions:economic freedom without additional social constraints gives rise to individual wealth, which can only be preserved under the protectorate of power, and therefore becomes a potential competitor to power, and for this reason is equivalent to power, and eventually becomes power itself. But if there were no social and cultural constraints at the beginning, where will they come from later?
Under these conditions, the main problem of society is to harmoniously harmonize the two main trends associated with the liberalization of people's livelihoods: that is, in order to improve the well-being of the people, give people more freedom and rights, teach them to create, but at the same time time through laws to regulate the risks associated with political freedoms.
In addition, many social and historical facts testify that an excess of freedom and openness, under certain conditions and for some societies, leads to tension and instability in society.
More precisely, and in terms of social engineering,it can be stated that those peoples or societies that have a higher level of aggression in internal relations should be content with lesser freedoms to ensure a relative minimum of tension within society. Or, what is the same, in order to ensure the relative maximum stability of society, they must be limited in a number of freedoms.
The concept of freedom acquires in this way, at least, its degree, a certain dosage and targeting, along with the accompanying quality of the object of application. Thus, we come to the need to develop a scale of freedom, to operationalize it in a variety of specific researched contexts, to measure it with the help of quantitative formulas, and to record subsequent changes in the area under study.
Naturally, all such conclusions must take into account the context and must be combined with the diversity of countries, their sizes, cultures, different mentalities of the peoples living in these countries, their traditions, and many other factors. Thus, the first contribution of social engineering is that it helps to reformulate the classical problem of social development. Associated with the improvement of people's well-being, it turns out that it does not so unambiguously imply an increase in the freedom and openness of society as an end in itself of development. Rather, it entails being in accordance with the mentality of the people of a given society, that rational degree of its freedom and openness, in which the quality of life of people and the stability of society reach a maximum. Those.,
The specificity of the social engineering approach lies in its striving to bring this or that theoretical idea to life, to practically organize life on the principles offered by social theory. Many theoretical concepts and ideas are often used in polemics and ideological battles, but rarely does anyone offer as an argument an experimental model of life built on the thesis put forward. After all, it is known that many beautiful-hearted theories that seduced entire generations gave rise to social monsters, from which even their authors themselves recoiled in horror. You can talk a lot about robots, or you can build one. It is the last quality of practical implementation that distinguishes the social engineering approach to the organization of social life.
Is it possible to find application of social engineering in the field of international relations (IR) as well? And if so, how, in what way will some subjects of the Moscow Region implement the algorithms and technologies of social engineering in the space of other subjects of the Moscow Region fenced with fences and boundary pillars? And what actually can be transformed with such a remote impact? Although, if we recall the previous period of history, we all remember the perseverance with which the West tried to inspire everyone with the idea of the triumph of the idea of freedom achieved by Western civilization. And he succeeded a lot in this. At least some countries and peoples have dramatically changed the trajectory of their development.
Let us consider how social engineering could help in the analysis of this concept.
freedom- this is an expression of the natural desire of people for a better life, for the realization of their plans and abilities, for ensuring their material and spiritual life, for raising their status and influence in society. But this natural desire of people is often used by elites, including those representing other countries, in their expansionist plans. For them, freedom is only one of the means in the eternal struggle between different parts of the elite (or upper groups) for power and wealth.
The use of such weapons to achieve a specific goal is possible only with the help of the people and at a certain level of its development. Therefore, a preliminary stage is needed to disseminate the ideas of freedom, to introduce their importance into the consciousness of the people, to indicate “who” and “what” hinders their freedom, the training of leaders (and possibly provocateurs), naive and devoted to the ideas of freedom followers, etc. . But such people will be needed only for a short time, while the invisible governing forces with real power and wealth are busy advancing their goal. After that, bold leaders, provocateurs, naive and devoted to the ideas of simpletons are not needed and turn into an unnecessary ambitious mass to be eliminated. This process is later crowned with the aphorism: "the revolution devours its children" .
This is a rough design consideration of freedom as an engineering tool. What is the prototype?
Starting approximately from the era of the French Revolution, the concept of freedom acquires a high value in Western societies. Enthusiastic songs are sung about her and people go to death for her. But in a strange way, those who most energetically proclaimed freedom and brought it closer at the cost of their lives were the very first to go to the scaffold. As a result, almost the entire French aristocracy and intelligentsia never saw freedom. They were mercilessly exterminated. The same thing was repeated in almost all subsequent revolutions. So what is this insidious concept that sends to the next world, first of all, its supporters?
It provided them with freedom of instincts, freedom to get even with the part of the elite that had ceded power, freedom from human culture and social norms. But today, this technology of freedom is firmly entrenched even in modern Western-oriented countries and breeds from generation to generation of admirers of the cult of freedom as a new form of idolatry.
Let's clarify more clearly the international and engineering aspect of this cult
The more they get freedomthe more ignorant communities in a given country, the less stable this society is in all its decisions, the easier it will be to arouse passions and topple this competitive or inconvenient state with a couple of seductive ideas of freedom promising them a material paradise, or at least socialism. And the main obstacle to this paradise is declared, as a rule, the state, the government, the leadership, and just the boss, and at worst, even a migrant will do. Since heaven is expected the next morning, by the evening people are excited and begin to growl at everyone. So, at night, the wolf raises its head and begins to howl at the moon.
Mankind is advancing on a long thorny and desperate path, through many sacrifices, towards reason, towards culture, towards self-improvement... and suddenly it runs wild so easily for several years, sinking into the depths of animal greed. Flavored with freshly baked concepts with a civilizational filling, these technologies for inciting freedom are being introduced into the arsenal of international politics, and presented to students who are diligently studying methods ... of provoking destabilization in society.
The concept of freedom today is already being fed to children in kindergartens and schools.
What does it give children who have not yet had time to absorb the necessary postulates of ethics and morality? It gives the right to snap at every reproach for violating social norms, the right to avenge "violated" freedom, the right to ignore the rights of others. Are we dealing with preparations for another destabilization? So where is humanity heading with the growth of freedom? Forward or backward? Who is responsible for this technology and the all-round encouragement of the animal nature in people who potentially do not cause fear at first? Everyone knows that coup attempts are always accompanied by the release of prisoners. And they do not need to specify who is to blame for their captivity.
This technology operates everywhere in Western dependent countries
The more this or that institution or university falls under the influence of Western ideas, the greater the dose of freedom received by the poorly educated strata and the more adamantly they climb to high positions. After some time, it turns out that experts, professors and scientists become consumables for administrators - and the latter become the local elite - these are all sorts of bureaucrats, managerial departments, housekeepers, all secretaries, etc. Even the educational process begins to be done in a way that is more convenient for them. And since the heights of the mind are unknown to them, they are simply sure that everyone is only sleeping and seeing how to steal an extra penny. Therefore, they surround teachers with a triple ring of spies, write down their words and lectures in the hope of compromising evidence, overload them with extraneous petty and empty reports and are glad that they managed to humiliate this high-browed "professorate".
Let's pose the problem more broadly - we are talking about the concept of "freedom", its role in the IR, their impact on the formation of societies and the possibility of dispensing this concept for social engineering purposes. Without rejecting the positive content of the concept of freedom, let us focus on its specific use. Suppose you have freedom, how do you use it?
This conclusion is suggested by the mathematical models and formulas developed in this area.
If a person has a narrow outlook and a minimal set of reactions and actions inherent in him, the less society will get from repeating what he already has and has manifested. He does not need much freedom, since he does not have adequate answers to it.
And vice versa, if a person is widely developed , he has potential degrees of freedom that have not yet been manifested, but have been worked out in an individual way, which can have a beneficial effect on expanding the range of possible interactions, and hence on the development of society.
A tree must grow for a long time before it bears fruit. In order to enrich society with a new useful undertaking, one has to study for decades.
If we approach this issue from the point of view of the internal tension of society, then the unfree state, first of all, of educated and creative people, and sometimes only of them, is a serious source of poverty and conflicts between layers, as a result of which instability in society is growing. First you need to instill these qualities of creation in people, and then give them freedom.
Otherwise, the behavior of the social system corresponds to the following chain of transitions:economic freedom without additional social constraints gives rise to individual wealth, which can only be preserved under the protectorate of power, and therefore becomes a potential competitor to power, and for this reason is equivalent to power, and eventually becomes power itself. But if there were no social and cultural constraints at the beginning, where will they come from later?
Under these conditions, the main problem of society is to harmoniously harmonize the two main trends associated with the liberalization of people's livelihoods: that is, in order to improve the well-being of the people, give people more freedom and rights, teach them to create, but at the same time time through laws to regulate the risks associated with political freedoms.
In addition, many social and historical facts testify that an excess of freedom and openness, under certain conditions and for some societies, leads to tension and instability in society.
More precisely, and in terms of social engineering,it can be stated that those peoples or societies that have a higher level of aggression in internal relations should be content with lesser freedoms to ensure a relative minimum of tension within society. Or, what is the same, in order to ensure the relative maximum stability of society, they must be limited in a number of freedoms.
The concept of freedom acquires in this way, at least, its degree, a certain dosage and targeting, along with the accompanying quality of the object of application. Thus, we come to the need to develop a scale of freedom, to operationalize it in a variety of specific researched contexts, to measure it with the help of quantitative formulas, and to record subsequent changes in the area under study.
Naturally, all such conclusions must take into account the context and must be combined with the diversity of countries, their sizes, cultures, different mentalities of the peoples living in these countries, their traditions, and many other factors. Thus, the first contribution of social engineering is that it helps to reformulate the classical problem of social development. Associated with the improvement of people's well-being, it turns out that it does not so unambiguously imply an increase in the freedom and openness of society as an end in itself of development. Rather, it entails being in accordance with the mentality of the people of a given society, that rational degree of its freedom and openness, in which the quality of life of people and the stability of society reach a maximum. Those.,