Georgy Yuryev: Hero and coward

This text about Erzatz-heroes in Erzats-Strane continues the topic of confrontation between the carriers of anti-emergency ethical matrices. I'll start with a clinical example . The calm, but as if drooping in spirit, Pavel in a quiet and even sad voice told his incomprehensible story:

-Sometimes suddenly, for no reason, some kind of peculiar darkenness comes, an inner tremor appears, the head begins to tremble and swing from side to side, I can hardly hold it. As if someone makes me get away from people, quickly go where my eyes look and at the same time-so that someone is in sight. It becomes scary from the possibility of losing control of oneself. Also suddenly this condition passes. At first he did not pay attention to these attacks, but when they began to repeat himself almost twice a month, I was scared, turned to a neuropathologist. Computer tomography was held in the regional center, and the attack was repeated during the examination, even the doctor was frightened. They did not find anything special, but some medicine was prescribed. The medicine is very expensive, so I did not take anything ...

Paul told the doctor about his painful conditions, it is not clear how related to different life situations. It remains to reach events at which the syndrome of uncontrollable muscle activity of the body and neck was formed. The virtual trip "On the roads of life" led to the memories of Paul’s trip to the Pioneer camp at the age of twelve.

- I'm going in a crowded bus. Stop. I go out. The bus leaves, I am left alone. Around the forest. I don't know where to go. I see: the road is like an alley, probably she leads to a pioneer camp. Scary, - suddenly Paul's head begins to tremble finely, breathing quickens, the muscles of the face tenses. - I take a backpack and quickly run along the road. - He opens his eyes wide, anxiety in them; The fingers of his hands tremble finely. - Strange, I never remembered this. - Is it like an attack? - Yes, this is how the attacks begin.

Paul clinically manifested the phenomenon of "cowardice", a derivative of the word " cowardly ", that is, "tremble", "run away from fear", which is the driving force of such behavior. They began to figure out why this particular memory turned out to be so significant. It seems to be nothing unusual: the boy Pavel grew up in the village "like grass" among nature and other guys. He was the third of the eight brothers and sisters, developed and reached everything in life on his own. Eight -year -old, evening technical school, evening institute. Gradually, they found out why the concepts of “shame” and “resentment” often determine Paul’s behavior: he painfully experiences failures and criticism, is ashamed to do something bad, keeps offense for those who committed injustice not only to him, but also to others. For example, Pavel experienced a strong feeling of resentment at fifteen when he was not chosen by the group by the Komsomol. From this "injustice" he was both offended and ashamed at the same time.

- Stop! Why was it insulting and ashamed at the same time at the bus stop in front of the pioneer camp?

Pavel thought for a moment:

- I don’t know about resentment, but was ashamed of my incomprehensible fear. After all, we were boys, heroes, were not afraid of anything. The most shameful was considered to have a coward. And then like the last coward ran. What was frightened, - here he began to tremble again, and his head shakes, - I do not know.

After the devilation of the functionality "Trus - Fear - Hero" Re -entry into the situation "Road to the Pioneer Camp" passed without muscle trembling. I expressed my idea of what happened to him:

- On the way to the Pioneer camp, a physiological connection was spontaneously formed with the ethical model of the “coward”: the flight from the sudden fear of fear “clouched” with shame in front of himself, and this was unconsciously remembered. Gradually, this model was overgrown with other unpleasant events. It is no accident that you began to enter into complex discomfort after excessive alcohol consumption, when you were ashamed of others and before yourself. Unresponsive shoals of his head became an unconscious equivalent of the flight from the truth of moral shame for their cowardice, a complex of inferiority - a kind of masochism of Krivda. How is my hypothesis perceived?

- Very positive. Can I change anything?

After four meetings, the application of Paul was fulfilled, he straightened up and began to smile.

Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin were cowards, ethical twists and sadists, and their "heroic" examples inspire contemporaries ethically like them

The case Paul fits into different logic of the archetypal models of the hero and coward, now we will consider them. In real life, the first is born a hero who defeated everyone, starting from the sperm race to the coveted egg, nine -month ripening and painful birth. He suddenly was born and screamed, because he already knows how to breathe, drink, absorb food, chaotically move in small muscles and communicate with the world in which for some reason he was pushed by his mother's body. Synchronously with growing up the physical body, he, a little man, begins to mirror his ethical body from the elements of the relevant life of his parents, relatives, ethnic groups, denominations inside those crops, under the umbrellas of which he grows, and in his achievements he is a student, creator and hero at the same time. The newborn hero is not afraid of anyone, he is open to peace and communication, but this is dangerous for survival. Ethical and physiological counterweights gradually ripen-normal caution with its extreme, fear, which generates the model of a coward, which is afraid of everything. Fear forms complexes of imaginary physical or mental inferiority of a person that he is trying to overcome with significantly great efforts than that required. Alfred Adler called such a process hypercompensation. At the same time, the result is achieved, which allows you to take a dominant position in relation to other people and, accordingly, enjoy your "heroic" actions.

In my research experience, the mechanism of bioethical hypercompensation unequally works for people with different intuitive-ethical matrices of “grief” (-) and “joys” (+), these are: normetics (/+), optimists (+/+), pessimists (-/-) and introverts (+/-) with a overhaled perception grief and joy, that is, sadomasochism. In the fourth version, the hypercompensation of the inferiority complex from masochism is reformatted into the moral and physiological sadism of the winner, the "hero". An illustration of the said is the experience of hazing in the Russian army, I managed to scientifically engage in this subject for 20 years.

There is a fundamental difference between the hero and the coward: the coward demonstrates moral metamorphoses, dressing in masks of the heroes of the present and the past, as if getting used to their noble cliches, justifying their inept actions. However, things are given: if the hero wins with skill and truth, then the coward takes the upper hand and lie, mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. Ivan the Terrible and Joseph Stalin were cowards, ethical twists and sadists, and their "heroic" examples inspire contemporaries ethically like them. The disguise is indicated by many terms united by the concept of "ersatz-hero." Heroes and Erzats-heroes incompatibly resist each other, morally and energetically attracting people like themselves.

So who is the hero of our time? Perhaps the omnipotent Igor Sechin, who cowardly refused to come to court to expose his accomplice? Most likely, he-in the cohort of Erzats-heroev, like his boss, who turned into the status of Erzatz-President after an unscrupulous castling on September 24, 2011. If Vladimir Putin would leave his post according to the Constitution, then he would go down in history by a hero. But no: after a series of interstate sins, blood, sanctions and the like, an ugly trace of a coward will reach behind him, even a game in the night hockey league will not return the lost image of the hero.

Maybe the Russian Orthodox Church heroes in the protection of the weak and offended? No, she puts the sovereign above God, and this is turning into good deed of the main sin in Christianity - pride, of course, is disorrible. This is only a "selfless love for Russia" to the population .

Maybe the Russian people themselves are a special hero? No, the people are excessively cowardly and therefore compensatoryly proud of the imperial greatness, so they survive for more than others longer, therefore, they incomparably lost the most in the last wars, and therefore votes at the point from above. The people cowardly bounced back from the newly given to the restructuring of freedom-and again lives in Erzats-Strand with Erzatz-production, Erzats-mines and laws from the Erzatz-deputies.

Against the background of all -Russian cowardice, Alexei Navalny appears with his uncomplicated instrument of truth, most frightening cowardly power. Ksenia Sobchak sincerely complained that "his path is the path to the embrasure," but cowardly did not name the name of the one who leads the "gang of people" on the other side of the embrasure that became the constitution and which the Erzatz-patriots are melted with leveling laws and strength actions. In fact, Navalny advocates compliance with the Russian Constitution as an instrument of destruction of corruption that really destroys the country. His extraordinary campaign attracts people who want to become associates of heroic deeds and directed to defeat their cowardice in the final battle of the hero with a coward.

Unfortunately, the informational and guards power of the insulgent coward still prevails over the “horned” truth of the hero. Therefore, on March 18, 2018, Russia runs the risk of joining the new stage of the triumph and the greatness of the centenary era of cowardly Russian sadism.

Georgy Yuryev - an expert on biosocial problems of an individual, doctor of medical sciences, candidate of psychological sciences

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