Dear my potential readers! Before I begin my dubious undertaking to capture your, if not your mind, then at least partially, attention, as a moderately well-mannered person, I consider it my duty to introduce myself, to inform you of my plans and the methods of their implementation. In addition, by doing so, I will save your precious time and significantly facilitate your choice in deciding whether to continue our acquaintance or to cut it off quietly, in English. Agree, the better you know a person, the easier it is to understand him and send him away, without any special sentimentality! Those who read my articles with amazing unanimity reproached me for expressing my thoughts in a complex, abstruse manner, while it should be done simply and cheerfully. And, indeed, let's say, you can write: "Everything is revealed, run!" and thus provoke the manifestation of the moment of truth. It is difficult to say whether this is a joke or a real one, a joke by A. Conan Doyle, which showed the objective essence of things, but, as they say now: “no big deal, cool”, which translated back into Old Slavonic means approximately the following: “Wow! Ho-ho!” Easy, fun, but no result, they steal as they did before! No, on an even larger scale!
Okay, let's put the jokes aside and put on a serious expression. The Ten Commandments! They have been known for three and a half thousand years! Not everyone can list them all by heart, but everyone knows what they say, approximately, and can reproduce them fragmentarily. Yes, in fact, they do not contain any supernatural requirements and guidelines. We already know everything they are about. We know! Three and a half thousand years! Well, what result?! And there is no result, with rare exceptions!
And this is a sad, no - tragic fact! Let's imagine: there is a small distance between points A and B. A route has been laid out: straight ahead; then to the right; then straight ahead again and to the left; then around. Only a few will follow such a route; the bulk will go diagonally along the dug path. Now let's imagine that the dug path is a minefield, which everyone knows about and, most importantly, understands (!); where will the bulk of the mass move? And why? Because knowing and understanding are different things! And if we all understood that: either according to the Ten Commandments; or along a minefield, understood (!), then the statistics of the "pedestrians" would be in favor of the "route".
Bobik in the circus also knows: one whistle - woof; two - woof-woof, and then - dessert, he also knows! And if we move on to smells, he knows them better and more than the trainer! A person, and especially a person of the modern level of civilization, needs understanding, which necessarily gives rise to mutual understanding! And I really hope so! It is not difficult to simply share some final information, it is difficult to describe the process of which it is a result. It is difficult, but necessary! It is necessary, because it leads to mutual understanding and recognition of the result of the process.
One respected and honored scientist, academician, when he read my work, made a remark to me: "You write like a textbook." The last thing I want to do is to position myself "as a textbook", because this form of dialogue, and I count on it, violates the horizontality of communication links, which, in turn, is the cause of conflicts. But with all this, I am convinced, believe and feel that reason is given to man for understanding processes, and not for collecting their unsuccessful versions, inevitable in the absence of understanding. I offer my sincere, heartfelt apologies in advance for possible difficulties that arise when reading my texts. I will try! Try to choose the most precise, capacious, laconic expressions to convey your own feelings and thoughts, try to be understood and comprehensible, so that joint efforts will help us overcome all the difficulties of the path to mutual understanding and achieve it. With God, on your way!
I am somewhat wary of publicly available statistical data. Wary because before using them, it is necessary to determine whether they are being published in order to create in the electorate the desired idea of the ongoing process for their source or in order to provide objective information. At the same time, it is not at all impossible that the origin of such data may be the result of an honest mistake. I think many of you, Dear Readers, have witnessed the situation when, at the end of the working day, a disheveled little boss comes running and says that the higher-ups urgently demand that He be informed of this; this and also this! The discouraged team of nurses or workers, or perhaps engineers or electricians, looks in bewilderment at the place where the little boss had just stood, then at each other. Finally, the discordant indignation of the team, which, as a rule, does not adhere to the canons of elegant literature, is summarized by someone's decisive conclusion:
- So, here we write approximately this much, and here - this much, no one will check anyway! - And how much here? We have no idea about this at all! Comes from somewhere in the corner. - And here write 37%! Decisively flies out from another. - And why exactly 37? The first corner does not calm down. - And so that no one guesses! Puts the second point on the collection of primary statistical data! The happy little boss passes the obtained result to the top. There, such data is processed and "slightly combed" taking into account the interests of the top. Finally, in a week or two, the result will be in demand by the very top! There the data is processed again and again “slightly combed” in accordance with the interests of the very top, after which the “dish” is considered ready for “consumption” as intended. From the above-described plot one should not conclude that statistics is a complete clown show. Of course, a very significant mass of statistical data has the right to be trusted. However, the difficulty lies in the fact that in the public domain both masses are in a mixed state, which raises the question: what to do? How to filter out “clown show” from trust? There are two ways here. 1. Do not resort to statistical data at all!
But this method is unacceptable, since it makes any judgment that needs to be supported by facts rhetorical, unfounded, based solely on the subjective preferences of its owner.
2. Collect this statistical indicator from different sources, compare and analyze it dynamically, identify the general trend of its change, and then draw analytical conclusions from this trend, and not from the absolute values of the indicator following from any one source of information. In the end, to illustrate the trend, you can use any one source of data if they correspond to the identified trend. In addition, it is extremely necessary to additionally monitor that the illustrated process does not contradict the facts of everyday life. "Practice is the criterion of truth" or, at least, a serious reason to think about the correctness of theoretical conclusions, especially if you take into account that truth is a thing, in general, unattainable for mortals! Therefore, when a conflict with practice does arise, this means that the corresponding judgment is erroneous and requires a more careful selection of the initial statistical data. For example, if you have learned for certain that during a seasonal epidemic, an unspoken order has been sent from above to below, even to one particular medical institution, not to make a certain diagnosis, say, flu, then it is pointless to use official flu statistics. They simply will not reflect the real state of affairs. Or inflation statistics. When you come across statistical data on the level of inflation, but there is no clarification as to what type of inflation such data refers to: consumer; statistical or some other, then such information should not be taken seriously. Most likely, they are in the public domain in order to form public opinion in a certain way, and not to provide objective information. Many statistical data, and very important and very objective ones, can be obtained independently, as they say, "without getting off the couch." How? It's very simple! For example, you need data on the growth and growth rate of the population in the country. For this purpose, you should simply meet a nurse from a children's clinic who has been working there for about twenty or thirty years and ask her: how many newborns were registered in her area thirty years ago and how many now. Having made simple calculations, you will get a fairly accurate picture of the country. Knowing the population of your city and country, and the total number of areas in the city, you can find other demographic indicators In approximately the same way, you can determine.
"Every big ass in life starts with a little butt in the head"
Article 3. Part 1.
Not everything is good, what is better!
A person, as an intelligent being, who thinks, tends to look at the World and the surrounding Space analytically. It is absolutely indisputable that the process of observation and the information accumulated as a result are the "fuel" for the development of the mind. These unique distinctive human features suggest that the development of reason is the most important universal task of mankind. Let's proceed from this understanding of the role of man in Nature, especially since there is hardly anyone who can offer an alternative to man in this fascinating occupation or offer a more honorable mission. more pleasing to the conceit of the king of nature. Well, in fact, not improving the ways of obtaining food can be a worthy justification for the intellectual capabilities of man, given to him by Nature. Of course not, because the need for food is equally common to all movable and immovable living communities. And if so, then it can be argued that a person, and even more so a highly developed society, analytically examining this wonderful World, first of all, should focus their attention on the key components of the observed Space, Its main features and distinctive features, i.e., on themselves! To focus attention on oneself does not mean to imagine oneself as the navel of the Universe, sitting on the fluffy grass of the Areopagus and gazing possessively at the fat surroundings. This means understanding the need for a mental "step aside" in order to look at the World and yourself in this World through Its "eyes". Look at the coordinates of Its values and laws and analytically assess the degree of your importance and responsibility in It and for It. Let's look at humanity from the outside, as a regular, integral, but very significant, essential part of the World! Let's start with the distinctive features of the population that lie on the "surface of the social organism" − with its "anthropometric" indicators. Let's turn to the UN statistics. Some modern sources of statistical data cite other indicators, but in trends and dynamics they are identical to what the UN publishes. Therefore, in accordance with the above-mentioned data selection principle, UN indicators can be used to analyze the demographic process. According to this organization, in 1950, the planetary society reached 2.6 billion people. That is, from the very beginning, from the appearance of intelligent man, whenever and under any circumstances, and until 1950, the human population grew to 2.6 billion. individuals. Further. I will not bore you with digital details, anyone who is interested in them will easily find them in statistical reports. I will only pay attention to the following! From 1950 to 1999, over the course of 49 years, the world's population actually grew at an accelerated rate and reached 6 billion people. human. Then, over the next 12 years, the growth rate of the human population stabilized and, according to the actual UN data, the world's population as of October 2011 was 7 billion people. Next, the UN makes a forecast until 2100. According to it, starting from 2011 and up to 2100, the population of the planetary ecological system will continue to grow, but now with a slowdown in growth rates. So, by 2030 it will amount to approximately 8.5 billion, and by 2050 the world's population should be approximately 9.7 billion. Finally, by 2100, the world's population is projected by the United Nations to reach approximately 11.2 billion people. As of October 2021, the actual population of the Earth was 7.9 billion people. a person who fits into the forecasts. Let's analyze the "anthropometric" data of the planetary society. 1. The entire period of the evolution of society under study from 1950 to 2100 is characterized by population growth. 2. Such a period of growth in the size of society is divided into three fundamentally different demographic growth modes. 2.1. The first is the virtually confirmed regime of increasing society from 1950 to 1999, which is characterized by an acceleration in the growth rate of the world's population. 2.2. The second is also a virtually confirmed growth regime of society from 1999 to 2011, which is characterized by a stabilization of growth rates. 2.3. The third one is already a predicted, hypothetical regime from 2011 to 2100, which is characterized by a slowdown in the growth rate of the world's population. So, during the entire study period, the world's population is growing, which means that the number of individuals of reproductive age is also growing. Then it follows from this: 1) during a significant part of the first growth regime, fertility (the actual reproduction of offspring by society, the degree to which society implements its reproductive function) increased. Then, before the onset of the second population growth regime, at some point, fertility stabilized; 2) it is also quite obvious that the second, and even more so the third growth regime, from 2011 to 2100, corresponds to a decrease in fertility. The process of fertility change is somewhat ahead of the completion of each demographic regime for the reason that population growth is influenced not only by fertility. Some inertia in relation to fertility in the transition from one mode of growth of a society to another is ensured by the fact that the change in population size is directly influenced by the size of the total reproductive mass of a society. It is quite obvious that the greater the reproductive mass of a society or its subject, the more inertial it is in relation to fertility changes. There is no consensus in population statistics, mainly regarding forecasts for the future. Different sources offer different options. But! But, at the same time, for the next 100 years, various sources have an alarming consensus regarding a decrease in population growth, and some even predict its reduction. This fact is a key issue not only for this article, but also for the future of humanity. The latter statement clearly follows from further publications. To confirm or refute the predicted part of the statistical data, consider society and the planetary ecological system as a single organism. Let's look at it on a causal basis, from the perspective of an outside observer. Let's establish a cause-and-effect relationship, and a reversible relationship, between the above statistics and the obvious processes that have taken place and are taking place in the planetary ecological system over the past 100 to 150 years. This formulation of the question will allow us to find, in particular, an explanation for why I consider the consensus in forecasts regarding the decline in growth rates to be alarming. Let us ask ourselves the question: what grounds do we have for considering demographic processes not as isolated within the framework of society alone, but as an integral part of the entire planetary evolutionary process? I think there is every reason for this! So much so that there can be no other approach to demographic issues, especially in a highly developed society, especially one developing in a technogenic-consumer direction, when the lion's share of the results of human development is reversibly invested in adapting the external space to their own interests. So, the first mode! The number of the society is steadily growing, and it is growing at an accelerating pace. What explanations, what reasons can underlie this fact? There can be only one reason – the environment is favorable! Why? Yes, because the environment in which the population increases qualifies as favorable and vice versa. Let's imagine a garden. The gardener works hard and the garden rewards his efforts with increasing yields and the number of trees. Is it good? Yes! It is for this purpose that the gardener invests his labor! Now let's imagine the opposite situation: yields are falling; trees are drying up.; their number is decreasing. For some reason, the gardener does not provide the garden with conditions favorable for its development. It's very simple.: A garden growing is good for a garden; a garden dying is bad for a garden! A garden is a living organism, just like a society. The example given is not an allegory, but a formula. The population is measured by the growth formula. I will not cite it, as it will require additional description, which is beyond the scope of the article. Moreover, as a result of the ability of society to operate with intelligence, the growth function in relation to society has a more complex form than in relation to the garden. The environment is primary, it is the root cause of all processes in society. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the reversibility of social processes, i.e., the environment has an impact on society, and society on the environment. In other words, the environment is, to a certain extent and in accordance with the law on action and counteraction, a man-made product. Moreover, the higher the level of development of a society, the more man-made the habitat, since the more opportunities society has to influence it. In fact, the confirmed part of the UN data shows two modes of population growth: the first is in conditions of increasing fertility; the second is in conditions of declining fertility. What conclusion does this allow us to draw regarding the habitat? It is quite obvious that the habitat in which fertility grew, It was considered more favorable for population growth than the one in which it decreased, since the population size is indirectly related to the environment through fertility, if one does not take into account the total reproductive mass of the society or its subject. There are three issues that need to be clarified here. 1 What is the habitat, what is it, what concepts define it? 2. What are the parameters of the components of the habitat and how do they determine the degree of its favorability? 3. Are the concepts: habitat and standard of living of a society or its subject, in the traditional interpretation, synonymous or are these concepts different, what is the difference and whether we put the right meaning in the concept; standard of living, if we interpret it separately from the concept: habitat? I would formulate the answer to the first question like this! The habitat of a society or its subject is a complex of internal and external conditions, circumstances, and factors for a society or its subject that ensure the evolution of a society or its subject at a given stage of development. Since we are talking about society, about man, and initially we proceed from the fact that the main universal task of man is the process of developing reason, then such a set of conditions, in terms of internal circumstances, circumstances operated solely by society itself, should represent a certain set of its spiritual and intellectual resources. It should represent the totality, which to a large extent, no less than the external conditions, forms the quality of the habitat of the society. Circumstances external to society represent a material resource external to its intellectual and spiritual resources, with which society interacts. Moreover, it must be borne in mind that: - firstly, the external material resource is largely both quantitatively and qualitatively dependent on the level of technical and technological development of society, i.e., it depends on the intellectual resource of society or its subject, if we are not talking about the whole society.; - Secondly, the realization of an intellectual resource depends on the spiritual resource of a society or its subject, it depends on how much it is directed towards technical and technological development in the technogenic-consumer direction and in which direction it is directed towards the development of reason.; - thirdly, all these three resources are in reversible dependence on each other. Let's think about it. One of the main distinguishing features of a person, an individual, from all other representatives of his environment is spirituality. I undertake to assert that spirituality is the primary of all essential distinguishing features. It is primary, since spirituality is the source of faith, and faith is the source of axiomatics, which forms a formal system within which judgments are carried out, i.e., the development of reason is carried out. Let's imagine that society is losing its spiritual component. In this case, he loses the ideological, ideological component, which is a unifying, formative principle for society or its subject. He loses the idea that defines the general semantic direction of his evolution and, as a result, loses the opportunity not only to develop, but also to exist as a society, as a social education in general. It loses the unifying vector of its evolutionary process, and, consequently, it splits into smaller entities, each of which individually does not have the potential for development that a single, integral social education previously possessed. And that's the best case scenario! And in the worst case, society disappears and turns into a population of subjects formed according to the generic principle, each evolving on its own at the most primitive, naturally closed level. In such conditions, the population is capable of implementing the most primitive technologies that do not require a social organization or an organized mass of intelligence operators. In fact, as a result, human society ceases to be a society. It is quite obvious that the intellectual resource of society should also be minimized, since technologies are becoming primitive, requiring primitive development of intelligence. Intelligence has two dominant aspects in the field of practical application: production – working with an external material resource and the development of the mind − fundamental science. Both directions mutually support each other's evolution, as they are strongly connected by technology. Accordingly, in the absence of spirituality or its degradation, an intellectual resource is missing or degrades in its two possible areas of application. As a result, man loses the potential to fulfill his main universal mission. And finally, the external material resource, which, together with the intellectual one, ensures the production activity of society, is food and production facilities, social energy. It is quite obvious that in conditions of depletion of the intellectual resource, the external material resource will also be depleted, since production, in particular, food production, like the entire energy sector, directly depends on technology, which, in turn, is a consequence of the intellectual resource. The circle has closed! It can be argued that in the paradigm "the universal mission of man is the development of reason", three types of resources that ensure the development of civilization represent the trinity – the basis of existence, the primary basis of which is spirituality! Now let's reflect on the second issue, the environmental friendliness. So, the concept of a habitat for a society is determined by the totality of its level of spirituality, intellectual level and external material space, in which the first two are realized. Then it can be assumed and argued that the regime of a favorable environment should correspond to a certain configuration of these three concepts. And it can certainly be argued that such a configuration must necessarily be harmonious, because otherwise it will cause persistent conflicts of a crisis nature. Moreover, each of the three components of the habitat will vary in a certain range of its values. Why will it vary rather than evolve linearly, ensuring a linear process of habitat change? Because the fundamental law of Nature is the law of the Unity and struggle of opposites, which means that the ideal, i.e., stable state of any natural process, including the evolution of society, is the search – the struggle for such a stable state. The steady process of evolution is a continuous search for an equilibrium state in the range of non–critical values of conflicts. Non-critical meanings of conflicts, i.e., their meanings when they are of a developing nature, rather than oppressing the wrong direction of development chosen by society. Evolution is a continuous search for a stable state, not some kind of linear process. In physics, this phenomenon is called a fluctuation. Conflict, or, to use physical terminology, the potential for interaction, is the cause of any process, including evolutionary, both taking place within society and within Nature in general. Fundamental physical laws are also at the heart of any evolution, and they, the fundamental laws, are completely indifferent to which particular object came into their field of vision, since they are fundamentally competent. Consequently, each of the three components of the habitat provides a regime of its favorable state in a certain range of its values. Thus, the favorable regime of the habitat of a society represents a certain area formed by a set of options, each of which, in turn, is a certain configuration of values: the level of spirituality; intellectual capabilities and the state of the environment in relation to them the material environment. In this case, it can be concluded that exceeding the permissible values of at least one of the three factors that make up the habitat makes it less unfavorable. Given the primacy of spirituality in these three factors, it can also be argued that each of them has a different ability to influence the degree of environmental friendliness.
The above is clearly observed in our smaller brothers. Let's remember the zoo: there is enough food, there is no need to get it and at the same time risk your life. The temperature and other conditions of detention are close, if not ideal, then at least natural. But in such seemingly favorable conditions, fertility drops to zero in many animal species. Or let's take an extreme situation in natural conditions – a drought! At a watering hole, predators and herbivores are equal, as in a bathhouse, and the instincts of the food chain are disrupted. And the lemming effect!? The extreme population explosion of these rodents takes the conflict of the evolutionary search from a stable mode beyond the limits of stability. As a result, the quantity, in fact, the somatics of a population organism, turns into its quality, there is a violation of the mental state of animals, there is an unmotivated one within the framework of the causes solely by itself.
populations panic, eventually leading to mass deaths and a sharp decline in the lemming population. The population size returns to the limits that ensure the regime of favorable habitat and the stability of the evolutionary process. Moreover, in such a situation, population reduction occurs, naturally, due to the death of the weakest individuals. And what can we say about society, more precisely about the subject of society, which is in the mode of evolution close to the border of the area of favorable habitat? Why is the question formulated specifically in relation to the boundary of the region? Because the society that is already beyond the borders of this area is doomed in all three factors: spirituality, intelligence and external resources. In such conditions, it is steadily evolving in the opposite direction, in a negative direction, and not in the direction of the development of civilization, the development of reason. It evolves in the mode of ethnogenesis in a negative direction to the level of a state of stability, i.e., a state of harmonious correlation of the three components among themselves. And further, from this lower but stable point of development in terms of civilization, it re-implements the civilizational process. Let's answer the third question: are habitat and standard of living adequate concepts? Let's pay attention, for example, to Germany: the third largest country in the world in terms of GDP and the first in Europe. Germany is one of the ten European countries in terms of living standards. Generally speaking, the definition of the standard of living is very vague, and it is interpreted differently in each country. Moreover, it is universally defined with a strong semantic bias towards the level of consumption. I would like to ask you to focus your attention on consumption, since it is the "key" not only to the topic of this article, but also to the topic of this website, the root cause of its appearance. Nevertheless, statistics somehow operate with the concept of living standards, and as a result of such operations, it turns out that Norway occupies the first place in Europe in terms of living standards, although it is an order of magnitude inferior to Germany economically. Actually, Norway or any other developed country in Europe could be used as an example for analyzing the favorable environment in conditions of a high standard of living, and this would not affect the final result in any way. In terms of the standard of living, in the traditional interpretation, and economic strength, Germany is a very prosperous country. However, in 1972, Germany entered the demographic cross (the mortality chart crosses the falling fertility chart), the mortality rate became higher than the birth rate. I would like to draw your attention to the fact that the conflict does not lie in the growing mortality rate, although it is undoubtedly growing as a result of the aging of the subject of society. In technologically highly developed Germany, medical care is at the appropriate level! The conflict lies in the falling birth rate, which is a consequence of declining fertility: 1.35 children per woman of reproductive age. Moreover, what you should really pay attention to is a woman with German citizenship, minus the migrants! In Norway, with its highest standard of living in Europe, this figure is 1.44 children. By the way, in South Korea, according to data for 2022, it was 0.78 – the lowest in the world, and in the North – 1.78, in the USA it is falling and in 2024 it is 1.599, in the Russian Federation according to Rosstat data for January 2025 – 1.399. At the same time, in order to maintain at least the population size, the fertility rate should be approximately 2.2. Approximately because it depends on the mortality rate of this subject of society. But such a fact should mean that the habitat for this subject of society is not favorable, since the subject is dying out in it. It follows that the principle of the traditional assessment of the standard of living does not correspond to the essence of the concept of favorable living environment. Unless, of course, the habitat is determined as suggested above, and not in the number of sausages eaten. But then it must be recognized that there is no reason to state a high standard of living in Germany, how high it is if the country has created an unfavorable habitat for the population. Otherwise, the above statistics should be commented as follows: this country has a very high standard of living, but not for a long time, since it will soon die out in such conditions. "We just started living well and the money ran out." By contrast, I will cite the following indicator: in underdeveloped, economically backward Germany, if that was what the ethnic conglomerate of city-states and knight's castles could be called, at the beginning of the 19th century, there were, on average, from 5 to 5.3 children per woman of reproductive age. In 1990, the reunification of Germany and the GDR took place, a country with a significantly lower standard of living, according to traditional estimates. However, at the same time, statistics indicate a temporary surge in the birth rate, from which it should not be concluded that the habitat in the GDR made the habitat in Germany more favorable, although it was fragmented temporarily. In fact, the surge in the birth rate was the result of multiple causes. However, in terms of speed, the united Germany is returning to its characteristic demographic regime and not only is it not coming out of the demographic cross, but on the contrary, the birth rate in the country continues to fall. Presumably, it was this situation that forced the government of the country to open borders to migrants, to carry out, so to speak, a social "blood transfusion". However, the "blood" turned out to be the wrong group, which provoked an exacerbation of social pathology. What conclusions do these facts lead to? They're next! 1. Germany is evolving in an unfavorable environment, as the population of its society is in the mode of extinction. 2. In an endangered society, the standard of living cannot be high in principle, unless, of course, the concept of standard of living includes a demonstration of favorable extinction. 3. The environment of a society is a complex of three conditions: spirituality; intellectual level and external material environment. A favorable habitat is a certain area, a certain set of habitat options, each of which represents a certain set of the state of spirituality, the intellectual level of development of society and the external environment, ensuring the civilizational development process. 4. Germany is, without a doubt, a technically and technologically highly developed country. This means that the factor: the external material space in which her society evolves has a favorable character. The factor, the condition by which the standard of living is traditionally understood, has a favorable character. And traditionally, by the standard of living we mean everyday life – "sausages", but not existence! 5. To achieve such a technogenic consumer standard of living, a corresponding high intellectual potential of society is necessary. Consequently, the factor of the intellectual indicator of the habitat is also in the range of favoring "sausages". 6. But, for all that, the German society is dying out, therefore, the habitat as a whole still does not correspond to a favorable regime of evolution. And the reason can only be that the third component of the habitat, the spiritual one, does not fall within the limit of favorability. Now let's turn our analytical attention to South Sudan. Why South Sudan? Because it is the poorest country, with the lowest standard of living according to traditional estimates, not only in Africa, but also in the world. The statistics coming from South Sudan are both contradictory and incomplete, so, again, let's turn to UN statistics. In order not to bore you with numbers, I will use only a minimal set of them, which illustrates the same processes that were discussed above in relation to Germany. So! The population of South Sudan has grown from 3.5 million to almost 11 million people from 1972 to 2022. At the same time, the average number of live births per woman of reproductive age (fertility rate) fell from 10.3 to 4.5 people. The death rate is falling. From 1950 to the present, mortality has decreased by 3.66 times. Next, the UN makes a forecast until 2032, according to which the population of this country will continue to grow and fertility will continue to decline. What conclusions can be drawn from the UN statistics on South Sudan? They're next! 1. Since the country's population is growing, it follows from this unequivocal conclusion that the country is evolving in a habitat favorable for population growth. However, since fertility is steadily decreasing at the same time, this suggests that the degree of favorable habitat for population growth is decreasing. 2. The country is evolving in conditions favorable for population growth, while maintaining a low standard of living in the domestic, "sausage" dimension. 3. She is unable to provide herself with a higher standard of living because she does not have sufficient intellectual potential for this. 4. Thus, the parameters of two of the three components of the habitat: the intellectual potential of the country and the resulting external material conditions are beyond the limits that provide a favorable habitat. Then the question arises: at the expense of which resource is favorability maintained habitat for population growth? Why is the population growing in South Sudan, despite the fact that it is dying out in Germany? The answer to this question within the framework of the concept adopted here is obvious! At the expense of spirituality! What kind of spirituality are we talking about? How is this concept defined? Without going into analytical and evidentiary details, I would define the concept of spirituality as an existential social and ethnic attitude, a set of programs governing the culture of society. A meticulous reader, whom I value especially, will ask the question: what is meant by culture in this case? By culture, I mean the part of the evolutionary process that follows from the work of the cognitive function of a given society. A. regardless of the level of culture, the degree of realization of cognitive function, whether it is high or not, each social subject develops and contains a certain attitude, a program that controls the process of its evolution at a given level of cultural development. At the same time, it is logical to conclude that the higher the proportion of the intellectual factor in the environment, the stronger its influence on the environment, i.e., on the other two factors. The influence is stronger, both in terms of suppressing their significance and in terms of its development. It is not difficult to assume that such management may be good, it may not be very and frankly bad. Obviously, management can be qualified as not bad if it is able to provide a favorable habitat for society in terms of population growth, i.e., to solve the main task for any organism – to ensure its preservation of life. Moreover, in conditions of insufficiency of the other two components of this environment. Poor management is when, in conditions of a high intellectual resource and the technologies that follow from it, which provide potential opportunities for an external material resource, an unfavorable habitat is created for a subject of society. As an example, again, Germany in the period from 1929 to 1945. Its antipode in this historical period may be the USSR. Here, for a more complete understanding of the quality of the habitat, it becomes necessary to understand: what is the mechanism for creating a favorable habitat and how does it work? Then it becomes obvious that everything that does not meet the appearance of such a mechanism and the technology of its functioning will work for an unfavorable environment. Figure out how the planetary system will reprogram the spirituality of society in order to achieve harmony with the planetary system? Yes, just like parents reason with an excessively spoiled child! I will return to this topic in detail in the next article, because I think I have already abused the format of this one. God cannot be outsmarted! You can only listen to Him! When He created us, He already knew about our machinations and weaknesses, just as parents know about the possible mischief of their child.
What they fought for, they ran into, or how to get into the day before yesterday.
Let's focus on two semantic points of the first part.: 1) the assertion that the universal role of man is the development of reason; 2) and the conclusion that the traditional technology for determining the standard of living of a society or its subject in practice does not correspond to the definition of the environment accepted here, or to common sense in general. Indeed, the concept of standard of living in the traditional interpretation is not adequately defined to define the healthy development of a social organism in the future. What standard of living can a dying society have? Yes, the same as how a dying person might feel or the standard of living of fattening cattle before slaughter. In the end, it doesn't matter in what position, what environment, interior, or affluence he dies for the development perspective, since the future is predetermined as the cessation of development. I noted above that the definition of living standards does not have universally standardized criteria, but it does include one common essential feature: consumption. It is quite obvious that before proceeding to determine the standard of living of a society or its subject, it is necessary to determine: how and in what way this should be done in the context of solving the main universal task – the development of the mind. Agree, how can you assess the success of a trip if it is not clear where, in which direction you are heading. Initially, it is necessary to determine in detail how a social organism should function in conditions of fulfilling its basic, universal task. It is primitive for a highly developed society to consider a society, and even more so, a highly developed society in isolation from a planetary system. It is about as primitive as considering the planetary system as a whole outside the universal process or at the center of the universal process, which is essentially the same thing. In the world, in its rational, formalized domain, just in the one in which any kind of assessment is possible, i.e., the work of the Intellect, all processes are interconnected by fundamental laws. Intelligence is, without a doubt, fundamental! Well, judge for yourself, if there is a world – an observable object, an objective reality, then there is also someone who observes it − an Observer – Intelligence. There is Someone Who defines objective reality by a set of distinctive features and establishes patterns of processes in it, including fundamental processes. Therefore, Intelligence is primary. After all, it is He who operates with fundamental laws, laws are his consequence, and not the other way around! I would like to make a reservation right away that there is no reason to suspect me of sympathizing with esotericism. I treat this genre with irony, because it is replete with postulates and has an acute shortage of evidence for judgments. The point of view proposed to the Distinguished Reader is based on two foundations: the Second Law of Thermodynamics as interpreted by L. Boltzmann and the postulation of information as a form of existence of matter, as a type of energy. Unfortunately, the format of the article does not allow me to provide exhaustive arguments to confirm the need to adopt such a postulate, but it allows me to draw your attention to the already existing definitions of the concept of information. Despite the fact that it, the concept, is actively used in all possible directions and ways of accumulating knowledge, it would be more correct to say, in all possible processes of observation, it has not acquired a single canonical definition. Each institution applies its own "parochial" formulations, despite the fact that the need and frequency of exploitation of the concept itself is growing. It comes to completely curious formulations: "information is not matter or energy," you see, it's smart, it's a pity in short, you need to expand: not hot and not cold, etc. Or even shorter: "Information is information!", in the spirit of Porthos: "I'm fighting because I'm fighting!" But let's return to the purpose of life, in its rational observation! If Nature has given man the exclusive right to operate with Intelligence, a fundamental Phenomenon, then with a very high degree of probability it is necessary to guess that, apparently, this is his main universal mission. Otherwise, we would be like everyone else, running, jumping, tweeting, etc., etc. Therefore, the classification of the standard of living of a society, as well as its subject, should be determined based on how cost-effectively it copes with its main task, and not based on the number of "sausages eaten" and the comfort of the circumstances of their "eating". Exclusively and only such a concept determines the degree of environmental favorability, the favorability of which has a component that directly depends on the degree of development of the mind. Consequently, both the environmental friendliness and the standard of living of society have a "common root of growth" – the development of reason. And the higher the civilizational level, the deeper the "root" of society penetrates into the external material space, the more significant the influence of the intellectual factor on the civilizational process, which develops depending on the ability of society to find harmony with other fundamental processes of Nature. It is a civilizational process, not an evolutionary one, since the civilizational process is a form of evolutionary, which consists in the development of the mind. As noted in the first part, this is not a linear process, but a process of searching for a stable state of society within the framework of the law of Unity and the struggle of opposites. It takes place in an atmosphere of trial and error, strongly flavored with the work of intelligence. The higher the level of civilizational development, the greater the share of intelligence and less trial and error, but also the higher the cost of each possible mistake. From the first part, it can be concluded that both Germany and South Sudan are evolving in a habitat that has violations of the permissible limits of some of its components. Indeed, the German society is evolving in an extinction mode, which is characteristic of the entire part of the world community, which is commonly referred to as "civilized." Even in India and China, according to data for 2024, fertility rates are 2.0 and 1.2, respectively. Moreover, such an indicator for these countries should have particularly severe consequences due to the large population mass in each of them, especially for China due to a more intense decrease in fertility. Let's think about it. If a social entity has reached a very large population, then this is solely a consequence of a high fertility rate, leaving aside the reasons that provided it. Then fertility began to decline sharply, but as a result of the improving living conditions due to the civilizational breakthrough, its average duration should increase. And it will continue to increase as a result of inertia for some time even after the fading of the civilizational breakthrough. This suggests that both subjects of society, India and China, are aging rapidly, both as a result of an increase in average life expectancy and as a result of declining fertility. That is, the ratio of the non-working part of the population who are dependent on the able-bodied increases in favor of the dependents. Taking into account the mass of the population in these countries and the speed of the aging process, it can be concluded that a limit will come quickly enough beyond which the conflict of such a ratio, due to the law on quantity and quality, will reach a critical value. A situation will arise when the working-age part of the population will not be able to provide this standard of living to dependents and it will begin to decline, and this should occur faster and with more severe consequences than in any other country with the same fertility rates, but with a significantly smaller population. Again, the law on the transition from quantity to quality will come into force sooner, unless, of course, radical measures are taken in a timely manner to stabilize the aging process of society. Let's go back to Germany. What is the problem with environmental friendliness, which factor is beyond the acceptable range? Obviously, these are not intellectual and, consequently, not external conditions. Then there's the spirituality factor! But the question arises: what exactly is it broken, what suffers, what is the specific pathology? I believe that the spirituality of the "civilized" community strongly "limps" on the "leg of consumption" and does so at the expense of the resources that it, the community, was obliged to direct to the development of reason, to do its main work, and not to "sausages"! The "civilized" community slightly steals the jointly earned results of the development of the mind from the common natural cauldron! Why "together", yes, because a person is just an operator of the Intellect, and not Himself, a humble employee of the universal relaxation process. The "civilized" community has become arrogant and does not bother to ask how this could end. Let's focus on the latter in more detail.
Let's mentally step aside and look at the situation through the eyes of planetary interests. Yes, if Germany, not to mention China and India and other "civilized" communities, with their limping level of spirituality and galloping technological development, technogenic–consumer mentality, maintain fertility at the level of 1950 - 1999, then in a few years they will drain the entire planetary system into the sewer!
The same conclusion can be formulated less figuratively, but more precisely physically. According to L. Boltzmann's Second Law of Thermodynamics, the evolution of observable Nature is a process of its relaxation, an entropic process, and the process of energy dissipation in the region of observable space. This is a natural process that proceeds in strict accordance with the fundamental laws of the observed, rational, formalized part of Nature! All those involved in the process, including society, are inside it, and not somewhere to the side, on the side, on the fluffy grass of the Areopagus and, therefore, ARE FORCED to strictly comply with its laws! The process of energy dissipation is strictly regulated by the laws of the observable Universe, since such and only such a process mode ensures the harmony of its vital activity, which guarantees the longest possible existence of the observed rational object in this concept for this observer. That is, it guarantees the stability of the mind development process! (How is everything connected?!) This does not allow any person involved in the process to disrupt its harmonious course. Therefore, if a society or its subject, working hard for the benefit of the development of reason, at some point pockets, just in case, "tilki for sabe," even the smallest part of the results of the development of reason, which is not mandatory for the further fulfillment of its mission, then Nature takes the necessary a surgical instrument and makes fertility a "CHICK". GREETINGS from the author to the Golden Billion! I can imagine how a Golden Billion in this place, contemptuously spitting out the remnants of caviar stuck to their teeth, will object: "How does she know how much they've pocketed?" I answer on a level that is understandable to a Billion: "It learns from the balance of income and expense!", expense is energy consumption – the stimulation of the entropic process, and income is the development of the mind – the process of the creator. The process of the creator is also not esoteric, but the work of information within the framework of the Second Law. Here the answer to the question about South Sudan comes to the surface: why is it NOT suffering from extinction, also existing in an environment with obvious intellectual and external material impairments? Due to the weakness of the intellectual factor, South Sudan is simply unable to provide a critical increase in entropy that is tangible by Nature and goes beyond the limits of its evolutionary search. Caring Nature leaves Sudan and others with the possibility of population growth, the number of which directly affects the development of the mind. We will consider the mechanism of such influence below. So, what will happen next if humanity does not change its consumer ideology and the economic model that follows from it. It can definitely be argued that the mechanism for creating a favorable living environment is a mechanism in which the program of its work, spirituality, is able to ensure a regime of harmony in the interaction of an intellectual resource and the external material environment. In fact, to ensure that there is no stimulation of the entropy process beyond the limits set by Nature. This is despite the fact that any object, any participant in evolution inevitably becomes a participant in the entropic process. Accordingly, the higher the level of development of the mind, the more participants involved, the more intense the dispersion, the higher the responsibility! You must agree that this conclusion is obvious for two reasons: - firstly, society is the subject of a single planetary whole, and, therefore, of a natural organism, it is its organ; - secondly, if there is a certain "pathology" diagnosed by the laws of fundamental intelligence as a social one − a deviation from the norm in terms of the priority of the development of the mind, then the whole body will react and try to suppress such pathology, heal itself, i.e., influence society or its subject at the immune level, reprogram it into a regime the evolution of harmonious interaction. Based on all of the above, let's look at what is happening around us and reflect on what awaits us in the near future., Nowadays, without any allegorical exaggeration, we observe the effect of lemmings in the human community. Judge for yourself: the widespread degradation of art, ethics, and aesthetics, both geographically and by genre; the widespread degradation of education; healthcare does not work towards healing, but towards relieving symptoms, which, in fact, no longer fits into the definition of the concept of healthcare, since it does not fight the disease, but its sensation. Against this background: multiple ongoing armed conflicts; massive widespread migration; legalized and propagandized homosexuality, Satanism; constantly changing and adding marginal movements, etc., etc. According to official WHO data, in most developed countries of the world there is an unprecedented increase in mental disorders, every eighth inhabitant of the planet has a mental disorder. The total number of cases of such a mental disorder as autism in world statistics increased 10-fold from 2006 to 2016. The listed social pathologies can be attributed to facts having a mental origin. However, let's ask ourselves the question: how does such an environment correlate with spirituality and can it, in general, contribute to the health of the social organism? Of course not! Now let's look at the somatics of the social organism, which refers to a material factor that is external to the spiritual and intellectual. Let's find out how healthy the society is physically in order to ensure its continued existence in the mode of civilizational development. For example, according to WHO, one in five, i.e., 20% of the world's population, suffers from allergic diseases today, and the list of such diseases is constantly growing. From 1990 to 2022, diabetes increased from 7% to 14%, by 630 million people and reached 828 million patients. According to forecasts by 2050 The number of diabetic patients will be 1.5 billion. Currently, more than 1 million children worldwide suffer from diabetes. Moreover, what is very important, experts name two causes of diabetes mellitus, which have approximately the same effect on the result. The first is the demographic shift – the aging of society, and diabetes has a special "sympathy" for the elderly. And the second one falls right into the "top ten" of the essence of this article – this is mass obesity. They ate "sausages", got lazy, got fat on the stolen one! The somatic state of the social organism and the negative dynamics of its change do not give grounds for recognizing the external material factor as being within the limits that ensure the favorable environment. And what do statistics say about the somatic state of the social organism, which has a direct impact on fertility? All sources note a decrease in fertility in the world from about 5 children on average per woman of reproductive age in the first half of the 50s of the last century to 2.6 by 2010 to 2015. According to global indicators, this phenomenon, in particular, is the result of a decrease in sperm concentration by 3-4 times, and this is despite the fact that according to some data, the amount of sperm itself in men has halved over the past 50 years. According to WHO data, in 2023 every sixth inhabitant of the planet is faced with infertility. I will not load the article with numbers, anyone who is interested can look at them for themselves, I will only note that to the growing infertility is added the growing pathology of pregnancy and the growing statistics of birth defects, and a significant part of these defects relate to psychiatry. The chart of the average birth rate and mortality in Europe shows that it crossed the demographic cross in the period from 1993 to 2013, after which a steady trend of mortality over fertility appeared. Global mortality statistics: since 2018, mortality has begun to rise, and this is against the background of an increase in average life expectancy and technological progress. Moreover, special attention should be paid to the fact that the average life expectancy on the planet is increasing, which is most likely due solely to the statistical effect on the background of the demographic shift. This is explained by the fact that the birth rate is falling, and, consequently, the planetary society is aging on average. And even more attention should be paid to the fact that an increase in the average life expectancy is provided not by increasing the healthy period of life of the average person, but by increasing the duration of his stay in pathology. At the same time, the duration of a healthy period of life is steadily decreasing. The latter is of particular importance for countries with large populations. The above facts and reflections give grounds for an unambiguous conclusion: Nature slows down population growth! And the only reason to start this process is the violation of the regime of its development by society, the violation of the fundamental laws of the observed space! Those laws by which, operating with Intelligence, society itself formalized space as rational, observable. The society, intoxicated by its own successes, has brought itself into conflict with What it is a part of, an organ of! And a rational organism, by the way, created through a society operating with Intelligence, puts it firmly in its place! Let's think about how the process can develop further. There are two possible options here.
1. He puts it in its place, and let it put it in its place, for us "sausages are closer to the body" than the further development of the mind in conditions of even restrained asceticism. 2. Overcoming obesity and the gravity of the toilet, gathering the last efforts of will into a pile, crawl to the saving "toggle switch" and switch it from the "sausage" position to the "brains" position. 1. We leave everything as it is: we eat, kill, and continue to engage in all sorts of other outrages in the frenzy of mental selfishness. Accordingly, the external conditions of evolution remain in the same regime; the population of society is declining, its psychosomatic state is deteriorating; art, education, medicine, and everything else is deteriorating. Accordingly, the average level of operational capabilities of society in terms of Intelligence is also deteriorating. This process is not uniform across geography, and it is more intense in the "civilized" part of humanity, which follows from the above and the "view from the window." The uneven geographical decline of the population leads to mass migration from countries with low consumption and an excess of labor to countries with higher consumption and a growing shortage of labor due to falling fertility. Let's pay attention, the recipient countries of the labor force − These are the ones who are the main operators of Intelligence, the generators of technology. Imagine that you are having lunch, eating excellent soup, and you want more, but it's over. You add water to the plate, it's full again, but the soup...? Alas! It's the same with migrants! It is not enough that the "civilized" subject of society has already independently emerged from the zone of a favorable environment in terms of the spiritual factor, now he has emerged from it in terms of the intellectual one. But that's not all! Migrants do not pour "water" into the plate of the technology generator, but "ethnic water", ethnogenesis occurs, which is inevitably accompanied by the cessation of the civilizational process and a change in the direction of the vector of evolution in the opposite direction. As a result, the collapse of civilizational development occurs. Does it remind you of anything? This situation is a direct consequence of the law of conservation of energy and is described in terms of physics, but this is beyond the scope of the article. We observed a similar phenomenon in the Middle Ages, when the degraded ancient civilization collapsed in the fifth century and Europe was restored to the level of a generator of the civilizational process in the ethnogenesis mode for more than a thousand years. In contrast to the present, the civilizational process was not global at that time. Therefore, the process of general planetary decline was dampened by the rise of the Arab world and China. We live in the era of global energy and technology in general, which is the key to the inevitable curtailment of the entire planetary civilizational process. We are already directly observing a lot of things "from the window" today. "Tomorrow" the following will happen. The operational capabilities of the global society in terms of working with Intelligence will decrease. Accordingly, humanity will not be able not only to generate new technologies in order to warm and feed a still growing society, but it will not even be able to support those that are already working. Or do you think that the next day after obtaining citizenship, migrants will launch satellites and spaceships, engage in nuclear fusion, bioengineering, create algorithms for software products, etc. Fundamental science, and technology will collapse after it. Against the background of ethnogenesis, this will lead to the breakdown of administrative management, and, ultimately, to the breakdown of state borders. The era of hunger, cold, epidemics, self-forming gangs and the rule of the strong will come. Let's ask ourselves a question: and now we don't see threatening hints about my forecast in practice. Humanity will roll back in evolution "the day before yesterday", to the civilizational level that will ensure the harmonious coexistence of its primitive technologies with the outside, which has shrunk due to the impossibility of observing space – the surrounding nature. Big greetings to the Golden Billion! No, you misunderstood me, not from me, but from him! Then, after an indefinite number of years, everything will repeat itself and at a new stage of civilization, the age of enlightenment will surely come. It will come on the basis that the universal role of man is the role of the operator of Intelligence in the process of developing the mind. It will come and will come again and again until society learns its lessons and gets into the "right hole" of the evolutionary process. 2. And if the "toggle switch" is switched to the position: brains(?), what will happen then? First, let's get away from the allegory and concretize the concept of the question. It means: what will happen, what changes will occur in the planetary organism, if society reformats the program for managing its evolution to a variant not with an emphasis on consumption, but with an emphasis on spiritual and intellectual development. It will reformat it so that during the economic process, industrial pressure on the external environment will be maintained at a level minimally sufficient to ensure consumption corresponding to the general level of cultural development, but at the same time the maximum possible development of the mind. Here the question may arise: the universal mission is good, but what about the "sausages"? What does this mean: fulfilling the universal mission at any cost, half-starved? No! If we consider all of the above more strictly, within the framework of physics, then the limit of reasonable sacrifice can be calculated, but this task is beyond the scope of the article. Here I can only add that the calculation algorithm uses: classification according to N. S. Kardashev; the formula for the exchange of information between the observer and the observed object and the empirical research method. Well, okay, you've reformatted your mentality, and then what? Then the society enters into a mode of harmonious interaction with the external environment, and part of the reactive reaction disappears from the external environment, compensating for the industrial pressure of society on it, which is not justified by the need for the development of reason. Psycho-somatic pathologies disappear in society, he recovers, the environment becomes favorable and he begins to grow civilizationally and physically. The question arises: why should he grow physically, if he can grow civilizationally, which will preserve the external environment to a greater extent? This is impossible, since the quantity of society turns into quality in any case, both in the case of vicious development and in the case of laminar development with the environment. But it proceeds in different ways: in the first case, with the suppression of the development of society; in the second, with the stimulation of its development in terms of fulfilling the universal task and the stability of the civilizational process. Let's imagine a society, some set of individuals, let's say ten people. Each individual has personal essential distinguishing features of a psycho-somatic nature. It can be the iris of the eye, and the papillary pattern, and the features of the psychotype, and operational capabilities in terms of working with Intelligence, etc. But at the same time, they all have the same essential features that unite them as a society. However, in this society, the personal characteristics of everyone have not disappeared, they exist on an individual level and manifest themselves on a social level. Such a manifestation of the personal in the collective creates certain, non-systematic deviations from the general line of behavior of society, in physics they are called fluctuations. The larger the society, the more fluctuations there are, the more diverse they are, and, of course, the less impact each fluctuation has on the whole society, the more resistant the society is to each individual fluctuation. However, the more likely it is that in a certain time period there will immediately be a certain number of fluctuations that are quite identical. In this case, they can all have a significant impact on the collective social behavior. But in this case, since they come from a certain set of individuals, i.e. That is, from a certain subset, a sub-society, the probability that their total fluctuation has objective reasons that are significant for the entire society increases. Thus, it can be argued that with an increase in the population of a society, up to a certain limit, its stability as a given object and the ability to find solutions that are significant for the evolution and development of reason increases. I leave the question of the limit of the increase in society open, so as not to strengthen the Respected reader's suspicions about the author's penchant for esotericism. I say it again: NO! But the law on the transition from quantity to quality is still in effect, and if it continues to be in effect in the future, in the bright memory of Heraclitus and Hegel, then it can be assumed that, given the universal mission of mankind, the amount of society can be expressed not only in the population: one; two; three ..., but also in other indicators representing other essential distinguishing features of society. If we consider the process of interest in axiomatics, which includes the materiality of information, it becomes obvious that society, as an operator of Intelligence, in the process of developing the mind "mutates" into an object with other essential distinguishing features that characterize it as a creator. God cannot be outsmarted! You can only listen to Him!
Let's conduct the following mental experiment: each of you, Dear reader, will answer the question: is money a tool for you to achieve a goal, or do you put a different meaning in it? I think most people will answer yes to the first part of the question. In any case, my life experience inclines me to this opinion. Let's think about it, is it so? Let's look at money not as a participant in the purchase and sale process, but as a phenomenon in the development of society, as a stage of its civilizational process. Indeed, money is an element of a certain technology of public relations, a certain stage in the development of social interactions. Isn't that right? So! Then let's get out of the buy-sell paradigm and consider their appearance, role and evolution of their role in the evolution of society. Reasoning in this way inevitably leads to the unequivocal and obvious conclusion that money, in terms of its functionality, is exclusively a conditional universal equivalent of the value of a natural product. A conditional equivalent of the value of a product that is already directly related to a life-sustaining resource. A product that is already directly what physically ensures the process of evolution of society, i.e., it ensures the physical process, because evolution is nothing more than the process of physical work. At a certain stage in the development of society, money emerged as a technology, as a way to simplify the exchange process in the production of a fairly large range of products, as a result of which natural exchange became difficult. They simplified the exchange process! A builder builds a house – he exchanges his physical work for an equivalent, which he can then exchange for a product that directly supports the livelihoods of his family. For a product that ensures the process of vital activity, i.e. That is, the process of physical work, since life in any form of manifestation is the process of physical work, proceeding in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Actually, life itself is the Second Law in L. Boltzmann's interpretation. The goal of a builder is to adequately exchange his physical work for the equivalent of money. At the same time, the customer's goal is to adequately exchange money for a house that will provide a certain technology for the life process of his family, provide a certain technology for physical work. From the point of view of the physical meaning, money is a kind of conditional universal measure of potential energy at a phase transition that ensures the further performance of physical work in the process of social life, in the process of relaxation within the framework of the Second Law. It follows from the above that, in fact, money is firmly tied to a natural product as an equivalent conditional universal measure of its life-sustaining value, but at the same time, in terms of functionality, it is not a product itself. Moreover, a product should be understood as any result of human activity capable of ensuring the life process carried out at a given technological level of development of society, from a nut to a symphony. However, those who answered themselves that money is a tool for them were not really mistaken, because in fact it has been a long historical period in the evolution of society, and indeed it is. Let's see what we have in practice. In the second article, I talked about the principle of statistical data selection. I will cite the result of such work with publicly available statistics illustrating the state of the global commodity and financial markets. Let me make a reservation right away that in our case, attention should be paid not to the absolute value of indicators or their trend or dynamics in change, but to the relative value of the same statistical data coming from different sources. You should pay attention to the spread of indicators and their inconsistency. The commodity market! The World Bank. According to this organization, in 2024, the global total GDP amounted to $105,435,039,130,000. According to other analysts, this amount is: 106,171,670,000,000 USD. The same analysts predict a drop in this indicator by the end of 2025 to: 97,900,000,000,000 USD. It should be clarified here that global GDP includes the sum of the prices of the total amount of products and services produced in the world in the analyzed space. This indicator does not include the total volume of sales on the stock market, since the stock market is not concerned with the product, but mainly with the redistribution of funds affecting the release of the product, the redistribution of the equivalent. It is quite natural that different sources show some slight discrepancies in the GDP data within the statistical margin of error, which rather confirms their objectivity. The financial market! And what is happening in the stock markets? What happens where money and all kinds of other forms of the conditional equivalent of the value of a real product are more tied not to the product, but to the human factor, expressed mainly in the form of hype. Where, to a large extent, under the influence of the human factor, and not as a result of a barter involving a natural product, money is simply shifted from "pocket to pocket"? According to the data of the World Federation of Stock Exchanges for December 2024, the total capitalization of all international stock markets was: 102,360,634,920,000 US dollars. But according to some data, this figure has already reached 1,200,000,000,000,000 US dollars by 2020, which is an order of magnitude more than the data provided by the World Federation. Three conclusions follow from all these indicators. 1. If we close our eyes to the quadrillions and are guided even by the data of the World Federation, we can conclude that there is about as much money on the planet that is not directly and firmly tied to a real product, but is indirectly related to it through the human factor, as there are those that are adequate for commodity turnover. The same idea can be expressed more "... weightily, crudely, visibly ..." as follows: on the planet, there is about as much money that provides the human factor – passion, as there is money that provides the real product. Or even more frankly: there is as much money in the casino as there is tied to a natural product. Another economic scoundrel, wiping away the legacy of the market economy, wiping it, of course, for a certain reward, will object that casinos are services, and services are included in GDP, i.e., they are a product. At the same time, presumably, he accepts remuneration in money. 2. The capitalization of the global stock market is steadily growing, regardless of which of the above indicators, which differ from each other by an order of magnitude, is considered more objective. It is growing against the background of forecasts of a decrease in the capitalization of the global commodity market by 2025. 3. As soon as the value equivalent has disappeared beyond the event horizon of the commodity market, and money has entered the untapped expanses of the human factor, statistical leapfrog begins to occur with them in the form of a significant spread of statistical data. Now the question must necessarily arise: how much money in the world balances the capitalization concentrated in global GDP and the stock market, if, according to their maximum quadrillion figures, it amounts to 1,306,171,670,000,000 US dollars? Or: how many value equivalents are there on the planet? And, indeed, if the economy uses money in order to control and manage the development of the economic process, then, at a minimum, it is necessary to have an accurate understanding.: what is money, and how much of it is involved in management. Otherwise, the science of economics will be no different from the scientifically based method of moonshine brewing from the movie "Moonshiners". However, a parallel question arises here! Where should stocks be classified in terms of face value, in the production of a real product, a product representing a life–sustaining resource, or an equivalent? How are aggregates formed, i.e., groups of value equivalents united according to the principle of the possibility of their quick or not very liquidity? From what concepts and why is each aggregate formed? You must admit that there are many questions, and they are fully justified by the lack of complete clarity on such an important issue as the technology for creating, managing and redistributing a life-sustaining resource. But!!! The whole circus consists in the fact that the motivation of the answer is the same as the question, in the style of "the fool himself." It can definitely be argued that the masters of the financial illusion will answer you approximately the following: an accurate calculation of the total amount of money on the planet, as well as the entire conditional equivalent of value, established and nurtured by their tireless efforts, is impossible. Impossible because! 1. Such conditional values are continuously being issued, both in terms of the list and the mass in circulation of each person on the list. For example, a few years ago, no one had a clue about such a phenomenon as cryptocurrency. Now there are many types of it and they are in constant emission. 2. In general, there is no clear universal definition of what money is. That is, such desirable, dearly loved and dear, if you shake off emotions and think about defining the physical meaning of their concept, it is: "go there, I do not know where, bring that, I do not know what!".
3. Aggregates are formed differently in different countries, and the same aggregate may include different equivalents of value. However, the same can be said about GDP, and about many other things.
4. And so on. However, despite the fact that economists cannot give a clear answer to a question that is quite justifiably of interest to everyone, but simply portray an intelligent facial expression, movements in the direction of finding an answer to maintain facial expression are still carried out. For example, the US Federal Reserve System tried to determine the mass of all the cash on the planet. To do this, all the currencies of the world were converted into American dollars. As a result of the calculation, by the beginning of 2024, the mass of all cash was about 6,000,000,000,000 US dollars. Due to the circumstances listed above, attempts were also made to determine the sum of the entire conditional value equivalent, which incessantly combs the lust of planetary society with its mysterious presence. One of them, made by the portal rankred.com , led to the conclusion that we could be talking about 3.3 quadrillion US dollars. Another data source, excluding reserves concentrated in precious metals and stones, calls the amount: 1.3 quadrillion US dollars. Now let's move on to analyzing what we have in practice! The concept of "economics" positions itself as an exact science. And what is science, in general, how is such a concept defined, and can science be inaccurate in principle? Imagine the concept: not an exact science – "sam, Sam, devil − something like that." Science is a field of human activity that consists in the conceptual systematization of information on a deterministic basis, which makes it possible to create a deterministic information model of the observed process and extrapolate its development over time. This definition imposes the following obligations on the concept behind it. 1. An essential feature: "human activity" establishes the fact that the field of its implementation in science can only be the rational field, the field of creation, the Irrational field is not the field of activity, but the field of faith! In particular, it includes the entire emotional component of the human being, for example, the human factor, not as a specific fact of manifestation in the process of creative activity, but as a fact of its existence in an unpredictable variety and time. 2. An essential feature: "conceptual systematization" additionally establishes that such activities should develop within the framework of an exclusively thematically oriented formal system. 3. The essential feature of "determinism" establishes the obligation to build a judgment beyond null concepts and on the basis of theorems. 4. An essential feature: "extrapolation" in the construction of judgments in accordance with the sign of determinism establishes the mandatory presence of a coordinate system in science, which endows it with the principle of dimensionality, which allows for practical measurements and calculation of event parameters in an information space that is not embodied in practical human activity. And now let's return to the formless body of economics, from the point of view of the definition of science. 1. Human activity. Yes, of course, the economy is a product of human activity, as well as, for example, fraud, in which the human factor, the irrational sphere, also plays a leading role, as in the economy. That is, the economy has spread out a significant part of its magnificent forms, which still remain of uncertain financial size into the realm of the irrational. Let's pretend I'm wrong! Then it is necessary to give a deterministic explanation, for example, of the decisions on the issue of cash and the depreciation of the national currency. To determine such decisions within the framework of the interests of the development of the general economic process, to determine from the point of view of the expediency of the development of the process. I emphasize the development, not the manipulation of it in order to cover up places of increased sensitivity among the management staff. The question, after all, is not only that there should be enough "soup" for everyone, it should also be moderately "nutritious". Remember the children's cartoon about sewing hats from one skin. − Can you sew a hat? − Yes, I can! "And two?" "I can do two!" "And seven?" "I can do seven!" So the current economy "thinks" in the cap-making paradigm of this cartoon. Decisions are made not in accordance with the physical laws of the process of evolution – a natural process, not for reasons of expediency of its development, but are made by the subject of the process for reasons of preserving the existence of himself in this process, preserving his status quo, his interests. 2. Conceptual systematization. This concept is based on the principle of formalization of the process of cognition, i.e., its axiomatization. What is the axiomatic basis of economics? In all its historical modifications, from the naturally closed to the market in the modern understanding of this consumer monster, there has always been the same postulate: the maximum possible withdrawal of a life–sustaining resource is "take more, throw further." Is there a different postulate in the animal kingdom? There are simply other opportunities there, and if they artificially expand these opportunities, create conditions of increased comfort and put them on fattening, they eat and weaken no worse than ours. Conclusion: economics is a science with an animal postulate! 3. Determinism. What kind of determinism exists based on one animal postulate; "take more, throw further"? Only embodied in the form of increasing the withdrawal of a life–sustaining resource, i.e., the same as that of our smaller brothers - animal determinism! Well, to them, brothers, "God did not give a pig a horn," but He gave it to us! Why did he give it, solely for the technogenic-consumer evolution with the help of "science" with animal determinism, or maybe for what other purpose? 4. Extrapolation. This feature implies the mandatory presence of a measurement system! What is the measurement system in economics? In the modern economy, which is called the market economy in the old-fashioned way, although A. Smith would probably be very surprised, especially in terms of its "self-regulation", the monetary unit has been adopted as the universal unit of measurement. Monetary means that an object is used as a unit of measurement of a material process, objective reality, which is not uniquely determined by economics at all, either quantitatively or qualitatively! That is, in fact, an object is used as a unit of measurement, which is a zero concept. Moreover, the dimension of this unit is floating, it changes its value daily – the equivalence of a natural product, objective reality. Is this serious at all, or is it a theater of the absurd?! Can you imagine a metric system in which, say, a meter or a kilogram have a floating dimension? No! Otherwise, Dear Reader, you would wake up every morning in an apartment with a new size of living space and a new body weight, You would recognize them in the morning like a weather forecast. Is it possible to control your weight or what is happening in the apartment in such a measurement system? But for economists, everything is simple: "what's to think about, you have to jump" in the sense of turning on the machine or, conversely, slowing down the sale. Op(!), and the measurement system is brought into line with objective reality, with the interests of those who govern "science". It would be interesting to extend this experience to healthcare and apply a set of thermometers. The patient's temperature does not correspond to the norm, now once, and another thermometer, and again everything corresponds. Moreover, funeral services will earn extra money, again taxes, budget revenues, etc. And if healthcare charges for such technology as for a full course of treatment, then this is generally a crazy benefit. But this is in the nature of innovation, but for now, in fact, you wake up in an apartment, the cost of which is constantly changing and this does not surprise anyone. Anyone, not even an economist, can explain: the balance of supply and demand shapes the price! Tell me, is demand a rational or irrational area? Demand is the domain of the human factor, i.e., the domain of the irrational, since the human factor is not described by a function. Thus, in economics, a material object, objective reality is measured in an irrational measurement system. To clarify, it is measured not using the rounding rules of an irrational number, but in an irrational system! What kind of beast is the "science" of economics? GDP is measured in money, not physically, in units, tons, meters, but in money. Everyone has long been accustomed to such a pun, and there are no doubts about it. But let's think about it! Let's imagine that sugar production has decreased by 2 times. According to the law of the market, its price should rise..! At what time? No one knows this because, in addition to the purely consumer component, its formation will also be influenced by the notorious, irrational human factor, for example, in the form of panic. In such conditions, the price may increase 2.5 times? Of course it can! But then, the presence of sugar in GDP did not decrease, but increased by 1.25 times, although in fact its production halved. Now let's imagine that the country is in a state of active hostilities. The funds "profitably saved" on the production of sugar and something else are directed to even more profitable production of ammunition. Now, if ammunition is included in GDP, then this is almost communism! The financial system uses the principle of standardization, its binding to some natural equivalent of value. But at the same time, the money supply, standardized by the natural equivalent of value, as the above statistics show, cannot be quantified in principle. Then the question arises: what, in fact, is the mass subject to standardization, if the standardization process is carried out according to the principle: "... maybe sooner, maybe later a taxi will stop." In 1971, the United States abolished the gold standard for its international reserve currency at that time and, in fact, tied the dollar directly to its economy, making the whole world hostage to the state of its economy. If we take into account that the economy is more amorphous than the reserve in terms of controlling it, then it turned out that one indefinite mass was tied to another indefinite mass. "For what, without fear of sin, ...". All this insanity based on strong-willed decisions, all this explosive mixture of a material life-supporting resource and the human factor is at the heart of economic activity, at the heart of the evolution of society. Moreover, exact sciences, operating exclusively in the rational field, are brewed in the same "pot". Can you, Dear Reader, imagine the fate of a puritanical family quartered on the territory of an eternally drunken brothel? The arguments made above lead to an unambiguous conclusion: economics in the form in which it exists cannot claim not only the concept of "exact", but the concept of "science" in general. Then the question arises: what definition can a modern economy claim? I think for the next one! An area of human activity biased by the interests of an indefinite circle of people, expressed in an unmotivated increase in the level of consumption by those involved in this circle of people. The question necessarily arises here: what do economists think about this? After all, they can't help but observe what lies on the surface and is obvious! Of course, they can't and, presumably, they think something, but what exactly remains inside each of them. However, what matters is what they do! And what are they doing? They portray an intelligent facial expression, come up with intricate, obscure terminology and manipulate it – create a scientific entourage. For what purpose and why? Yes, and because medicine often treats for a long time and expensively, when it knows that it can be done faster and cheaper. For the same reason why pharmacology is focused not on healing, but on symptoms. This is why education has migrated from educational institutions to the field of tutoring. For the same reasons, why law enforcement agencies and the legal community do not benefit from a law-abiding population and a functional legal framework. The market(!) – the worse, the better! Who is better off? To an indefinite circle of people – you and me?! All of us and each of us, under the oratory of a host of economists, saw off the branch on which we are sitting – this is the apotheosis of the current economic model! But if everything has such a sad prospect for everyone, including economists, then why is everyone, or almost everyone, silent? But because the principle is: the worse, the better, it works like hell! The only principle of existing economic relations, diligently fostered by economic science, as it were, is to make a profit. Considering that profit is, in the physical sense, the energy potential expressed in the equivalent, as mentioned above, then profit can only be made in two ways. 1. Within the framework of a monotonously and laminarly developing production process, when, as a result, potential energy is monotonously sequentially accumulated and, in the form of profit, directed to the further development of production. 2. In the context of a conflict, when the laminar economic process is disrupted and energy is dissipated in the area of resulting turbulence, accompanied by an intense increase in entropy. If such a breakdown is provoked, then it can be made manageable, it can be controlled and "holding up your palms" in the place of dispersion, "sprinkle champagne" on your soul, which has suffered from the rustle of the equivalent. The first technology is labor-intensive, it takes a long time to work, and it is typical for the production and commodity market. The second allows you to pocket money quickly, sometimes within a few days, which can take years to earn by the sweat of your brow using the first technology. The second technology is unique to the financial market, since it is not directly related to the product, but to the human factor. The statistics above show that the capitalization of the stock market is at least as high as that of the commodity market. This means that in the economy, the technologies peculiar to the financial market, at least, will be present on an equal footing with the technologies peculiar to the commodity market. That's why they're silent! Profitable! You can fill your pockets quickly – if you can't, but it's very profitable, then you can! Economists work, they feed in the economy, and the economy is engaged in making a profit – the circle has closed! Moreover, special attention should be paid to this fact. Not everyone has their own production, but everyone has a hammer or some other tool in their house, so everyone, even at a naturally closed level, participates in the production process. The same can be said about the financial market. Not everyone is a financier or a major investor, but everyone carries out transactions with money, saves it and, if possible, tries to multiply and increase their potential energy. Multiply it not only with a hammer, but also with interest on the deposit or in some other legal way. We all live in the same economic space, and we all saw off the branch we're sitting on with varying degrees of efficiency. Sooner or earlier, the branch will collapse. Imagine: a child builds a tower out of cubes; the higher the tower, the less stable it is, and as he continues to build it, the tower will surely collapse! A tower is a mass of conditional value equivalent, and a child is all of us. Under the rubble of the "turret", the "homeless" and the elite will suffer the most. The former will lose everything, starting with life, since they already had nothing else, the latter everything, possibly excluding life, since they had everything else, will turn into homeless people. The middle class will suffer less, it will drop in the civilizational level by an indefinite number of "points", civilizational stages down. For whom the disaster will be more sensitive, it is up to everyone to decide for themselves, excluding, of course, the homeless, they will already be beyond critical analysis. Throughout the history of its existence, humanity has lived in the same paradigm of life values. What we didn't feel or just got away with due to primitive technological development, in the era of highly advanced technology and technology, becomes lethal in terms of preserving and further developing the achieved level of civilization. Society urgently needs to review the technology of its own evolution, and for this it is necessary to determine its purpose in this World. What is the role of man in Nature? Was it created for the purpose of developing intelligence or solely for the escalation of the technogenic consumer process? Well, to hell with them, with economists, but there is also a government, a management system. She can't help but see the true expression of the "face of science" of economics and not understand that we are sawing at the branch on which we are sitting and at some point everything will collapse. It can't! But this is a different and broader topic. If you, Dear Reader, are concerned about your future, the future of your children and grandchildren, we are ready to continue the dialogue, and if not, we will continue to nag the bitch further. Let's imagine that starting next Monday, all diseases and offenses disappear on the planet. Collapse! Countless people are left without a job, without a feeder, without power... a disaster! What kind of technology is this for the evolution of society, in which a very significant and steadily growing part of it is engaged in a struggle, and an unsuccessful struggle, as statistics show, with social ills. Fighting illnesses, not creative activities! And what kind of technology is this for the evolution of society, in which the social good leads society into a state of collapse? This is a vicious, diabolical technology!
According to the author, the main theme has many practical embodiments and aspects. Therefore, in order not to bore the Dear Reader with the volume of the text, I will divide it into parts, each of which will cover a separate issue. To achieve maximum mutual understanding, first of all, let's define the basic concepts from which I will proceed in further discussions. So, what does the author mean by garbage?! In previous articles, for example, in the first and third, I have repeatedly referred to the following. 1. It is advisable to consider all processes occurring within the planetary system from the point of view of physics, since all processes are natural, and physics is the science of nature. In addition, physics is an accurate science, which means that any object falling within its coordinates becomes measurable. 2. I consider every process taking place in society and with society within the framework of planetary evolution, in the coordinates of a single, common planetary process. Society is a subject of the planetary system and the processes in it, and not some kind of autonomous, isolated entity. But back to the topic of garbage. In general, what is garbage in the understanding of society? Garbage is something that, at this level of cultural development of a society, has lost or simply does not have, has not yet acquired the distinctive features of raw materials, i.e. signs of a life-sustaining resource. At the same time, it has acquired or, accordingly, initially has signs of waste products. That is, what society not only cannot use for its own benefit, but it makes it difficult to further extract it. Now let's translate this definition into a physical "way". From the point of view of physics, the entire process of vital activity of both living and inanimate Nature, their evolution, is the process of relaxation of universal matter in accordance with the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This is a process of transition, of dissipating energy in the direction from its greater potential to a lesser one. And it should continue until all potentials are equalized, until Nature enters an equilibrium state, relaxes completely, and the work that takes place in accordance with the Second Law stops. Strictly speaking, if we postulate the materiality of information, then the relaxation process should be carried out simultaneously in two opposite directions. One direction is the one I mentioned in the previous paragraph, and the other is the process of the creator, which arises as a result of the development of the mind of society. Indeed, in the process of developing the mind, society accumulates a certain, continuously growing amount of information in the Intellect. Consequently, the potential of accumulated information is growing in relation to the potential of information in matter external to Intelligence. It follows from this that, in accordance with the Second Law of thermodynamics, the reverse process should occur in the form of the propagation of the results of the development of the mind in matter external to the Intellect. This is the process of the creator. This is the process of information relaxation or, if we follow the terminology accepted in physics, relaxation according to the degree of freedom of information. I will not dwell on the details of such a phenomenon − this is a separate and large topic. I will return to the very fact of this phenomenon more than once in the following parts, since the process of the creator is a vast field for the possibility of littering and modern society is unreasonably actively engaged in this. If someone has a question about why I capitalized "Intelligence", then it's worth clarifying here. The "big Topic" leads to the conclusion that Intelligence is a universal Substance for which society is the operator. Society does not possess Intelligence, it operates on It. He operates within the capabilities of the measurement system, which he has at every moment of his development of the mind. It cannot be excluded that Intelligence has other operators, such as cognitive objects that practice other forms of measurement systems. We don't know that yet! Generally speaking, Nature, from the point of view of the Second Law of Thermodynamics in the axiomatics of material information, there are many pairs of observers and observable objects operating in a measurement system peculiar to each pair. What do I mean by a measurement system? Let's imagine a metallurgical plant, a steel foundry, and a steel casting plant. The process is supervised by two people: a process engineer and Maurice Ravel. The first observer uses vision and a technologically oriented mind as a measurement system, he discovers the fact of imperfections in the steel casting process and creates a more advanced technology. The second observer stands nearby and observes the same process, but at the same time he has a completely different measurement system: vision, hearing, emotionality, and as a result creates a "Bolero". One and the same object of observation, but two different observers and two completely different results of the development of the mind. Different, because the observers operate in different measurement systems. A measurement system is a set of technical and intellectual means of observation, methods of interaction between an observer and an observed object. The question may arise here: why are we talking about the evolution of inanimate nature? Because it also evolves, lives, and relaxes: some mountains grow, others age, rivers, glaciers form and disappear, continents move, coastlines change, and so on. Isn't the process of the creator – everything created by man and Nature's reaction to it –evolution? The process of transition, energy dissipation, evolution of Nature, relaxation of universal matter is the process of selecting a certain type of energy from someone who has more of this type of energy. Or in other words: the life of each object of Nature is ensured by the fact that it destroys or kills another object more charged with this type of energy, takes it away and thereby ensures its existence. At the same time, "killed" becomes a different concept with different distinguishing features and a lower energy charge. A. from the point of view of physics, garbage is an object of Nature from which society, at this stage of its development, cannot take life−sustaining energy, i.e., a resource for its own evolutionary process. But at the same time, such an object prevents society from taking energy from other sources. This can also be formulated more simply: garbage is something that does not bring any benefit to society, but only harms! What could it be? Plastic bags, old slippers, industrial waste, and all that it falls under the definition of garbage, including pathogenic bacteria, if they are not necessary for the appearance of immunity or anything else useful. However, so far we have been talking about garbage in the understanding of society. And if we go beyond the boundaries of the interests of society and consider this phenomenon from the point of view of the interests of, well, let's say, the planetary system. What can be garbage for her, and is such a concept applicable to her at all? But first it is necessary to find out: what grounds do we have for such a statement of the question? Yes, there are full reasons (!), because the planetary system is an ecological system – a living organism, and a cognitive one, because society is a part of it, its brains. The planetary system is the same organism as man, because man consists not only of brains, a cognitive organ, but also of the periphery: arms, legs, stomach… So the planetary system has numerous peripheries and a cognitive organ – the human brain. In the coordinates of a planetary system, garbage is everything that does not contain or carry a life-sustaining resource, i.e., it does not contribute to its normal evolutionary process within the framework of the fundamental laws of Nature, but harms it. Let's ask ourselves the question: what type, type of objects can be garbage for a planetary system, within the framework of its interests? It is quite obvious that this can be any object that meets the definition of garbage. Anyone, including society or its subject?! How can a subject of society disrupt the normal, regular evolutionary process in a planetary system? Yes, just like a sore leg, stomach, not to mention the head, can disrupt an individual's normal life by not fulfilling or not fully fulfilling their function! If a society, being one of the organs, vital organs of the planetary system, begins to malfunction, that is, to leave the normal mode of functioning determined by the fundamental laws of the planetary system, then it turns into garbage, into pathogenic bacteria. How can a society disrupt its normal functioning? The only one! To violate the obligation to fulfill one's basic universal, and, consequently, planetary function, i.e., to violate the priority of the development of reason in the evolutionary process. This phenomenon has a fundamental character, since all other embodiments of the concept of garbage follow from it, are its consequence, and I will focus on them further. Of course, in the "understanding" of the planetary system, garbage may have a different origin, for example, some space objects, but this is usually beyond the competence of society. At least, beyond competence at his current level of development. How will the planetary system and its body react to garbage? It is quite obvious that, since garbage disrupts the course of its regular evolutionary process, the planetary system will counteract this, strive to get rid of garbage, and remove it. How? According to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, there are only two ways: 1) reformat itself and change the concept, changing its essential distinguishing features, for example, in the event of a collision with a large asteroid; 2) reformat garbage into another concept by reformatting its essential distinguishing features. Both methods always work simultaneously in accordance with the law on Action and counteraction, and there, as they say, "who collects whom." Either the Earth will reformat into a different ecological system, or it will do this to society. But let's pay attention: a different ecological system is the reformatting of society!
The most obvious form of garbage formation is associated with a product both at the stage of its production and at the stage of consumption. In this case, I do not consider all possible forms of service, upbringing, or education as a product. This is a separate and, perhaps, the most significant, painful form of the embodiment of the garbage theme, so we will focus on it separately. The whole process, starting with the extraction of raw materials and ending with the use of a functionally useful part of the produced product, is accompanied by the formation of garbage and waste. What is not used is not used by the consumer along with the functionally useful part, but is simply thrown away as unnecessary. Moreover, the appearance of garbage in the sense of its formation is strictly divided into two groups, two fundamentally different categories. What does it mean by meaning? That is, because of the appearance of just such a category of garbage! Ideally, the first category of garbage is an integral part of a functionally useful part. It is formed at the stage of product preparation, and depends on the amount and degree of waste, mainly on the perfection of the production technology of this product and itself. Why did I emphasize "ideally" and "mostly"? Because it often adds to itself the semantic load of the second category, despite the fact that it is, nevertheless, an integral part of the functionally useful part of the product. For example, drinks and toothpaste cannot be supplied without packaging, sausage without a shell, gas without a pipe, electricity without wires or an EMF carrier in the form of a battery, etc. You may object: pipes and wires are not garbage, but transport! Absolutely right! At the operational stage, this is transport, but the transport is littering: wires with losses and heating due to resistance; gas pipeline with exclusion zone and, again, losses due to resistance. And at the stage of their production, a certain amount of garbage was generated and a large amount of energy was consumed, the production of which required destruction in the form of acceleration of the natural relaxation process – accelerated aging of Nature. That is, at the stage of its production, the transport has already littered up. I will discuss this in more detail below. The second category of garbage is additional and is formed exclusively at the stage of product transformation into a commodity. It is causally related not to the functionally useful part of the product, but to the product itself, to the degree of its marketability. Accordingly, in terms of the amount and degree of waste, the second category depends only on the desire to sell the product, on the human factor and, of course, on the technology of its own production. Why, in both cases, am I talking about the technology of my own production of what becomes garbage after the consumer uses a functionally useful part? Because before the consumer turns IT into garbage, IT becomes a product during a certain production cycle, and, consequently, it also wastes on the way to the product. Any production is related to energy consumption. Moreover, according to the law of conservation and transformation of energy, such consumption is always greater than the useful energy needed to obtain the functionally useful part of the product, so to speak, in its pure form. The difference between the energy expended and the energy invested directly into the functionally useful part of the product is "eaten up" by the technology of its production. The ratio of the number of the second and the first determines the efficiency of the technological process. So, the energy lost by technology during the production cycle is, in fact, also garbage, since it exactly falls under its definition. Thus, the technological process itself also wastes, but of course, because it is a process. The sale of goods is also a technological process, and it is also provided with energy, and such a process also has its own efficiency. Let's say advertising is a sales technology, and it, like any process, is, of course, powered by energy! Have you ever seen a situation where one of the participants says, "Guys... or girls, or ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry, I have to go, they're going to show ads on TV right now"? I'm not! I had to talk about football, but NOT about advertising! But she is being shown, imposed, offered, and she is being persecuted. Advertising is also a product, and it also costs money, and this money is invested in the cost of the product we pay for. Those who watch football, those who don't watch commercials, and those who don't have a TV at all pay. Everyone pays! From a physical point of view, the production and sale of advertising is the production and sale of garbage in its purest form, forgive the pun. It acquires a special degree of trash in children's programs, regardless of whether it is designed for children or adults in itself. From a literary point of view, advertising is "a relatively honest way of taking money away from the population." Morally, it is immoral to the point of idiocy, especially in relation to the child population, for example, an advertisement for a menopause drug in a children's animated series. With a legally legitimate enterprise, the legal experts made a fuss. As you can see, law is pretty rubbish, everything that is a process is rubbish, because no process can be carried out without energy – the LAW! Generally speaking, the boundary separating the concept of garbage from the concept of a functionally useful part has a rather conditional position, since it depends solely on the human factor. It depends on the overall level of cultural development of a society or its subject at the time of its definition. Judge for yourself: You buy, say, ice cream, throw the packaging strictly into the trash and enjoy using the functionally useful part for its intended purpose. What does it consist of? From milk, butter, chocolate, perhaps some berries, in general from a certain set of natural products that are included in the usual diet.
Suppose they really are there?! But it is very likely that in addition to them there will be flavors, dyes, enhancers, baking powder, enlargers and other "itels" that are absolutely not natural and, as a separate product, are not included in the regular diet, but you absorb them along with natural ones. They do not bring any benefit to your body, even if they are harmless to it, but they are invested in a functionally useful part because they reduce the cost of the product and improve its marketability by influencing your human weaknesses in every possible way. Where should I take them? To the trash or to the functionally useful part? The answer for each consumer is subjective and depends on the general level of his culture. BUT! Most of the time, the consumer simply has no choice due to the widespread production of such garbage. The manufacturer benefits, and he does it! The latter conclusion follows from the dominant economic model in the practice of a "civilized" society, the engine of which is profit. I will discuss this in detail later in the article.
Hence the CONCLUSION: especially in the era of technological and consumer development, any action should be preceded by an assessment of its expediency not from the point of view of personal short-term benefits, but from the point of view of the interests of the energy consumption space according to N. S. Kardashev's classification. Why "especially in the era of technogenic consumer development," simply because at the previous level of development, "God forbid a pig's horn" to litter with such efficiency. Why "in the interests of space"? Because society is an organ of such a spatial organism, one of Its organs! It would be wrong to say that no one pays attention to advertising, because it comes out of every hole. But advertising is always calculated not on cognitive impact, but on emotions: naive credulity, curiosity, vanity and other human vices. This topic is also a topic for a separate conversation. We will reflect on this in the next part, when we consider service, upbringing, and education in the aspect of the topic of this article. So, above, attention was focused on two forms of replenishment of the planetary garbage heap: 1) waste from the product consumption process; 2) energy consumption for the process of obtaining and manufacturing the product. Let's immediately draw attention to the fact that it is impossible to do without a product, to ensure one's own existence, the process of vital activity, and it is also impossible to obtain and manufacture a product without using energy! This means that the issue of garbage does not come down to its appearance, as a fact, but to the quantity and speed of its formation, both in absolute terms and in relation to the process of mind development. Moreover, from the point of view of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, both product waste and energy production essentially provide one process − the growth of the entropy of Nature: the rate of Its relaxation, Its aging, and movement to an equilibrium, frozen state. Don't be intimidated by this term, entropy is, in fact, a measure of the impossibility, the loss of the opportunity to do work, exactly the kind of work that this process represented. In the first part of this article, I said that the process of the creator works in parallel and counter to the relaxation process. In our case, which is being considered here, such processes should ideally balance each other. The state of their equilibrium ensures that the End of the World will not come! Ideally(!) they should (!) balance! But this is possible only if the amount of waste generated and energy withdrawn from Nature creates an additional increase in entropy, which is compensated by the creator's process. Moreover, Nature, the rate of relaxation of which, the rate of aging, directly depends on the degree of balance of the processes of withdrawal of energy from the environment by society and the process of the creator, vigilantly monitors this balance in the measurement system of its fundamental laws. In the system of measuring laws, i.e., through the operation of laws. Why does the rate of aging and the rate of growth of the entropy of Nature depend so much on the process of the creator? Because the process of the creator, unlike the process of consumption, is a creative process, the process of building Nature in the measurement system of society! of course, for each level of development of the culture of society, the amount of garbage must correspond to such a level of consumption of society, at which they ensure the most effective fulfillment of their main universal mission – the development of reason. In other words, the culture of society should be balanced in terms of energy consumption for consumer needs and for the development of reason – the process of the creator. The violation of the balance by society is described by the well-known formula: "You take it out of order!". The above-mentioned balance of the aging process of Nature and the process of the creator can be very well illustrated by the following example. Have you ever watched a kombucha grow? This culture, which, by the way, represents a symbiosis of various bacteria, i.e., a kind of microuniverse, floats, lives in a sugar solution in tea. Moreover, in the lower part of the mushroom, the process of culture dying occurs – an entropic process, and in the upper part, the process of its growth is the process of the creator. If the necessary habitat parameters are maintained, then the entropic and vegetative processes of the fungus are in balance and the culture continues to live indefinitely until such a balance is disrupted. It is the same in the relationship between society and the Universe, only in it society, as a cognitive object, is itself obliged to monitor the parameters of its environment.
Let's take a closer look at the physical essence of this process. What is the mechanism of withdrawal of energy from the surrounding space, which ensures the process of evolution, the process of vital activity? Every object of Nature is in the flow of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, in the process of relaxation of Nature. This is a sustainable natural process that represents the sequential dissipation of energy from its greater potential to a lesser one. We are all inside it, and it extends to us. How in such conditions, being in a "common cauldron", "cooking" with everyone, to pocket a "piece" for the realization of some "fantasies" of one's own mind? Imagine that you are traveling in a crowded public transport. All passengers, including you, are moving at the same speed both relative to the road and relative to the vehicle you are in. In the second case, it is zero for all passengers. But now you have to get out, and zero speed relative to transport does not suit you, because with it you will never get to the exit. Therefore, to realize your "fantasies" you need to acquire your own speed greater than zero relative to transport and passengers, respectively. How? Yes, in the old folk way: to push the passengers, destroy their equally moving, slender passenger row formed by shaking, push them apart, push them apart and squeeze through to the exit. The same must be done with Nature in order to "take a sip of tilka for sabe" from Her common natural "cauldron" of relaxation. It is necessary to destroy the smooth laminar flow of the process, create turbulence in it − vortices of the process, provoke additional energy dissipation – an additional increase in entropy and "put your hands in the right place". For example, in order to "squeeze out" the heat from the firewood, they must be heated or destroyed. As wood collapses, it begins to release carbon monoxide, an active gas that, further oxidized to dioxide, forms the desired flame. The flame allows you to get more thermal energy than was spent on the initial heating of the firewood, to start the process of obtaining thermal energy. Next, the process loops, the flame maintains the heating that supports the destruction process, and the remaining heat is used by the process organizer at its discretion. Lying in the forest, the same firewood would rot on its own after a while, but according to the degree of freedom of the natural biological process. That is, it would slowly and smoothly oxidize naturally and release some heat in the process of natural relaxation. By making a fire, we interfere with the natural process, destroy it, but in "gratitude" we receive heat at the same time. It's just unclear who is thanking whom and for what? .. So, we can conclude that: 1) the receipt of energy by society is always associated with destruction, interference in the laminar, smooth flow of the natural evolutionary process; 2) such an intervention accelerates the evolutionary process of Nature, increases the rate of growth of Its entropy, since the energy that would have to work for a long time in a natural process is released and works simultaneously. This is what the process of obtaining energy in general and society for its needs in particular looks like. And what is the "fate" of garbage turned into waste; plastic bags, old slippers, heat released into the surrounding space by industrial facilities, etc.? Let's imagine a virgin piece of Nature! But for some reason, a certain social entity decided to organize a municipal landfill there. Landfill is an inevitable thing, because there are no processes without waste, which means that it will have to be organized somewhere anyway. Let our landfill be the most technologically advanced and as safe as it allows us to ensure the level of cultural development of this subject. What will happen next? Now imagine that you inadvertently got a small burn or injury. How will your body react to such an injury? It will trigger the regeneration process, which will inevitably require effort and a certain amount of energy from your body! If you help such a process with a certain technology: wound treatment; bandaging, it will be faster and more successful, if not, it will be delayed and complications of the most unpredictable nature may arise, depending on various reasons, including the severity of the injury and the degree of body resistance. But the process of regeneration and counteraction to the damage caused to the body will be launched without fail. Another question is how effective it will be. It may also turn out that as a result of a combination of individual characteristics, such a process will not be able to ensure regeneration, and you, your body, how should I put it mildly, will have to acquire new essential distinguishing features and concepts. In the case of the landfill, it's the same! In any case, nature will start the process of restoring the site's virginity. And it will undoubtedly require some effort and energy from Her, since no process is possible without energy expenditure. If the landfill is "bandaged and processed", then less effort and energy will be required, if "rude", then more, and this can lead to the appearance of new distinctive features in Nature. To lead to a new state of life-sustaining space, which will necessarily be less favorable, since society is adapted to the former. If you don't "be rude", then society will have enough time to adapt to the changing environment in terms of its favorability. But at the same time, it is necessary to remember the inevitability of the law of Conservation and transformation of energy, from which it follows that, no matter how humanity uses waste recycling technologies, it is impossible to reverse the entropic process, relaxation! It is possible to intelligently regulate the consumption process! In other words, recycling will always be a loss-making enterprise for society and profitable for those who do it! In the conditions of existing economic relations, this is one of the ways of "relatively legitimate withdrawal of money from the population." I will return to this issue in the last part of the article. Let's make a conclusion!
Both in the case of direct extraction of energy from the environment by society, and in the case of waste disposal into it, this leads to energy consumption by Nature. This leads to an additional increase in entropy, i.e., to an acceleration of the aging of Nature, increases the rate of its relaxation. The consumer ideology, inherited by inertia from the mentality of the past formed by chronic "malnutrition", flourished on the fertile soils of modern technology and technologies that make it possible to create a huge, over-sufficient volume and range of consumer products. As a result, the commodity problem has shifted from the production area to the sales area. The latter led to the fact that, within the framework of the same ideology and in conditions of economic relations focused solely on making a profit, sales technologies began to be rapidly improved. That is, to almost unlimited opportunities to litter production technologies, as even more garbage sales technologies fell out of the cornucopia. We'll talk about why they are even more garbage in the next part, and here we'll focus on a general overview of such technologies and the reasons for their appearance. The prevailing technology of economic relations, which is based on a single principle: making a profit, implements this principle through a permanent process of satisfying demand. Satisfaction has two components: firstly, the supply, the fact of the presence of the object of demand, the product on the market as such; secondly, the very fact of demand for it is the demand for the product present on the market. The balance of both leads to satisfaction. But the paradox is that achieving such a balance in the conditions of the prevailing technology of economic relations is impossible, because in this case the relationship stabilizes, competition disappears, and, most importantly, the hope and opportunity to satisfy the human factor, excitement in the form of greed. The entire practiced economic model is collapsing, since competition is its foundation, as a condition and a way to make a profit. In physics, processes in which there is no internal struggle, conflicts, or "competition" that proceed "smoothly" are called quasi-static. With the current level of technology and technology development, the possibilities of producing the quantity and assortment of goods present on the market are such that the problem of meeting demand, i.e. making a profit, has focused on increasing demand, focusing on sales technologies. Or, if you describe it in simple, but decent enough terms, then: I concentrated on ways to sell a potential buyer a product that was pouring out like a cornucopia. Demand, as well as satisfaction, basically has two components: firstly, the attractiveness of the product; secondly, the potential willingness of a potential buyer to buy the product. The potential willingness to buy is also based on two components: firstly, the potential material opportunity to buy; secondly, the potential psychological willingness to buy is consumer nonsense, and we will focus on it in the next part. What makes up the attractiveness of the product? Of course, first of all, from an understanding of its necessity – the psychological readiness to buy it, and secondly, from the balance of its price and the perfection of its functionally useful part. But this is not the only, or even the only significant demand generator. Since demand is initially strongly based on the human factor, i.e., on the irrational component, the balance of price and functionality is not equally important for everyone. For a significant part of buyers, some design features, gifts and privileges accompanying the sale, a special entourage in the organization of the sale of goods, etc. may be crucial. Therefore, in conditions of competition and saturation of the commodity market, the manufacturer provides the product with an additional component aimed at attracting the buyer's attention. It can be all kinds of design excesses of the product's shape or even its packaging, or anything else that has nothing to do with functionality. But, as you understand, "surpluses" require a certain material and energy investment to appear, which is, in fact, outright garbage. And now let's turn to the willingness to buy in terms of the financial opportunity to do so. In article 4, I said that in modern economic relations, their center of mass is strongly shifted towards the financial market. Ultimately, this means that the financial market controls the commodity market, actually controls it, "the tail is wagging the dog." I will not go into the details of the functioning of such a mechanism, it is very transparently illustrated by the example of the US Federal Reserve. In practice, this is realized, in particular, in the fact that the financial market closely monitors that the potential buyer has a money supply capable of ensuring one hundred percent sale of the goods being marketed. He had a money supply capable of ensuring the sale and then safely moving back into the bulging pockets of the financial market. That's financial masturbation! We will return to the technology of financial self-satisfaction in more detail in other articles, but here we will pay attention to the following. It is quite obvious that, due to the growing production of goods and the consolidation of the commodity market, in the current economic relations, the focus of their attention, and hence production and investment, will shift in favor of sales technologies. In favor of an additional component to the product, which is in NO way an integral part of a functionally useful part! In other words, it will shift in favor of producing outright garbage, which makes it possible to successfully sell the product to the buyer. Garbage that has invested energy, materials, and financial resources into its production. In article 4, I said that money is a universal, conditional value equivalent of a product, a commodity. Under the conditions of the economic system operating in society, the world's garbage pile is growing and money has been invested in its production. Consequently, in relation to the existing economic relations and taking into account the decrease in population growth, but the increase in consumption, it will soon be possible to state with confidence that money is a universal, conditional value equivalent, first of all, garbage, and only then a product and a commodity! Money is the value equivalent of garbage! A significant part of the money supply is already invested in garbage at the stage of its production as an additional component. The ratio of garbage production to the production of a functionally useful part of the marketable mass is steadily increasing!