Bashkorts lead the score
Following L. Gumilyov, we know that the history of peoples is driven by groups of super-energetic human individuals – passionaries who strive to achieve the highest degree of self-realization, even despite the risk to their own life and health. By uniting in consortia and spurring ordinary “harmonious” individuals to action, the passionaries create new ethnic groups, states, organize revolutions, and force the “nag of history” (V. Mayakovsky) to gallop. The sacrifice of passionaries goes beyond all the norms of ordinary “harmonious” people who eschew the whirlpools of history and want to live in the interests of their family. The latter are aimed at calmly raising children, building houses and roads, growing cereals or grazing their cattle. But the absence of passionaries in human society (due to their increased tendency to sacrifice and rapid expenditure) leads to the loss of the ethnic group’s abilities and will to fight, to breakthroughs, and, ultimately, to development in general. A society without passionaries at a certain moment becomes incapable of anything and… it crumbles, becoming, at best, building material for other ethnic groups, and at worst – just nothing, zilch. An example is the Avars, about whom Nestor the Chronicler said, “They died without leaving a trace.” There was a great nation, and then they were gone. They disappeared – there is no better way to say it!
Read MoreThis is how our world is structured – if everyone wants to live quietly, with their own small interests, then your society will not quietly exist for long.