Nevertheless, in society there is reproduced an amount of people, who are convinced as if they were really “the best”, because they objectively surpass others, first of all with parameters of “intellectual power” and erudition. Thus they consider the power over the rest of society to be their inalienable right.
However, the history shows the following. In social corporations based on the conviction of their members in that “they are the best and thus have the right to …”, the same laws of herd-pack behaviour works, which “were discovered” once again by scientists from Leeds and Utrecht, and on basis of which (not knowing about their “discovery”) “the pastor” Tikhon Shevkunov wants to realize the plan of “Orthodox Renaissance” of RusZionia.
Therefore in our opinion, the estimation of so-called “social elite” as a crowd, in sense of V. G. Belinsky’s definition of this sociological term, given in COB is adequate to what really occurs in life of crowd-“elitist” societies during all known history. And if not to think about yourself as about a representative of “the real elite”, who can’t rule the society because of preponderance of “the pseudo-elite” quantitatively overwhelming “the real elite”, then there are no objective reasons to disagree with the estimation of “elite” in COB...
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If to speak about the manifestations of herd-pack behaviour of people, then, as the experiment in Leeds shows, the majority follows the “informed” minority in the case when representatives of this majority don't realize purposes of their activity and means of its realization.
If the sense of activity is not realized, the will that operates in individual psyche from the level of consciousness, may be activated only for searching the sense of activity. If the will isn’t activated at all the control is transferred to unconscious levels of psyche, and instinctive algorithmic of herd-pack behaviour, which biologically is peculiar to human, may be activated.
Besides that, instinctive algorithmic of herd-pack behaviour may be activated also in cases when the will is suppressed (for example with psychotropic substances, alcohol, other drugs, including moral and psychological pressure of some authorities on individual's psyche), or volitional qualities of individual haven’t been developed during his education.
In these variants, even with comprehension of sense of activity, absence of will in general or its depression dooms an individual (if circumstances gain to this) for participation in herd-pack behaviour. This is algorithmic of a greater part of teenage collective criminality: life-strategic interests were not formed by parents, school and TV; volitional qualities were not grown up; “kiddies” have nothing to do, but have too much energy. They drink – do foolish things, herd-pack algorithmic activates… and as a result – they commit a grave crime, which nobody of them in the majority of cases has planned to make. But the crime nevertheless is committed, since its morally caused algorithmic has been dispersed with its fragment between personal psyches of all the participants.
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Nevertheless, professional specialization, that divides society to professional rulers, working in state institutes and economic sphere, and to their subordinates, is inevitable with the reached level of personal culture of mental activity of the majority of adults, because to become socially comprehensible ruler it is necessary to possess certain psychical qualities and to be a carrier of knowledge in the subject domain which ruler is to rule.
According to that circumstance questions appear:
How does the professional corporation of rulers attitude towards their subordinates – other people in society?
On what basis do subordinates recognize the power of corporation of rulers?
Whom and how does the professional corporation of administrators exclude from its ranks and whom and how does it recruit (and concerning the self-reproduction in change of generations as well)?
The history shows that historically stable societies in selection of rulers capable in relation to interests of society, or appearing to be incapacitated or abusing of power follow the principle “practice is a criterion of true” while reproducing the power in change of generations.
If the society doesn't follow this principle, then it perishes under influence of external factors, according to inadequacy of processes of ruling proceeding in it.
Actually, this is the reason of crash of Byzantium and the following assimilation of former “East Romans”, who generated incapacitated crowd-“elitist” statehood, in other cultural-ethnic societies.
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However, the process of selection of rulers well-grounded in interests of society and incapacitated ones according to the principle “practice – criterion of true” proceeds in different ways in compactly living primitive community and in “a big society”, which life is based on idea of generation of statehood and territorial differentiation of powers of authorities[12].
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The fundamental difference is that in a compactly living community “everyone knows everyone” so that judgments of people about the one who can be entrusted ruler and the one who can't has a deliberated character, directly based on experience of common activity.
As it can be seen from Edward B. Taylor's[13] book “Primitive culture” many primitive societies were so worried about forming the administrative body, that they searched for the most effective future rulers even among children, and in their culture there were subcultures (traditions, rituals), focused on revealing children, whose talents can be realized in sphere of ruling for the good of the whole society.
However, the ethics was the same for all members of community: both for those who became ruler and for those who became subordinates. Thus, both powerful chief (warrior or economic executive administrator) and common community member could be an authority in community in the sense that he was respected for his deeds (instead of present meaning of the word authority).
In these conditions everyone made his authority himself; and in his authority measure of understanding of his deeds importance for the community by associates was expressed; the same measure of understanding of former deeds also opened credit of trust for the future.
Thus in a compactly living community, in which everyone knew everyone, speed of information exchange processes, in which principle “practice is a criterion of true” was realized, was high enough to support an adequacy of administrative body to circumstances of community's life during change of generations.