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On the possibility of creating a "melting pot" of peoples

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    Attempts to bring peoples closer together to the greatest possible extent have been made since Old Testament times, but they have regularly failed, leaving us with the riddle of the impossibility of such obvious and profitable undertaking. Is the only reason for the failures in creating such fusion of peoples the one or another dissimilarity of people, or does this reason lie deeper?
  
  Keywords: person, active, passive, information, consciousness, evolution, self-consciousness, civilization, creativity.
  
  Several thousand years ago, the Bible described in the form of a parable about the construction of the Tower of Babel an attempt to unite peoples to achieve a high goal, which ultimately turned out to be unattainable, as if due to the language barrier.
  Of course, this story can be interpreted in different ways, but, in essence, its meaning comes down to the fact that certain differences between persons cannot always be eliminated to create, for example, a "melting pot" of peoples.
  Therefore, it makes sense to understand which differences are irremovable, why this is so and to what this lets us down.
  Until now, despite the attempt at globalization, the peoples of the planet have not merged. Moreover, even within the framework of one state, various ethnic groups do not want to merge into a single whole.
  This was very clearly shown by the history of the USSR.
  The Communist Party of this state made an attempt to form a new, Soviet person, uniting the entire population for this by creating opportunities unprecedented in any state before.
  In particular, the entire population was covered by education up to the secondary level, and all those who wished could obtain higher education on a competitive basis; all people were provided with work on the most favorable terms; health care for the entire population was raised to an unprecedented level on a planetary scale; real equality was established between all people, regardless of their race or nationality.
  Nevertheless, this state did not exist for a relatively long time. It quietly fell apart, despite all its achievements, and after its collapse, these wonderful Soviet people quite quickly plundered all the wealth of the state, but ultimately fell into bondage to the capitalist environment they had previously reviled; this international state was also divided along national lines, and the people in the new republics returned to their old way of life: some to capitalism, others, as in Central Asia, to feudalism. In other words, this wonderful "Tower of Babel" fell apart again.
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  But first, let us note one of the main reasons why, despite all achievements of science in studying the evolution of a person as such, and at the same time the evolution of his brain, it is still believed that people can be gathered under one or another slogan, given some kind of carrot, and they will do what is prescribed to them at the moment, regardless of all their differences.
  This reason is one of the main tenets of Christianity - a person is the image of God. It was this tenet that prompted the Protestants from Europe to attempt a gradual creation a "melting pot" of emigrants and former slaves in the form of a union of small states of North America into a confederate state in form - the USA.
  A state of this kind was basically a gathering of people from Europe, determined, energetic and dissatisfied with the regulated, unfree, both economically and spiritually stale European life.
  They, as Protestants, needed the freedom of labor and the fruits of this freedom, but fruits of their labor were previously being unjustly taken away from them.
  Therefore, they tried to arrange a world that would primarily correspond to their religious (Protestant) views, the main one of which was the liberation of labor, and Martin Luther was the first to proclaim it.
  Having turning to the originals, Luther rejected the authority of the papal decrees and epistles and urged that the Bible should be the main source of Christian truths, not the church.
  Luther also rejected the juxtaposition between the worldly and the spiritual, stating that God's grace is being exercised also in worldly life on the professional endeavors, since God intends people to one or another type of activity, investing in them various talents and abilities, and the duty of a person to work diligently, fulfilling his calling (see, for example, Nizovtsev Yu. Why and when did the industrial revolution begin? and precisely in Europe? 2022. Monography "About the origin and manifestation of personality". Chapter 5. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Amazon).
  The idea of Luther that the main vocation of man is diligent labor, has liberated Protestant public, who appeared, allowing it to take a different attitude not only to labor, but also to its fruits, especially new ones.
  Later, this idea prompted those in power to lift the ban on technical novelty and their use. Therefore, the reason for Reformation that took place in Europe was the progressiveness of Christianity, in which, unlike other religious directions, initially in the Christ's Mount Preaching was laid the contradiction between the existing beingness and the "world" other - the best.
  Naturally, sooner or later the idea of a "right" joining this better "world" should have appeared through the improvement of the existing world through effective labor efforts and their fruits for the common good that God cannot fail to notice directly.
  As a result, these followers of Luther, in a new territory where no one could hinder them, began to rebuild the world for themselves, allowing self-government, equal rights, eliminating class divisions and declaring civil liberties. Such a democratic society of equal opportunities, in which much really depended on the qualities of the individual, liberated popular initiative and allowed the beginning of an accelerated process of economic development, bringing the United States quite quickly, by historical standards, to first place in the world, initially in relation to the economy, and after the Second World War - to the place of world hegemon.
  Similar successes turned the heads of the US ruling elite, and they began to attract the best intellectual and hard-working forces to their country with redoubled energy, consolidating its power, which reached its peak after the collapse of its main rival, the USSR.
  It seems that here it has come - local happiness and well-being, true, to a significant extent, at the expense of robbing the rest of the world, but the rest of the world is to blame for its backwardness and worthlessness.
  But, literally, right away, something unexpected for Americans came to light, namely, that a person is not quite the image of God.
  A significant part of the US population, and these were mainly blacks, mestizos and other populations who spoke Spanish, stopped working, since they were quite satisfied with the allowance, which allowed them to eat well, reproduce well and have fun in accordance with their rather primitive needs.
  The ruling elite of the US, represented mainly by the financial tycoons, also, to satisfy their mob, moved the main production capacities to other countries, thereby initiating, to a large extent, idleness of the "white" population of the country, which hid in the service sector, not caring at all about the power and prosperity of the country.
  In a word, quite unexpectedly not only for the US ruling elite, but also for the rest of the world, the decomposition of the hegemon has begun, and, no matter how sad it may be for the US ruling elite, it will be possible, at best, to slow down, despite the attempts of the leaders of the US production facilities and its military-industrial complex to restore the country's potential, which are currently expressed in the confrontation between the Republican and Democratic parties.
  Thus, it becomes obvious that the famous American "melting pot", which they were so proud of, and in which, as the US elite believed, everyone could easily melt together - from blacks, former Mexicans and Chinese to white farmers and IT representatives of different nationalities, is bursting before our eyes.
  That is, the US, unexpectedly for itself, found itself in a situation similar to that in which its former adversary - the USSR - found itself.
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  Both of these examples clearly indicate that a person in his communities is not intended to develop to a certain limit and begin to live in goodness, satiety, and even in the triumph of creativity. The insurmountable obstacles to this seemingly good end of development, which in itself is, in fact, an oxymoron, but the idea of which was following by all the great thinkers of humanity from Plato to Marx, is, first of all, the biological structure of a person, and it, on the one hand, pulls him toward an animal way of life, but, on the other hand, in the struggle with the altruistic self-consciousness of the same a person, which demands goodness and harmony for all, promotes the development of both the self-consciousness of a person and the collectivist self-consciousness of his communities, and the self-consciousness of both types does grow, reaching its peak in a comparatively well-organized civilization.
  But this rapidly developing civilization, prosperous in many respects compared to the animal world of mutual devouring, turns out to be unstable and rather quickly falls apart for a number of reasons (see, for example, Nizovtsev Yu. What changes await us in us themselves? 2024. Monography "On the causes of the consequences of the human activity". Chapter 14. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Amazon).
  A significant role in creating the instability of civilization is played by the biological essence of a person, which consists in his animal form of consciousness - the legacy of a primate, who always wants to eat well and reproduce, and also, preferably, to rule at least somewhere. The animal form of the human consciousness does not care about spiritual values and development, it cares only about self-preservation and wants a pleasant existence for itself, adapting to everything in this, and it, and not the altruistic self-consciousness of a person, as a rule, dominates in his consciousness due to its more ancient origin, which is also in charge of the functioning of the human organism itself, which is confirmed by the behavior of any person in the stressful situations.
  In any form of the antagonistic competitive society, the advantage is automatically given to the egocentric animal consciousness of a person, which most effectively contributes to the seizure of property and power, while the altruism of human consciousness is trampled on the back burner. In the course of this fierce struggle for comfort, power, privileges and other pleasures, the opponents use all means, including wars, thereby promoting the latest achievements of technology, science and propaganda, and ensuring, at first glance, by this negative for the population activities, paradoxically, the progress of society as a whole.
  In other words, development is ensured by social disharmony with the cruel oppression of ordinary workers, incessant wars, the domination of nonentities and scoundrels over the smart and decent in the flow of disinformation and total deception of the philistines, who make up more than 80% of the population. All this action does not last very long (6-8 thousand years) - until the point of singularity in the development of civilization, upon reaching which, as a result of information collapse, as well as ideological and energy crises, own time of the technological civilization itself ends.
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  Another biological feature of man, which prevents his endless development, and about this endless development scientists are always harping on, is the human brain.
  The point is not even that due to different conditions of the evolutionary development of hominids and people, it can differ many times and it is impossible to equalize people in this regard, which in itself makes society unstable, that is, prone to incessant conflicts up to wars, but that any brain, whatever it is, has limits in its understanding of reality due to the fact that this reality comes to it in the form of information, the flows of which intensify and diversify with the course of the human life and its communities.
  Therefore, at a certain point, these flows begin to overwhelm the human brain. It cannot cope with them and begins to make inadequate decisions, which, naturally, cannot but lead to the collapse of oneself and hiss community. That is where it all ends.
  And the hopes for help in this regard from the artificial intelligence are completely unfounded for the reason that this intelligence is imperfect compared to the brain, being, in essence, a good advanced calculator with a large memory and a high degree of speed. But this device does not have independence, since the programs for it are created by a person, and therefore all decisions still remain with the person, who sooner or later becomes incapable of them in a satisfactory manner.
  For the same reason, replacing the human organs with more long-term parts and introducing elements of the same artificial intelligence into his body, making a person an android, does not give anything due to the inevitability of the biological essence of a person in the form of his animal consciousness. In addition, anyway, if not here, then there, the body will fail, especially since the brain itself cannot be replaced.
  So, the hopes of transhumanists for eternal life are based on nothing more than sand (see, for example, Nizovtsev Yu. Debunking transhumanism with its reliance on physicality. 2022. Monography "On the causes of the consequences of the human activity". Chapter 7. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Amazon).
  *
  As for the socium of the planet as a whole, it also clearly shows the lack of opportunity for peoples to merge into one due to the different speed of social development of local civilizations, as a rule, externally conditioned by one or another remoteness of local communities from the centers of development of civilization on Earth.
  Indeed, in many regions of the planet, despite all the achievements of modern civilization, there are communities with a tribal system or feudal relations.
  In fact, the explanation for the preservation of this archaism in modern society is that if a separate community does not create sufficient information flows for its own development or does not get into them, and does not have a level of self-consciousness sufficient to provide at least certain categories of people with the opportunity to work for themselves, then it is doomed to stagnation and subordination to more developed communities.
  The reason for this kind of insufficiency of information flows is not only their practical absence in the jungles of Amazonia or Africa, but also the attitudes of individual religious confessions, which either preach passivity, as is typical of Hinduism or Buddhism, or give everything to the will of Allah, blocking human initiative.
  Such communities are characterized by either a practical lack of development, or it is slow, significantly lagging behind other communities over time, for example, those in which the majority of the population followed the attitudes of Christianity, and in its Protestant branch it did not at all limit the initiative and enterprise of the population, as was mentioned above.
  Thus, the first highly developed communities appeared where the growth of information flows covering the entire population was facilitated by a warm climate, fertile soil and the presence of communications convenient for intensive exchange of goods, which ensured a high degree of communication between heterogeneous groups of people; increased exchange of goods contributed to the creation of additional income and the emergence of owners who could use their free time and their free funds both for the development of technology and for the decoration of their lives, which became the basis for the development of technology and culture.
  However, the slave ownership and the predominant dominance of the former - archaic - collectivist consciousness in communities did not contribute to the manifestation of individual initiative, especially in the development of technology, since slave labor was extremely cheap. Later, when slavery exhausted itself with low productivity of labor efforts, and relations between the owner and a freer worker appeared on the land and in crafts, a basis arose not only for the technological improvement of labor, but also for raising the educational level of the population, which contributed to both increasing the productivity of workers and influenced the increase in the general cultural level of the population, which ultimately resulted in the selection from Christianity Protestantism , which reflected in religious form the increase in the level of general self-awareness of the population, requiring no longer collective obedience, but initiative.
  All this took place in Europe, since the blocking of the development of self-consciousness of the population was there, basically, the least, because the passivity, which is a consequence of the dominance of the collectivist form of self-consciousness, aggravated by the corresponding religious attitudes of universal obedience, gradually began to be supplanted by the individualistic form of self-consciousness, which demanded more freedom, and it, in turn, gave the opportunity to display initiative, which in general contributed to the improvement of the standard of living of the population and ultimately led to the emancipation of the creative initiative of the masses, which produced an industrial revolution and the arrival of capitalist property relations instead of feudal ones.
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  Thus, it becomes clear, that the lifestyle and attitudes of people who make up local communities depend primarily on the ratio of collectivist and individual forms of consciousness.
  In primitive (archaic) communities, the collectivist self-consciousness completely suppresses the individual, while being at the same time subordinate to the natural (lower, or animal) consciousness due mainly to the forced focus on solving the problems of survival, not development.
  That is, this state of primitive human communities resembles the state of flocks of animals, especially since there is no private property in such communities and communications between communities are minimal, which means that the volume of information flows covering archaic communities is insignificant.
  With the advent of private property, the way of life and relationships between people change significantly.
  The rights of members of certain communities in relation to property begin to be regulated forced, commodity exchange develops, trade centers appear, mainly at the intersection of trade routes, which eventually turn into cities. Various entertainment events appear, descriptions of travels and everyday life of various peoples, that means the emergence of the rudiments of culture.
  In this regard, the level of individual self-consciousness is growing, but since the living conditions remain difficult for the vast majority of the population, the collectivist self-consciousness continues to dominate, while remaining, nevertheless, subordinate to the natural consciousness focused on survival.
  Over time, the authoritarian structure of states did not undergo major changes - until the 19th century, but then it was replaced by a republican system, more advantageous for the bourgeoisie that gained strength, which in this case could easily control and even change the governments in its own interests.
  The ratio of the collectivist and individual self-consciousness also did not undergo serious changes until the middle of the second millennium AD, which was greatly facilitated by the main religious confessions, who fought with all their might to preserve the ancient foundations and strive to prohibit any innovations.
  It is this policy of such major confessions as Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, excluding the Protestantism that emerged in the 16th century AD, has left many countries to this day on the sidelines of history, since only personal initiative, not constrained by the arbitrariness of government officials and other authorities who support the prevalence of the collectivist consciousness, including natural consciousness and self-consciousness, over the individual self-consciousness, can bring to the path of accelerated cultural and technological development.
  It was possible to overcome the dominance of the collectivist consciousness over the individual self-consciousness only in a number of European countries thanks to the separation of Protestants from Catholicism and the transition of Protestant countries to the intensive technological development, attracting more and more additional information flows, which, in turn, contributed to raising the level of individual self- consciousness of almost all citizens of these states, and at the same time enriched them both materially and spiritually, as a result of which the rest of the world with its characteristic retarded development partially turned into the colonies of the developed countries, and the rest became their satellites (see, for example, Nizovtsev Yu. Why do local civilizations remain disconnected. 2021. Monography "Contradictory but real". Chapter 7. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Amazon).
  In addition, the biological structure of a person, as well as the social organization of communities, is such that both a person with his dual consciousness - the natural consciousness and self-consciousness - and his communities, consisting of completely different persons according to the level of self-consciousness, and therefore in terms of needs and interests, are not able to agree, having different goals to the extent of their understanding of themselves and others, as well as reality. In particular, problems related to the processes of cognition and self-improvement do not concern a significant part of them at all.
  Similar heterogeneity of the members of the communities that make up a civilization also contributes to its disorganization at the stage of capitalism, when individualism manifests itself most clearly.
  All this testifies to the fact that the "melting pot" of peoples does not happen, and the unification of peoples is, rather, formal.
  But what does this give, and why is this kind of division of peoples necessary in the broadest sense?
  *
  If we take it as an axiom that in Creation there is the active and the passive as its basis, then they manifest themselves in the following way. The active and the passive are capable of separating and uniting for the endless change and development of the active, which is necessary for it by definition, especially since the absence of change and development turns Creation into non-existence, but we do not observe this, but notice the opposite - the change and development of everything that exists in the finite objects and phenomena in the information flows.
  These flows do not appear spontaneously. They are created, perceived, processed, stored and transmitted exclusively by living beings due to the fact that only they possess a structure that includes three main components: sensors in the form of sensory organs that perceive extraneous signals and transmit them to the system for processing these signals or data, which deciphers and transforms them into what, for example, a person sees in a figurative form and senses in other forms as the corresponding environment, that is, as a result of information received and stored in memory; the third main component of the human organism is the genome, in which the structure, growth, metabolic features and development of the corresponding organism are programmed, which can be designated as form-building abilities.
  In other words, the absence of living beings in Creation makes it non-existent.
  Thus, only living beings are capable of performing the function of changing both passive objects and changing and developing themselves voluntarily or involuntarily in information flows, as if reviving Creation, but only due to the corresponding unification of the active and the passive in them.
  Thus, they represent a combination of the active and the passive, structured in a certain way, since without support from the decaying, that is, the finite passive, the active remains outside the current time, but only living beings are capable of artificially forming it for themselves, converting in a certain way the information coming into their sense organs into the environment, since passive objects are only capable of carrying information.
  Therefore, the eternal change and development are possible only for the active, but they can manifest themselves only in the information flow, which is possible only in the current time. That is, the eternal change and development are impossible without a certain alliance of the active and the passive in the form of living beings, which already in this, a kind of artificial time, can manifest themselves as a form-generating system of both the surrounding passive and themselves in order to ensure their own change and development in time as finite formations, which, due to copying themselves in the form of reproduction, are capable of continuing discretely in generations for an indefinitely long time, interrupted in one conditional place and renewed in another.
  As a result, through the finite living, the infinite development of the active is ensured, which is impossible otherwise.
  For this reason, the combination of the active and the passive in alive and thus in change and development cannot be reduced to a single and harmonious thing, no matter how much the living itself in the form of a person would like it, always striving for diversity and divergence.
  This is precisely what determines the predominance of divergence over convergence, an example of which is the primacy of the nationalistic aspirations of peoples over the ideas of globalization and internationalism.
  From all of the above, a rather paradoxical conclusion follows that this contradictory world, so unsettled, temporary and at the same time wonderful in its diversity and development in our eyes, in its endless human generations and generations of other living beings, of which people are an integral part, represents in this finite living massif that bearing support of the entire system of the universe, without which it simply cannot exist - without living beings, the information basis of the universe disappears, since only they can perceive, store, process and transmit information {see, for example, Nizovtsev Yu. Fundamentals that determine the actions of a person. 2023. Monography "What determines a person's thoughts and actions?". Chapter 9. [Electronic resource]. Access mode: Amazon).
  
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