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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

Sometimes a brilliant talent was given to a blind soul for whom moral principles
did not matter, if they failed to serve his personal ambitions, but actually, such people
did not play a key role in the development of a civilization. Even if they pretended to
be something else, they performed the role of destroyers and, although their presence
is impossible to deny, nevertheless, it was not they who moved the civilization for-
ward. An evil genius was and is an inevitable evil which nobody wants, but which
cannot disappear by itself. This is the reverse of the medal, like the Sun and the Moon
— the Moon appears in the sky when the Sun hides behind the horizon. As it is clear
from the nature of Days and Nights of Svarog, the creative impulses are maximally
manifested in human nature in the Day of Svarog and the destructive ones — in the
Night of Svarog.

Further analysis will show that past events, both very distant and not so distant,
fully confirm this supposition. And meanwhile let us come back to the appearance of
the division of labour which became possible only when people began to live togeth-
er. We will also “submerge” ourselves in the concepts of psycho-economics and ana-
lyze how different types of human activity influenced people and the way our civili-
zation developed at the level of small groups of people who formed themselves into a
community. But before “submerging” into the analysis of this phenomenon, let us de-
termine some concepts...

2.16. Economic niches and their place in the economy of a society

Nature created a great number of different types of plants and animals which all
together form a stable ecological system. In this system every species occupies a
strictly fixed place, a niche, which requires certain properties from its occupant. Only
when this species is able to adapt to these requirements, can it survive the struggle for
existence, which does not “feel” pity and regret. An ecological system functions
normally if all the species create a balance, which is determined by the correlation be-
tween vegetable, herbivorous and carnivorous species. Let us see what this means. If
a deficiency of vegetable species is observed, herbivorous animals, nevertheless, will
consume the same amount of vegetable biomass as they did before. As a result, the
amount of vegetable biomass being consumed will exceed the critical level and the
natural reproduction cycle will be irreversibly broken; that will result in a pretty
quick disappearance of plants and subsequently, herbivorous and later on carnivorous
animals. If the population of carnivores decreases too much, the number of herbi-
vores will grow which, in the end, will completely eliminate vegetable species.

One way or another, these three groups of living organisms should be constantly
in a state of stable equilibrium in relation to each other. Nevertheless, vegetable or-
ganisms are determinant for one simple reason — only vegetable species synthesize
biomass, all the others just consume it. The complexity of an ecological system is de-
termined by the amount of biomass which vegetable species produce in a unit of time
per unit of area. The more biomass they synthesize, the more ecological niches ap-
pear for herbivorous and carnivorous species. The plant’s biological efficiency factor
(“BEF” or “biological coefficient”) reflects the process of photosynthesis and shows
which part of the radiation that falls on the surface of the planet can be assimilated

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