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

his talents and abilities, because being a social parasite does not depend on a social
position, but rather than on the state of a man’s soul, his personal and moral qualities.
The difference is only in the consequences of the “transformation” of one or another
person into a social parasite. If a farmer or a blacksmith turns into a social parasite,
there is not so much harm for the whole clan or tribe: mainly, it hurts the nearest and
dearest of this person and his victims. In most cases, a farmer, joiner, tailor, etc, who
turned into a derelict became a bandit. At the very best, if they were natural leaders
or, had a strong psi-gift (which often accompany each other), they could become the
leaders of a gang of highway robbers.

Certainly, when people from the lower level of a social hierarchy “changed their
guise”, the consequences for a family, people or nation were, in principle, insignifi-
cant. Quite another effect was observed, when somebody from the top levels of the
social hierarchy turned into a “werewolf”. I will remind readers again that in olden
times these people occupied the higher position in accordance with their natural and
personal gifts and, because of this, possessed a greater or lesser influence on the
masses. Therefore, when a civil or a war prince (kniaz or khan) or representatives
of the highest echelons of the social hierarchy converted into “werewolves” (social
parasites), it had very serious consequences for all people. Therefore, this trans-
formation at the top levels of the social hierarchy was always the most dangerous
and had the heaviest consequences for a family, a clan or a nation and sometimes
for the whole civilization of Midgard-earth. Anyone could become a social parasite,
but his influence on people depended mostly on the social position which he had oc-
cupied before converting into a derelict.

We will constantly come across this very important moment of understanding
existent phenomena, which has happened, and still happens in a society at any level,
in almost any people or nation, in almost any race. Without this it is impossible to
understand and correctly estimate the distant and near past, present and future…

2.17. The economic niches of the social organism

Meanwhile let us come back to the analysis of the economic system which al-
ways appears where people unite to win the fight for their right to live and raise chil-
dren. As noted before, the easiest way to understand the nature, internal mechanisms
and laws of existence of any economic system at any level of development of the
human civilization is to describe the economic system as an aggregate of economic
niches. To make what happens in a human society more obvious and to facilitate our
understanding of the processes, we will arrange economic niches according to cate-
gory.
First, let us single out the category of active economic niches which is formed
by the types of human activity which directly relate to the providing of vital func-
tions in a social organism. All types of human activity related to man’s active co-
operation with the surrounding nature in order to provide for the survival of a social

organism should be referred to the category of active economic niches. In other
words, human activity related to the production of food, tools, consumer goods
(clothing, household goods, etc.) and places of dwelling, (houses, public and house-

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