Fascism represents a specific socio-economic formation corresponding to an animal mode of existence — a herd environment governed by a shepherd. For such a herd, the absence of a shepherd is fundamentally impossible: without an external controlling impulse, the herd becomes disorganized and is easily destroyed. Governance in this environment is not based on conscious choice but on direct physiological stimuli and fear.
Democracy, by contrast, is a rational human environment. In it, the behavior of the majority is determined not by external coercion but by the internal human qualities of individuals. A person in a democratic environment is guided by the perception of beauty as a manifestation of the Reason of the surrounding world and aligns their actions accordingly. Justice exists here as a meaningful correspondence between action, meaning, and consequences.
Decisions in such a society are made collegially and aligned with the interests of Reason rather than with biological instincts or fear. As a result, a stable order emerges: human rights, moral and civic norms, social responsibility, and institutional coherence.
When the reference points of Reason, beauty, and harmony disappear from the thinking of the majority, society regresses to an animal state. People cease to be subjects of rational choice and turn into a manageable biological mass. For such a mass, no methods of governance remain except physiological ones — survival incentives and punishment, “food and the stick.”
This is precisely the transformation observable in contemporary Russia. Under conditions of degradation of human reference points, morality and rights are replaced by the ideology of Nazism and fascism, which function as surrogate mechanisms for managing a degraded social environment.
The loss of spirituality in such conditions is not accidental. It is a закономерный process driven by genetic and socio-biological development within closed, territorially limited environments or under ideologically restricted reproduction, including rigidly regulated gender norms. These constraints reduce the variability of thinking and degrade the resonant properties of Reason.
The restoration of spirituality becomes possible only in subsequent generations. Historically, this has occurred either through forced remote-territorial mixing as a result of world wars, or through social revolutions within states. Wars, as a rule, lead to deeper and more large-scale renewal of the human environment, while revolutions produce a smaller and more localized effect.
