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Zeus      Do not wake a sleeping God
The main principle of power: A practical guide for politicians 

Preface……………………………………………….…....3
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Part 1.  Dawn of the Gods…………………………………7

Part 2. Days of the people………………………………120


Preface

This morning, at about 6 o’clock I had a wonderful dream, I know the time almost exactly, because at 5h.10m. the garbage truck loaded, I woke up, then fell asleep again, and at 6h.20m. my alarm clock is already ringing.
The dream is this: as if I'm sitting under a tree and waiting for the sunrise. In the evening, it is sad to behold: it was at sunset, at half-past eleven, that the great Socrates drank his cup of cycuts once in Greece in summer.
 In addition, as if Druon himself came up to me and said:
“I have been watching you for a long time, and from the moment you entered the Faculty of Physics, it was especially closely, but right now I decided on this desperate act. I am convinced that absolutely everything that I thought about when I wrote my best seller is in tune with you.
 Nevertheless, I did not have a very small fraction of insanity, now I can admit it, publish the whole manuscript, I redid something in it, removed something from the brackets, and removed the brackets to the table. Well, you understand what I mean.
After all, Darwin did not dare to print what he really thought about the origin of man. However, you can do anything, you are a happy person, because you are either completely crazy or you decidedly spat on public recognition. So I ask you to do me a little favor - to publish this manuscript in its entirety, with any corrections to your taste, but only one thing I beg you to leave untouched is dedication. Can you promise me that? "
He gazed intently at me with his narrow flicker-eyes.
"Of course, monsieur," I said, completely stunned by this turn of affairs, still hoping that it was a dream, but he as business man, immediately handed me a loose manuscript with the words:
"I ask you to look diagonally at this text, whether everything will be clear, and while I smoke on the sidelines. “
 With trepidation, I took the manuscript and stared at the title, blurred by strong excitement.

                Maurice Druon. De nom de Zeus

I charged in my eyes, but I pull myself together, because I still think it is a dream and I read. On the first page, in large sweeping handwriting, it says:

           TO THE GREEK PEOPLE THROUGH THE AGE WITH RESPECT AND GRATITUDE, author

 Next comes the handwritten, slimy text. With my legs folded into a lotus, I, with a trembling heart and intermittent breathing, got comfortable and began to read.

  ... So why are Greek gods and not Roman? Of course, it is more customary to consider the embodiment of power specifically Jupiter, not Zeus, the personification of the war of Mars, and not Ares, labor - Volcano, not Hephaestus. However, the Roman gods are cardboard through, so scarce, why they even needed in such a weekly form?
Unless, for the sake of maintaining the social order invented from the head, and not at all in order to create a powerful matrix of the system of the future civilizational structure of mankind.
 This book, of course, about how the ancient peoples imagined our Universe, as they saw the place of man in it, which is why I turned to the myths of Ancient Hellas, which are closest to us from all developed theogonies of the world, which became the basis and source of the cultural Western thought.
If someone, encouraged by the frivolous content of some places in this story, decides that this is just such literary fun, and then this is all because the ancient world did not know original sin and was therefore extremely cheerful and ridiculous in those rare time intervals when there were no wars or popular parties.
In addition, the ancient gods lived near people, participated in their daily work and were, strictly speaking, a kind of pro-Kremlin governor appointed from Olympus.
Nevertheless, unlike the latter, the Greek gods were easily accessible for communication with ordinary mortals and never drove armored cars with tinted windows, and even stood in traffic jams from carts on fair days.

Yes, mythology is the first world novel, and specifically the first novel about the universe. Perhaps some of the readers will want to know a little more about how civilized humanity behaved when civilization itself was still quietly lying in a cradle.
The first difficulty: nowhere except Hesiod is there a strict chronology of myths, they sometimes stated quite haphazardly:
a daughter can be born earlier than her father can; her mother is generally unknown whom...
Well, all that ... But the Greeks did not bother of it, because in their heads the matrix of the collective unconscious sat tightly, and each myth told in a poem, tragedy, or simply in a rhyme immediately occupied its cell in their well-organized archaic thinking.
For a modern person who first learns about myths many all sorts of nonsense, and then only begins to be acquainted with them, myths seem like a sparkling scattering, something like the incredible notions of Baron Munchausen, in no way connected with each other.
However, there is one more thing - among the Greeks it was the norm to remake the plots of myths in their own way, as they please, especially if the moon was shining and inspiration was overwhelming, the main thing was to keep the meaning, everything else was inspired by inspiration.
Therefore, it turns out that the myths of Hellas first tell us about the emergence of the world, and only then only about what came before it, i.e. about prehistoric times. Obviously, the images of the gods in their eyes changed all the time, this is like the personality of the Leader of all times and peoples in liberal Russia. So how can one not follow the great tradition, creating this imperishable manuscript? Therefore, having gone all the way about my own intuition, I create this great novel.
There is only one justification: the ancient pantheons are still suitable for unraveling the secrets of our world, while the man’s blinkered mind is rushing about between the atom and the cosmos, and science bends time, highlighting the smallest particles of matter, thereby releasing what still keeps things from decay.
This, of course, cannot but inspire alarm in a world where everything has been bursting at the seams for a long time. Listen, how are you? I doubt that you are enjoying it.
So, it’s when the sensation of recent times appears that it is worthwhile to remind the presumptuous people that the gods at temples or in temples are not just soulless images, they, as well as the fact that next to them, will help us, among the fragments of ancient knowledge, to find something suitable - as markings and building materials for the dangerous path of modern life and the solid railings along it.
So boldly push the strong old door and, enjoying its musical creak, we enter the distant ancient world, pretending to invited there as ... well, if not vip-persons, then at least as a pizza delivery staff.
Then this modest manual for those who dream of power will tell you that not a single problem is urgent, because tomorrow it will cease to be just a problem, and it will frighteningly turn into a tragic denouement.
What else can be useful for both young and old power lovers: power over ones like them causes general envy, but soon envy replaced by general disappointment when expectations not met, and this will soon become clear to everyone.
Therefore, the life of the gods is no easier than simple Soviet oligarch, especially if this time belongs to the Democrats.

http://proza.ru/2012/05/23/1312  - русский текст