"Rus' is not without good people!" Russian people can be safely attributed to the most sympathetic peoples of the world. And we have someone to look up to.
Okolnichiy Fyodor Rtishchev
Even during his lifetime, Fyodor Rtishchev, a close friend and adviser to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, received the nickname "gracious husband." Klyuchevsky wrote that Rtishchev fulfilled only part of the commandment of Christ - he loved his neighbor, but not himself. He was from that rare breed of people who put the interests of others above their own "I want." It was on the initiative of bright person"The first shelters for the poor appeared not only in Moscow, but also abroad. For Rtishchev, it was common to pick up a drunk on the street and take him to a temporary shelter organized by him - an analogue of a modern sobering-up station. How many were saved from death and did not freeze in the street, one can only guess.
In 1671, Fyodor Mikhailovich sent grain carts to the starving Vologda, and then the money received from the sale of personal property. And when I found out about the need of the Arzamas people for additional lands just donated mine.
During the Russian-Polish war, he took out not only compatriots, but also Poles from the battlefield. He hired doctors, rented houses, bought food and clothing for the wounded and prisoners, again at his own expense. After the death of Rtishchev, his "Life" appeared - a unique case of demonstrating the holiness of a layman, and not a monk.
Empress Maria Feodorovna
The second wife of Paul I, Maria Fedorovna, was famous for her excellent health and tirelessness. Starting the morning with cold douches, prayers and strong coffee, the Empress devoted the rest of the day to taking care of her countless pupils. She knew how to convince moneybags to donate money for the construction educational institutions for noble maidens in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Simbirsk and Kharkov. With her direct participation, the largest Charity organization- The Imperial Humanitarian Society, which existed until the beginning of the 20th century.
Having 9 children of her own, she especially anxiously took care of abandoned babies: the sick were nursed in foster homes, strong and healthy - in trustworthy peasant families.
This approach has significantly reduced child mortality. With all the scale of her activities, Maria Fedorovna paid attention to trifles that are not essential for life. So, in Obukhovskaya psychiatric hospital Petersburg, each patient received their own kindergarten.
Her will contains the following lines: “Give life to Your Spirit with meekness, love and mercy. Be helpers and benefactors to the suffering and the poor.”
Prince Vladimir Odoevsky
A descendant of the Rurikids, Prince Vladimir Odoevsky was convinced that the thought he had sown would certainly "sprout tomorrow" or "in a thousand years." Close friend Griboyedov and Pushkin, the writer and philosopher Odoevsky was an active supporter of the abolition of serfdom, worked to the detriment of his own interests for the Decembrists and their families, tirelessly intervened in the fate of the most disadvantaged. He was ready to rush to the aid of anyone who applied, and in everyone he saw a “living string” that could be made to sound for the good of the cause.
The St. Petersburg Society for Visiting the Poor, organized by him, helped 15,000 needy families.
There was a women's workshop, a children's rooming house with a school, a hospital, hostels for the elderly and families, and a social store.
Despite his origins and connections, Odoevsky did not seek to occupy an important post, believing that in a "secondary position" he was able to bring "real benefit." The "strange scientist" tried to help young inventors realize their ideas. The main character traits of the prince, according to contemporaries, were humanity and virtue.
Prince Peter of Oldenburg
An innate sense of justice distinguished the grandson of Paul I from most of his colleagues. He not only served in the Preobrazhensky Regiment during the reign of Nicholas I, but also equipped the first school in the history of the country in which soldiers' children were trained at the place of service. Later, this successful experience was applied to other regiments.
In 1834, the prince witnessed the public punishment of a woman who was driven through the soldiers' formation, after which he petitioned for dismissal, stating that he would never be able to carry out such orders.
Petr Georgievich devoted his further life to charity. He was a trustee and an honorary member of many institutions and societies, including the Kyiv House of Charity for the Poor.
Sergey Skyrmunt
Retired lieutenant Sergei Skyrmunt is almost unknown to the general public. He did not hold high positions and failed to become famous for his good deeds, but he was able to build socialism in a single estate.
At the age of 30, when Sergei Apollonovich painfully pondered over future fate, 2.5 million rubles fell on him from a deceased distant relative.
The inheritance was not squandered or played at cards. One part of it became the basis for donations to the Society for the Promotion of Public Entertainment, the founder of which was Skyrmunt himself. With the rest of the money, the millionaire built a hospital and a school on the estate, and all his peasants were able to move to new huts.
Anna Adler
All this life amazing woman was dedicated to educational and pedagogical work. She was an active participant in various charitable societies, helped during the famine in the Samara and Ufa provinces, on her initiative the first public reading room was opened in the Sterlitamak district. But her main efforts were aimed at changing the situation of people with disabilities. For 45 years, she has done everything so that the blind have the opportunity to become full members of society.
She was able to find the means and strength to open the first specialized printing house in Russia, where in 1885 the first edition of the Collection of Articles for children's reading, published and dedicated to blind children by Anna Adler".
In order to produce a book in Braille, she worked seven days a week until late at night, personally typing and proofreading page after page.
Later, Anna Alexandrovna translated the musical system, and blind children were able to learn to play the musical instruments. With her active assistance, a few years later the first group of blind students graduated from the St. Petersburg School for the Blind, and a year later from the Moscow School. Literacy and professional training helped graduates find jobs, which changed the stereotype of their incapacity. Anna Adler almost did not live to see the opening of the First Congress of the All-Russian Society of the Blind.
Nikolai Pirogov
The whole life of the famous Russian surgeon is a series of brilliant discoveries, the practical use of which has saved more than one life. The peasants considered him a magician who, for his "miracles", attracted higher power. He was the first in the world to use surgery in the field, and the decision to use anesthesia saved not only his patients from suffering, but also those who lay on the tables of his students later. By his own efforts, the splints were replaced with bandages soaked in starch.
He was the first to use the method of sorting the wounded into heavy and those who make it to the rear. This has reduced the death rate by several times. Before Pirogov, even a minor wound in the arm or leg could end in amputation.
He personally carried out operations and tirelessly controlled that the soldiers were provided with everything necessary: warm blankets, food, water.
According to legend, it was Pirogov who taught Russian academics to conduct plastic surgery, demonstrating the successful experience of engrafting a new nose on the face of his barber, whom he helped to get rid of ugliness.
Being an excellent teacher, about whom all the students spoke with warmth and gratitude, he believed that the main task upbringing - to learn to be a man.
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Simple and amazing stories of real heroes. Everyone should know their names.
History knows a huge number of people who made outstanding deeds and discoveries, but at the same time remained unnoticed.
website believes that many of them deserve fame and wide recognition. This article contains the stories of seven such heroes - they are all different, but each of them made life on planet Earth a little - or even much - better and happier.
History from Konstantin Paustovsky
“It was the spring of 1912, before the exams, a meeting was arranged in the garden. All the gymnasium students of our class were called to it, except for the Jews. The Jews were not supposed to know anything about this meeting.
At the meeting, it was decided that the best students from Russians and Poles should grab the four in exams at least in one subject so as not to receive a gold medal. We decided to give all the gold medals to the Jews. Without these medals, they were not admitted to the university.
We have sworn to keep this decision confidential. To the credit of our class, we did not let it slip, neither then nor after, when we were already university students. Now I break this oath, because almost none of my schoolmates are left alive. Most of them died during big wars experienced by my generation. Only a few people survived."
A world without nuclear war
September 26, 1983 lieutenant colonel Stanislav Petrov was on duty at Serpukhov-15, a secret bunker near Moscow, and was busy monitoring the satellite system Soviet Union. Shortly after midnight, one of the satellites signaled to Moscow that the US was launching 5 ballistic missiles at Russia. The entire responsibility at that moment fell on the forty-four-year-old lieutenant colonel: he had to decide how to respond to this signal.
The alarm sounded at a difficult time, relations between the USSR and America were strained, but Petrov decided that it was false and refused to take any retaliatory measures. Thus, he prevented a possible nuclear catastrophe - the signal really turned out to be false.
Vasily Arkhipov, an officer in the Russian Navy, also once made a decision that saved the world. During Caribbean Crisis he prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo. The Soviet submarine B-59 was surrounded near Cuba by eleven American destroyers and the aircraft carrier Randolph. Despite the fact that it took place in neutral waters, the Americans used depth charges against the boat to force it to rise to the surface.
The submarine commander, Valentin Savitsky, prepared to launch a nuclear torpedo in return. However, the senior on board Arkhipov showed restraint, drew attention to the signals from the American ships and stopped Savitsky. The signal "Stop the provocation" was sent from the boat, after which the American military forces were withdrawn and the situation was somewhat defused.
The man with the golden hand
Australian at thirteen James Harrison had undergone major breast surgery and was in urgent need of about 13 liters of donated blood. After the operation, he was in the hospital for three months. Realizing that donating blood saved his life, he made a promise to start donating blood as soon as he turned 18.
As soon as Harrison reached the age required to donate blood, he immediately went to the Red Cross blood donation site. It was there that it turned out that his blood is unique in its kind, since its plasma contains special antibodies, thanks to which it is possible to prevent the Rhesus conflict of a pregnant mother with her fetus. Without these antibodies, the Rh conflict leads to a minimum of anemia and jaundice in the child, a maximum to stillbirth.
When James was told what exactly was found in his blood, he asked only one question. He asked how often you can donate blood.
Since then, every three weeks, James Harrison comes to a medical center near his home and donates exactly 400 milliliters of blood. To date, he has donated about 377 liters of blood.
In the 56 years since his first donation, he has donated blood and blood components almost 1,000 times and saved about 2,000,000 children and their young mothers.
Polish Schindler
Eugene Lazowski was a Polish doctor who saved thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. Thanks to the discovery of his friend, Dr. Stanislav Matulevich, Lazowski simulated an outbreak of typhus, a dangerous infectious disease. Matulevich discovered that healthy person it is possible to inoculate certain bacteria, and then the results of the test for typhus will be positive, and the person himself will not experience any manifestations of the disease.
The Germans were afraid of typhus because it was highly contagious. At a time when Jews infected with typhus were routinely executed, Lazowski was inoculating the non-Jewish population in the neighborhoods surrounding the ghetto, near the town of Rozvadov. He knew that the Germans would be forced to give up in order to get close to the Jewish settlements, and in the end they simply quarantined the area. This saved approximately 8,000 Polish Jews from certain death in concentration camps.
The scientist who saved millions of lives
American biologist Maurice Ralph Guilleman created 36 vaccines in his lifetime - more than any other scientist in the world. Of the fourteen vaccines that are now in general use, he invented 8, including those for measles, meningitis, chickenpox, hepatitis A and B.
In addition, Gilleman was the first person to determine how the flu virus mutates. Almost single-handedly, he worked to develop a vaccine that prevented the 1957 Asian flu outbreak from becoming a repeat of the 1918 Spanish pandemic that killed 20 million people worldwide.
Donor of immortal cells
African American Henrietta Lacks died of cancer in 1951 at the age of thirty-one. However, she became the donor of the cellular material that allowed Dr. George Otto Gay to create the first ever immortal human cell line, known as the HeLa line. "Immortality" meant that these cells did not die after a few divisions, which means that they could be used to conduct many medical experiments and studies.
In 1954, the HeLa cell strain was used by Jonas Sok to develop a polio vaccine. In 1955, HeLa became the first successfully cloned human cells. Demand for these cages grew rapidly. They were put into mass production and sent to scientists around the world to study cancer, AIDS, the effects of radiation and other diseases. Now scientists are growing about 20 tons of Henrietta cells, there are almost 11,000 patents related to them.
Inventor of the seat belt
July 10, 1962 employee of the Volvo Corporation Nils Bolin patented his invention - a three-point seat belt. It was exactly the system that is still used in cars today: Bolin spent a little less than a year, and was first introduced on Volvo cars in 1959.
The corporation made the seat belt design free to other automakers, and it soon became a worldwide standard. According to recent studies, Bolin's invention has saved about a million lives during its existence.
Fictional stories from the life of people with different destinies, lives and outlook, but united by one big heart.
1. Dima is a teenager who is no different from other guys like him. Nothing but kindness and sensitivity to absolutely strangers. Somehow he needed to visit the military registration and enlistment office. He had no money for a bus, so he had to walk. It was in February. Having walked quite a bit from the house, from a distance he saw a woman lying on the snow. At first, Dima thought she was drunk, but approaching her, he saw an elderly woman. Although there were a lot of passers-by on the street, no one except Dima paid any attention to her. The teenager came up and slowly picked it up. She said that she was going to church, but she slipped and fell. Dima brought the woman to the house, although he had to deviate from the given route by two stops. As a token of gratitude, she tried to give the guy money for travel. But Dima refused - not for that he helped her.
2. Love for animals can be limitless. Steve Craig, an accountant from Denver, knows this firsthand. A month after the death of his beloved dog, he began to feel depressed. Then Steve decided to take old, sick dogs from the shelter, which are unlikely to attract anyone's attention and whose fate, alas, is predictable. Initially, he took in a twelve-year-old Chihuahua with heart murmurs and painful joints. Now he has 10 elderly dogs living in his house. “I am very happy that I was able to make these animals happy,” says Steve.
3. It's no secret what exotic food is eaten in South Korea. In their meat market you can find any living creatures - including dogs. Two-year-old dog Chi-Chi, hanging upside down in a dark room, was constantly beaten to make her meat more tender. However, for unknown reasons, she did not become another delicacy on someone's table. She was simply left to die in a garbage bag. Fortunately, Chi-Chi was saved, but she had to amputate all her legs. And after two months in a veterinary clinic, the dog found a family in Phoenix, Arizona.
4. Dreams tend to come true. It also came true for twelve-year-old Emily Tammen, who suffers from autism, attention deficit disorder and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. Because of this disease, the girl's joints suffer. Emily came to the concert of her favorite singer Adele with a poster “My dream is to sing with Adele”. The singer noticed this announcement and invited the girl to the stage, offering to perform the hit “Someone Like You”.
5. You don't have to be a superhero to save lives. At a baseball game, Andrew McCutchen of the Pirates lost his bat. It flew straight into the boy's forehead. An unknown "superhero" in glasses parried the blow of the bat, substituting his hand. Having circled the boy's head, the bat still hit him on the back of the head. But this was not at all the blow that the unfortunate guy could receive.
6. Friendship between a penguin and a human is possible. In 2001, a pensioner rescued a tiny penguin. He lay near death on the rocks, covered with oil. The man picked up the poor animal, cleaned its feathers of oil and fed fish every day until the penguin gained strength. This was the beginning of their long and strong friendship.
7. There are firefighters among dogs. Burnt puppy Jake, rescued from the fire by Bill Linder, became a firefighter. Little Jake was only a few weeks old when he found himself in a burning barn. He received burns on 75% of his body, which forced the owners to abandon him. Then Bill's family decided to take him. Now Jake, together with his master, conducts lessons fire safety school.
8. “You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes,” said Exupery. Mr. Kuroki, a dairy farmer in Japan, spent two years recovering his blind wife from her depression. Having planted a giant flower garden, he pulled her out into the street, thereby making her smile.
9. Sometimes even a fire can end in a wedding. A firefighter rescued a girl from a burning house. Unfortunately, he suffered a leg injury, the doctors said that the man would no longer be able to walk normally. But 28 years later, he led their daughter down the aisle.
10. “Five years ago I adopted a dog from a shelter that was supposed to be euthanized. Now this dog saves my life every day. I suffer from a neurological disease that causes seizures. My dog knows in advance about the next attack and warns me about it.”
Maria Ryzhova
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The most touching deeds that prove that the world is not without good people.
In this world of wars, rallies and political upheavals, it is very important to remain human and be able to help out in Hard time. Sometimes doing a good deed is not difficult at all, but many people simply pretend not to notice anything, although they know very well that they could help. But even the smallest good deed would bring more love and joy than all the riches of the world.
In this collection website decided to collect the best acts of kindness for the outgoing 2013. We present to your attention the stories that have won the hearts of people around the world.
Service company from american state Pennsylvania chose a very original and touching way to clean the windows in a Pittsburgh orphanage. Employees descending from the roof from floor to floor were dressed in superhero costumes - Batman, Spider-Man, Superman and Captain America.
It's no secret that the Internet is replete with all sorts of videos about Russia in the "trash" category with our drunk, fighting fellow citizens, lawlessness on the roads and other attributes. Everyday life Russians filmed on video recorders. But Arkady Moryakhin from Alma-Ata decided to show that in Russia there are not only reckless drivers and drunk driving, but also people who do good deeds and help each other just like that at any time of the day.
Famous writer JK Rowling lost her billionaire status because she spent so much money on charity. This is the first such case in the history of Forbes.
A real incident that happened in the American town of Fresno will make your heart beat faster. Ordinary firefighter Cory Kalanick was checking in a smoky room after a fire, when he suddenly saw this little ball of fur, showing no signs of life.
12 thousand residents of the city fulfilled the dream of five-year-old Miles Scott. The performance was organized by Make a Wish, a charity that grants the wishes of terminally ill children. The fact is that the boy is sick with leukemia. He has been undergoing treatment for several years and is now in remission.
98-year-old beggar, grandfather Dobri from the Bulgarian village of Bailovo, dressed in homespun clothes and ancient leather boots, often stands outside the Cathedral of St. Alexander Nevsky in Sofia. Every day he gets up early and walks 10 kilometers from his home to the capital. In 2010 during filming documentary film about the cathedral, a Bulgarian television journalist made a shocking discovery in the archives of the church - the most generous private donation the cathedral has ever received - 40,000 euros was made by an old beggar - Dobri's grandfather.
The 98-year-old saint does not touch a single penny of the money that is served to him. He lives on his pension of 100 euros a month, as well as non-monetary alms in the form of fruit and bread. Grandpa Dobri helps many others, for example, he paid utility bills orphanage, which was on the verge of turning off heat and light. He also helps the homeless. But about everyone good deeds We will never know Dobri's grandfather because he never talks about them.
Red Mark was one of the most famous Dutch fans. In the early 2000s, he managed to unite the opposing groups of Feyenoord fans. Before the start of preparations for the new season, sad news came - Red Mark is terminally ill. The doctors gave him a month at best, a week at worst. In a few days, an unforgettable action was organized for Red Mark, who had supported Feyenoord for 41 years.
kind granny
A resident of Magadan, Rufina Ivanovna Korobeynikova, knitted and donated three hundred pairs of warm socks to the flood victims in Khabarovsk.
In October
Who sleeps sweetly on the shoulder of an unfamiliar passenger in the subway, has circled the entire Western Internet. Inspired by this touching act, the Charidy charity decided to conduct their experiment in the New York subway. The hero of the video pretended to be tired for a whole hour, falling asleep on the shoulders of passengers sitting next to him. At first, the passengers waved, but then ...
The homeless man returned the wallet
“Today, having left the house early in the morning in order to avoid traffic jams, I went to fetch my mother in order to go to the dacha together later. Having gathered all my favorites together, I was already ready to go to the country, when suddenly I discovered that my wallet with ALL documents for the car, rights, cards, passport was gone - in short, my whole life disappeared without a trace. In desperation I returned home and suddenly my doorbell rang stranger. At first glance - an ordinary homeless man, but with clear kind eyes. He greeted me, introduced himself and after the phrase “You must have lost your feet ...” handed me my wallet. Silent scene. With shaking hands, I start rummaging through my wallet and understand that everything is in place and even the money! My husband immediately handed him the money, which he refused! You see, a man without a fixed place of residence found a wallet on the highway, got on the train, then the subway, then the minibus, searched for my house for an hour just to help. He left, and we stood for a long time and thought about it. simple man with capital letter!" Irina Demidova.
An ordinary American couple who arrived at the gas station gave us all a stunning and unexpected lesson in the joy of life. Will is a bartender, Monifa is a fitness trainer, they have been married for 12 years. simple, fun, open people sincerely loving friend friend and life, who know how to enjoy every moment, even such an unexpected one. Instead of being shy and modest, they gave a fantastically funny, kind and touching show near their car, first conquering the presenter and viewers, and then the entire Internet.
Rescuer
Serb Renato Grbic, 51, from Belgrade, owner of a restaurant near the Danube bridge, has rescued 25 people who tried to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge over the past 15 years. After Renato pulled the first suicide out of the water, his small motorboat is always ready. “While I’m working, I’m always watching the bridge - I just can’t turn my back on those who decide to voluntarily die,” says Renato. Seven years ago, in mid-January, he pulled an 18-year-old girl out of the water. Turns out she lives next door. Now the girl comes to his restaurant every year to celebrate her birthday. A couple of years later, she invited him to the wedding. “Every time I see her, my heart beats faster,” admits the lifeguard.
“My husband and I also met a very kind person. Last winter, during cyclone Javier, when all the roads and yards were covered up to the tops of cars, our car was also quite covered. There was no shovel at home, everything was sold out in the stores too, we collected everything that was more or less digging at home, we leave, and our car stands dug for itself and with a flat path to the exit. And under the janitor there is a note.
Request text: "Thank you! I like about something human - the kindest, most sympathetic, most philanthropic... :)"
Are there people on our Earth who would know neither wars, nor violence, nor murders? A striking discovery was made by scientists - anthropologists. In 1971, in the Philippine Islands, where, it would seem, everything was explored up and down, an unknown tribe of people was discovered. It lives apart and does not know that it exists the world, where there are also similar ones. This tribe was called Tasadei. Tasadao - a mountain above the entrance to a cave on the slope of one of the hills in the wilds of the island of Mindanao. There the Tasadei spend the night.
These people have a very primitive way of life. Each day they live is not much different from the previous one. Waking up at sunrise, they go down to the stream to wash and have breakfast. Thanks to the rich flora and waters teeming with tadpoles, small fish and crabs, food is always at hand and they do not need to stock up.
Tasadei sit down on the stones heated by the sun and start the meal, treating each other with their prey. At noon, the tribe moves into the shade and spends the rest of the day in peace and quiet.
Only at sunset they go in search of plant food and after a vegetarian dinner (lunch) they hide in a cave for the night. Their undisturbed sleep lasts about 12 hours.
This tribe knows neither quarrels nor enmity. When making a decision, they quickly come to general opinion so there is no need to appoint chiefs and elders.
Due to the fact that the Tasadeans do not have a very good memory, they do not remember random insults and do not hold a grudge against their fellows. Couples are created only for love. One marriage for life. The feeling of jealousy is unknown to this amazing people because they don't change either.
In this group of people, everyone is equal among themselves. After all, they do not have property, and they do not know what money is.
Another remarkable quality of the tasadei is the absence bad habits(smoking and drinking). Scientists believe that these people are good-natured, all-forgiving, from birth.
Here is how Akimushkin describes their life:
(Igor Ivanovich Akimushkin(May 1, Moscow - January 1, Moscow) - writer, biologist, popularizer of biology, author of popular science books about animal life.)
In the depths of the cave, two fires burn day and night. The tasadei do not have a special position of "priests of fire", in whose care the maintenance of it would lie. And in general there are no positions and duties: everyone, without coercion, does what he does best or what he likes best.
Let's see how the tasadei spend their day, what is their unpretentious life.
As soon as the sun rises, tasadei, rubbing their eyes and stretching, slowly descend down the natural potholes and ledges of lava tuff, from which the foot of the cave is composed. Mothers carry or lead their children by the hand. There is no hierarchy, no advantage and privilege to enter and exit the cave, there is no ceremonial order among the Tasadeans.
We note here for memory that monkeys have a hierarchy. It was, obviously, among the people of the Neolithic - the Cro-Magnons. And their predecessors, judging by the tasadei, did not. This means that hierarchical “bureaucracy” and “reverence for rank” are not genetically inherent in people, but developed later, during the formation of a primitive communal and class society (although some anthropologists think otherwise). We will return to this issue a little later, when we talk about the aggressiveness of a person.
After this small but important for understanding the basics human psychology retreat, let us return to the tasadei awakened from their sleep.
Still sleepy, smeared in soot and soot, they go down to the stream. Adults wash and wash off the soot themselves, children are bathed by their mothers.
Then the search for food begins. The tasadei do not stock up on food: the surrounding nature is generous and supplies in abundance with everything necessary for subsistence. They find their breakfast at the very doorstep of the house. Children sit on the bank of the stream and hold bags rolled from leaves in their hands. Men catch fish, crabs, tadpoles with their hands (the latter are the main dish on the tasadei menu).
Children and adults are located where the stones are heated by the sun, where it is warmer. They don't eat fast. No one claims to be the most satisfying and plentiful piece. They readily share with each other everything that they have caught in half an hour.
Basking in the sun. They remember with laughter the successes and failures of the morning tadpole hunt. The memory of the Tasadeans, as they say, is short. They remember only recent events, and they completely forget what happened 5-6 years ago. In general, the good are remembered better than the bad. Therefore, they do not hold ill will against each other for a long time. Easily forgive involuntary grievances. I say "involuntary" because the tasadei do not know the conscious infliction of offenses.
Five hours go by like that. The sun rises to its zenith, and the tasadei move to a shady place. They sit in a tight group, usually in silence. They don't have any work. There is little entertainment. The afternoon hours are spent as if in nirvana.
However, one day-to-day repeated entertainment amuses them during these hours.
While the tasadeans keep their cave fires burning all the time, they can quickly rekindle dry moss if they die out. This is making fire (who will soon ignite the moss!) And practice, and the competition of men, and teaching children what is so necessary in life primitive man case.
Fire is made by friction. A pointed stick is inserted into a recess in the board, quickly twisted back and forth in the palms until the wood smokes. Immediately, dry palm bark and moss are pressed against the hole, they blow on them, and a fire breaks out! This procedure takes about five minutes.
Shortly before sunset (in the tropics, this happens at about 6 pm), some tasadei get up and go to the surrounding jungle in search of fruits, fruits, and most importantly, wild yam tubers. However, their journey through the forests is not long: they do not go further than three or four kilometers from their native cave. They're coming back soon. The long leaves of uprooted yams hang in a dense heap behind the backs of men.
Yams are washed in water, baked in hot ashes and eaten.
Lunch-dinner at the Tasadei, as you can see, is vegetarian. At night, the tasadei move to the cave to plunge into a serene sleep until the morning. They sleep, therefore, almost twelve hours a day, from evening to dawn.
Tomorrow will be the same as the last.
So the Tasadeans live "in peace with each other and in harmony with the surrounding nature." They have no enemies either among people or in nature. Large predators are not found in the Philippines. Only snakes are afraid of the Tasadei. They do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, do not know fights and murders at all. They don't even have weapons! AND stone tools very simple (paleolithic type).
Tasadei do not engage in agriculture. They don't have pets either. No crafts, clothes. Several orchid leaves fastened together replace their loincloth, and this is all that their body is covered with.
The Tasadeans have neither leaders nor elders. Decisions are made jointly, after a short discussion and then act in solidarity. They have no property, neither rich nor poor. They do not know what money is, what work is (in our understanding). Do not know and divorce, adultery, blood feud and jealousy. Marriages are for love, once and for life. And although there are more men in the tribe than women, no one breaks the strong bonds of marriage.
"Watching them quiet life the anthropologist believes that they belong to "the meekest people on Earth" (E. White and D. Brown).
“No, the tasadei are just a special case,” the followers of Lorenz continue to object. - Their primitive way of life is not a primary phenomenon, but a secondary one: the Tasadeans relatively recently separated from common root Filipino peoples, lost in the wilds of the wilds of Mindanao, forgot the cultural skills they owned, and sank to a much lower level of development.
Therefore, the Tasadeans cannot serve as a model for anthropology of our real ancestor - a man of the ancient Stone Age. It's just a tiny " big family» Filipinos, who once left the labors and worries in the wild wilderness of the jungle. They are people who fled from people, and not the original links in the evolution of man.
- Well, what if the Tasadeans are not genetically an ancient link in the chain human generations, and modern? Their way of life can nevertheless serve as a model of the behavior of the very first people, since the Tasadeans were placed in the same living conditions as in antiquity, and because of this, according to the law of convergence, they acquired many features of life. primitive people…
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Some anthropologists believe that the first people were just as meek from birth. They led the same life as the Tasadei. Later, those of them who migrated to the north, to regions poor in food and rich in enemies, armed themselves with a club and a spear. But even here people remained non-aggressive for a long time. Fratricidal fights, robberies, wars began much later with the development of the primitive communal system.
However, there is another point of view in science.
Some scientists, including such a well-known ethologist as K. Lorenz, believe that aggressiveness is immanent in humans, it is a heavy legacy of our animal ancestors. Aggression, according to Lorenz, will always dominate a person and manifest itself in violence and in other bad deeds, if society does not find another reasonable expression for it. If you don't find it, it will be terrible! The natural aggressiveness of a person will destroy him in the end.
Here's what's interesting. The discovery of the Tasadeans and the study of their way of life inclines the opinion of the majority of scientists in favor of the first hypothesis: man was not born with an animal nature! He is a peaceful being in his original essence.
Let them argue...
