If elite is not capable of doesn't want to resolve problems which life puts to society, then society not always degrades, because new elite appears, which is adequate to the certain stage of society development. So, such is the society development mechanism. People[8] themselves are capable for revolutionary actions, but these actions never are successful, whether it was the riot of Spartak or Stepan Razin's revolt. Only when the need for changing the society institutes is realized by some part of elite, it becomes possible to overthrow the old elite and transform the society. As a rule, an appearance of new elite refers to the breaking of stability in society. But it is often the unique way to rescue the society from degradation. The algorithm of society development is presented illustratively[9].

If elite is not capable to resolve problems facing the society and there is no new elite, the society degrades. Degradation process can be long enough, but, as rule, an external force – another nation – finishes this process”.

S. Valtsev completed his article with this conclusion.

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The main flaw of such approach to consideration of social development and social crises problems, which S. Valtsev has followed, consists of that the contextually caused sense of the words given by him, suppresses and deforms their dictionary values that are more of less in general use. Such an expression of author’s own ideas causes an ambiguity of the text and speech understanding and it doesn't allow to understand an essence of processes and actions considered by him.

The same concerns using ready wordings, by which this approach was expressed, while citing as well (in the present case – Italian “elitologist” G. Mosca): it is a reliable way to become a hostage of mistakes done by other people.

In particular, the term “elite” isn’t monosemantic, even in its dictionary value:

elite in general – selected as the best[10];

in relation to a society: 1) A group or class of persons or a member of such a group or class, enjoying superior intellectual, social, or economic status; 2) The best or most skilled members of a group[11] (all definitions are taken from ).

I.e. primordially the use of term “elite” assumes subjectivity of choice caused by morality and world understanding: 1) the certain set of selection parameters, which should correspond to one or another objective circumstances; 2) in relation to each parameter – meanings of definitions “best”, “surpassing others” of representatives of certain set on each selection parameter; 3) ordering of set of parameters on each of them importance priorities for the subject.

According to this status of word “elite” any society objectively is “poly-elite”. Its poly-elitism is an objective basis of that the same social group in one's opinion is a “real elite”, while for another it is a “pseudo-elite” or “counter-elite” or “a shame of mankind”.

According to such historically steady meaning of the word “elite”, to practice in definitions trying to differentiate “elite”, “pseudo-elite”, “counter-elite”, “dominating class” and to present the received fictional definitions as an authentic knowledge of the general cultural level, – it is waste of time in attempt to overcome objective essence of Language.

For this reason in COB in the term crowd-“elitism” and all derivatives from word “elite” have been always written in .

Besides that, the word “elite” itself doesn't mean at all that function of ruling the society is inalienable property or even right of this or that social “elite” being certain set whose representatives surpass other society members on some quality, including ability to exercise administrative functions of public importance.

What S. Valtsev calls “dominating class” that regardless of its morality and ethics some way carries out the ruling of a society, is one of many “elites”, which representatives have won (or incessantly win) in struggle for possession of such social status in internal society structure, with which indeed some power and a function of really carried out ruling of society as a whole or of regional importance in the historically formed structure of public relations are connected.

In other words, the question is: which “elite” will win that status, S. Valtsev calls “dominating class” in the certain society. If they would be villains, whom S. Valtsev calls “pseudo-elite”, then that means the only that the society is not able to grow up enough righteous people, which would not allow so-called “pseudo-elite” to seize the status of the so-called “dominating class”. In this case the society doesn’t and can’t have any hopes that the “elite” villains and fools would realize their essence by themselves and would change to so-called “real elite”: though some its representatives (under pressure of circumstances, sometimes rather severe) are capable to change their mind and pass from vile-corporative morality and ethics to more human ones.

Nevertheless, in society there is reproduced an amount of people, who are convinced as if they were really “the best”, because they objectively surpass others, first of all with parameters of “intellectual power” and erudition. Thus they consider the power over the rest of society to be their inalienable right.

However, the history shows the following. In social corporations based on the conviction of their members in that “they are the best and thus have the right to …”, the same laws of herd-pack behaviour works, which “were discovered” once again by scientists from Leeds and Utrecht, and on basis of which (not knowing about their “discovery”) “the pastor” Tikhon Shevkunov wants to realize the plan of “Orthodox Renaissance” of RusZionia.

Therefore in our opinion, the estimation of so-called “social elite” as a crowd, in sense of V. G. Belinsky’s definition of this sociological term, given in COB is adequate to what really occurs in life of crowd-“elitist” societies during all known history. And if not to think about yourself as about a representative of “the real elite”, who can’t rule the society because of preponderance of “the pseudo-elite” quantitatively overwhelming “the real elite”, then there are no objective reasons to disagree with the estimation of “elite” in COB...

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If to speak about the manifestations of herd-pack behaviour of people, then, as the experiment in Leeds shows, the majority follows the “informed” minority in the case when representatives of this majority don't realize purposes of their activity and means of its realization.

If the sense of activity is not realized, the will that operates in individual psyche from the level of consciousness, may be activated only for searching the sense of activity. If the will isn’t activated at all the control is transferred to unconscious levels of psyche, and instinctive algorithmic of herd-pack behaviour, which biologically is peculiar to human, may be activated.

Besides that, instinctive algorithmic of herd-pack behaviour may be activated also in cases when the will is suppressed (for example with psychotropic substances, alcohol, other drugs, including moral and psychological pressure of some authorities on individual's psyche), or volitional qualities of individual haven’t been developed during his education.

In these variants, even with comprehension of sense of activity, absence of will in general or its depression dooms an individual (if circumstances gain to this) for participation in herd-pack behaviour. This is algorithmic of a greater part of teenage collective criminality: life-strategic interests were not formed by parents, school and TV; volitional qualities were not grown up; “kiddies” have nothing to do, but have too much energy. They drink – do foolish things, herd-pack algorithmic activates… and as a result – they commit a grave crime, which nobody of them in the majority of cases has planned to make. But the crime nevertheless is committed, since its morally caused algorithmic has been dispersed with its fragment between personal psyches of all the participants.