For those who observe the decision-making mechanisms in Russian authority, the presence of various state astrologers and fortune-tellers, not to mention consultations with leading astrologers or numerologists, is not a big secret. Another important group that influences decision-making consists of various elders—from Optina Desert to Athos—shamans and preachers.
Dozens of articles have been written about this, but I didn’t need to read them if only because during my years of working in Moscow, I saw these people with my own eyes and knew the positions they held. And I understood perfectly well why this is happening. After all, 1917—the year of the destruction of Russian imperial statehood—brought to the surface illiterate undeveloped people who were taught to read syllables “Mama washed the frame” and “Lenin is always alive.” But the ability to read or even the opportunity to receive an education is not a path to critical thinking. Superstitions and faith in mysticism remain part of the world of the so-called “simple person,” who remains simple precisely because, thanks to the Bolsheviks and later the upheaval of the ’90s, they did not go through evolutionary stages.
Therefore, the closer to this simplicity, which, according to a Russian proverb, is worse than theft, the more astrologers, numerologists, and elders there are.
Yanukovych, as is known, traveled to Athos, his entourage bought astrologers wholesale and retail. That we faced this again after 2019, as for me, was as predictable as the danger of a big war. The fact that I did not think about it is connected with the fact that compared to the catastrophe that awaited Ukraine, the methodology for decision-making by the young team seemed trivial. After all, what difference does it make how decisions are made by those who, by definition, do not realize the consequences of their actions.
Therefore, the main problem is not with Ms. Veronika and her colleagues. The main problem is the same as in 1917, but already under conditions of democracy and artificial intelligence – how to explain to the “simple person” that when they vote for someone like themselves, they sign a death sentence not only for us but also for themselves and their children. How to teach them to be more careful without undergoing the necessary stages of evolution in the school of civilizational catastrophes?
I always convinced myself that I should not seek an answer to this question because I still work for a minority in society. And it is not my job to reproach people who are not to blame for social cataclysms simply interrupting the logic of evolutionary processes.
It was easy for me to think like this in Russia, where familiar politicians from Putin’s entourage advised talking to an astrologer, and leading doctors suggested reading psalms instead of taking medicine. It was harder for me to hide behind thoughts of personal irrelevance after two post-Maidan revenges. After all, like all of us, I came under missiles, while astrologers from two countries continue to work hard (and by the way, I will not be surprised if we find out that they take orders from both Kyiv and Moscow—stars don’t stink). Meanwhile, this civilizational deadlock extends to other countries that seemingly haven’t experienced an evolutionary downfall.
So the world of the future will be a world where astrological forecasts will be made with the help of artificial intelligence because technology can change, but humans—cannot. And if thinking people cannot meet this challenge of madness and find an antidote, then we will just have to agree with the fact that these idiots will bury us.
With Veronika or without her.
Collage: Informator
