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09 Negative of life: anticulture and antiphilosophy

Anticulture
Antiphilosophy

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Anticulture

Anticulture is a disease of civilization
Propaganda of anomaly in modern society
About the influence of the means of mass information, imaginative litterature, motion pictures on the behavior of people, the society as a whole
What is learned of the modern advertising?
The necrophilism of anticulture
About the so-called ’right to die’
Philosophy of killing
Hitchcock and others
Boom of mysticism

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Anticulture is a disease of civilization

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What is anticulture?During the last 80-100 years with luxurious blossom ‘flourished’ anticulture (F202). Initially it stroke the West, but after well-known proceedings of 1987-1991 (when ideologic barriers were burned and the iron curtain fell down) actively is applied in our Russian reality features of anticulture (F203):

1. Anticulture in Russia.
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constant orientation to the theme of death, necrophilia: thrillers, action movies etc., informative necrophilia in means of mass information.
information and propaganda of anomaly in different forms: absurd theatre; philosophy of absurdism; psychedelic philosophy; narcotic anticulture; romantization of criminal [when antihero and criminal are described as heroes], overmeasured attention to deviations in sexual behavior [sadism, masochism, homosexualism], predilection to description of psychopatology, unhealthy phenomenons of human psyche, spiritual pain.
nihilism in relation to old culture; break with it or efforts to ‘modernize’ it, with one word, destruction of the balance between tradition and modernization in favor of the latter, modernization for the sake of modernization, contest to stronger astonish with ones own modernization, strike timagination of the watcher, reader, listener.
militant irrationalism: from postmodern experiments and challenges to eulogy of mysticism.

2. Anticulture in Russia.
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Unfortunately, activists of culture ever more turn to their opposite: activists of anticulture.

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For the first, instead of ’good feelings’, ‘wake with lyra’ (A.S. Pushkin), ‘sow reason, good, eternal’ (N.A. Nekrasov), they let go on all heavy: in creation of paintings and scenes, demonstration of violence, murder, criminal behavior in general, roughness, rudeness, cynism, all kinds of grimacing, sneering.

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Secondly, beauty, excellency in modern activists of culture is not in mode: the more monstruous, deformed the presentation, the better (examples: ‘life with idiot’ by Victor Erofeev, ‘Swane lake’ in presentation of Maurice Bejar, "The Possessed" by Dostoevsky in TV presentation).

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Thirdly, thruth is not greeted. A characteristic example: in the television advertisement (telechannel ORT 19990115-1230) it sounded: ‘Real facts are less interessant than fantasy and delusion’. This advertisement was emitted several timesin television. Think only, what it inspires to people: world is illusion, irreal world is more interesting than real life?! Yes, welcome daydreaming, munchhausenism, Castañeda-ism, all kinds of datura, spiritual and material! – This is almost direct call to foolishness, to exit of real life, right away to narcotic hallucination.

3. Thruth is not greeted.
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With one word, good, beautiful, truth fundamental human values, on which the life is based, the activists of anticulture almost do not interest at all, and if they are interested, then only of the wrapping of it, anomaly (deviation or pathology).

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Why is anticulture considered more dangerous than atom bomb?Anticulture is an exaggerated development of certain shadov sides of culture, cancer swelling on its body. The danger of anticulture is not only in its direct influence of on conscience and behavior of people. It makes mimics and masking on culture. People often let themselves be deceited, caught by the angles of anticulture, taking it as culture, as the achievements of culture. Anticulture is the sickness of modern society. It disturbs culture, destroys human in man, the man himself as such. It is more awful than atom bomb, any Usama ben Laden, because it strikes man from inside, his soul, conciousness, body.

4. More awful than atom bomb.
... because it strikes man from inside, his soul, conciousness, body. (09010111)

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What is culture and what is anticulture?Russian philospher V.S. Solovyov wrote: ‘What is such culture, as a matter? It is all, decidedly all, produced by mankind. There The World Conference of Hague, but it is also the suffocating gases; it is the Red Cross, but it is also throwing of hot liquid on each other, it is the Symbol of Faith, but also Heckel with ‘World Riddles’. Unfortunately, this view of V.S. Solovyov on culture is divided by many, understand under it anything amorfic and boundless, include in it things, incompatible with normal humanity. I decidedly disagree with this kind of concept of culture. To me closer are such statements of philosophers: ‘Culture is conglomerates of collected valuales’ (G Fedotov); ‘Culture is the environment, growing and nurturing personality’ (P. Florensky). Or this statement of L.N. Tolstoy: ‘… we have right to name science and art only such activity, which has this aim and will reach it (good of society and all humanity). If only not called themselves scientists, those who devise theories of criminal, governmental and international right, inventing new guns and explosives, and artists creating obscene operas and operettes or similar obscene novels, we have no right to call all this activity science and art, because this activity does not have as aim the good of society or humanity, but, on the contrary, is oriented to the evil of people’ (F204). (-From the notebooks of L.N. Tolstoy).

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What is the relationship of culture to life?To culture is related only that which serves to conserving, development and progress of life. More accurately, culture is the totality of knowledge and skill, oriented to self-preserving, reproduction, completion of man (F205) and embodied partly in norms of life (habits, traditions, canons, standarts or language, education etc.), partly in objects of material and spiritual culture. All that goes outside the framework of this knowledge and skill, which destroys man or prevents his development, does not have relationship to human culture and serves only one god, the god of anticulture.

5. Demarcation: culture vs. anticulture.
To culture is related only that which serves to conserving, development and progress of life. (09010113)

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Propaganda of anomaly in modern society

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When you finally understand that normality is not a virtue, but a lack of courage

From American motion picture «Practical magics»

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Modern society, its atmosphere as a whole is loaded with bacilluses of anomal (amoral, criminal conscience). Motion pictures and television are overfilled with scenes of violence, murder, all kinds of horror films, monsters, shows of catastrofs, death of people. Criminals and killers often are shown as heroes. Demonstrative examples: often shown on television our movie ‘Genius’ where main role is played by famous film actor Alexander Abdulov; or the recent serial ‘Brigade’.

6. Killers as heroes.
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Evgeni Petrosjan 20030630 in TV program ‘Laughing panorama’ (ORT, 1820) connected to TV series ‘Brigade’ sadly remarked: ‘earlier boy watched ‘Heavenly slowmover’ and said: I will be flyer, now he watches ‘Brigade’ and says what? – I want to be a ganster’ (F206). The main role in TV series is played by the famous actor Bezrukov. In the interview (in film, shown on TV channel «Московия» 20030921-0940 morning he justifies this TV serial, declares even stupid those who do not understand the positive meaning of the TV serial. What is the subject matter of ‘Brigade’? It is that the main hero is a ganster, who comes out victoriously with his comrades from all skirmishes with police forces. The serial ends with this leader of criminal group is set as candidate for the Government Parliament of Russian Federation and wins the election. This TV serial has already imitators. A certain Vitaly Diomotshko sets in Ussuria in Far East TV series ‘Spets’. This V. Diomotshko only five years ago was released free. Until that time he sat in prison. As he spoke of himself, he was in the starting nest of organized criminal communities, gang. And so this ex-gangster set and directs TV-serial in many respects as his autobiography. He is also the producer, and main director, and plays the main role in the serial. The majority of roles are played by his ‘brothers’. As Milice or victim none of these brothers wanted to play; he was obliged to call to the roles of Milice officers and victims actors of the local theatres. The first series of TV-serial «Спец» (Spets) was shown in the local television (200309). Spectators liked the first series and wanted to see the continuation. Here is an example of a ‘successful’ gangster, who dared even not only come on a list of candidates to Governement Duma, but also create a TV-serial of his own life, that is, immortalize himself. He himself spoke of this. The whole outlook of this ‘producer’ speaks of how he does not a bit repent for his doings and continues his gangsterism (by the way, he himself in the interview rather transparently hinted to this saying that having occupied with legal producer business, leaves possibly all his earlier business). Not accidentally he condempting stated about law-enforcement organs that they are not capable of putting down organized criminality.

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What is the danger of criminal consciousness?We observe endless tasting of details of violence, murdering, raw and cruel addressing of people. Language and behavior of literature, motion pictures, as a rule, are deprived of normal humanity, delicate tact. Continuous boorishness, rude addressing, rude street language of mat level. All this children, youth, youngsters are seeing, absorb to themselves as sponge, load themselves of this negative energy, begin to imitate. Them it begins to seem that all this is possible in the society, allowed, accepted. Negative energy of criminal consiousness, is spilling in the modern culture, in motion pictures, books, media of mass information, is absorbed in the still weak minds of young people.

7. Criminal consciousness absorbed by young people.
Negative energy of criminal consiousness, is spilling in the modern culture, in motion pictures, books, media of mass information, is absorbed in the still weak minds of young people. (09010205)

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Yes, what to say about young people?! And adults, mature people in times don not tolerate this pressure of criminalized culture. In 200110 on the canal of NTV was shown the subject with the capture of serial murder, first aid doctor Maxim Sergeev from Sant Peterburg. Already in the age of thirty years this great lover of detective stories (as he said himself in one of the questionings) started on the road of criminal road, first with robbery, then also murders. On his conscience 10 murders! When in literature, in motion pictures, on television, there are endless action films, detective stories, this inevitably leads to criminalization of the society, to people willing not willing being oriented with these poisonous vapors of criminal conscience.

8. Poisonous vapors of criminal conscience.
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(I come to remember one motive from the film of Michail Fromm ‘Usual fascism’. On a preelection meeting in a small Italian town was expected that Mussolini would come, the leader of newly founded fascist party. The inhabitants of the small town did not know him. Some days before the arrival of Mussolini the square of the small town was glued full of placats with his picture and characteristic fascist greeting. When Mussolini appeared on the meeting and raised his hand into the facist greeting, then all gathered inhabitants of the town unanimously raised their hands to this characteristic greeting… This is the power of manifold demonstrations of one and the same in the press, motion pictures, mass media.)

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Countless scenes with the demonstration of criminal conduct lead only to increase of criminality, educate and spread ever newer and newer criminals.

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Here some fresh examples. Filmdirector Aleksei German was beaten together with son in the house of creation ‘Repino’ (200112). Writer and satirist M. Zhvanetsky exposed to criminal attack with the aim of robbing: he was beaten and his recently bought Jeep was taken. It had cost him several tens of thousand dollars (200201). Asassinated at his fron door the director oif the Institute of Psychology RAN, a well-known psycholog Andrey Vladimirovitsh Brushlinsky. Brutally assassinated together with her friends the daughter of the dean of the faculty of sociology of MGU V.I. Dobrenskov (200201). One of the killers is narkoman. The dean V.I. Dobrenkov in the open letter to the President of Russia required the moratorim of the death sentence?! The matter is in the social atmosphere. Almost open propaganda of amoral behavior in massmedia, negative energy of criminal conscience, supported, cultivated by modern anticulture, here is the reason of all these drames and tragedies.

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What kind of justification is given for the presentation of criminal motives?Activists of movie and television, writers sometimes justify their predilection to the detective genre saying that criminal motives of their films, TV-programs, describe life, as if life was of that kind (F207). I with complete responsibility declare: they are slandering the life, people, Russia, mankind! The great majority of people are living normal life, giving birth, elevate, educate children, construct, take care, produce material and spiritual goods. Criminality and fighting with it is only fainting part of the life of people, Russia, humanity. Criminals, like illnesscreating microbes, can only live as parasites on the body of society. The society does not live on them! The basic life of people is either love, giving birth to children, educating them, the reproduction of new life, or production of material and spiritual goods, life in culture, material and spiritual progress. All the rest is situated in the periphery of life. The criminality is this peripherical, marginal (F208) life. Correspondingly also it must also be shown in these proportions. Not 50-70 percent of screen time, but 5-10 percent. Artists, writers, TV-people must not operate according to marginal and those who are ready to watch the life of these marginals. By the way, the first use sometimes such an argument for grounding their positions: people must be shown interesting, occupying; action movies, detective stories, as a rule, are interesting, occupying, means, people must be shown them. – This is logically erroneous argumentation. Action movies and detective stories are only small part of interesting and occupying. The contents of ‘interesting and occupying’ is immeasurably greater than the contents the concept of ‘action-detective’. People are interested in love, perpety of love, interesting contest of its various noncriminal aspects (in sports, discovering of unknown things, in creating, in science, in politics, in economics), including competitive forms of fight. Occupying are travels, adventures, historical events, life of animals, plants, humour, satir, comedy etc. Also should be contested the conception that detectives enjoy increased demand. As a matter of fact this is an artifact, artificially called phenomenon (when they propose that on the market there is interesting and occupying something then they also get the corresponding raction in the form of increased demand on this something). If writers, TV-people would produce more interesting non-detective pieces, so also the demand would change to the favor of this production.

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Besides, in this kind of situations there is always the danger to rely on bad taste or temptation to gratify it. The crowd is not always right. It may fancy antiheroes, such as Mussolini, Hitler, and all anti- in the arts.

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Here is an example: a certain Vladimir Sorokin became a fashionable writer thanks to more or less scandalous works (see for instance, the novel ‘Blue lard’, 1999). In the TV-program «Накануне» (The Eve) (NTV, speaker Parfenov) 20020630 a video is presented where V. Sorokin in profetal tone says the words: ‘I feel how Russia freezes. It falls to the state of inactivity of …tradition… This Bear’ This is a gloomy view, well-fed, fashion-cut beard (neatly gives attention to himself) and such stupid self-opinion, such bitter words on Russia. All meanness, nothingness of V. Sorokin in these words! His works are published by the editor of ‘Ad marginem’ (manager is Alexander Ivanov), which also publishes the works of Alexander Prohanova (an ardent nationalist) and political extremist Eduard Limonov, who is reflecting national bolshevism. Good Society!

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People are greed for sensations, to all extraordinary, bold, clamorous. Already two thousand years or more ago was born the educating legend of Diogenes Sinop: “Once he was reflecting important things, but nobody listened to him, then he squealed in the way of birds; people were gathered and he reprimanded them of having come for nonessentials, but not for important’. People are just thus. The popular voice is not always the voice of God.

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In the 20th century a big fame was obtained by the artist Salvador Dali. This artist was a real apostle of anomaly. Practically all his production is complete scandal. He does not evade bad and criminal approaches. In one of his exhibitions this heading was done for him: ‘Sometimes just for pleasure I spit on the portrait of my mother’. Hearing of this extravagancy of the son Dali's father cursed him.

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Unfortunately many activists of culture are loaded with this negative spirit. They are convinced that only the shadow side of life is interesting, but the good people are not. This opinion was expressed by the famous movie star Macdowell. He was playing the role of Caligula in the parallel film of the film ‘Tsarevits’. This opinion he uttered in a TV-program dedicated to him, in connection with movie project ‘Чикатило’ Chicatilo (200309). A similar opinion was heard by me in the program of TV canal «Культура» (Culture), which is led by Maximov (20030917-0100). TV–speaker Maximov and Vitalij Wulf agreed with the opinion of Pier Carden, who said approximatively in the following way: people are interested more of the terrible than of beauty.

10. Negative spirit prevails.
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In the world, in humanity, there are many entropic, destructive elements and processes. Culture has always worked against them. It is negaentropic of its essence.

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In the skewd eye also straight is skew.

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Why do the means of mass information cause confusion in the society?In general in our country the denomination of ‘means of mass information’, short ‘SMI’ (средства массовой информации) is used, but does not correspond the reality. The means of mass information are transferring information as well as disinformation, as corresponding to reality (truth), so also not corresponding the reality (lie, fantacy). Confirming unequivocally that they inform us about reality is that they introduce confusion to the society.

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Are the news programs a mirror of life?Let us take news programs as an example. They are transferring mainly the negative of life (catastrophes, accidents, murders, terror, other crimes). The representatives of mass media, by the way, themselves admit this. Here one such consent: ‘the journalists love bad news’. This phrase I heard in Euronews 20030901-0916 morning. Think only: journalists concentrate their attention on the negative of life (bad news), are conscious of this and nev ertheless continue to lie to the society that their news are the mirror of life. I often hear from their mouths (as the justification of the majority testimony of the contrary) the famous proverb ‘don’t blame the mirror if the rose is crooked’.

11. ‘Don’t blame the mirror if the rose is crooked’.
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In the self-advertisment of NTV (200309) in answer to the words of telejournalist Vladimir Solovev on the question of ‘world being lunatic’ the speaker of program «Сегодня» (Today) Osokin said literally the following: ‘But I every day say that the world is lunatic’. A demonstrative self-confession! TV canal NTV as the widow of sergeant carved a sculpture of himself. The world is sound, that is, normal, but they, TV-journalists describe it as lunatic. What is obtained, not the crooked rose, but the crooked mirror.

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Why do journalists love bad news?Self-describing phrase ’journalists love bad news’ and this in an advertisement infiltrated dialog between Vladimir Solovyev and Osokin on NTV confirm my thesis about the fact that mass media are deforming the reality, essentially, disinform the society about the world reality. Yes, in every separate case an information on this or that negative occurrence may be correct enough. But on the whole, taken the totality of occurrences with the sign minus is prevailing in the news programs and constructs the impression that everything in the life is bad. The leaders of mass media should radically change the policy of news broadcast, that is, if they want to show life such as it is, they must construct their news programs in the way that the proportions of positive and negative of life corresponds to the real proportions of positive and negative in life. With other words, they must at all time remember this predilection of journalists (their ‘love’ of bad news) and clean themselves, correct journalists, require of them interesting information on positive occurrences. By the way, it is a big lie to present the matter in the way that the information on negative events is interesting, but the information on positive events are non-interesting. I often met this opinion. It is not only simple, but harmful and dangerous. (This opinion is blown rather wide by the old conception that the picture of a positive hero is dull, but that of the negative is interesting).

13. Journalists love bad news.
The leaders of mass media should radically change the policy of news broadcast, that is, if they want to show life such as it is, they must construct their news programs in the way that the proportions of positive and negative of life corresponds to the real proportions of positive and negative in life. (09010221)

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Why do mass media prefer pseudoscientific theories?In addition to the news programs many mass media are demonstrating also other pictures of disinformation: they broadcast astrologic prognoses (it was established in the science already long ago that astrology is a false science), they are advertising all kinds of witch doctors, clearviewers, so called ‘folk healers’, without any critical analysis inform of their quasi- and pseudoscientific theories etc. I can even say that the last years in our mass media the degree of obscurantism is increasing. That is, in ever increasing degree simply false information, disinformation is broadcast and the truth is silenced and /or the truth, scientifically justified theories, concepts are withdrawn. Example: the theory generally accepted in the science about the origin of man is mentioned more often than not with the minus sign.

14. Evolution mentioned in negative sense.
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Or: ever more often the logics, logical thinking, reasoning is given in the negative light and contrary, in the positive light, the assessment of paradoxic thinking. Particularly, the assessment of ideas, opinions as paradoxic often are presented as positive. Here a characteristic example: on the TV-channel «Культура» (Culture) in an advertisement of education project of new season ‘The fruits of enlightening’ (200309) among other advertising phrases also this is heard: ‘Every time this paradoxic view of history, society…’ The word ‘paradoxic’ sounds in the context of this advertisement not only something positive, but as something enticing.

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In general, it is now fashionable to present all kinds of paradoxical opinions. In the advertisement of the TV program of NTV ‘Personal opinion’ a paradoxic phrase is heard which then is constantly repeated (as a refrain) in the same TV program by its speaker Grasimov: ‘If you understznd everything, it means that everything is not said to you.’ (200309-10). Paradox and contradiction: if I understand everything, then I naturally possess sufficient information, but if not everything is said to me, I cannot everything understand. As you like, so also understand this phrase. They confuse the head of TV-viewer. Do not the TV-people think that they this way entice the attention of watchers to the given TV program?!

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Among the paradoxal statements also the negative assessment of love as such is found. It is sometimes described as something unnatural, dangerous for life, as a pathology. So on the TV channel «Культура» (Culture) in the advertisement ’Black square’ (200309) among other words from the mouth of a ‘participant’ sounded such phrase: ‘Love is clinical category’. How badly one must be out of senses to make such a statement! I am astonished that such a statement is done in an advertisement and particularly on a TV channel ‘Culture’. Ok, somebody uttered a stupidity, but why it is repeated and advertised?! And this on a TV channel which should be bringing the light of culture to people, should show model of good, better, of such that constitutes the fundament of light in life. Because this advertisement is watched by millions of youg people and what they must think? That love is disease? It means: down with love?! This is inconceivable! Out of senses in such a way the young people will behave in matters of love strangely, suspiciously or even cynically, scorning their feelings and /or the feelings of the persons loving them. But some of them will avoid love or struggle with it, if it comes afore. How many drames and tragedies may be brought into light by this stupid statement of a ‘participant’, confirmed by the auctority of television and, particularly, by the TV channel ‘Culture’.

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Or in the advertisement of Knorr (already more than a year) sounds a phrase: ‘Truth exists in order to be broken’ (of this phrase more detailedly, see below, p. 326).

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About the influence of the means of mass information, imaginative litterature, motion pictures on the behavior of people, the society as a whole

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This influence is enormous and grows every decade and century in geometric progression.

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After the publication at the end of 17th century of the novel ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’, who ends up with the suicide of the young hero, a wave of analoguous suicides out of unshared love wiped over Europe.

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Known is also the influence of evening show on the cable TV of erotic films in one of the Moscow outskirts towns (it seems to be Klin). During a short time the birth rate experienced a steep rise.

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In our time the negative effect of books, means of mass communication on the society have become truly menacing. Characteristic examples:

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1. In the United States at the end of 199803 two schoolboys organized a blood bath in the school. They arranged an ambush at the entrance of the school. One of them pressed the fire alarm button. The pupils and teachers started to run out of school. At this moment the young criminals opened the fire on the runners. As a result some students and a teacher were killed. On this shooting all information agents were announcing in a detailed manner. During a few days means of mass information again and again munched this theme. And with what result? Within some period of time in another American town a schoolboy killed a teacher. Still some time elapsed and again a schoolboy fired. This is already a wave in childrens institutions. The matter reached a degree of curiosity. In 19980508 the means of mass information informed that a preschool child of the age of 5 years (!) tried to shoot with a handgun his caretaker because she put him into the corner. Fortunately there was no bullet in the barrel. It had been taken out by the young criminal. The five year old was arrested for carrying a gun.

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In 19980522 there was an information of news agencies: in the United States, city of Springfield a 15-year old scoolboy organized in the café of the school a firing. As a result one killed, 16 injured, 8 of them in serious condition. Home of this schoolboy 2 bodies were found. It was assumed that they were the parents of this schoolboy. It is also informed that the week before in the United States two similar cases were found. They speak of an epidemy of juvenile delinquency.

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In 20020426 in Erfurt, Germany a terrible tragedy occurred. An ex-schoolmate, 19 years of age Robert Steinhauser intruded a gymnasium by the name of Gutenberg, shot 13 teachers, 2 pupils, a policewoman and then himself. In all 16 people were killed, him including 17. The gymnasium lost one quarter of its education staff. Steinhauser used a handgun. He also had with him another gun. He revenged his exclusion of the gymnasium. He was excluded in 200112 for falsification of documents and poor progress in school. Steinhauser was a good shot, participated in the activities of shooting club. He did not get well along with his mother. A remarkable detail from his biography: he loved to listen a song saying: ‘kill the teacher’. In Germany a two day was that mourning was declared.

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Not a week passed when in another corner of Europe, in the town of Vlasenica (Bosnia) a classmate of higher classes Petkovich killed the teacher of history and shot at a teacher injuring her in the neck, and then finished himself. This happened in April 28. Police joins this tragedy with the recent killing in Erfurt by the pupil of 16 people.

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2. In recent years in our country a whole series of tragic incidents is observed in the army, when people in military service have been using firearms against cosevicemen. This is the most genuine information epidemy. Means of mass information broadcasted the information of these incidents and as a result a domino effect followed. The broadcasted information of one incident prepares in the minds of some servicemen ground for committing similar actions.

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3. The same is true of ordered murders. An epidemy of such killings in the recent years in our country was induced in significant extent by broadcasting of the information of these killings. The potential orderers of killing and the paid killers themselves pchologically preparing to similar crimes, are getting information about the technology and conditions of crimes. The means of mass communication often relish with the details of these killings, with particularity report them multiple times and to the obtrusion reproduce the minute details of killing in information programs special broadcasts (type ‘criminal chronicles’, ‘Petrovki 38’).

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4. The list of crimes, suicides, informed by the means of mass communication may continue and continue. Into their number may be included the proliferation of narcomany, some categories of suicides by narcomans (quite recently was told about a suicide of a young couple of narcomans, having jumped of the roof of a house of several stores, and at the same token a few days later occurred a similar case – a young narcoman jumped out of a window and killed himself), taking of hostages, telephone terrorism.

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5. In separate cases some air catastrophes, car accidents and similar catastrophes be may provocated by means of mass communications. When they are reported in detail in the means of mass communication, then some psychically unstable fliers, car drivers under influence of this information may be strongly moved and even get panic incidents. But from this there is one step to errors of conducting the means of transport and to catastrophe.

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6. Already long ago was known the effect of detective stories and motion pictures. The phantacy of writers and film makers has been sometimes made reality on the one by one basis by criminals. The latter, using the detective stories as manuals, as text books satiate the information of technicalities of crime, tune psychologically to the commitment of the crime.

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The romantization of criminal in the art and literature (for instance in the motion pictures of ‘The Godfather’, ‘Once in America’, ‘Scar face’, ‘Burial of swindler’, ‘Genius’, ‘Brigade’) one of the factors, helping to make reality of a crime.

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7. Still one negative effect of the distribution of information: reporting of disorders, strikes and hunger strikes are calling a chain reaction of new disorders, strikes and hunger strikes.

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I am convinced: if this information were not distributed by the means of mass communication, then these epidemies would not happen. The society must understand that distribution of information causes a powerful psychologic effect on masses of people. If this information is provided with the sign of minus, then it calls for a clash of different phobies and aggressions in the society (F209).

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In recent times journalists and leaders of means of mass communications more and more often behave like small children, playing with fire on the territory of petrol base. Here are two examples with videoclips being shown on RTR and music channel Mus-TV at the end of 2001: in the first case a singing girl breaks with a heavy object the vitrine of a shop and takes away a doll (a bear); in the other case (gang ‘Tatu’) a girl sings, sitting on toilet and preparing infernal arrangement to explosion (the girl in a completely professional manner places the detonating fuses into trotyl), at the end of the song this loading explodes; she she almost kills herself or her enemy. These videoclips are some kind of crime. I cannot find another word.

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Videoclips refer still to one serious problem: unimportant state of things in the subculture of young people. In it there is nothing else than propaganda for anomal and criminal behavior. Videoclips are just a small part of this demonstrative propaganda. Look, how the pop-musicians call themselves. They compete outright in the inventiveness of denominations of infamous character (‘Legs away’, ‘Hands up’, ‘Crash’, ‘Funeral of swindler’, ‘Akula’, ‘Night snipers’, ‘Construction brigade of adventurers’, ‘Dynamite Disco’, etc.). As to the name of ‘Funeral of swindlers’ I had an unpleasant discussion with my 17 year old daughter. I expressed my perplexity of the indignation of this name, but she said, that there is nothing terrible in it referring to the auctority of the primary source (some American movie), from where the denomination has been taken. I happened to say: there is nothing more absurd than call a musical ensemble singing beautiful lyrical songs (the most famous: ‘love me, love’) with the name, which is rather far from excellent and simply contrary to it. Think only of swindlers, and still funeral! Some offenders… Can a crime be beautiful, and beauty criminal?! Can you eat cake covered by mustard or still worse by excrement?! I am told: the name of ‘Funeral of swindlers’ is only a joke, a trick, a desire to call attention. On this I answer: there are jokes and jokes. There are such jokes, for which you will be blown on the face. And in general, whether you can joke with criminal consciousness?! Some joke, but some other take it seriously.

27. Denominations of infamous character.
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We are wondering the proliferation of criminality, reprimanding militia and not seeing that we ourselves, being normal people, with our flirting with criminal consciousness and pushing people to the embracement of criminality.

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Here still one facet of the problem. When young people do not see anything terrible in anomaly, when people get used to anticulture of anomaly, then arises a situation of ‘revaluation ov values’, the turning of upside down. Normal becomes rare and consequently, abnormal. Abnormal becomes commonplace, customary, almost normal (F210). (Pyotr Wilde 20030929 in the program ‘That time’ on the channel «Культура» said: ‘the more hysteric, the more shrilly, the more normal’ – this he said of the modern art). Honest, conscientious, good, morally acceptable behavior is ever more not in honour, but a deviating behavior (with all displacements, dynamites, nightly snipers, furals of villains) is taken as normal.

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(Here an example. The well-known poet Dmitrij Prigov agreed to call human being as scoundrel in the TV program «Деликатесы» (Delicacies) on TVTz 20030323. Second time he said so: ‘Man is of his nature a scoundrel anyway’. What can be said about this? Scandal, irresponsibility, slander on man or loss of correct reference, confusion. One may only feel pity on Prigov. How much he is poisoned by anticulture and antihumanism… It is evident that he has seen only little of love, cordiality, nobility, contrite, ordinary, worthy people in the life.

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[Explanation: the word «подлец» (scoundrel) in Russian means ‘mean, low, honouless man, a good-for- nothing, a sinker’, but the word «подло» (in a mean way) is in a high degree honourless, that is, low, pitiful (F211)

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He who states that man of its nature is a scoundrel, is himself of his nature such. ‘Any good-for-nothing, said V.V. Stasov, is always contempting other people in some meanness’ (F212).(Cf.: ‘If man himself became worse, the everything seems to him worse.’ – M.-J. Lermontov). Of this speaks also the Georgian proverb. ’bad person assumes that all people are like him.’ Shakespeare has the following lines:

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And he sees in any neighbor a lie,
Because the neighbour is alike him.

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And on the contrary, ’the more ordinary man, the more difficult it is to him to look at others as dishonest.’ (Cicero).

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What is behind the statement that man is bad?Stating that man in its nature is bad, is not only disordered, but ideally consciously disordered, making philosophy of his disorder. Either is he putting his personal disorder to the disorder of all people, or considers all but himself a scoundrel… In this or that case man demonstrates directly or indirectly his own disorder.)

28. Showing indirectly...
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What to do to the society in all these cases? Passively just contemplate and wait ordinary crimes, catastrophes, disorders or take some measures to limit the distribution of information on crimes, catastrophes, disorders? The defenders of the free word, of course, are against all kinds of limitations of the distribution of such information. Of course, they are not right. Freedom as such has limitations inside it. Otherwise it is not freedom, but willfulness, arbitrariness (F213).

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It seems to me that the means of mass communication must be led by a definite codex of behavior, they must themselves limit the distribution of information. Because does not TV show the sexual act in detail. Why does it show in detail the scenes of violence, murder, consequences of violence, relishes with showing the victims of murder, without measure and end demonstrates all kinds of demolition, catastrophes?

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What is the proportion of normal in mass media?Normal exists in life much more than abnormal. People love each other, give birth, educate children, learn, commit creative action, make discoveries, invent, rest, relax, travel, have different hobbies etc. This all are normal forms of activity. With what is overfilled the information space of cinematography, TV, video, press production? With showing of anomaly: crime, violence, catastrophes, disorder, narcomany, alcoholism, suicides. As a result in the society an oppressive, psychologic atmosphere is prevailing. People more than is necessary are anxious, fearful. Already in advance prepared to sick reactions (fobias) and different actions (aggressions) more often commit irrational deeds and crimes. A vicious circle starts working: means of mass communication show relish anomalies; this show calls a secondary effect, more wide wave of anomality. The means of mass communication in a wider wave of anomalies. The means of mass communication in a widened alternative show abnormal, and so on until collapse.

29. Mass media show abnormal.
As a result in the society an oppressive, psychologic atmosphere is prevailing. People more than is necessary are anxious, fearful. (09010329)

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Should the abnormal be completely excluded?Unconditionally, the abnormal in determined extent must be shown – in order to develop immunity, for information of what it may happen to people, to what he must be ready. But to show anomaly out of love to anomaly, in order to tickle the nerves and to simply to occupy senses with something sharp – with immorality!

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Is normal uninteresting?It is said still: normal is uninteresting, but abnormal is interesting (F214). This is some perverse opinion. How can love, creativeness, creative research and achievement, hobby, recreation, travel and adventures be uninteresting?! And how can be interestin murder, violence, insidious behavior of criminal, traumas of maniacs?! Unfortunately, normal in life is sometimes taken as commonplace, ordinary and thus dull, uninteresting. Yes in it there is also this: commonplace, ordinary, rutin. As I already said, normal life does not always lead to these things. Because normal is also love excitement, and creative inspiration, and many, many other things.

30. Normal taken as commonplace.
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What is learned of the modern advertising?

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Has advertising some creative power?But what does create the advertising? It stays ever mor cynical, bold, nude, challenging, it almost directly propagates immoral and criminal behavior. Here advertisements of recent days (200110): a girl screaming destroys the vitrine glass of a shop and takes from the shop refrigerator a cooled Pepsi drink. The scene is followed by a very liberal subtitle: ‘Take of life all.’On the form is the trick, animating scene, but the essence of the matter is the showing of crime in juridical sense and encouragement and call to behave this way, behave in criminal way. Completely obvious that here takes place a fraudulent attac on the shop, an attempt to private property. Not important that the girl’s screaming does not crush the window glass. Important is something else: that the advertisement shows the way to attain the goal, a criminal way. In the real life young people, imitating this advertisement, may simply take and break the vitrine glass by foot, by fist, by some heavy object. And will assess their action as a trick.

31. Tricks of advertising.
Advertisement shows the way to attain the goal, a criminal way. (09010401)

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Or in an advertisement of beer, beginning with words ‘Do you wish, I guess what is your name…’ young person splashes the face of a girl with full mouthful of beer. Again in a way comically, by chance. But what must feel the girl, when her face from a near distance is splashed by a whole fountain of zany liquid from the mouth together with stinking slobber and food rests? What a black humour. In fact this is an advertisement and propaganda for rudeness. TV watcher by millions must tolerate this unpopular repulse, TV rudeness repeated many times. Parents, pedagogs instruct children, young people to respectful relationship with people, the rules of decency, good taste, in order that they would not be rude, but here in TV openly, without being ashamed rudeness is propagated (not demonstrated, but specifically propagated: because the young person does not ask forgiveness and him does not come to mind a rebuff) (F215).

32. I guess what is your name…
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(Somewhat on black humor: Now it became modish. The activists of arts, representatives of the means of mass communications are outright competing in demonstration and propagation of black humor. And what is the essence of it? – Illdoing in all evidency, that is, joy, pleasant emotions in the presence of unpleasantness and suffering og other people. Black humor is this cultivation of malicious joy and, at the end, sadism, sadistic feelings. Black humor means in fact demonstration, rehabilitation and propaganda of evil, evil feelings, and actions. Of this there is only a short step to criminality. We are driving away criminality through the door, but it comes back to us through the window.)

33. Back door criminality.
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Already more than a year (from 200205) on the country’s TV goes an advertisement of bouillon powder of Knorr, followed by the following words: ‘… but rules are there to be broken’. I did never think that publicly (on a government channel RTR, on ORT, NTV and others!) can be in fact propagated contempt of rules like these, practical chaotism. It is, of course, understandable that subjectively, from the point of view of the advertisers and the leaders of the TV channel, these words are nothing more than half-shocking shock, the aim of which is to attract attention of TV-watchers to the object of advertisemtent. Objectively this shock cannot be justified at all. Young TV watchers, yes and many innocent of these jokes adults comprise these words seriously, even to give them right as instructions to act. Imagine a situation with moral behavior (breaking basic principles of moral, rules of behavior in the society), political behavior (breaking of rules and laws of democratic society, political extremism, terrorism) behavior on the road (breaking of traffic rules), important to life in general (breaking the fundamental rules of life, protecting man from death, sickness, and tuning him to constructive activity – produce children, to creative activity). All these situations may be characterized by two words: destroying life. How many potential murderers, robbers, swindlers, narcomanes, terrorists, culpable of car accidents etc. seriously are led by this phrase!

34. Destroying life.
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In the broadcasting advertisement of a motionpicture (on the radio Russia or Lighthouse, exactly I do not remember, in 200109) they speak of the main hero of the movie as a charming killer. Can a murderer be charming?! A man can, but a murderer – never. Charm and murder, in principle, are incomepatible. ‘Charming murderer’ is ambiguous, slippery expression. As if the subject of discussion would be man, but it can also be understood that man in this his quality of murderer is charming, that is, the charm emanates from the very murder.

35. Charm of murder.
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I still have seen advertisement of a movie ‘Ideal murder’. The moviemakers and advertising people stain the good, noble word of ‘ideal’, combining it with the disgusting, detestable word ‘murder’. And in general, how can a murder be ideal?! What a pervert consciousness…

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In a TV advertisement of a foreign movie such words exist: ‘the most talented crime’ (200309). Again, combination of incompatible. Talant is a creative ability, that is, such a property, with which man creates, composes. Crime does not create, but destroys. How can a crime be talented? complete absurdness. The same absurd exists in the title of a famous movie ‘Criminal talent’.

36. Criminal talent.
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Now on NTV (200110) is shown advertisement of a new TV program by the name ‘Avidity’. Think only: avidity! A playful TV program with positive contents they named by a word, which in most cases is used for fortified characteristics of negative moral qualities – avidity and self-interest. Avidity is greed, self-love in squared power or even higher degree. Yes, of course, the word ‘avidity’, ‘avid’ is used in some cases not in negative moral sense, but to characterize generally ‘the passionate desire of something’ (see dictionary of C.I. Ozhegov). But to call TV program by such name means going to slippery way of playing with immoral, criminal consciousness (F216). Because how not to turn avidity in most cases means negative moral property. (Thanks God, TV program with such name did not exist more than half a year; TV people, probably were reminded – observation 20030521).

37. Questionable moral values.
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In the boxer combats of Mike Tyson, the ex-Champion of World of professionals, is named irony, invincible and brutal… (‘Irony Mike, invincible and brutal… The best fights of Mike Tyson…’ the first TV channel at the beginning of 200309). The word ‘brutal’ in this advertisement is used with the sign ‘plus’. Naming Mike Tyson brutal, as if admiring him, this his brutality. Top of all, the advertisement people and TV people competed who shows this advertisement. Because advertised is not only Mike Tyson, but also brutality. Being brutal means being good!

38. Brutality in advertisement.
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Ever more often I hear the word ‘aggressive’ in positive sense (for instance ‘aggressive business’, ‘aggressive sex’). But recently the word ‘cynical’ was used (on one of the TV channels) in the context of positive characteristics of man.

39. Aggressive business.
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What are the moral values of the media workers?This liberty in addressing with words, concepts (ideal, brutal, aggressive – the list can be continued) speaks not only about low culture of present time moviemakers, radio- and TV-workers, but also of their low moral properties, their irresponsibility, simply speaking, of their baseness and meanness. What a confusion in the spirit of millions they arise with such lightminded cynic relationship to the norms of language!

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But look, what language the advertisements have: primitive as cannibals, and Americanized. These without end repeated words: super, wau, yes, cruto, cleve, class etc.

40. American vocabulary.
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The question is not only of making advertisement, bu of how it is seen by the watcher, auditorium. When in the most interesting spot the advertisement breaks an artistic motion picture or similar wholesome program, a situation emerges, in which may develop and develops neurose in many people. Imagine, when you are enjoying sex in the most paramount moments, you are ordered to interrupt and look at advertisement. Something like that every day and every hour is given to us by TV and radio. As a result, the first frustration, neurose etc. Where are looking the psychiatrists, the psychiatric associations?! This kind of advertisement makes the whole society neurotic and psychically sick. Showing of advertisement during the artistic movies and similar programs must be prohibited, as it is done in relationship with the 25th frame.

41. Interruption by advertisement.
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In one word, now we are experiencing Bacchanaly of advertising anarchy, advertising anomalism and shamelessness.

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The necrophilism of anticulture

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Above was spoken of some facts about necrophilia of anticulture. Here I would like to speak of it as a social phenomenon. Because also some philosophers actively support this necrophilia. They speak of the idea of death, of its positive meaning for life, of existence in front of the face of death etc.

42. Necrophilia as social phenomenon.
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When has the absolution of death become a phenomenon of culture?Absolution of death as a phenomenon of culture. The apology of death and ‘metaphysics of horror’ (Y.N. Davydov) had a visible place in the culture of 20th century. This is connected above all with such tragic occurrences as the first and the second wold wars. The introduction of death to the Absolution has grown to the measures of gigantic social phenomenon, become a phenomenon of mass culture. Let us take for instance these horror motion pictures. And not only those. We remember the French film ‘Diva’. A normal film, not being connected with the horror films. And what with it? During one and a half of an hour in it is committed several murders, many of them with remarkable ease. Such impression, even if people are killed as sunflower seeds would be blown or consereves opened. You get a terrible feeling. Is the life of a human being like a nifty coin? The numerous scenes of violence and murder shown on the film willing unwilling educate the watcher in the spirit of philosophy of ‘existence in front of the face of death’, that is the constantly felt consciousness of death.

43. Human being like a nifty coin.
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The question is not only of motion pictures. The modern culture is loaded with the ptomaine of the absolution of death, the deadly nature of man. In it rather significant are apocalyptic, humour connected with murder. If in 19th century philosophers declared ‘god is dead’, then in 20^th century some philosophers are shouting ‘man is dead’. Y.V. Davydov in his book “Этика любви и метафизика своеволия”(Ethics of love and metaphysics of willfulness) has submitted under detailed analysis this phenomenon of the modern culture, shown its origins and al its dangers. In the chapter called ‘Metaphysics of horror’ he writes:

44. Man is dead.
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’The phenomenon of horror must not be considered neither local nor peripherial, neither surfacial or transient phenomenon of culture… Of this speaks already the simple fact of deep rootedness in it of whole branches of ‘spiritual production’, specializing into production of ‘esthetics’ and all kind of other effects the demonstration of horror and monstruousness” (F217).

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Y.N. Davydov convincingly shows that in the delivery of atmosphere of horror also philosophers are guilty, those who try to present death as the only absolute’, and ‘limitless horror in front of it as the true human relationship to being’. A vicious circle has come out: ‘metaphysics of horror’ refers to ‘horrible life’, and the latter anew sends us forward to the ‘metaphysics of horror’’ (F218).

45. Also philosophers are guilty.
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Further Y.N. Davydov justly reminds that normal people, not being charged with the bacillus of the philosophy of ‘existence in front of the face of death’, always refer to death as subordinate moment of life, have put it aside of the ‘forefront of life’ to a ‘gloomy corner of life, farther of bright light of sun’ (F219).

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Y.N. Davydov very well shows also, that the introduction of death into absolute has become possible thanks to the absolutization of ‘this now’ in man, belonging to him only as an individual, isolated, counterpositioned to other people, to the society as a whole.

46. Absolutization of 'this now'.
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Another result of absolution of ’this now’ in man is the break of connections with other people, with the society, that is, the destruction of what produces and makes possible the real immortality of man.

47. Break of connections.
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’This man, writes Y.N. Davydov, must be conscious and feel himself absolutely lone in the world, he cannot any more sense his connection to nature of society, his spiritual linkages, his spiritual and cultural determination as something inalienable of him, immediately authentic, having inner relationship to presency and authenticity of his existence. His blood ties of relativity, relationships to parents and more distant relatives, his family attachment, relation to wife, children, grandchildren, his spiritual and religious relationships, relationships to friends, to his generation, to contemporaries in general, finally, his traditional and cultural dependence, relations to more distant generations befor and after him, all this loses for him the living contents, its true animating significance: is formalized, takes the form of something completely unbinding, in external manner imposed, if not alien and hostile…

48. Something completely unbinding.
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Is it worth repeating that in front of the face of death such a man cannot suppose that he experiences some essential, persistent, deserving serious relationships. All his he carries with him into the emptiness of inexistence, and what was not for him, identical to his ‘selfness’, does not present for him value, nor true existence, nor substantial. But instead horrifying will be the consciousness, with which he meets his end: consciousness that everything is ‘finished’, these words get here completely literary meaning of absolute catastrophe, metaphysical destruction of existence… All those fears of life, disorders and apprehensions that this ‘metaphysical’ egoist collected fearing to loose his individuality on surrounding neighbors, he lays down now to bony steps of his last divinity, his death, having received in his eyes the character of Absolute: final instance, through which an idea of (more accurately inexistence of any iedea, because this is a negative absolute, precluding all transforming to literal counterposition) and human existence, and the life itself’ (F220).

49. Emptiness of inexistence.
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Here it is unnecessary to mention two names, doing together with their spiritual cadaverism an evil service to Philosophy. These are M. Heidegger and K. Jaspers.

50. Spiritual cadaverism.
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According to Heidegger, what is important?Ironically K. Popper+Поппер К. writes of them: ‘Heidegger inventively applies Hegelian theory not to practical philosophy of life, or ‘existence’. Life, existence may be understood only thanks to understanding nothingness. In his book ‘What is metaphysics?’ Heidegger says: ‘Research supports only existent, and nothing more,… the only essential and in addition to it is ‘nothingness’. The possibility of research nothingness (‘Where is it to us to research the nothingness?’) ‘How do we find nothingness?’) gives us the fact that ‘we know nothingness’. we know it through fear: ‘The horror opens us nothingness’.

51. Nothingness.
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‘Horror’, ‘horror nothing’, ‘horror of death’ – such fundamental categories of Heidegger philosophy of existence, that is, such life, true meaning of which is ‘outcast in existence, directed toward death’. Human existence must be interpreted as ‘iron storm’: ‘determined existence’ of man becomes self goal, passionately desiring to die free… in complete consciousness of the fear’…

52. Iron storm.
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What is needed to experiense and value existence, according to Heidegger?K. Jaspers declares his nihilistic tendencies even more clearly (if it only is possible), than M. Heidegger. Only when you collide with nothingness, with annihilation, teaches Jaspers, you will be able to experience and value existence. In order to live essentially you must live in the condition of crisis. In order to experience life, you must not only risk but also suffer losses! – recklessly instructs Jaspers the historical idea of change and destiny to its most gloomy extreme. All things must disappear, all end by defeat. It is just that way the bereaved illusion of intellect understands the authentic historical law of development. Bump to destruction and you understand the breathtaking peak of your life! We in reality live only in ‘limited situations’, on the border of between existence and nothingness. The shamefulness of life always coincides with the finish of reasonable, particularly with the extreme situations of the life of body, above all with the danger concerning the body. You cannot try life, if you do not taste losses. Enjoy of your own destruction!

53. Enjoy of your own destruction!
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This may be called philosophy of a player or gangster. It is not difficult to guess that this is demonic ‘religion of horror and fear, of triumfator and hunted wild animal’ (O. Kolnai) this indeed absolute nihilism has few supporters. It is the credo of a group of refined intellectuals, who have denied of their senses and with it also of their human dignity’ (F221).

54. Denial of senses and dignity.
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Has this nihilism got only a few supporters?All is justified in K. Popper’s evaluations, except one: that this nihilism has ‘few supporters’. Some decades have elapsed since the time when Heidegger and Jaspers presented their poisonous teachings, but their willing or unwilling ‘admirers’ are multiplying more and more, and their end is not visible. Of this I also spoke above.

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What happened in Russia in 1985-91?After well-known developments in 1985-1991, when ideological barriers fell down, also in Russia it became fashionable to speak and write on the theme of death. In arts this became a kind of diluvium. Russian moviemakers during the past 10-12 years made films almost exclusively in the gender of thrillers, fighters, detectives… And in philosophy appeared ‘specialists’ thanatologists. Recently in the age of 42 years died philosopher A.V. Demichev. Practically all his short life along he worked on the theme death. His doctoral dissertation was called ‘Philosophical and culturological fundaments of modern thanatology’ (1997). He was poet, theoretician of artistic approach of ‘nekrorealism’, organized Association of thanatologists of StPetersburg, was one of the initiators of two international conferences with the name ‘Theme of death in the spiritual experience of humanity’ (1993, 1995), and also of round tables of ‘Death in new archaics’ (1990), ‘Death as problem of medical research’ (1992), ‘Death of Ivan Ilyich: strategy of reading’ (1992), ‘Death at the eve of 21^st century’ (1994), ‘Cemetery in the life of city’ (1995). Was responsible redactor of five editions of philosophic almanac ‘Figures of Thanatos’: ‘Symbols of death in culture’. StPetersburg 1991; ‘Philosophic reasonings on the theme of death’ StPetersburg 1993;. StPetersburg 1995; ‘Art of dying’. StPetersburg 1998. (F222) As we can see his life he literally placed on the altar of death.

55. Upsurf of thanatology.
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On the 3^rd Russian philosophic conference, which recently took place in Rostow on Don (200209) it was possible to see this presence of the fashion of death. So on the section of ‘Philosophic antropology’ the tone to the discussion gave the presentation of professor V.D. Gubin on the theme of ‘Death of man and subject of philosophic antropology’ (see thesises in 3 volumes of the materials of the congress). Here some of the statements of the professor: ‘Human being is in constant dying, disappearance’, ‘Human life is always a chain of misfortune. By and large we do not achieve anything’ ‘We stay alive, when we die’, ‘The great part of people live so that their existence has no necessity’. Commentary, as it is said, is unnecessary.

56. Human life is always a chain of misfortune.
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Is the 'chatter' of philosophers somehow dangerous?Unfortunately, the apologies of death in philosophy and culture are not so innocent; close to antihumanism, they prepare the origin for coupling of adventures, menacing with destruction of the whole population of the world. In the modern world everything is mutually dependent and action of separate people can introduce innumerable miseries (for instance, biological, nuclear terrorism). ‘Chatter’ of philosophers referring existence in front of the face of death pours water into the mill of dangerous adventurers, ready to take the risk of destruction of the whole human race, teach peple to the idea of possible destruction ot the humanity.

57. Risk of destruction of the whole human race.
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About the so-called ’right to die’

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Writer and philosopher A.V. Katsura, participating in the final session of Russian particiapants of All-World philosophic congres in Stambul (200308) said literally as follows: ‘Nobody of the philosophers presented about the right to die: ‘give me the right to die’’. I.V. Vishev justly answere to him: ‘more impotant is the right to live, but to die we will all have the right in turn’.

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In what way is the 'right to die' an absurd concept?’Right to die’, as a matter of fact, an absurd expression. Life differs from death also by the fact that it can be interrupted any moment not by the will and wish of the man. Death arrives sooner or later in any case, man wishing or not wishing it. The right to something is a positive concept, meaning some form of liberty. ‘Right to die’ is an absurd concept, as right to kill, to violence, right to commit crime, right to anomal action. There are such possibilities or such wishes, which go or are outside the rights of man. Rights of man do not mean anything without the obligations. Because any right of one person must not come into conflict with the rights of other people. The right of mother is to wish for her child live, live and live. She gave him life and naturally, wishes that he in full degree used this gift of life. Therefore it is the obligation of the growing child recognizing his responsibility in front of the mother, to live and do everything not to avoid a premature end. But not even the right to die he must not think, if he is a good boy or a good girl, of course. Yes, there are situations, when a person sacrifices his life, for example, in the war. These cases, however, are exceptions, which only confirm the rule. The sacrifices may be justified, I they are made for the life on the Earth. In the film’Tchapaev’ there is one characteristic dialog between a boy and a war cook: ‘Uncle, uncle, why do people go to death? - Why?.. Hm, clearly because everybody wants a good life’. If people go to death, it is not because they decided to use their ‘right to die’. Simply to this they are forced by the circumstances, intern (for instance intolerable sufferings) or external (for instance, participation in war action).

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Has a human being got the right to die?In general ’the right to die’ is a cunny expression. What is ment by death? Own or that of others? If own, then this right must refer the right to suicide. If that of others, then this right must mean the right to kill. Clearly no such right to kill a person does exist. consequently, about the right to die as a general right, uniting also a right to commit suicide and right to kill must not be spoken of. That is ‘right to die’ is to the extent not a defined expression, that it can be interpreted also as a right to kill and in general as a right to destroy life as such. Remains the first meaning: right to suicide. Just this have they commonly in mind, when speaking of the right to death. In recent times such ‘right’ is combined with the concept and phenomenon eutanasy (see below, p. 59). In moral and humanistic meaning there is not and cannot be right to die. In those few cases when man sacrifices his life in the name of the life of others or when he is deadly sick and out of insupportable pains wants to exit life, the question as a matter of fact is not of the existence of right to suicide, but of an obligatory step, that is, of something directly opposite to execising the right. This or that right of man is this possibility to behave in a certain way, being allowed in a given society (or generally accepted) norms of moral and right. Whether moral and right allow suicide or killing? No. A person can of cours finish his life by suicide or kill somebody. Yes, he has that possibility. But he has no right to do this. That is moral and right as such do not allow man to effectuate that kind of possibility, condemns the desire to effectuate suicide or killing. You may ask, but how about death sentence? Because we get the result that some people (judgers and executioners) have the right to kill somebody. Yes, such ‘right’ exists, but this is not a general right to kill, but rather limited ‘right’ (restricted by law) to make decision about the death sentence and fulfil this decision. By the way, it is more correct to speak not of right of some people to death sentence, but of heavy obligation of these people (judges and executioners) to make decision about death sentence of a concrete person and to execute this decision. In the modern society also this very limited possibility to deprive life of somebody on the command of court ever more is excluded by the juridical practice of governments. In the progressive countries of the world the death sentence is excluded. This means that the present moral and justice are against allowing to kill by the command of court, that is, against the right to kill (F223).

59. Has a human being got the right to die?
In the progressive countries of the world the death sentence is excluded. This means that the present moral and justice are against allowing to kill by the command of court, that is, against the right to kill. (09010603)

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If the expression ‘right to death’ is anyzed from the point of view of logics, then may be said, that those who use this expression as nonrelative (himself to others), commit a logical error of mixing the concepts. The concept of killing is mixed with the concept of death. But these are in principle different concepts. When we speak of right to something, there is the right to do something. Death is not doing something (according to desire, will), but a result of some objective processes (deadly illness, accident, catasdtrophe, unlucky occurrence, etc.) or action of man, when he tries to take the life of himself (suicide) or life of others (murder). If considered on the theme of right to deprive the life of somebody, then it is necessary to speak not of the right to death, but the right to kill (in an individual case, to suicide). Using the expression ‘right to death’ instead of the more correct , exact expression ‘right to kill’ (suicide), they as if do more neutral, more noble and correspondingly, more acceptable this right to kill (suicide). ‘Right to death’ sounds beautiful, pathetic. But the expression ‘right to kill’ and ‘right to suicide’ are practically not used, as far as they reveal immoral, inhuman essence of these ‘rights’. Here we get the result that those speaking of the ‘right to death’ deceive themselves and /or deceive others.

60. Everybody wants a good life.
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(We remind that those who kill (on the order of court or on personal motives), try to avoid the word ‘killing’. They speak of death sentence, of highest degree of punishment (in case of sentence) or of liquidation, liquid case, they use also the expression of ‘clean’, ‘finish’, ‘wet’ etc. Of what this tells? This tells of the deep human moral of condemning all attempts on life, but as far as in separate cases this attempt to life takes place (from the side of government organs or on personal motives), it is a matter of trying to appease one’s conscience or not to disturb it with the honest word ‘killing’, but to choose a more neutral , less emotional decorative word of type ‘highest degree of punishment’ or ‘finish’, ‘wash’, ‘liquidate’.)

61. Euphemisms of killing.
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Philosophy of killing

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Apology of death in philosophy and culture educates some people with criminal inclination into spirit of philosophy of killing.

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First example. In 200302-03 on TVS was shown documentation film of two series of a StPetersburg band of killers, mainly students, who killed on two motives: Nietzschean and in order to get money. Leader of this band was student Sergey Repnikov. This student read Nietzsche and was saturated with Nietzschean spirit (he felt himself a superman, that he can do, is strong, but others, most of them are inferior, garbage). All began with his inspection, Aleksey Djadkin, and Ksenia Kovalev on videorecorder the film ‘The string’ by Alfred Hitchcock, in which it is told on how two friends suffocated with a string the third, hid him in a trunk, but were revealed because they did not come to hide the hat of the killed. During the show a discussion was conducted. Repnikov and Djadkin did not discuss the moral side of the killing, but accused the two of the foolishness of getting caught. Repnikov reminded at this occasion of Raskolnikov of ‘Crime and punishment’ by Dostoyevsky, whom also was accused of weakness. In Repnikov and Dyadkin an idea was born to spit on these heroes, to commit a crime, that is to kill somebody without being caught. An event appeared. This company came to an apartment to an acquaintance of Repnikov, student Plotkin. Repnikov attacket with fists on Plotkin when this reminded of a debt of 200 dollars. Dyadkin hit the victim with specially prepared metallic baton. Friends compelled also Kovalev to participate into the killing: she stack a needle to the ear of the unfortunate. In order to substitute their footprints, ‘complices’ robbed the apartment of Plotkin. Repnikov grabbed a big sum of money. On the following killing these ‘friends’ went already completely conscious intoxicated by their remaining without punishment and wishing to still revive. Joining to them the fourth participant of the band Semenov said that student Patskevitch had money and that this student was a good-for-nothing. In the killing participated also the same and Semenov. In Repnikov and K the ‘appétit’ increased. Still more money was needed. To them joined still the fifth member of the band Nekrivda said, that his friend, student of the war institute Stepan Pasko collects money for a car and keeps 1000 dollars in the apartment. The student was killed in the same manner. In the same manner in the dwelling of Nekrivdy his class mate, businessman Iskanderov was killed. At him the bandits found 10000 dollars. And finally, they killed businessman Aleksey Skorodelov, a former lover of Kovaleva, on the same motives. Kovaleva did not want this killing and was compelled to hide herself from the ‘comrades’. Being informed of the killing of Skorodelov she appeared with confession at the militia, because she was afraid for her life. Repnikov after second killing boasted to Kovaleva that she is his, knows Zarathustra, ‘desire of power’ and in general knows everything. After the arrest of Repnikov on his writing desk the book of Nietzsche was found with underlined words ‘there is nothing truthful; all is allowed’. It is significant that in all cases of killing the band left on the spot of crime a sign of Fascist cross. Nietzsche was with blood crossed with Hitler.

62. Killer stories.
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Second example. Recently in Ryazan two serial murderers were sentenced: Churazov and Shurmanov. These murderers rudely handled their victims, hit them with axe, hammer, knot, then loosened members from bodies and burned in a stove. Heads of some victims stayed in use at home after some preparation. Of the scull of Ani Polovinkina Churasov made vase and continuously admired it, experienced delight contemplating it. He even developed a whole murder philosophy. For him ’life and death stood on the same facet’ (according to the words of the examiner of their case), that is, were equally meaningful categories. For him it was interesting ‘to recognize’ this facet, personal life of somebody living this transition from life to death. Thanks to murders Igor Victorovich Churazov sensed himself superman, who deals judgements on people, particularly cleans society from garbage, from unnecessary people. In other words, murders gave him the sensation of power over people. In this Churazovian ‘philosophy of murder’ it was easy to see Nietzschean motives (F224). And Churazov like Nietzsche ended up to psychiatric hospital.

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Many such examples could be introduced. When in death is seen idea, when it is recognized as equally meaningful with life or even is evaluated higher than life (F225), then the transition to the philosophy of murder (or suicide) takes place easily and simply, and from the philosophy of murder (suicide) only one step is to a real murder or suicide.

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In the case of suicide two examples are illustrative.

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1. In the old Greece lived philosopher Hegesio (c. 320-280). He has got the nickname of Peisistratos, which means ‘defender of suicide’ or ‘teacher of death’. Hegel has written:

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’Hegesias persistently stickd to the priciple of kyrenian school. This is in general expressed in the aphorism, which he rather often repeated: complete happiness does not exist. Body is suffering by many kinds of pains, and soul is suffering with it; therefore it is all the same, whether we are live or dead. Actually nothing is pleasant nor unpleasant’, that is, the generality of the criterium of pleasant and unpleasant is nonexistent; therefore the criterium itself has no objective definedness, it has become an empty word. In front of the general so defined disappears being unessential the sum of all undefined, unity of consciousness, as such, and consequently, also disappears, in general, the life itself. ‘The rarity, novelty or unique with pleasure calls with some people pleasure, but with other displeasure. Poverty and richness do not possess any meaning in relation to pleasant because we will see that rich do not have more joy than the poor. Exactly the same with serfdom and liberty, aristocracy and nonaristocratic origin, being known or unknown are without difference in relation to pleasant. Only for stupid may life have meaning; to a wise it is indifferent whether he lives or does not’, and he consequently, is independent. (…) [Diog. Laërt., II, 93 — 95.]. Universality flowing to Hegesias from the principle of individual consciousness, he formulated as differing from wisdom of existence of full inexistence of differentness; this inexistence of difference from everything, representing in itself the denial of all actuality, the most complete exit of life of himself is the final conclusion of all philosophic systems of similar kind. Legenda tells us that Ptolemy ruling then prohibited Hegesias, living in Alexandria, to read lectures, because he rose in many of his listeners such a disinterestedness to life, such satisfaction of it that they finished with suicide [?i?., Tusc. Quaest., I, 34; Val. Max., VIII, 9.].» (F226)

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’According to Hegesias, summarizes Y.V. Sogomonov, Life is advantageous only when it is known in advance, that the sum of enjoyments to be expected from life is greater than that of the sufferings it brings with it. But it is woth while to occupy with moral arithmetics, as a warning, according to Hegesias, when one comes to the unavoidable conclusion: in reality life gies more suffering than enjoyment. Simple calculation convinces, when only balance is established, that life does not have sense and is unavoidable, and that it is not too late, exit the life. According to a legend by Cicero, lessons of Hegesias were prohibited in Alexandria as they led private people to suicides.’ (F227).

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Diogenes Laertius remarked that Hegesians in fact rubbed out the limit between life and death. For them, he wrote, ‘preferable are life as well as death’, ‘the life itself is for unreasonable man pleasant, but to a reasonable indifferent’ (F228).

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2. Example with the son K.E. Tsiolkovsky, Ignat. He was a very able youngster, but read Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, listened discussions on fashionable themes of heat death of Universe and did not stand the pressure of this intellectual necrophily, ended up by killing himself. Here is how this tragedy of life of K.E. Tsiolkovsky is given by K. Altaisky:

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Elder sister Lyuba writes in her diary:

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‘Ignat ever more solemn and reflective. You ask him, does nor hear.’

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Ignat with father in Kaluga suburb park. (…) He is not only an understanding discussion partner of father, but also his opponent.

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‘My dear! What a fortune to dispute with you!’ – thinks Tsiolkovsky, but at the same time gets worried. The consciousness of the son is frozen frosty pessimism. He all more often with incomprehensible persistence quotes Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. The Father reminds him, that there are also enlighted wits as Belinsky, Chernyshevsky.

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I agree with Belinsky, who has said that reality has opened us the eyes, picks up Ignat. – But why? Better were that it closed them…

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There is a theme that does not leave indifferent neither father nor son. This theme is thermal death. In scientific circles ot those years on all parts thermal death of Universe was discussed. Light and Darknes were found boring, Science and Religion, Materialism and Idealism. This was a relentless ideologic fight. Son said to father.

63. Thermal death of Universe.
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What was to be recognized as the only lawfulness of the Universe?In the nature an invisible process of dispersion of energy is going on. The sun irrevocably gives its energy to the environment, energy dissolves, vanishes tracelessly, in the universe with unheard steps the thermal death is walking. The sun is extinguishing, and together with the sun and even before it is extinguishing the life on all planets of solar system. The thermal death is the destiny of not only us, but also of other galaxies. You, father, are proposing to the humanity manageable, directable aeroplane, in the end flying device, capable to detach itself to the space between the planets. But you see, this is not a solution, no salvation. Even a reactive device, letus call it raket plane, of which I have read in your still unpublished work, this is a projectile, capable to fly from grave to grave. Fly from Earth, doomed to death to the destruction of Mars. This is irrationality! More brave is to recognize death as the only lawfulness of the Universe.

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Tsiolkovsky listens to his son and does not know him: is this his son, full of joy of life, clever, talented and courageous? From what in him this gloomy philosophy of inevitalbility of general decomposition? Ever more frightful, that in his chain of reasoning there are also true links. Yes, the Sun is doomed to be extinguished, as before it already billions of suns were extinguished. Yes, and with the Sun also Earth is doomed, and Mars, and Venus. Yes, sometime, is ended the existence of the Milk Way, the gigantic lentil of billions of suns. The human conscience is depressed with the picture of death: in principle near, but a butterfly lives a day, a one year plant some months, an animal years, man decades, but the Sun billions of years. Important that all has its end and that the end id death. Nevertheless also at the same time the supporters of therman death are doubtful. Ignat repeats strange words, that time and space do not have real objective existence. They do not form the essence of things, but only in our imagination. Means, one second, and billion years differ from each other only in what we imagine. And only death is absolutely real and unconditional.

64. Only death is absolutely real and unconditional.
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Speaking this Ignat looks at father obviously literally expecting that father would find serious, convincing objections. Because his father is wise and acute.

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Here is to say in full voice for the elder Tsiolkovsky, to convince his son that he is on false way. Because if consenting that thermal death is an absolute law, then trillions of years existing Universe would already have been destroyed. Isn’t it more true to suppose that on the Universe a great unending process is going on: one suns are extinguished, other at the same time are ignitioned. On the Universe an eternal game of powers is gong on, one energy is transferred to another and therefore the Universe eternally is young and blossoming.(…)

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Tsiolkovsky does not doubt that Ignat is a mathematician and a natural scientist of uncommon talent, of whom the Moscow University is proud, his genuine follower and successor. Only how to return his joy of life, how to inspire in him the optimism? Some friends of Kaluga in Moscow were recently seeing Ignat and heard of his present credo: ‘The best to man is death!’

65. ‘The best to man is death!’
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And still sensed the smell of vodka. Vodka and pessimism is a bad sign.(…)
Unlinked, scrappy the young people in student jackets tell about sinister details:
Walked from corner to corner gloomy, ruffled and suddenly said: ‘Nothing can change boringness of life’.
No dance, no theatre, no concerts did he go to. Waved off with unpleased smile. Confirmed: ‘All this is hide and seek game with death’.

66. 'Hide and seek game with death’
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Sat in a shop on the boulevard. Soft flakes of snow kept falling. Head, shoulders were getting white, but he did not notice. Spoke in thoughts: ‘Snow is the oblivion of all. Exit to Nothingness. All is white. The Whole Universe is in the white cerement. Some nations consider the white color as the color of sorrow.’

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Did he leave a notice before his death?

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No. Maybe there was a notice , but it was taken away by the direction of the university. He poisoned himself with cyancalium.’ (F229)

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Near philosophy of the suicide and philosophy of terrorism. Both a person committing suicide and terrorist are on the same degree in not valuing the life. Difference only that in the consciousness of the terrorist the psychology of killing and suicide are present at the same time. On this referred A. Camus. Being ravished by the esers (the socialist revolutionaries) of the first Russian revolution, of their readiness to give their lives to the society of righteousness he wrote in ‘Revolting man’: ‘This uniting fever of people being lost in the midst of Russian crowds, elected the profession of executioner, to which them nobody predisposed. They were an incarnation of a paradox uniting in themselves the respect of human life and the contempt of own life, going to the horror of self-sacrifice. They did not at all be interested in the refined program. In their eyes the terrorist movement was justified above all by the sacrifice, which are given by the participants… Kalaev also was ready at any moment to sacrifice life. ‘More than that, he passionately desired this sacrifice’. In the time of preparing to an attempt to Plov he offered to be ready to throw himself under the hoofs of horses to die together with a minister. And the Voinarovsky attempt to self-sacrifice was contrived with the passion to death. After the arrest he wrote to his parents: ‘How many times I in my youth wanted to loose my head…’ (F230)

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Hitchcock and others

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One of the most famous activist of the anticulture was Anglo-American moviedirector Alfred Hitchcock (1901-1980).

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This is what the TV-speaker Innokenty Ivanov tells about him in the program ‘Spheres’ on the channel «Культура» (20030503-04):

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’… His favorite was Anthony Perkins, star of Hichcock classics, psychose and typical psychopat, who at the end finished himself. Communicating with such people Hitchcock may have been unbalanced type, but he was saved by his the bourgeois nature of a good-natured pychnic. According to films you do not say … 167 kg fat, deformity and complexes. Such a sinister spectacle was Alfred Hitchcock at the end of his glorious life. When in America the 80^th birthday of the terrible director was celebrated, his colleagues saw a mass, hit by the arthritis, saturated by alcohol and dressed in the invariable dark costume. Such identical dresses Hitchcock during his entire carrier had 12 pieces. They all were sewn at one time by one tailor, who made every dress-twin one measure larger, guessing the gradual increase of the weight of the client. The master of horror was always thick and awkward. Even in childhood, when the educators Jesuits punished the boy with rubber stick. In the London college of Saint Ignat, where in 1906 came 7 year old Hitchcock, ruled a democratic tradition: who was due to have punishment, had right to postpone the punishment, but not more than by one week. Pupils used, of course, used the postponement, but then seven days in the night were shivered of terrible horror. Hitchcock also shivered: he was not afraid of the beating itself, but waiting it. This delivery of horror, getting afterwards the name of ‘sasping’, and became the directing method of Hitchcock. The master understood that the very moment of beating, although frightening incomprehensible, but because of obviousness cannot lead to confusion of mind. Awaiting and anticipation of beating, showing artistically, is possible. The main thing is: calculation of their timing and power.

67. Sasping.
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Commentary of Kirill Razlogov, filmdirector:

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‘… Horror calls for the appearance of door, the handle of which slowly is turning, because you do not know, what is behind the door and what threatens you. But directing mastery is to find the exact speed of the turning of the handle, because if it turned too rapidly, the horror does not continue to the apogee, and if it is turned too slowly, the spectator gets bored.’

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If such complexes of man must be found in the childhood, Hitchcock is no exception: he is always considered a thick deformation. In the childhood nobody played with him, in the adolescence nobody did get friends with him, in the youth nobody dreamed to get him into bed. Hitchcock had complexes and studied well at first in the Jesuit college, then in the engineering and navigation school and University of London. Educated and clever youth was a social outcast for coaged and women, but not for the bosses: they did not need a sex symbol but a specialist. Out of work Hitchcock never had problems. From the beginning he was take to the telegraph company as an electrician, and later he knew about the vacancy on the filmstudio. The fatty appeared on the spot and went as the first to interview. At the beginning he was put to draw titles, but from 1925 he was commanded to take film. In the cinestudio new tapes were needed, but directors were abundant. Hitchcock who was in love to cinema, had a chance, but it frightened him. Thrust to him showed the woman scenarist and assistant of director gray and energetic Alma Revil. At first she bereaved of the 25 year old Hitchcock his boyhood, and then married him. Alma helped the future maestro the first film and to the end of his life was the shadow of the director on the recording field. Hitchcock always was afraid of recording: he could not organize anything, with difficulty communicated with actors, was ashamed to give advise. But Hitchcock exactly knew what he wanted of the film: he liked to conceive excitement, cast from the screen horror impulses. In the spirit of the director remained eternally a child, whom horror hypnotizes and keeps in its power.

68. Hitchcock exactly knew what he wanted of the film.
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Commentary of Andrey Bilzho, psychiatrist and artist:

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’Any TV spectator remembers, when being small how horror was enticing. All fairy tales were rather frightening: wolves eating or there or the wolves themselves perish or are destroyed by good redhooded, hunters or others. Blood flows simply in rivers. I do not speak of how children frighten themselves, when they gather in small companies: they tell fearfull things of cemetery, of dead bodies, of black, black rooms, in which there is a black, black man and so on. It means, this somehow entices, it means that this instinct sits in everybody of us. We are afraid, but it draws us to this horrible world.’

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Exitement and horror of Hitchcock are clearly English, educated in the novels of Conan Doyle and Agathe Christie, although all his master works he recorded in Hollywood. Americans in the meantime buyed the future genius. Hitchcock everywhere puts his complexes on the screen. Lack of attention to the weak sex the director remembered always. For this he hated women and revenged in his films. Any blond Hitchcock was ready to kill, but in this he was occupied by masochism. He recorded only women with bundle of white hair, red mouth and luxuriant breast. Hitchcock described them according to his secret desires. He hammered them with predatory beaks of birds, killed and mutilated. For the director this was artistic and internal need. In this he used his blond stars, but did it in a strange way. His favorit was considered Tippy Hedren, mother of Maloney Griffith. When Maloney was 5 years old, the director handed her a present: a doll with the face of Hedren, lying in the coffin. Children called in Hitchcock fear and hate. He never became friends with potbellied Alfred. He did not nourish love not even in daughter Patricia. Once he placed her to the world wheel. The child was mortally afraid of the height, but Hitchcock had to see real and not the inspired reaction of fear.

69. Hitchcock had to see real and not the inspired reaction of fear.
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Commentary of Kirill Razgolov:

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‘If we watch the films of Hitchcock , then all these films have a rational subject: they call horror, they call trembling, they call excitement, but always the solution carries a completely rational character. The criminal has all signs of usual, normal man, no werewolf, no woman-snake, not again such a strange on whom were constructed real, brilliant pictures of newcomers from cosmos.’

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Properly speaking Hitchcock recorded only two horror films in classical sense: Psychose and Birds. All others are detective and spy stories, having been precedessors of the adventures of James Bond. Hitchcock himself was considered more terrible than his personages. So the head of the director was hit by unnecessary information: he remembered absolutely all that happened to come to his eyes. Of Hitchcock all were tired, he started to speak of everything pressing in front like a lemon. To get loose of the director was impossible. Only one means existed: Hitchcock had to be filled with drink. Then the director gradually lost control over himself and started to snore. But the first minutes of the drunken madness of Alfred were terrible. Once in half hallucination he called one of his unfulfilled sexual desires: he assured that he was to enticed by Ingrid Bergman, superstar of Hollywood. This was an idea, but phantasy of Hitchcock did not play joke. He even described how the actrise threw herself on him on the bed and begged on carnal love. Imagination and convincingness of the sober director were envied by many. Hitchcock created exact portraits of inner human conditions. His bravura was the realism of horrors, secret and spiritual demons.

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Commentary of Andrey Bilzho:

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‘ Hitchcock never got anybody to do anything. He did not compel to feel fear, not compelled anybody to commit suicide. The artist in general compels nobody to do anything. He just does what he considers necessary, what pleases him, decides which are the tasks of artst: be it cinema, painting, theatre etc.’

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The horrors of Hitchcock were to that extent real that devouted citizens accused him of putrifying influence. In response the Brit evil-mindedly joked: on ringing of disturbed father saying that his daughter after the killing scene was in powerful psychose: is afraid to lay in bathtub, the director consulted to give the daughter dry-cleaning, and himself enjoyed that the recorded film so well succeeded. Hitchcock was pleased: it (the killing) as well as the entire film was recorded rapidly and with a small budget. The role of blood was not even played by a traditional cinestar, but by chocolade sauce from a neighboring supermarket. Even in psychose there is space for laugh. Hitchcock knew that frightening must proceed gradually: this way it becomes more frightening.

71. Hitchcock knew that frightening must proceed gradually.
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Commentary of Kirill Razlogov:

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In his films there are very many comical episodes: secretaries with big spectacles and unquiet privte life, comical intermediaries many spectators, even lovers of horror films, (…) at this moment comes control and this control helps to it that the spectator stops to perceive, stops to overstrain himself.’

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Hitchcock , despite his fame, felt himself offended. Five times his films were promoted to Oscar and was not given any. Vainglorious fatty it seemed that he was beaten like in childhood. To hisw colleagues he revenged by evil jokes: guests he obligatorily let sit on pillows that gave unambiguous noise of a bad stomac. To one actrise who hated the smell of fish, he sent as present fourhundred smoked herings. To collegues from a small apartment he presented a gicantic cupboard, which was not even possible to carry home. To one who lived in a mansion with central heating Hitchcock regularly sent two tons of unnecessary coal. All his career and success were a place of past oppression and attempts to get rid of manias, which with Hitchcock were overmeasured. He was afraid of dirt and expenditure: after every bath the master dried the mixing faucet with three towels, and in shops the millioner disputed of every cent. The director very much loved Alma. His wife was the protecting angel and helper. Between them there were no strong passion, but was a league of personalities, who always had interestin time together. After the death of the true Alma Hitchcock did not move on joke: he understood that recording films was no more his destiny. He started to drink and get fat not only by years but by months. Death for him was a smaller nightmare than life, and therefore before finish in the end of April 1980 the director said that soon he will sleep away and rest. 80 years of life for Hitchcock were heavy test. All these years he overcame fear. This eternal overcoming also made his films masterworks, horrible and real as the life itself of Alfred Hitchcock.’

72. horrible and real as the life itself of Alfred Hitchcock.
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Somehow A. Hitchcock pronounced in his style the horrible phrase: ‘One of the main advantages of television is that it returned killing into the home’. In this phrase is all of him, full, mean, loathing. Other words I do not pick up.

73. 'Television returned killing into the home’.
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From the fact that a person is popular, famous, does not follow that he is talented or genial. Herostrat also many know. Both Hitler and V.V. Zhirinovsky also many know. All this means: are genius and illdoing compatible? Hitchcock speculated on the theme of horror, on negative emotions, on the theme of violence and murder. If F. Nietzsche is the Hitler of philosophy, then Hitchcock is the Hitler of cinema. How many souls he seduced and ruined with his harmful and stinking films! In the TV-program «Сферы» (Spheres)Hitchcock is described as the master who knew the measure in horror. Yes, really, a feeling of artistic measure is one of undoubted signs of artistic talent. Can, however, Hitchcock be considered as a genuine artist? I answer unequivocally: no, no, and no! Man may be in private questions artistic, dexterous, canny, handy etc, but as a whole talentless, stupid and good-for-nothing. Let us take that Hitler. How he could conquer votes of electors in 1933! How he then all Germany got dance along his pipe! How much he had followers, worshippers, genuine fanatics! And what? Exploded like soap bubble. A man with minus-sign is antiman, whom practically all on the Earth are cursing. So also Hitchcock. In some etappe he cast a spell over cinema society. But finally he is antiartist, made an evil service to humanity. Yes, can a man who is capable to humiliate his own daughter, who is capable to nifty revenge, be at least somewhat talented artist, or even genius?! His cinema is directed not to saving, supporting, developing and improving life, and its destruction. Therefore he is the most genuine activist of anticulture, antigenius.

74. Most genuine activist of anticulture, antigenius.
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How small and nifty are Kirill Razlogov and Andrey Bilzho in their attempt to justify Hitchcock and even present him as the master of measure! Disgusting is A. Bilzho in his slander on childrens fairy tales, with all his ‘rather frightening’, with in his ‘blood flows in rivers’. Yes, he either really does not know childrens fairy tales, or exaggerates the horror in them as psychiatrist, that is, as a man, who much occupied with psychopaths and sees everything in the perverted light of pathology.

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Hitchcock gave birth to a whole generation of moviemakers, who excel in showing all horrible, deformed, death, violence. ‘Jaws’, ‘Cauchemar on the street of elms’, ‘Silence is yenling’, ‘Criminal pulp litterature’, ‘Imitator’ etc. Tens, hundreds of films.

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The last example: film of Quentin Tarantino ‘Kill Bill’ (2003). Bloody film filled with scenes of cruelty and violence. The director even boasts on this bloodiness of his film. In an interview he announced: to ask him show less blood, cruelty, violence is as to ask the Metallic to decrease sound volume. (20031003 in the news program of NTV was shown the subject connected with the London premier of this film. In fact advertisement of the film, abominable, base. How long this will continue?! How long will our TV-producers propagate, advertise cruelty, blood of violence, murder?!).

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And still. There was such a rather well-known cinemadirector as Ingmar Bergman. In 1957 he directed film ‘The seventh press’. On TV-channel «Культура» (Culture) in 20031026 I saw a program on him and on this film (it was led by Dmitry Mendeleyev). Why I became alerted? The film did not belong tho the series of horror films, fighting, thrillers. But what was the ideology of the film?! What subjects, thoughts, ideas it was concerning? Main hero plays chess with death. He is looking the idea of life. And on this background the events go on. There is a church. The artist paints the walls. On them is a picture of death. The main hero asks: why does he do this? The artist justifies himself, and particularly says the significant phrase: ‘the scull is more interesting than a nude girl’. And such scenes in which death in one or another way is present, fill the whole film. In the end the main hero found the idea of life. It turns out that this, the idea of life, is situated … outside the life. There you have a paradox, and the favorite theme of many intellectuals of the 20th century, life in front of the face of death. The film ends up with a scene: Death, dancing, leads away his followers.

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Also here in Russia our Hitchcocks and Tarantins started to appear. Some Sergey Epifantsev gained fame as theater director and actor by trying with manic persistence implant in our soil all these displacements of the named directors and similar to them activists. For Epifantsev the more violence, cruelty, horror, all kinds of absurdism, deformation on the scene, the better. On NTV in the news program «Сегодня» (Today 20040116) was shown a subject, continuously in sport jersys with a scull and crossed bones. Both comical and sad.

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Boom of mysticism

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We are seeing a stormy rising of mysticism. Suddenly began a general enjoyment of astrology. Fashioable is zen-buddhism, yoga, spiritistic sessions, and witchcraftery. Cults with experiences of Dionysian joys are formed, means of communication outside the language and even outside the space.

Toffler (’future shock’, 1972)

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Above on page 305 I have spoken about fighting idealism as a feature of anticulture. All is one by one: both horror to anomaly, and necrophilia and narcotic anticulture and this playing with mysticism and even its eulogy…

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You may ask: what is bad in mysticism? Reasonable question. Artists, musicians, painters, writers and representatives of some other professions are using sometimes the word ‘mysticism’, ‘mystical’ in a positive sense (as the word ‘delusion’, ‘extasy’, ‘inspiration’…). This is understandable. They play, among others, with words. This play is not completely serious and often reminds children’s amusement or teenagers’ hooliganic freaking. In real life it has only indirect relationship, available as if touching momentarily. (All excellently understand that in arts everything is for fun, in difference from the real life, where indeed Arts are arts, an life is life.)

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But what for an artist has only meaning of play, for mystically spirited has completely real meaning (cruel, wonderful, fatal, etc.).

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Mysticism as mystical state of mind, as mysticism, is already serious, it is a kind of illness of mind. In such form it is not amusement and no instrument of play, but something in conflict with senses and reasonable.

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It is asked, from where comes mystical state of mind? Any illness is a result of deviation from the norm, of some breaking of rules. Mystical state of mind emerges as a result of breaking the balance between logics and intuition on the side of revaluation (exaggeration of the role of, absolutiosation) of intuition, intuitive thinking (see on this above, p. 286: ‘Intuition, great thing’ and further).

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Mysticism (from Greek mystikos – secret) – a tendency to secret or a fear of secret, fear in front of secret. Secret, secrecy, a secret – all these words are led from the word ‘secret’. They in a way or another absolutize the secret. The latter, that we do not know, but assume, that it may have influence on us.

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In itself the secret does not have anything mystical. Very many secrets people are saving from each other. Known are such kinds of secrets as war secret, government secrets, commercial secrets, investment secrets, secret of confession, secret of love. In principle, everybody has his secrets, which he saves from others.

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Here is what wrote of secrets Y. Yevtushenko:

…They had secrets, Toni, Tani,
even with tiptoes on legs.
Had secrets the stars, wild animals,
only in childhood so animals scream…
We secretly something whispered
on secret ice skating,
and scared as secret in secret,
touched the hand another
But came unexpected the grown age…
Enigmaticly we became sorrowful.
Enigmatic became us other,
and enigmatic we to them.
And if the hand accidentally
touches, lightly stroking, this is only hand, and not secret,
do you understand, only hand!

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The secret exists only in relations between people. For it it is necessary at least two subjects. One saves the secret, and the other would like to reveal it. For the secret it is necessary not only that somebody saved it and not only saved but protected it from somebody. In the nature there are no secrets, because it is no subject, it does not hide and protect anything. Ascribing secrets to inanimated objects or something inhuman is already mysticism, mystical state of mind. This ascription appears as a result of the absolution of the secret, exaggeration of its role in the life of man. The exaggeration of secret transforms to something mysterious, enigmatic, that is, such that cannot be revealed in general, normal ways.

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On the basis of mystic state of mind the fear in front of unknown or, on the contrary, aspiration of wonder or hope of it.

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A patography of its own of a mystical thinking is given by the authors of the book “Экспедиция в гениальность” (Expedition to geniality). Here is what they write: ‘It is well-known that the particularity of mystical thinking is included in the insufficiency of attention. Among others it is just attention that brings order into chaos of phenomena and regroups them so that they make us clear the idea, prevailing in the mind of observer. When attention is missing, the picture of world is presented to the observer unilateral, cohesion of enigmatic phenomena, now appearing, now disappearing, saying nothing neither to the reason nor to consciousness. It is necessary continuously to keep in mind this basic fact of spiritual life. Awakenness, reaching pathologic level, puts the mystically oriented subject to make a choice between the phenomena, but he is not led in this by conscious attention, but impressions of unconscious awakenness. He receives only what he agrees with the state of mind, on the contrary to what he does not accept with his state of mind, for him does not exist at all. (p. 265)

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…mystical thinking, thinking of easily inspired character, being deprived of the ability to attentiveness, allows him sometimes to conceive very clearly this or that picture, being connected with their inspiration, but not allowing him to make it clear for himself the reasonable connection between separate pictures particularly because the necessary attention is absent. (p. 296)’ (Г.П. Колупаев и др. Экспедиция в гениальность. [G.P. Kolupaev et al. Expedition to geniality] ?., 1999).

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Mystics and politics. In front of me is a listing of Barkashov organizations ‘Russian national unity (RNU)’, came to me through postal box in the vestibule of the house. This listing has the heading ‘INN – PUBLICATION OF ANTICHRIST’. It is the question of the introduction to Russia of the identification number of taxpayer. (INN). According to the opinion of the authors of the listing any linecode (INN) contains the number 666.’ …this is the essence of the matter ‘the number of beast, of antichrist. Of it speaks John Theolog (Baptist?) in the Apocalypsis: ‘Here is the wisdom. Who has sense, shall count the number of the beast, because this number is human, it is six hundred sixty six’ (Revelation of Saint John, the Theolog, 13).’ Essentially, in political purposes is used the so called mysticism of numbers, and with reference to the Holy writings, to New Testament. In the first place, with big stretching the line code number of 666 can be written. This must have good imagination and very, very selective memory and attention. Because between three double fields to be interpreted as three numbers of six, there is always other numbers, among others numbers of six. In reality only numbers between three double fields, which in this case fulfill the task of separators. How can fields of separators be interpreted as number 666?! Secondly, allowing even that in the line code is seen number 666. And what then? How can one of million of millions different numbers be given any qualitative and containing meaning?! There is no reasonable grounds to do this. Yes, really, some numbers, combined with some qualitative relationships, may have individual characteristics. For instance the number ? (pi — 3,14...) corresponding the relation of the sphere of circle to its diameter. Or the number, describing the atom weight of chemical element. In these and similar cases the numbers are found through scientific research: through measurement, experiments, observation, theoretical calculations, based on open of newly revealed laws of nature. Ascribing the number 666 properties of beast and antichrist is not based on any scientific observations, experiments or theoretical calculations. This means that we must take it as a matter of belief in what has said an ancient author of Apocalypsis (almost two thousand years ago!). In addition to superstitious fear in front of the appointed number such a blind belief cannot create anything.

75. Mystics and politics.
Mystics and politics. (09010914)

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About using the concept of ’beast’ in physical science and its practical application in technology. The basic meaning of the word ‘energy’ is defined in its use in physical formulas and laws. Its popularity is determined exactly by this fact, the achievements of physics and its practical application in technology. Uneducated and /or naïve people are using this very respected physical concept of energy in different other spheres: in medicine, in psychology, in general in everything that concerns the human life.

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Willing not willing they are exploiting the authority of science (in this case of physics) for their purposes. They do not understand or do not want to understand that the use of word or concept ‘energy’ outside physics and its practical applications in technology automatically changes the meaning of this word or concept, simply devaluates it. The exact scientific meaning of ‘energy’ turns to metaphor, to a word used in transformed meaning. But the use in metaphoric or transformed meaning, it becomes blurred, undefined. It can be winded, turned at will, it can be given whatever additional meanings… And save at this its significance key as scientific concept, as sign of fundamental physical entity.

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The basic fault of all use of the word ‘energy’ outside physics and technology (more accurately, outside the procedure of the measurement of physical magnitude of energy) consists in reductionism in the introduction of higher to lower, of complicated to simple, and particularly in the fact that willing not willing later all complicated, higher phenomenon of life, psyche, spiritual sphere tend to directly, immediate explanation of phenomena of inorganic nature, that is, through by something relatively simple, characteristic to all inorganic nature. Human being, life, spirit is being led down to the phenomena of physical world. Because from the point of view of physical concept of energy man does not differ from stone, moon, molecule, atom, elementary particles…

76. Use of the word ‘energy’.
(09010917)

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Of course, also living in certain sense do not avoid energetic concepts. Biomechanics exists (mechanics of movement and efforts of living creatures), consumption and production of calories in the exchange of substances exists, as well as a very complicated biotechnology of the development and use of chemical, thermal and mechanical energy. This is all that. In all these cases, however, energy is completely physical, measurable, countable.

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But what is offered us, when speaking of energetic, energetic vampirism, psychic energy, bioenergy… and at this forgetting the changes of measurement, counting? Because without the latter concept of energy loses all scientific sense, turns to a toy, into an object of manipulation for all kinds of quacks and rascals.

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Now it si very fashionable to speak of energetic vampirism. The journals and newspapers get color of information and stories of this. As a matter of fact there is no energetic vampirism. There are normal, ordinary, good people, the overwhelming majority. And there are people who are bad, mean, with declination and different pathologies, of them an insignificant minority. Now it is not rare that these people are called energetic vampires. A normal meanness and evil is mystified. Some bad or simply unpleasant people are ascribed some supernatural qualities. As if these people would not work at their own will and consciousness, but because they are energetic vampires. The result is that they are liberated of all responsibility for bad acts. They are unfree in their action on their environment.

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From this, by the way, also the unusual means of fight with these people: damage, evil eye etc.

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Superstition. An everyday mysticism of its own kind is different kinds of superstitions.

Superstition is a vain, trivial, small belief, with nearest reasons, such as fear, hope, ignorance, stupidity.

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About the belief to destiny. The word ’destiny’ has two basic meanings. First meaning: life as a whole, living the life, taking place of life, nonsimple (complicated, difficult) life (see cinema ‘Destiny of man’). When somebody ‘believes in destiny’, then by the word ‘destiny’ is meant something else, is used in other, second meaning.

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The second meaning: mythologic, semimytohologic or simply superstitious picture of future, of the possibility, of which naïve conceptions about objective character of random occurrences and necessities emanate. In some cases people they emphasize the aspect of necessity, unavoidability, saying: ‘you cannot avoid destiny’, ‘what you are, you cannot pass’, ‘what is in in your family written, that also must be’. In other cases they divide the aspect of randomness, at that in some variants: positive (present, destiny) and nonpositive (blows of destiny). ‘Man also hopes and takes care of because, writes V.N. Sherdakov, that life, on the one side, depends on oneself. on ones efforts, but on the other side, people let themselves in dependence of circumstances, outside the own will. The word ‘destiny’ has also ment dependence, predestination of life on factors that are not under the influence of man, epoch, nature, inherited data, education, random occurrences etc. This concept more often than not have had mystic idea, however must not be forgotten its real basis. It is not an accident that the word ‘destiny’ has already lost its religious meaning, continues to be used in everyday speech.’ (F231).

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Now very fashionable is astrology. On the pages of newspapers and journals, in TV and radiobroadcasts we will see innumerous horoscopes and acting astrologs. For comparison with religion astrologia, so to say, is less serious. Often it is considered as play. And correspondingly related to its evaluations, advice, forecasts. Nonetheless also astrology does its black business, binds the man, frightens him or entertains vain hopes.

77. Astrology.
(09010930)

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(With me still in Soviet time occurred a tragicomic thing, connected with astrology. A woman wanted to make acquaintance. I consented and we almost agreed on meeting. But when she was interested and learned under which zodiac sign I was born, then she refused to meet me, motivating our incompatibilty according to the horoscope. I think that now in conditions of general enthusiasm of astrology and its propaganda in the means of mass communications similar cases are no rare.)

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Is astrology a science?Astrology is science kind of mysticism. The astrologs themselves declare that astrology is science. These pretensions on status of science are in no ways grounded. There are no scientific instruments, no scientific methods, no open to astrologs, strictly established laws or phenomenons. What is then the matter? But the matter is that some mystically tuned people and charlatans try to use the authority of science. In the modern society this authority is strong enough, and many people tuned on the wave-length of the belief in mysticism, do not quite thrust on traditional forms of religion or even relating to it skeptically as archaism, are stetching towards the science like or updated forms of belief-mysticism, such as astrology, scientology, ufology etc.

78. Is astrology a science?
Astrology is science kind of mysticism. (09010932)

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Astrologists confirm, that stars and their mutual position in the sky influence the destiny of man. On the basis of these confirmations horoscopes are composed. Astronoms are agains them. Valentin Esipov, leader of the department of radioastronomy of the Astronomic Institute in the name of Sternberg, has presented such illustrating example. If sun is presented so that its diameter is 10 cm, then the nearest to it star is situated somewhere near Paris. Of what influence can then be spoken!

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* * *

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Anticulture breaks the sound mind, among others the sound relationship of man to life, people, mankind, enables that the number of people with unhappy and criminal consciousness increases.

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Antiphilosophy (Herostrat philosophy)

F. Nietzsche, Führer of anticulture
Antihumanist without any qualifications.
The greatest philosophic terrorist
Contemptuously and derogatory relationship towards women.
Philosophy of Nietzsche is a philosophy of conflict, aggression, warmongery
Nihilism of Nietzsche
Psychedelic mysticism of Carlos Castañeda
The Castañeda shot

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From time to time there are, to the shame of mankind, ‘philosophers’, for whom the highest values of life, goodness, beauty, truth, are empty sound and who use their reason and language for the sermons of abominable ideas.

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In ancient Greece there was a philosopher Hegesias that was named teacher of death or preacher of suicide. About him I have spoken above on the page 341.

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F. Nietzsche, Führer of anticulture

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Nietzsche is simply a maniac

Kuno Fischer

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Black dog does not wash white

Proverb

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Now Nietzsche anew, as in the beginning of 20th century, has become the idol of spiritual men, lover of sharp, but fruitless intellectual sensations

A.L. Simanov

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I beg pardon in advance for the sharpness. Scum! Friedrich Nietzsche again ‘in fashion’. Endlessly new editions of his collected works, attempts are made to rehabilitate him, present good, students with inclination write referats on him. Even organ of Russian humanistic society, the journal ‘Common sense’, did not resist, published in its number 19 (2001) a number of material, in fact rehabilitating Nietzsche … This on one side. On the other, in the society grows an atmosphere, originating from the German national-socialism (RNE, skinheads, national bolshewiks of Eduard Limonov, V.V. Zhirinovsky, A.G. Dugin etc.). All this is very disturbing.

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Who is such F. Nietzsche as a matter of fact? Not as a man, not as a philosopher, but as a phenomenon. I think that he is a Hitler of philosophy, behave with him we must correspondingly.

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I am an adventurer of soul, I wander for my thought and go after ideas that blink for me.

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F. Nietzsche

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The main book of F. Nietzsche ‘Thus spoke Zarathustra’ has a the subtitle of ‘A book for all and to nobody’. An unaware reader says: everything is not in condition with this man. And as a matter of fact Nietzsche in majority of cases spoke absolutely anomalic things as a weak-minded. Here he reminds of V.V. Zhirinovsky. Nietzsche is the singer of anomaly, all that deviates from norm and average right up to pathology.

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Nietzsche is an astonishingly light-weighted philosopher, absolutely uninhibited cynician, without a twingle of conscience (philosophical of human) model of phrases, as it pleases to him. Just to say something. Such a philosophic Hlestakov.

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Texts of Nietzsche are sweet poison, as the sweetvoiced singing or Sirens, destroying mariners.

79. Sweet poison.
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In me these texts arise to a great part the feeling of disgust. This uninterrupted boasting and vainglory, this prophetical, teaching tone, this malevolence and denigration, defamation of all that is dear to normal people, these unending attempts to turn everything upside down.

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Nietzsche is a Hitler of philosophy. So do I relate to him. If he spoke in some cases reasonably, good things, I cannot at all relate to him positively, not even in small things, particularly, quote him in these reasonable matters in confirming some of his thoughts. Because even Hitler in some cases behaved completely orderly and spoke reasonably. But because he committed many crimes against the mankind, I cannot relate to him positively. He is for me a scoundrel, cannibal etc. Nietzsche did not kill anybody, but he prepared spiritual soil for criminals like Hitler, for crimes agains the mankind. He committed many philosophic ‘crimes’, tried to rehabilitate evil, ‘evil wisdom’, ‘lie’, mixed, paralleled lie with truth (F232), constantly ridiculized positive human values (good, charity…).

80. Nietzsche is a Hitler of philosophy.
Nietzsche did not kill anybody, but he prepared spiritual soil for criminals like Hitler, for crimes agains the mankind. (09020112)

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Yes, Nietzsche is a man, a representative of the kind of man and as such deserving respect. And I respect him as I respect Hitler. If the latter came to my hands, I would not begin to jeer at him, would not start to humiliate him, trample his human dignity. I simply would give him to the hands of law enforcing powers. The same with Nietzsche. I will not use dirty language against him, will not humiliate him and mock him as philosopher. I simply transfer him to the judgement of philosophers as a philosophic criminal.

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Nietzsche sooner is no philosopher, but simply a wisecrack. He shows his intelligence, but not as a philosopher. He uses his intelligence constructively, not for trying to wisdom (F233) and to solve problems on the basis of wisdom, fighting for an external effect. He does not argument, he troubles himself with arguments, and confirms and expresses his being a mystic and prophet. He turns down almost everything that was worked out by philosophic thinking before him. Announcing the will to power as the basic endeavour of man, he acts as antiphilosopher, as a man who uses his intelligence to revealing nonintelligent ability (will) as the main human ability, that is, for the confirmation and substantiating of antiintellectualism (irrationalization, folly, saying it in plain English).

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Here an example of Nietzschean antiphilosophy: one of the works of Nietzsche is called ‘Evil wisdom’. Think about this title. It is awkwardly monstruous as a round square or hot snow. Wisdom cannot in principle be evil. It is a concentration and combination of three fundamental values of life: goodness, beautifulness and truthfulness. From this combination their power increases. For the wisdom cannot be better modern expression than ‘synergism’. It does not separately, not as truth, nor as goodness, nor beautifulness. It is something that leads to truth, good, beautiful, that is as precondition of or condition of truth, goodness and beauty.

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Wisdom is the more wisdom, the better it leads to good and better defends from evil, because evil is antigood.

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Antihumanist without any qualifications.

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Recently the journal "Здравый смысл" (Common sense), organ of the Russian humanistic society, published (in number 19, 2001) a bunch of materials, in fact whitewashing Nietzsche, this militant antihumanist, antihumanist without any reservations. What about this? Incomprehensibleness of the redactor or his concession to the present mode of Nietzsche, flirting with those who carry on with this mode?

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Nietzsche is completely on the side of superman invented by him (master, fair-haired beast…) and correspondingly, with contempting and disdain speaks of ‘human’ (and derived from human, humanity, humanness, humanism). Here two quotations:

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1) ‘On the basis of these noble races is seen predatory beast, luxurious, lustful, roaming in search of prey and victory of white-haired beast; this hidden basis of time to time needed discharge, beast, must necessarily go out, anew return to the bushes, Roman, Arab, German, Japanese elite, Homerian heroes, Scandinavian Vikings, in this need all those are similar one another. Noble races, just they everywhere, where only their foot touched the soil, set for themselves footprints of the concept of ‘barbarian’; still on the highest steps of their culture is revealed this consciousness (…). This boldness of noble races, is reckless, absurd, sudden in their appearances, the unpredictableness and inverosimilitude itself of their business… their indifference and contempt of safety, body, life, comfort; their terrible joviality and depth of their joy, experienced at all kinds of disturbances, all kinds of lasciviousness of victory and cruelty, all this was poured on those who suffered from this, in the form of ‘barbarian’, ‘bad enemy’, say ‘got’, ‘vandal’. A deep icy lack of trust, still today aroused by Germans, it be only that they seize the power, and everything appears as that recidive of that ineffaceable horror, with which Europe for hundred years was looking at that fierceness of the blond German beast..." (F234)

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2) ‘Perhaps, completely correct those who do not cease to be scared of the blond beast, hiding in the depths of all noble races, and keeps in front of them a sharp ear, but who do not prefer hundredfold fear, on the condition that here at the same time is something of which be enthusiastic, simply absence of fear, compensated by the impossibility of getting rid of the harmful facelooking of all unsuccessful, chopped, poor, poisoned? And whether this is not our disaster? Of what nowadays is instigated our aversion to ‘man’? because we are suffering from man, there is no doubt of that. Not fear; sooner of the fact that we have nothing to be scared in the man: that a creeping ‘man’ occupies the forefront and swarms on it…’ (F235)

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These words any fascist and nazist would with great pleasure subscribe. (Just thanks to all similar thoughts and ideas of Nietzsche his main work ‘Thus spoke Zarathustra’ occurred in the rucksack of fascist soldier in addition of Bible and ‘Mein Kampf’ of Hitler).

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Here still:
’The problem is included in that it is possible to more utilize man and in order to as much as possible bring him nearer to a machine, which as known never was mistaken; for this he must be armed with benefactor machines, he must be educated to endure grievances, have in depression some higher charm; arrange it so that pleasant feelings would be transferred to background. Machinal form of existence, considered as most noble, more elevated, must cherish itself… The only goal for still many years must be depreciation of man, so as from the beginning must be build a broad fundament, on which can be risen a sound mankind. Depreciation of the European man is a great process, which must not be stopped, but must still be speeded…’ (F236) These words in a great degree respond to ideological national-socialism.

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And still: ’The ruling race may have only terrible and cruel result’ (F237). At once we remind also the dream of Hitler of the reich of thousand years. Because Hitler wanted be the ruler of the world, create the ruling race. And, naturally, in his endeavor to establish a dictatorship regime in Germany and in their aggressive acts he operated according these words of Nietzsche: to the thousand year reich fatally prepare this ‘terrible and cruel result’. Nietzsche, this way, in a way presented (in absence) to Hitler the spiritual indulgence: You Great leader, shall not think of moral, charity, humanism. If you want to create a reich of thousand years, then you must know that ‘terrible and cruel result’ is waiting for the ruling race. Do not fear anything, shed rivers of blood, because it is needed, as it is necessary, if you want to rule on the Earth.

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In order to provide victory for the ruling race Nietzsche suggests, particularly, the following means:

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’obligatory war service, with real wars, which put an end for all jokes’

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’Maintaining of war state, this last means, which remained for great traditions or for consciousness of higher kind of man, strong type. All circumstances that maintain hostility, distance between states, find this way justification for themselves…’ (F238).

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In these citates Nietzsche is not only ideal inspirer of Hitlerism, but also consultant, giving concrete advice for all hitlers.

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Of Nietzsche is known the expression of ‘falling push’ (F239). If man is in somewhat feeble, it is not necessary to help him, let him struggle himself or die. No, most likely, there is not a more cynical statement from the mouth of a philosopher!

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The greatest philosophic terrorist

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Nietzsche is the greatest philosophical terrorist of all times and peoples. Widmann, the Swiss critic, has written an essay about ‘Beyond Good and Evil’ and saw in this book only leading to anarchism: ‘The book smells of dynamite’, he said. Nietzsche self responding to this criticism, wrote ‘To the genealogy of moral’, in which there were exactly these words: ‘I wanted to make a canon shot with the most noisy gunpowder’ (F240). As you see: for Nietzsche also dynamite is too little!

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Philosophic terrorism of Nietzsche is not only here. This all is external, as far as it lies on the surface. Nietzsche is essentially a spiritual and moral terrorist. He tried to crush in his feet all that is dear to people, philosophers, all, that contains human moral, and correspondingly, human coexistence, human society in general. Nietzsche with his words, his ideas, releases hands of all potential killers, criminals, terrorists, dictators and tyrants. He so to say pushes them to breaking of all norms of life, theoretically grounds the behavior of such (small or big) criminals, as Rodion Raskolnikov or Adolf Hitler.

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Nietzsche is in fact the spiritual father of all, who commit crimes against mankind (humanity). Why? Because of the majority of people he speaks contemptuously and hatefully as of a stock of cattle, crowd, shit. A boasting militant type of an evil person (master, superman, fair-haired beast), he boasts with this the wars, that is, at the end a massive destruction of people. If the majority of people is shit, then it is not necessary to be scrupulous with them. They are apt to fertilize the soil for the superman.

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Contemptuously and derogatory relationship towards women.

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‘If you are going to meet a woman, do not forger a whip!’

Thus spake Zarathustra.

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This is not an accidentally lost phrase. It is declared in this context:
’And now accept as a token of gratefulness a small truth! I am old enough for it!
Turn around it well and press its mouth: otherwise it will shout of full throat, this little truth’.
Give to me, woman, your small truth! I said. And so spoke the old woman.’ (F241).

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This is a fragment of the main truth of Nietzsche (‘So spake Zarathustra’). And look what kind of name has the chapter: ‘About the old and young women’. Nietzsche is not ashamed in his expressions. He is rough, reckless, cynical. His cynicism is doubled because these words, pejorative towards women, he puts into the mouth of a woman! Nietzsche is a chauvinist, hater of women. Look, how he characterizes ’feminine’:

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’All feminine, slavery, and particularly all mob: these want now become the masters of the whole human destiny – disgusting, disgusting, disgusting!’ (- So spake Zarathustra’. Chapter ‘About superman’ (F242)). Feminine is his synonyme of slave mob. Contemptuously he speaks of it as ‘this’. In addition to this he obviously is against the emancipation of women. And three times this ‘disgusting’ exclamation, sounding as a curse with respect to the feminine beginning of life. A short text, but how much evil, contempt, disgust towards the women.

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With not the least of embarrasment, Nietzsche ascribes the philosophers the negative relation to the married life: ‘… philosopher avoids the married life and all that could seduce to it, married life is like an obstacle and fatal loading on his way to optimum… A married philosopher is appropriate to a comedy, such is my canon’ (On the genealogy of morals’ (F243)). He clearly takes the desirable as real. (Big self-opinion of Nietzsche: very often he expresses his subjective particular meaning as generally accepted opinion).

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Racist, boaster of the aryan race as the race of masters. It is confirmed that he was not a protofascist, the spiritual father of Hitlerism. The discussions about the ‘blood’, about races, the race of masters, the Aryan (in corresponding cases the German) race – isn’t this protonationalism?! Yes, of course, Nietzsche was not a nationalist in the narrow meaning of the word, nevertheless, he (mercilessly) criticized Germans for ‘national narrowness’ (F244). Instead he was racist, ideology of Aryan race as the noble race or the race of masters.

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It is said that he was not antisemitist. A lie! Yes, he was not a primitive, rough antisemitist. But he was a hater of Jews as the race of slaves. ‘All that was done on the Earth, wrote Nietzsche, is against the ‘noble’, ‘mighty’, ‘masters’, does not go in the least comparison with what the Jews have done.’ (F245). — This phrase is enough in order that the nazists would love him. On Jews he laid the main guilt for all that was done on the Earth against the race of ‘masters’.

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His statement about Jews poured water on the mill of antisemitism. (It is enough to compare the entire sum of the statements of Nietzsche about Jews with that of what said about Jews our great philosopher V.S. Solowyev. A striking contrast! V.S. Solowev was a true opponent of anti-Semitism. Because he was against it from the standpoint of humanism. The standpoint of Nietzsche in respect with Jews was equivocal, because in this standpoint there was no hard and light background [humanism]).

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Known are anglofobic statements of Nietzsche. This is also ‘combustible’, which burned in the bonfire of Hitlerism.

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By the way, who said that philosopher Nietzsche is individualistic?! His racism, anglofobia, antijudaism, gross approach to people, do not they testify of a certain, although unclear collectivism of Nietzsche? Likewise, Nietzsche used double standards in relationship to collectivism. When it was advantageous to him to discredit collectivism (in form of cattle form of life) he did this with enthusiasm. When it was advantageous to him a gross approach to people, not as individuals, but as representatives of different social groups, to some generalities (race of masters and race of slaves, critics of Jews, Englishmen, Germans…) then he with the same enthusiasm was for collective standpoints. Nietzsche intricately created individualism with collectivism.

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Philosophy of Nietzsche is a philosophy of conflict, aggression, warmongery

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The style of Nietzsche is intensive, phrophetic and cathegoric and ironic. He constantly makes war (with words, of course).

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Philosophy of Nietzsche as a whole is exiting. He constantly speaks powerful phrases, pathetic and biting, which shows that the person is predatory, evil animal, that the man must be a superman. He absolutizes the antagonistic relationship, that of conflict, hostility and excitedness. Either you are a winner or a defeated (either pan or a looser). Nietzsche confirmed that the society is a pack of predatory wolves. According to Nietzsche a man realizes himself and always attempts to power. He made of people winners and loosers, to heroes and crowd, to supermen and all the rest (F246). This comes out logically of his theory of power. He who does not attempt to power is a good-for-nothing

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Nihilism of Nietzsche

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Philosophy of Nietzsche is saturated with nihilism. He called to reappraisal of all values, tried to destroy everything that had been elaborated by human culture. Morality of goodness is junk, conscience is rubbish.

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Hitler truly was inspred by Nietzsche, when he pompously declared in ‘Mein Kampf’, when addressing to Germans: ‘I liberate you of the chimeras, called conscience’. Compare with Nietzsche: ‘Did I ever feel the conscience pains? My memory contains in this respect silence’. (Vol 1 p. 722, ‘Evil wisdom’, 10). Or: the pains of conscience is a similar stupidity as the endeavor of dog to crack a stone’. (Same p. 817, ‘Wanderer and his shadow’, 38).

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Martin Luther King said: ’Accepting evil without resistance is taking its side’. F. Nietzsche is this incarnated philosophic evil. Who accepts Nietzsche is an accomplish of evil.* * *

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Psychedelic mysticism of Carlos Castañeda
(thoughts, arised by reading his «Teachings of Don Juan» and other works)

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During the last 10 years philosopher Carlos Castañeda has been fashionable in our country. An indicator of this mode is that his books are published in large editions… A terrible mode. It also sheds oil into the fire of narcotic folly and anticulture in general.

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Our philosophers and teachers seem to be toothless dispassionate discussing about Castañeda and even praising him. Here an example. In the text book ‘Philosophy’ of L.Z. Nemirovsky we read:

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‘Books of Castañeda are dedicated to lessons of magics, which he takes from the Indian don Juan, holder of esoteric knowledge of the tribe yaqui. Castañeda imitates the model of don Juan to the model of Jesus Christ (only living in Mexico). An essential difference is that don Juan uses a special method of teaching: the pupil must be in the condition caused by consumption of a psychotropic plant (condition of ‘detached reality’).

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C. Castañeda researches new means of consciousness, scarcely researched up to now, with the help of intuition, intuitive. He presents this way of getting conscious as a specific way to knowledge of world ancient Mexican tribe of yaqui. But essentially it is a question of one of the means of getting esoteric (secret, hidden for ordinary people) conception of the world. This means is the use of some plants, having narcotic effect, calling afore hallucination (p. 175)…’

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The story of Castañeda is finished by the words: ‘This kind of works complete mystic thinker, draw us to spiritual search, adventurism and fearlessness. At the same time we will see in the books modern mystics the manifestation of the continuity of human thought, in them there is the wisdom of centuries..’ (p. 178). This way, no more, no less. This text book has been published in the edition of 10 thousand copies!

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The philosophy of Castañeda is an outcome of the use of psychotropic means, psychedelic to be more exact. This, essentially, is psychedelic philosophy, philosophy of transformed consciousness, artificially caused psychopathology.

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Castañeda continues the tradition of mystic, that is, extremely irrational teachings. He practically denies all the cultural world and establishes, essentially, the perception of the primitive man. It can be called the philosophy of primitive man, a naked man, who has nothing except his body, does not know anything, except his immediate perception of existence, does not want to do and cannot do anything but the most elementary behavioral acts (go, eat, drink, dress, wash himself and so on), and prepare and take psychedelic means.

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Modern man is this user of all spiritual and material culture of mankind, of its history of thousands of years. For Castañeda no meaning have Beethoven, nor Rahmaninov, nor Aristotle, norHegel, nor Rafaello, nor Rembrandt, nor Shakespeare, nor Tolstoy, nor Einstein, nor Darwin, nor Peter the great, nor Franklin Roosevelt, nor Edison, nor Darvin, nor Ford or Korolev. Castañeda does not need science, no knowledge found by scientists, does not need the laws of nature found by them, does not need discoveries of human ingenuity, improfing and completing human life, not need light, serious, classical, modern music, doe not need Eastern culture, not body culture, nor Indian yoga, nor conquering of cosmos, nor computers, nor cinema, nor radio or television, nor automobile, nor aeroplane etc.

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The world of Castañeda ’s man is rather simplified, primitivized, poor, concentrating purely natural interrelationships of man and environment. As a matter of fact, he is even more primitive than the original man. Because the latter in his way knew and understood much: as to produce and support fire, hunt animals, catch fish, prepare tools, give birth to and educate children. The man of Castañeda did not even step to the footsteps of the hunter Dersu Uzala (see the novel of the famous traveler Arsenyev of ‘Dersu Uzala’).

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Castañeda in the new coil of historical spiral repeats the ancient Greec books with their endeavour to simplify, to go back to nature, to the condition of animal.

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The philosophy of Castañeda may be still characterized as psychedelic mysticism. The world for Castañeda is a secret, and all that man accomplishes is ‘endless stupidity’ (p. 395: ‘soldier relates to the world as to endless secret, to something that people do, as endless stupidity’).

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Castañeda on a new coil of historical spiral repeats ancient Greek cynics with their aspirations to simplify, go back to the nature, to animalic condition. In fact his philosophy carries in it the spirit of new Barbary.

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The Castañeda shot

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Under this name is published the material in the book of the author Sergey Baimuhamedov ‘Golden dreams. Confessions of narcomans’ М.: Изд-во ИКАР, 1998. The material is interesting, because in it is the opinion of a person inexperienced in philosophy, but understanding narcomany and narcomans not only by hearsay. We philosophers are boiling sometimes in our own liquid and do not see, what people think about us and how philosophy is seen by the spirits and behavior of other people. The material of S. Baimyhametof is this link with the side and therefore rather informative.

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’In recent times, he writes, the name of an American philosopher and writer Carlos Castañeda has become rather popular both in urban and rural areas of our country. I would say it has becom fashionable. His books, basically ‘Teachings of don Juan: way to the knowledge of yaqui indians’, are published by various Moscow publishers. And here, in the capital, the requests to buy them and send by air everywhere, from Bishkek to Oimjakon.

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Who desires, reads, understands the essential. But I explain only the subject matter.

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The hero of the book, a student the University of California, becomes qcquainted with an Indian by the name Juan, a wisecraft, sorcerer, magician. Becomes his student, to whom the Indian reveals the secrets of mystic knowledge. It is done this way: the hero under leadership of the teacher takes these or other exotic narcotics, is raiced, transferred in time and space, lives and acts in ‘uncommon reality’, and then detailedly forecasts his sights and experiences. But don Juan already explains and reveals him the depths of the essence and connections of the phenomena.

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In other words, the hero of the book does an experiment on himself. What about that, it is his privilege.

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Exactly so is evidently the right of the interpreters, authors of the predictions and explanations to assess of the model of don Juan that it is the ‘most significant personality of the human fantasy after Christ’, that ‘revelations’ and ‘unthinkable sights’, that with the ‘possessions of esoteric knowledge’ people get enlightening of soul.’

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To similar passages in genara it is difficult to relate without certain uneasiness, which I consider to be near irony. The ornate language there used speaks for itself. But our interpreters of Castañeda take it for granted that there is a more or less solid ground under it.

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‘Every human being is destined to a concrete lot of land. This is somewhat joyless… So it is desired to overcome oneself. On one side, man with all powers tries to strengthen himself in his own psychologic corner, make it habitable. On the other, he explodes it, writes one of our interpreters in the foreword to the book of Castañeda. – And our century, continues the interpreter, visually demonstrates this need. The young radicals of 1960’s in many Western countries imagined the individual life as a change to carnival masks. To be clerk, go to Indian reservate. And narcotics fit to the time…’

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Stop! This in some empires must wander, in order to speak of… after narcotics?! O sancta simplicitas! no less. And this is not a slip of tongue. For the founder of the doctrine and for its interpreters the ‘hallucinogens… are only a means getting information…’ Exactly so it is formulated: only a means.

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There, really, may be spoken of that clearly for all, including also philosophers: the means are never ‘only’, the means and the goal are always connected. But we remember that I promised to give not more than the subject matter.

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And my ‘subject matter’ is narcotics. The apocalypsian illness. People being submitted to it, are living on the border: on the border of consciousness and mental derangement, prison and freedom, life and death. And already, of course, beyond the border of law, border of human existence in general.

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I foresee, that somebody protests: prohibited approach, vulgarizing approach! But simply saying: say, how you can take the connection between our low, base, muddy narcomans and ‘sights of soul’, ‘esoteric concepts of world’?!

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I dare say: straight. In cellars and attics, of course, the ‘esoteric knowledge’ is not reasoned, but if the ‘revelations’ and ‘sights’ of interpreters of Castañeda are translated to the language of the dens, then ‘keef’ is received. On the whole and total. But if detailedly, then ‘the parish’, ‘the stock’. That is, there are different stages of approach to the same ‘keef’.

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And already completely one to one it is approached to the destinies of mediocre narcomans, real philosophic findings about that ‘man tries to jump out of himself’, ‘win himself, the ‘I’. Yes, the attempt to change one’s constitution in general is characteristic to the human nature. In this the biological origin is tightly intertwined with the social. This is a very powerful impulse. But from this does not at all follow, that with Olympian calm could be assumed: ‘And narcotic fitted the time…’ Beware God, if that happens to anybody, if that powerful impulse is combined with narcotics, finds in it satisfaction and ecstasy.’

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Probably, ‘confessions of narcomans’, here presented, are completely sufficient, in order to convince: any memory about narcotics as harmless, not to speak of only ‘means to obtain information’ is equal to the propaganda of extermination of children. Be it only obligatory, as thoughtlessness.

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Yes, almost nobody does know of the genuine, intern life of narcomans, of their way of life. Of the abomination of their existence, of that stinking life, in which these unfortunate beings are rolling. Of the disperation and unavoidability. Of physical, mental, spiritual degradation cannot even be spoken.

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But if normal people do not know this life in detail, then they may only guess and suppose. This is simple. Guess and not be seduced by it. Only no, from where arise the myths about the ’golden dreams’, ‘euphoric clouds’. And when they are fortified by philosophic tractates and reasonings of interpreters, so what can be expected…

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But the secret, probably, is still in that ignorance, half-ignorance always give birth to mythes. Attractive. Brightly painted. Irrational prohibition by a totalitarian regime of a component of culture that exists in reality has developed in many people a firm devotion to all ‘prohibited’ whatever it is. At this, distancing from broad layers, all half-prohibited blowing becomes immediately fashionable in certain circles of people, who, according to Chekhov ‘try to show that they are above the medium level and to play the role, for which they get on their forehead the stamp of edict’. Such, do you know, are the pretensions on segregation, even if not spiritual aristocracy.

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And because all vessels in the society are reported. Only in far away sixties the smoking of herbs among teenagers was unconditionally considered a sign of a bit crazy, but already also on the university corridors participation in narcoman gatherings is considered as a certain sign of elitism, aristocracy. There already alcohol is looked at contemptuously, it is called ‘muddy keef’, ‘bull shit’.

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There is something to think about.

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And the last one. Having said something about the ‘means of getting knowledge’ in the Castañeda way, I cannot avoid saying something of the method itself.

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I remember that one of my first year students somewhere heard, that there are eight books in the world, reading of which man at once becomes educated, spiritually rich and all. And approached the teachers in order that they give him the cherished list of these books. Just eight in total books! eading those, and ready, in a week all sciences excellent.

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This is not a fairy tale. It more than existed.

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This big myth of mass man, which very much wanted to ‘familiarize’, become ‘spiritual’, but only quicker and in a simpler way.

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Only at first glance it is seen that Castañeda and his followers are very far from ‘mass consciousness’, that they were ‘elite’. As a matter of fact, according to my reasoning, the method here whatever in it is vulgar and simplistic, ‘mass-like’: quicker, cheaper, without these your sophistication and complication… Because in reality any truth, including also philosophic, is revealed to man on long way. He learns, works, reads books, find out, doubts, questions, cognizes himself and other people, gets enthusiastic, acquires… That is obtains the truth in a continuous work of brain and soul.

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And here, if taken out all layers and stripping bare the subject, then all where how and easily and even pleasantly: ate mushrooms, drank juice of exotic herbs, smoked poison and here you are, sights and even ‘revelations’, which on the top, are interpreted by an omniscient teacher.

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This way and method is far from being new. They have existed as long as human beings. Because there has always been and will be the temptation of getting something easy: richness, knowledge, professional skill. But fortunately, nobody has not yet dared to confirm that you can become cobbler without touching by hand, without learning anything, just burning hundred grams of marijuana. Nobody. But this, however, inspires some hopes on the stability of sound reasoning.’ (p. 146-153).

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^F202‘It must not be missed this term with the term ‘counterculture’. counterculture is protesting culture. Counterculture is protesting culture, in it there may be both positive and negative moments for culture.
^F203This phrase may give the impression that I offend the West and praise the Soviet Union. This is not so. That phenomenon of anticul-ture, the features of which I will be listing below, has not existed at us. We had our perversions of culture or our anticulture. Of them (perversions) I will be writing in the book ‘Critics of Marxism and Commun-ism’ (1997, 2th edition 2009). Ther is no comprehensive phenomenon of anticulture. It is manifold as are manifolds of diseases. Because anticulture is the disease of culture. And then. Aren’t there deficiencies in the West, all is there good?! From Soviet Union having been evil by many parameters, in no way follows that the West is unambiguously good and on its lighted image there is no spots.
^F204Tolstoy L.N. was here somewhat bended the stick (and in relation-ship to the jurists and in relationship to the inventors of explosive sub-stances). But his pathos I completely accept. Not all that looks like science or art, culture, as a matter is such.
^F205With ’man’ I here mean both separate person and different com-munities of people, and mankind as a whole.
^F206An old famous truth: the growing generation is educated mainly by examples. If young people see bad examples, then they are loaded with the energy of these bad examples. And vice versa. This is what Seneca has written two thousand years ago: ‘If you want to be libe-rated from vices, stay away from vicious examples. Niggard, seducer, savage, perfidious, all what would spoil you, even if they are near to you. Go away from them, live with Cato, Leli, Tuberon, and if you have spirit for Greeks, be with Socrates, with Zenon, (..) Live with Crisippon, with Posidon. They give you knowledge of divine, human, they invite you to be active and not only speak beautifully, strewing pleasant words to the enjoyment of listeners, but also to condition the soul and be strong against threat.’ - Seneca. Moral letters to Lucillus, 104, 21-22.
^F207Justifying themselves they sometimes present the argument that in the spirit of the proverb: ‘Do not blame the mirror, if the rose is bend-ing’. But there is another proverb, better suitable for them: ‘In the crooked glas also straight is crooked’. About this see below.
^F208Marginal is situated on the limit, in the periphery, on the roadside, on the side – marginal is a person with marginal consciousness and behavior. To marginal are related criminals, political and religious ex-tremists, people with deviant (divergent) behavior.
^F209Fobia is obtrusive experience of fear, developing at some psychos-es. Aggression is unprovoqued assault causing harm and damage or threat of that kind of assault.
^F210In an American movie ’Practical magics’ shown on NTV 20031005 Sunday, an aunt speaks to her nephew: ‘When you, finally, learn, that normality is not virtue, but absence of courage’. Something similar I hear almost every day. Nietzscheanism purely cultivated! Certain part of artistic community has simply become mad on Nietzsche.
^F211See: Ожегов С.И. Словарь русского языка; Словарь синонимов (Ozhegov S.I. Dictionary of Russian language; Dictionary of synonyms). L., 1975.
^F212See: Чуковский К. Современники (Chukovsky K. Contempora-ries). М.,1962. P. 683.
^F213I am asking to be understood correctly: I am not against the freedom; on the contrary, the ideals of liberalism are close to me. See on this: Балашов Л.Е. Либерализм и свобода (Balashov L.E. Liberalism and freedom). М., ACADEMIA, 1999.
^F214I already presented an example with advertisemtent on TV: See p. 3.
^{ut w}at does create the advertising? It stays ever mor cynical, bold, nude, challenging, it almost directly propagates immoral and criminal behavior. Here advertisements of recent days (200110): a girl screaming destroys the vitrine glass of a shop and takes from the shop refrigerator a cooled Pepsi drink. The scene is followed by a very liberal subtitle: ‘Take of life all.’On the form is the trick, animating scene, but the essence of the matter is the showing of crime in juridical sense and encouragement and call to behave this way, behave in criminal way. Completely obvious that here takes place a fraudulent attac on the shop, an attempt to private property. Not important that the girl’s screaming does not crush the window glass. Important is something else: that the advertisement shows the way to attain the goal, a criminal way. In the real life young people, imitating this advertisement, may simply take and break the vitrine glass by foot, by fist, by some heavy object. And will assess their action as a trick.
^F215Unfortunately the subjects of advertisement with black humor multiply as cockroaches. Published (200112-200201) advertisement of chips Lace, in which greedy grandson places near the grandfather a mousetrap with a package of chips. Grandfather stretches his hand towards the package and gets trapped. Or an advertisement of chokolade beginning with a mighty triple scream of a group of youngsters on the yard of a big house at night time and ending with words that this is cool.Still one advertisement subject is (200202), in which frutella is adver-tised. In the supermarket a small girl, 5 years old, kicks the salesper-son on the knee, this gets crooked of pain, but the girl, satisfied, runs away to the other end of the room, steals the frutella and at once puts into mouth enjoying its taste.
^F216Comment on 20020219. TV program ’Avidity’ runs already some months time. Nevertheless, the shameful name of ‘avidity’ is con-served. The ideology of the TV program is loaded to education, devel-opment and propaganda of avidity. The speaker of the program con-stantly calls the players to ‘be avid’, reproaches them of the lack of avidity or praises for avidity. They have run completely mad. I wish they would consult with philologs and specialists on ethics.
^F217Давыдов Ю.Н. Этика любви и метафизика своеволия: Проблемы нравственной философии (Davydov J.N. Ethics of love and the metaphysics of wilfulness: problems of moral philosophy). М., 1982. P. 10.
^F218Ibidem. P. 16, 15.
^F219Ibidem. P. 19-20.
^F220Ibidem. P. 23-26.
^F221Поппер К. Открытое общество и его враги (Popper K. Open society and its enemies). V. 2, М., 1992. P. 92-94.
^F222Information about the life of A.V. Demichev taken from the ency-cycl. dictionary «Философы России...» (Philosophers of Russia), p. 282.
^F223See on removal of death sentence APPENDIX 2.
^irstexample. In 200302-03 on TVS was shown documentation film of two series of a StPetersburg band of killers, mainly students, who killed on two motives: Nietzschean and in order to get money. Leader of this band was student Sergey Repnikov. This student read Nietzsche and was saturated with Nietzschean spirit (he felt himself a superman, that he can do, is strong, but others, most of them are inferior, garbage). All began with his inspection, Aleksey Djadkin, and Ksenia Kovalev on videorecorder the film ‘The string’ by Alfred Hitchcock, in which it is told on how two friends suffocated with a string the third, hid him in a trunk, but were revealed because they did not come to hide the hat of the killed. During the show a discussion was conducted. Repnikov and Djadkin did not discuss the moral side of the killing, but accused the two of the foolishness of getting caught. Repnikov reminded at this occasion of Raskolnikov of ‘Crime and punishment’ by Dostoyevsky, whom also was accused of weakness. In Repnikov and Dyadkin an idea was born to spit on these heroes, to commit a crime, that is to kill somebody without being caught. An event appeared. This company came to an apartment to an acquaintance of Repnikov, student Plotkin. Repnikov attacket with fists on Plotkin when this reminded of a debt of 200 dollars. Dyadkin hit the victim with specially prepared metallic baton. Friends compelled also Kovalev to participate into the killing: she stack a needle to the ear of the unfortunate. In order to substitute their footprints, ‘complices’ robbed the apartment of Plotkin. Repnikov grabbed a big sum of money. On the following killing these ‘friends’ went already completely conscious intoxicated by their remaining without punishment and wishing to still revive. Joining to them the fourth participant of the band Semenov said that student Patskevitch had money and that this student was a good-for-nothing. In the killing participated also the same and Semenov. In Repnikov and K the ‘appétit’ increased. Still more money was needed. To them joined still the fifth member of the band Nekrivda said, that his friend, student of the war institute Stepan Pasko collects money for a car and keeps 1000 dollars in the apartment. The student was killed in the same manner. In the same manner in the dwelling of Nekrivdy his class mate, businessman Iskanderov was killed. At him the bandits found 10000 dollars. And finally, they killed businessman Aleksey Skorodelov, a former lover of Kovaleva, on the same motives. Kovaleva did not want this killing and was compelled to hide herself from the ‘comrades’. Being informed of the killing of Skorodelov she appeared with confession at the militia, because she was afraid for her life. Repnikov after second killing boasted to Kovaleva that she is his, knows Zarathustra, ‘desire of power’ and in general knows everything. After the arrest of Repnikov on his writing desk the book of Nietzsche was found with underlined words ‘there is nothing truthful; all is allowed’. It is significant that in all cases of killing the band left on the spot of crime a sign of Fascist cross. Nietzsche was with blood crossed with Hitler.
^F224See on the philosophy of Nietzsche below, p. 361.
^F225The same Nietzsche confirmed that death is a more remarkable moment than.
^F226Гегель. Лекции по истории философии (Hegel. Lectures on the history of philosophy). First book.
^F227Согомонов Ю.В. Добро и зло (Sogomonov Y.V. Good and evil). М., 1965. P. 7
^F228Диоген Лаэртский. О жизни, учениях и изречениях знаменитых философов (Diogenes Laertius. On life, teachings and sayings of famous philosophers). М., 1986. P. 121 (Bk. II, 94, 95).
^F229Алтайский К. Циолковский рассказывает… (Altaisky K. Tsiolkovsky narrates…) М., 1974. P. 236-240.
^F230Камю А. Бунтующий человек (Camus A. Rebelling man). М., 1990. P. 248.
^F229Шердаков В.Н. Иллюзия добра (Sherdakov V.N. The Illusion of good). М., 1982. P. 210-211.
^F232’What are in the end the human truths? asks Nietzsche and without hesitation answers: ‘They are indisputable human delusions’ – ‘Merry science’ (Ницше Ф. Соч. В 2-х т. (Nietzsche F. Works in 2 v.) V. 1. М., 1990. P. 622). See commentary in: Кучевский В.Б. Философия нигилизма Фридриха Ницше (Kuchevsky V.B. Philosophy of nihilism of Friedrich Nietzsche). М., 1996. P. 65-67).
^F233Because "philosophy" means literally "love to wisdom".
^F234"To genealogy of moral ". See: Nietzsche F. Works. in 2 v. V. 2. М., 1990. P. 428.
^{) ‘O} the basis of these noble races is seen predatory beast, luxurious, lustful, roaming in search of prey and victory of white-haired beast; this hidden basis of time to time needed discharge, beast, must necessarily go out, anew return to the bushes, Roman, Arab, German, Japanese elite, Homerian heroes, Scandinavian Vikings, in this need all those are similar one another. Noble races, just they everywhere, where only their foot touched the soil, set for themselves footprints of the concept of ‘barbarian’; still on the highest steps of their culture is revealed this consciousness (…). This boldness of noble races, is reckless, absurd, sudden in their appearances, the unpredictableness and inverosimilitude itself of their business… their indifference and contempt of safety, body, life, comfort; their terrible joviality and depth of their joy, experienced at all kinds of disturbances, all kinds of lasciviousness of victory and cruelty, all this was poured on those who suffered from this, in the form of ‘barbarian’, ‘bad enemy’, say ‘got’, ‘vandal’. A deep icy lack of trust, still today aroused by Germans, it be only that they seize the power, and everything appears as that recidive of that ineffaceable horror, with which Europe for hundred years was looking at that fierceness of the blond German beast..."
^F235Ibidem. P. 429.
^F236Quot. acc.: Галеви Д. Жизнь Фридриха Ницше (Galevi D. Life of Nietzsche). Novosibirsk, 1992. P. 198.
^F237Quot. acc.: Ibidem. P. 200.
^F238Quot. acc.: Ibidem. P. 201.
^F239’what falls must also crash!’ — ’So spake Zarathustra’. p. 3 (Ницше Ф. Соч. В 2-х т. (Nietzsche F. Works in 2 v.). V. 2. М., 1990. P. 151).
^F240Ibidem. P. 194.
^F241Quot. acc.: Ibidem. P. 200.
^F242Ibidem. P. 206.
^F243Ibidem. P. 480.
^F244See: Галеви Д. Жизнь Фридриха Ницше (Galevi D. Life of Frie-drich Nietzsche). Novosibirsk, 1992. P. 201.
^F245See: Ницше Ф. Соч. В 2-х т. (Nietzsche F. Works in 2 v.). V. 2. М., 1990. P. 422.
^F246Such a division of people is rather living. Here is what writes A.G. Dugin in his ‘Conservative revolution’ (М.: Арктогея, 1994): ’All people are divided in two categories: Man-Gods, Divine Subjects, Supermen, (elite, spiritual aristocracy, higher people ‘Sonnenmenschen’, sons of light etc.) and to nonsubjective man-animals (plebs, lower people, quasi-people, ‘Tiermenschen’, ‘Sons of shadow’). From here kast, racial or intellectual differentiation…’ (p. 89). This Dugin frankly calls the predecessor ’of German National Socialism in the 20th century’. For him was recently published in the newspaper ‘Лимонка’ (Lemon № 56, 199701) an article with characteristic title ‘With the slim volume of Nietzsche on the front of culture’. At present Dugin is the president of the movement ‘Eurasia’.
^{he w}rld of Castañeda ’s man is rather simplified, primitivized, poor, concentrating purely natural interrelationships of man and environment. As a matter of fact, he is even more primitive than the original man. Because the latter in his way knew and understood much: as to produce and support fire, hunt animals, catch fish, prepare tools, give birth to and educate children. The man of Castañeda did not even step to the footsteps of the hunter Dersu Uzala (see the novel of the famous traveler Arsenyev of ‘Dersu Uzala’).

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Negative of life: anticulture and antiphilosophy

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Anticulture

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Anticulture is a disease of civilization

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Propaganda of anomaly in modern society

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About the influence of the means of mass information, imaginative litterature, motion pictures on the behavior of people, the society as a whole

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What is learned of the modern advertising?

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The necrophilism of anticulture

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About the so-called ’right to die’

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Philosophy of killing

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Hitchcock and others

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Boom of mysticism

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Antiphilosophy (Herostrat philosophy)

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F. Nietzsche, Führer of anticulture

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Antihumanist without any qualifications.

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The greatest philosophic terrorist

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Contemptuously and derogatory relationship towards women.

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Philosophy of Nietzsche is a philosophy of conflict, aggression, warmongery

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Nihilism of Nietzsche

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Psychedelic mysticism of Carlos Castañeda (thoughts, arised by reading his «Teachings of Don Juan» and other works)

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The Castañeda shot

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Psychedelic mysticism of Carlos Castañeda
(thoughts, arised by reading his «Teachings of Don Juan» and other works)