Михаил Гонопольский

What if she had scratched herself? No, I still think they just want to shine. They can be original, no matter what, the main thing for them is to shine. And so that the whole world could see it. I think that's their only goal and dream. I mean those who put forward weird and ridiculous theories. Like, for example,...

Everything falls in price and value, demand and interest fall, and hands fall away en masse. Everything falls except the demand for guns. Judging by the search engines, this is the only thing in this world that still tends to grow. In general, is it possible to imagine a society in which people don't need guns? Just as a matter...

It's rare to see familiar things in a new way. Blessed moments, honestly. Here I am, running errands like a dog before going to bed, remembering all sorts of things.... I remembered my sister, Yael, running from one kindergarten to another in Jerusalem every day, all day long. She runs because she deals with, shall we say, special children. Maybe...

For the entire initial period of human development, a very long period of time, nature was to man as water is to fish. That is, as something inseparable from existence itself, something one does not even think about. The man just felt nature, it was like a mutual feeling. Later, as dialogue. Even communication between people did not require many...

Not long ago, fifty years ago, it was just a stone's throw away! - society provided man with a more or less coherent system of values. Socialism was like socialism: stable, solid. With cheapened but quite dickish ideals. Capitalism was a beauty altogether. Especially when viewed through the Iron Curtain. As a consequence of all this unspeakable solidity, to the...

I have to scold the consumer society myself somehow. He's lazy enough not to scold him, but I somehow got carried away... Well, as someone who came here from a rather ancient and rather forgotten time, I'll start with them. So. I remember the aging Sixties and their admirers scoffing at the fear of the West then being inculcated in...

I, as a man who came from times past, dusted with the dust of the past, - with them I will begin.... Anyway. That life, as it turned out later, was childishly naive. I'm talking about the Soviet one. It's not even her, but our views. Especially, the looks "at them," there behind the fence. We thought, what a dumb...

In spite of a weak "C" in history There is, they say, a living need for information. And this need, like all living things, grows, of course - but grows so, you know, slowly. A little wiggle. For centuries. And in ancient times, people themselves were very different creatures. Not to say simple, but rather whole. And the amazing thing is...

All Western authors-whether online or in the press-must say something about the undeniable value of democracy. It's like a law for them. Like, - sure, there's problematic things going on in the world. "Whether in America, in Asia, in Europe...", well, there are other places noisy.... In America, for example, the fasteners got loose, you know, people went wall to...

It was a long time ago, back when the great collider broke down for the first time. And while in its kilometer-long tunnels unhurriedly rattled wrenches locksmiths, professors, forced to be free from catching bosons, released for a visit to their home universities. My friend Valdas, on his way to his native Kaunas, came to visit us for a couple...