Писатель Илья Розенфельд

 Next stop: Life and Death . The tabooest topic. We’re afraid of Death, even though it’s Death that gives Life its meaning. Without a deadline, no project (including life) would ever get finished. Let’s pull the Grim Reaper’s hood off and see who’s hiding under there. Spoiler: not a skeleton—an exhausted bureaucrat. The Legend of Life and Death (The Bureaucracy of Eternity) Doctors say: “Life is a sexually transmitted disease with a 100% fatality rate.” True. We’re all patients in a hospice called “Earth.” Yet we act like we’re going to live forever. We take out thirty-year mortgages, buy anti-wrinkle cream, and grind out abs—though the worms couldn’t care less whether we’ve got a six-pack or not. Death isn’t a villain. Death is a cleaner. Picture a party that goes on forever. The guests are drunk, the dishes are smashed, the music is blaring, everyone’s puking, and nobody leaves. Death is a kind woman with a mop who turns the music off, cracks the windows, and says, ...

Once upon a time, there were Ded and Baba . Well, "lived" is a stretch... They existed in a phenomenological field . Ded was a typical empiricist , believing only in what could be touched or drunk. Baba was an intuitive ethical type, always on edge. And they had a Hen, Ryba . Not just a bird, but, bitch, a chthonic generator of matter. A Level 80 Bio-printer . And then, one day, the system glitched. Ryba laid an egg – not a simple one – but a golden one. What is a "golden egg" in the context of our existential hole? It is, dudes, a Singularity . It is a Kantian "Thing-in-Itself" ( Ding an sich ), packed into a nano-shell . It is absolute knowledge, the God formula . A flash drive with the Universe's source code. It is inedible and not for omelets. It is for enlightenment. ACT I. EMPIRICAL DEAD END (THEY BEAT AND BEAT) Ded, like a true materialist, decided: "Oh, sweet, let's crack it open and grub." He took his hammer of cognition (a sym...