Писатель Илья Розенфельд

We are taught to be ashamed of fear. "Don't be a coward!" they tell us in school. This is anti-scientific nonsense. Fear is not weakness; it is intelligence . It is the work of a powerful GPU in your brain that calculates 1,000 future scenarios in a millisecond and delivers the result: "Don't go in there, idiot, you’ll get killed". Cowardice is simply following this wise advice. Chapter I: The Evolution of Cowards Look at your ancestors. You exist only because your great-great-great-grandfather was a coward. When a saber-toothed tiger appeared on the horizon, the "brave" one took a stick and went to fight. He was eaten. His genes disappeared. The "coward" ran away, hid in a tree, and there, trembling with fear, had sex with a "cowardly" woman. We are the descendants of those who ran away. Planet Earth is populated by the descendants of cautious paranoiacs. Bravery is an evolutionary dead end, like the dodo bird that wa...

The agency " The Weavers " agency did not deal in textiles. Hans and Christina were conceptualists , specialists in reality management . Their office was sterile white, just like their reputation. The Emperor (and in our version — the President, whose rule had dragged on for thirty years, and the title of Emperor fitted him perfectly) received them in a closed bunker. He was old, cynical, and suffered from paranoia. — "I need something special for the Independence Day parade ," he said, drumming his fingers on the table. — "Ratings are falling. The people are whispering. I need a symbol." — "We don't sew clothes, Your Majesty," Hans answered softly. — "We sew loyalty."   — "We offer you a fabric made of the 'Matter of Pure Truth'," Christina chimed in. — "Its unique property is that it is invisible to traitors, fools, and those who are not in their rightful place. Only a true patriot can see it."...