I don't understand you, Yura. In the past, I read your posts carefully, and there were often ideas in them that resonated with me. Sometimes I couldn't agree, but I still appreciated the consistency and coherence.

The tone depends heavily on the role I play in the conversation. Right now, it's the role of an advocate for the aggrieved party in a public dispute. Consistency isn't required here; rather, emotional pressure is. And I'm still maintaining some level of coherence, right?

But what you write about AK and, in general, about those who currently hold different views is just nonsense, and quite low-level nonsense at that. What's the point of all this? Is it some kind of settling of old scores?

It's not about settling old scores... everyone I had conflicts with in the Heroes community (and unfortunately, there were some) has either left or is about to leave the community for one reason or another. Back then, I was young, and these people were older, so I perceived them as a threat. Now, it's just a game. AK can't really bother me much anymore, so my attitude towards her is more like treating her as a punching bag – I kick her a bit and then I'm done.

About democracy and democratic institutions. That's all gone a long time ago; it existed in Novgorod, but now the world doesn't even have a parody of democracy; it's just a poorly concealed dictatorship. Democracy has evolved into a "consumer society" democracy, and that's simply not possible. Free, conscious expression of will is only possible when "eating, drinking, sleeping, etc." is not at the top of each individual's list of priorities. Otherwise, it's just manipulation of public opinion.

That's essentially what I was writing about in my previous post. The flaws of democracy have been known for a long time, and people are trying to compensate for them in some way, but without it being obvious from the outside.

In Novgorod, by the way, there wasn't really democracy either, except perhaps at the beginning, when it was a relatively small trading settlement. Later, it gradually decayed, and by the time Ivan the Terrible's army arrived, it was something like Rome during the time of the Hunnic invasions.