To some this text will seem arrogant, it will seem disgusting and disgusting. But these are just my observations, which can be erroneous, like any observations. I don't presume to say so. Explosion in St. Petersburg. Frightened people on the streets, closed metro, calls to friends and family. “How are you?” - “Alive, and you?” - "Same".

The simple always exists only in a complex structure Louis Althusser Commenting on the political connotations of Clement Greenberg's theory of (modern) art, B. Kollenberg-Plotnikov drew attention to a curious inversion of the main task of the avant-garde. Instead of permanent criticism of society, the “artistic avant-garde” acquired the function of apologetics for a certain model of government.

There is a legend about how the statue (bretas) of Melqart (Hercules) sailed on a raft from Tire to Erythrae (Erythrae, Erythrae, Erythrai) (Pausanias, “Description of Hellas” VII 5, 5-7), a city on the coast of Asia Minor (the modern Turkish village of Ildiri) - 22 km northeast of the port of Kiss (the modern name Cheshme), on a small peninsula equidistant from the mountains Mimant and Corik, directly opposite the island of Chios.

As a rule, religious traditions have a very negative attitude towards the arms race. Islam considers weapons as a tool for defending the Fatherland acceptable, but with a serious reservation: “From the point of view of Islam, the people, this or that nation must protect their interests. But they must first of all go for the good. And, of course, defending one’s fatherland, as the Prophet Muhammad said, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is part of our faith.

Floating object. Ball, oars. Artist Larisa Fedotova: “Having a primary holistic, in a sense ideal, essence, a person throughout his life acquires a system of skills and tools that help set the direction of movement. But does a person actually move?