Hobbes believed that peaceful coexistence of people outside the state is impossible, and the absence of power inevitably leads to a return to the “state of nature,” that is, “a war of all against all.” He did not know that three centuries later, totalitarian states would recreate this state of hostility within their borders, forcing people to daily fight for survival and exterminate each other for false ideas.

Text for the newspaper “Dikorosiya” published by the horizontal collective “Make Culture”. I can’t remember exactly how or why I left the yard then and walked along our long street towards a sandy ravine, behind which a forest began. Having recently returned from a big city, there is always a need to wander: your legs are used to it, and the boredom of the quiet, measured life of the village does not allow you to sit still.

I am the square screen that dad smoothed out with a hot iron, Shouted by mom in the lesson box, with mistakes, Gently wiped with the sharp edge of a thin blade. I have been familiar with this dangerous object since I was seven years old. I learned how to handle it before I learned how to write. My mother corrected me, shouting provocatively and not joyfully, placing me there, in a cage... But it was in vain - My handwriting, meanwhile, never became a pleasant sight for my mother’s eyes.