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About Good and Evil (Address to the reader)
Cover - Good and Evil in everyone (image source - JoyReactor).
Today our world is engulfed in armed conflicts that threaten the future of human civilization.
Erich Fromm. "Escape from Freedom". Excerpts from the book
In The Escape from Freedom (1941), Fromm explores the reasons that make man "give up his freedom to dictators, turning himself into a small cog in the machine: not a free man, but a well-fed and well-dressed automaton."
Denis Dragunsky. Hearsay and morality (on one's own opinion in politics). Excerpts
This article by Denis Dragunsky was published on February 25, 2022, i.e. the day after his state launched a full-scale armed invasion of a neighboring sovereign country.
Methodology for estimating the range of a salvo shot point
In the photo from the Forensic Legal Newspaper, the owners turned bullet holes in the fence into flowers.
George Orwell. "1984". Excerpts from the book
"1984" ("Nineteen Eighty-Four") is a famous anti-utopian novel by George Orwell, published in 1949. This novel is both a warning and a prophecy. It describes a certain totalitarian state "Oceania" with all the attributes of dictatorial regimes: mass surveillance, brainwashing, denial of freedom and individual autonomy.
I do not believe! How to develop critical thinking
We present to your attention the abstracts of an article by Nikita Nepryakhin on Forbes, dedicated to critical thinking - a key skill for distinguishing truth from lies.
About attempts to appease Hitler. Does this remind you of anything?
On the cover on the left: Warsaw in 1939, on the right Mariupol in 2022. Two cities completely destroyed by war. This is the price for the unlearned lessons of history - people's lives and the fate of humanity. Fragments from Erich Fromm's book "Anatomy of Human Destructiveness" describe the events of the Second World War, but if you replace in them the names of political figures and the names of countries, they reflect the events of our days surprisingly accurately.
Robert Wilson. "Prometheus Rising". Excerpts from the book
This book is about breaking free from programmed behavior, "how to unleash our full stature — our total brain power".