BIFURCATION POINT
We are not speaking from the position of an "outside observer." This is impossible for us now. Moscow is the city where we have lived most of our lives. In which we built our life, in love with the people around us and the city lanes disappearing before our eyes. And we have lived for almost the same part of our lives in Europe, in love with our French, Belgians, Spaniards... Both of us have Ukrainians somewhere in the family. And Russians. And French. And when we are asked who we are, we answer "earthlings".
For a long time we refused to accept the idea that insanity could become the “new normal.” We hoped that all this would somehow pass along the edge, without crashing over it. Now the moment has come when we are asked to agree that we are characters in a computer game. To make it more interesting to play us, each character is programmed with the survival instinct and individual differences – non-conformism, belief in ideals, a moderate ability to doubt, etc., But all this does not affect the autonomy of choice - characters do not choose, chess pieces do not make independent moves.
Can only a miracle save us? A miracle is a breakdown in the game’s code, when inside the characters the choice of themselves awakens. And the strength of this choice outweighs the fear of becoming a pawn that is taken. Then, on the verge of non-existence, we become alive.
For 15 years we have been saying that in today's world, when you shoot someone else, you instantly hit yourself. And that evil cannot be stopped by evil - just as it is impossible to put out a fire with petrol.
Now is the moment when for the first time it is possible that "tomorrow" does not exist at all. That today this amazing living universe can be irreversibly destroyed.
But while there is still this "today," it is possible to not sit in prostration.
TODAY we are creating the Museum of Humanity in the hope that there will be still someone to visit it. Anyone can be a co-author. A museum of personal evidence that Man is a magic wand, not a baseball bat. A stem, a sprout, not a billiard cue.
Homo Sapiens? "Gendarme" in French means "Armed Man." But our grandchildren, our loved ones, our relatives, our companions, now scattered across different countries, separated by tanks, all of them are of a different species - “Unarmed Man.” Called to multiply not death, but Life. Even when all the horrors and lies force him to take up a machine gun.
By definition, a "bifurcation point" is a radical change in the established mode of operation of the system. A critical state, in which it becomes extremely unstable, and the question is decided: whether chaos will ensue or everything will move to a new, higher form of existence. This is a very short period of time. The result is unpredictable and uncalculable, because the smallest factor can be decisive.
This is happening now. And the smallest factor is the choice and actions of one person. A person known to the whole world or almost unknown to anyone. Any one of the billions of us.
Everything will be decided in these days. You, me, he, she, they, we will choose everything these days. And we will either do the craziest or the kindest thing possible.
