Category Archives: Essay

Where I dump some of my mental burden

Noise and the decadence of man

‘Noise is a torture to intellectual people’ –Schopenhauer In many animal species, including Homo sapiens, males need to attract the females’ attention in order to have a chance of passing on their genes to future generations. This is a fact … Continue reading

Posted in Essay | Leave a comment

Did the Kremlin take revenge on Prigozhin?

I really doubt governments engage in emotional behaviour like vengeance, since governments have by definition no emotions: they are usually ready to do whatever might be in their best interest, but vengeance serves no practical purpose whatsoever except that of … Continue reading

Posted in Essay | Leave a comment

On friendship, and maybe also love

Hardly an adult man is to be found, at least in the Western culture, who has never been told, by a woman he courted and who rejected him, something like this: “…but we can be just friends!” Just friends? These … Continue reading

Posted in Essay | Leave a comment

Will cultural colonization ultimately defeat Russia?

The reflection I mean to set forth here stems from a casual — you may say funny observation: when I visited Georgia this summer, I realized that many women did not wear a bra. At first, and having recently been … Continue reading

Posted in Essay | Leave a comment

Foreign toponyms

When we allude to foreign proper nouns and toponyms we bump into a couple of linguistic obstacles, translation and transliteration, which present two different sides of the same issue. Transliteration (which for us westerners is synonym with romanization) deals with … Continue reading

Posted in Essay, Opinion | Leave a comment

Exercises on sociopolitics

Today I am going to propose the reader some exercises (which I hope to be amusing) on a sociopolitical situation. I will set forward a fictitious–yet plausible–scenario and then ask some questions. It may be a good way, I believe, … Continue reading

Posted in Essay | 2 Comments

The Green agenda hoax

Being a genuine environmentalist myself since my early teens–that is, four decades before I begun being interested in politics–I don’t think any single human being can lecture me on what loving nature and respecting the planet does mean. Except for … Continue reading

Posted in Essay, Opinion | Leave a comment

Global agenda and war in Donbass

Index 1. The global agenda 2. The war in Donbass 3. Revving up goals fulfillment 4. The question The information channels I usually follow to be updated on the war in Donbass and its political implications agree, among other things, … Continue reading

Posted in Essay, Opinion | 1 Comment