The whole world is in the palm of your hand, you are happy and mute,

And you’re just a little jealous of those who

Others who still have a PEAK ahead of them.

V. Vysotsky

In the morning, these idiotic songs, highly encouraged by those in power in the USSR, began to spin in my head: “Let these fools climb the rocks, fall down, and die (“NO, no one is dying in vain here!”), let them think that they have risen at least a little somewhere and NOT FOR SOMETHING! As long as they don’t climb to OUR truly high levels in the hierarchical herd.

WE’RE FINE HERE WITHOUT THEM!”

This time I used the powerful and talented beginning of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto as a musical bouncer.

It helped, but my thoughts kept scratching a little bit: WHY???

The answer came immediately: Yes, it’s THE SAME HERD HIERARCHY, but IMAGINARY!

Herd slaves are perfectly aware (usually unconsciously) of that low, REAL level on which to mess around and, apparently, will remain on it, consumed by an inescapable feeling (QUITE JUSTIFIED!!!) his inferiority.

(This feeling, I’ll note in parentheses, is generally one of the most characteristic of all herd slaves!)

They look up with envy, malice, reverence and fear – “We should go there! Well, just for a minute! After all, then, Oh HAPPINESS, we will feel like the MASTERS at least for this minute!!!

And then all sorts of ephemeral ladders are invented, such as the aforementioned climbing.

Instead of another, also real, and indeed very unpleasant, MORAL ladder, it’s just the right thing not to climb up, but calmly, without remorse, you can comfortably sit at it’s VERY BOTTOM!

And to give another dogmatic phantom of hierarchy and some semblance of a real HERD LADDER, the verses of the Vysotskys, the “Brigantines” of all sorts of Pavel Kogan = informer and provocateurs are just right, for which, from the facts known to me, three naive fools paid for freedom in 1939 – Landau, Rumer and Koretz, and all the other hypocritical glorifiers of imaginary freedom and the struggle against the “hostile nature.”

Although the “hostile nature” is not OUTSIDE OF THEM, but in the very depths of their slave souls!

And it’s called very ordinary: An insatiably gnawing inferiority complex.

Why are all kinds of contests, games, championships, competitions with mandatory winners and losers so popular, “revolutions are finally real, and not micro-toy wars?

It is for the same reason: The real or imaginary fulfillment of the eternal dream of every herd slave is to be in the place of the MASTER!

“The whole world is in the palm of MY hand now, of SLAVE! But at TOP!!!” – a couple or half a dozen kilometers above the LOWEST LEVEL, where he profitably swarmed and scuttled like billions of other herd creatures!

And now, I am on the top!! On fictional top, invented by unconscious, but acutely felt INFERIORITY!

But a truly free person is COMPLETELY DEVOID of this feeling and therefore does not seek to defeat and humiliate someone.

He has no thought of being a “Master,” because he himself is NOT A SLAVE IN A HERD OF SLAVES.

He IS NEITHER ABOVE NOR BELOW THEM!

HE’S JUST OUT OF THE HERD!

24 XI 2025