B. Berkeliev

No one speaks truth or wisdom anymore,

No one distinguishes lies from the law,

No one can tell what’s dirty from what’s clean,

The line ‘twixt fair and foul we now ignore.

– Magtymguly Pyragy

Considering the volume of military resources deployed, the quantity of countries involved (over 50, the Ramstein group), and the unprecedented economic sanctions imposed by the West on Russia, it is hard to disagree with the opinions of experts who claim that the war in Ukraine is not a local war but is rather the beginning of the Third World War. The fact that NATO’s large-scale military assistance and immense sanctional pressure has not been able to break Russia’s economy and military capacity, has created a challenge not only for the economic well-being of the West, bringing down the quality of people’s lives, but it has also become the biggest test of America’s monetary system and financial control of the world. This war has boosted the military-industrial complexes of numerous countries, having forced their governments to reallocate massive resources from the budget to the detriment of the country’s social programs. In 2014, three NATO allies spent 2% of GDP or more on defence; the list of allies increased to seven by 2022. The growth of military capacity has become if not a priority, then in all cases at least a trendy policy for the modern Western politicians.

In addition to the military might of a state, which, according to the existing and established political tradition in the world, allows for the seizing and the exploitation of foreign markets – the total political and economic potential of a country also has an internal metric, which is the measure of social well-being: mainly determined by the principle of fair distribution of wealth. In his extensive study of the economies of the now developed countries over the past 300 years, economist Thomas Piketty came to the conclusion that the unfair distribution of state wealth leads to its concentration, which ultimately leads to economic instability, which in turn leads to social tension. Piketty explains this by comparing the level of return on capital (r) with the level of economic growth (g). His thesis can be summed up as that if r is higher than g, then in the long run this inevitably leads to the concentration of capital, and this violates the principle of fair distribution, which in turn causes an economic crisis and social tension.

To illustrate this more extensively: the growing economy, first of all, is the creation of added value. If I buy 4 kg of boards for $5 and make one stool out of them and sell it for $7, then I have created an added value of $2. There will also be lumberjacks who will have made a profit from this operation, board makers at the sawmill, nail or glue makers as well, tool makers that I used while making my stool, and even a garbage collector, the supplier of my electricity, water and heating. But when one broker purchases shares or cheap loans from another and sells them at a higher price, they enrich themself yet do not create added value. I will be dependent on the prices of the products that I use to make my stools, but the broker is comfortable: they can always sell expensive money. My earned two dollars are not enough to feed my family and buy a new supply of boards and nails for future use for several months, so I will need loans. But if the economic situation of the entire population is deteriorating due to expensive loans, then people will not particularly want to buy my stools, the price of which will have increased significantly due to the need to pay interest on my loan. Then a merchant will appear who can import cheap and unethically made stools from a foreign land and my production will become simply unprofitable, and I will become bankrupt.

In such an economic model, a massive proportion of producers and manufacturers go bankrupt and the layer of the middle class in the society thins out. And in fact, the middle class, with its economic independence and education, is the class that can still control its government so that it does not go completely out of line. 

To explain this situation another scholar named Emanuel Todd used the cross section of a railroad rail (see attachment). The upper part (#1) is the financial and managing elite, the middle part (#2) is the middle class, and the lower part is the impoverished marginalized strata of the population. When the middle layer thins out, the precariat layer grows and the lower part of the rail increases greatly, and then as a rule to the power can come to any showman adept at manipulating people, who in the end turns into an odious dictator.

Of course, there are many statistical parameters, such as child mortality and suicide rates etc., which can be telling of the economic and mental health of the society. Let’s look at three of them.

As of June 2023, nearly 250,000 Canadian small businesses are at risk of closure due to the country’s economic instability and rising interest rates. That is 19% of all small businesses, or roughly 1.6 million Canadians at threat of losing their job by 2024. 2,861 Canadians died from opioids in 2016, averaging out to nearly 8 lives lost per day. These numbers have risen by over 150% to 2022 when 7,328 Canadians died from opioids, averaging out to 20 lives per day. Following a similar trend, between 1961 and 2009, a span of nearly 50 years, 133 police officers were murdered in the line of duty, averaging to less than 3 per year but in a six-month span between the fall of 2022 and the spring of 2023, 8 police officers were murdered.  

This data suggests that Canada’s economic and social situations have become increasingly similar to those situations described by Piketty and Todd. This must cause concern and cast doubt on the correctness of the direction of Canada’s current governing party.

By: B. Berkeliev

Why would anybody go into the military or become a politician if instead, they could build an orbital space station, a nuclear submarine, or a trendy app that instantly turns them rich and allow them to live in Silicon Valley, Palm Springs or Monaco, and drive a Porsche? All of humanity’s great technological creations were made by these cerebral individuals for whom it’s easier to count the stars of the universe or calculate the balance of load on the Golden Gate Bridge than it is for most people to combine fractions. The scientific advancements and inventions of intellectuals and scientists, privatized by politicians, on one hand, made people’s lives easier, and on the other, put their lives on the brink of apocalyptic catastrophe. Has it not come time for politics to attract more of these intellectuals who can “heal” the current disease of a situation where the accumulation of all crises is pushing the world to the brink with uncontrollable speed, threatening to bring irreversible consequences? Or perhaps it’s all in God’s hands?

When I say ‘bottle drive’, I’m understood by all former hockey players who, in their youth, travelled through the communities of their city and door-knocked each house, shared about their team and asked for their empty bottles, to then take them to the bottle depot and in exchange for money that would go toward the team. This is considered to be an absolutely normal traditional fundraising practice for sports teams, one in which there is no humiliation, but rather a pleasant acquaintance and useful sociability with one’s neighbourhood, during which, among other things, your communication and trading skills develop.

And now, a few years later, when you are still young and in the prime of your youth, the inexorable hurricane of fate throws you into a situation where you are once again knocking on doors or speaking in front of small gatherings, but this time, instead of bottles, you are asking the people to vote for a certain political party, all the while convincingly talking about its real deeds and firm promises to protect their interests and improve the lives of everyone. 

And at one of these moments, an elderly man with a noble face, grey hair and a soft smile, says to you as politely as possible, “Son, I won’t be saying anything new when I tell you that politics is a dirty business and that all politicians are corrupt. Why would you get yourself involved in all this and ruin your life, like a fly looking for manure, while you can build yourself a life, like a bee collecting nectar?” 

How could one forget the noble Socrates? The great sage, born a plebeian, who decided to participate in the political life of his native city of Athens, and adhere to his moral principles, recklessly voted against the interests of the ruling elite and paid for it with his life. However, his student Plato, who came from an influential aristocratic family and had every chance of achieving success in the political sphere, refrained from doing so, and lived a long and dignified life. 

Any political system is supported by its dominant ideology, designed to justify and sanction the dominance of the interests of the ruling class. An attempt to change or revise this ideology is always met with a strong reaction. In fact, all of the notable pages of the history of human civilization primarily consist of these attempts and reactions, most of which concluded in blood-soaked wars.

Although Jesus Christ did not strive for material goods, and even less so for power, his revolutionary, for its time, teachings contradicted the existing ideologies of aristocracy and power, and this unwittingly turned him into a politician trying to completely reformat the existing principles of wealth distribution. Would the rich and the powerful agree, for example, that “if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well” (Matthew 5:40)? We all know what this led to.

New ideas always arose when an old ideology led society to a crisis and there was a need for a new ideological base for political activity. Each new ideological platform somehow made its way into the minds and hearts of the people, but violence was the most effective and efficient of all possible methods.

All emerging new ideologies, first of all, would seek to change economic principles and the distribution of wealth. These changes were made through the seizure, robbery and expropriation of property, or through the increase or reduction of tax pressure. But such a large change in the political and economic formation is preceded by the accumulation of crises in society which have reached their threshold, thus leading to an explosive peak of societal tension.

In such a situation, the trick of exchanging one ruling party for another does not lead to the resolution of the problems that caused the societal tension – unless that party has a decidedly new idea for restoring social justice. This problem can be solved only by the party that has a real plan for supporting a dignified way of living for all layers of society – by shifting the bulk of the profit to the real sectors of the economy, instead of the ones serving the oligarchs who hold exorbitant privilege in enlarging and monopolizing businesses.

But a logical question then arises: why can’t the party that’s in power for its second, or even the third term, solve the problems facing its society – but even exacerbates them? And why do we hope for a miracle, wherein the opposition that lost the previous elections comes into power – that this new ruling party will be able to solve, or at least begin to solve the problems that have been brewing like a disease for many years – despite the fact that their resource capabilities, the quality of their personnel, their dependence on sponsors and investors are all fundamentally no different than that of their rivals?

The breadth of party leaders’ possibilities is even more limited by the need to maintain a “clean” biography, to not make unnecessary moves (vs showing creative initiative), to not make mistakes, to not violate unwritten agreements with sponsors, and all the while to be afraid that some compromising evidence might be made public against them. And the politician, until he gets to the top (if he gets there at all), operates in such taming conditions for 20-30 years, acting as no more than a cog in the administrative system and protecting the interests of only those business groups that feed them and their party. The intellectual creativity and independence of such people are practically nonexistent. Do we seriously expect them to be able to solve the problems of inflation, low income and high taxes, homelessness and hunger, environmental problems and the quality of drinking water, food and air, with reforming of the healthcare system, with the spread of drugs and the fentanyl and opioid disasters, with the rise in crime, with the lack of purpose and meaning among the younger generation, permissiveness and the absence of God and limiters, as well as hypocrisy, primitivism and corruption in the government itself? And this is just the tip of the iceberg … On the international stage, will they be able to show reason and independence in order to refrain from participating in regional and local wars taking place tens of thousands of kilometres from their borders that have nothing to do with them, even if they promise big rewards and jobs for their military-industrial complex?

Now, you can call all these questions rhetorical and even funny. Can we blame the government for failing to keep its promises and solve the problems facing the country? Of course not. By the laws of democracy, we ourselves, millions of ordinary people are running our country, but since everyone has their own lives to live, we elect this group of people and authorize them to be our government. If something doesn’t work out, they can always say that the responsibility for the failure lies with us – the millions, because it was we who chose them. It shouldn’t be forgotten that politicians are the best acrobats of the word. Remember the story of Adam and Eve? When God discovered that Adam disobeyed his order not to eat the forbidden fruit and in rage demanded his explanation, Adam easily accused Him back, declaring that Eve gave him the apple, and giving him this woman was the choice and decision of God himself… So, all that the people can do is to expel the government that didn’t live up to its expectations from Eden, whoops, from the Office.

In times of deep crises or war and catastrophes, politicians with cognitive and willpower deficits deliberately do not seek power. Firstly (and obviously), they would be useless up there, and secondly, it would even be risky for their lives, which is not what they were striving for power for. For such dire straits situations, every great nation gives birth to a son or daughter who embodies, in addition to prime knowledge and will, the best qualities of their people and the ability and readiness to lead their nation out of crises. F. D. Roosevelt, W. Churchill, J. Stalin, Golda Meir, Deng Xiaoping, Lee Kuan Yew are some of the examples of such leadership. 

But when a crisis is still remote, as history shows, anyone can be the head of government, and even better if they come from showbiz so that they can manipulate people’s feelings well, tell fairy tales beautifully and deceive convincingly. Today’s politicians and officials are the masters of feeding promises and avoiding responsibility. The billions of dollars of budget money flowing past them can cloud their minds and drag them away from reality so much that they try their hardest to privatize their seats in the government. They, like addicts to power, try to head the government and control the treasury forever. Money is power, power is money, and their god is the Golden Calf. The state, in this case, becomes a tool in the struggle of the elite. At the same time, the privilege of using this tool remains in the hands of the ruling portion of the elite. In a state like that, a simple and honest person has no chance of upholding their dignity, since such a person has zero value.

The current state of the world – on the verge of a third world war and a nuclear catastrophe, gripped by economic crises and mass depression, riven with greed and competition for resources, markets, and technologies, and dividing into new techno-economic blocks (such as AUKUS), with the abolition of the unipolar world through the creation of rival blocs (G7, BRICS), with the economy of the West collapsing due to trade wars and harsh sanctions – it is difficult to see it as the fruit of leaders who operate through reason. And all of this is happening alongside the depletion of the Earth’s resources, such as fertile arable land and unpolluted fresh water, ocean pollution and the spread of drought and climate change, the spread of diseases and harmful drugs, the shadow economy and crime. This is the result of the management of countries and international organizations in our globalized and interdependent world by mediocre and corrupt politicians whose cognitive deficit is compensated by their greed, vanity and arrogance.

Without a doubt, for all people and countries, planet Earth has become a single organism. Maybe the rich and successful have an illusion, inspired by Hollywood films, that corrupt and controlled politicians will create special conditions for them and they will be able to sit out in oases of well-being, surrounded by tall fences, a police cordon around them and Batman as their personal bodyguard. And the rest of the world is behind the fence in the ghetto, with its Jokers and dark forces.

The human society and the planet itself, as a single organism, are in need of attention before this organism becomes irreversibly ill. The old system of solving political issues, the essence of which was the conquest of markets through military force, is no longer medicine – it never was for the planet and it is no more for the people (a temporary pain-relief narcotic, maybe). Treating one organ, in this case, a country, at the expense of oppressing another is no longer a solution. An attempt to present coexistence as a race for survival, through the infringement of the interests of others, is losing its meaning. The murder of a million peaceful people on the other side of the planet may enrich certain individuals, but it does not solve the problems of the murdering nation, on the contrary, lays a curse on it.

If your weight, blood pressure and sugar levels start to rise, you would definitely consult a doctor. It would be too late to be buying a blood pressure monitor once you’ve already had a stroke. The time will come soon, if it hasn’t already, when each nation and all of humanity will be forced to think about how to stop picking showmen as their leaders and start electing sound professionals with good will, who will be able to pull humanity away from the abyss to which the current ringleaders are leading us at high speed.

Is society even capable of preparing people who in their role as leaders can solve pressing political, economic, social and cultural issues during crises, or even prevent those crises? Who created the Voyager program, equipped with its own power plants, rocket engines, a telecommunications system, unique scientific instruments, and sent its robots past the periphery and 15 billion kilometres beyond the solar system, from where it has been sending its creators a vast amount of valuable scientific data for decades? Who has learned to split the atom nucleus and obtain insane energy, both in the form of power plants and in the form of bombs of unimaginable prowess? Who created aircraft carriers capable of carrying over 100 planes, and aircrafts capable of vertical take-off? Who created an equipment system capable of eavesdropping on every person or tracking them from a satellite? Who has filled near-Earth space with thousands of telecommunications and spyware satellites? Who has learned to transplant organs, and also make a woman out of a man and vice versa? Truly, if the human species is gifted with such a powerful mind, capable of so many things – is it not able to assure its own collective security and collective access to food, water and justice? Theoretically, it can. Factually, it doesn’t.

The issue is that technological progress is achieved by intellectuals, whereas our earthly problems are handled by politicians. Due to the persisting stereotype that ‘politics is a dirty business’, intellectuals tend to eschew politics. In addition, they stay distant from the main mass of the people, and they are able to independently earn big money and manage their lives well.

By the way, from the moment of the Voyager 1’s launch in 1977, 80 people have received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences and they are all scientists from the developed countries of the West. As there is no doubt about the authenticity and value of the results they have obtained, then there is naught else to do but to accept the notion that the laureates themselves and their scientific results were not fully implemented by the Western governments for the benefit of practical economics, since the Western world continues to be shaken regularly to the levels of deep crises and excessive information. It leaves one wondering how other countries, which do not birth Nobel laureates, can develop…

The world economy is growing largely due to the industrialization of third world countries and the resulting bringing in of hundreds of millions of new people. But the standard of living of an average hardworking person in the West does not improve because of this. Moreover, due to the demographic problem and the inefficient economy, some countries are forced to raise their retirement age: people in their dotage, instead of raising grandchildren and preserving the continuity of generations, are forced to earn money for their food and medicine. As they say in the East, trouble comes as a caravan, and one wrong decision of a greedy and senseless politician taken today, by its cumulative effect, can create problems for future generations and in all aspects of their lives.

One of these fundamental omissions of the West was its sharp rejection of the industrial economy. It is what generates added value and is the core of the real economy. Instead, the West has chosen a speculative-financial economy that benefits primarily the financial elites. But obviously, not everyone can trade in loans and stocks, currencies and interest. I call it the “percentage curse” or the “usury trap” – the fastest, most effective and dust-free method of enrichment for the elites, and bondage for the mass population. This situation is the main source of social tension and in the long term it inevitably leads to an economic and political crisis in society. 

Even in the age of advanced technologies for manipulating people’s thoughts, we still have the chance to choose our leaders. If we do not preserve this right and start choosing worthy leaders, if we continue to justify our cocoon of indifference with phrases like ‘politics is a dirty business and all politicians are corrupt’, then we will in no way escape our miserable lot of doomed people who accept hopelessness as a priori and plummet to humiliation and helplessness, betraying the spirit of our ancestors and the future of our children.

Human beings cannot be work bees all their lives, collecting honey night and day. Human beings, in addition to protecting their “hive”, must also preserve the blooming meadows around it.

By: B. BERKELIEV

Greed, money and power are one in their essence. Over the past 100 years this triad has subjugated the greatest of minds and even the science. Greed ruling over reason is illogical, not to mention, calamitous. If the self-destruction mechanism is embedded in our nature and channelled through the select members of our kind , then do we also possess in us the brakes of self-preservation…

As the tempest rages, the sailor curses and fights. But as the sailor sinks, his lips are in prayer.

After physicists split the nucleus of an atom and detonated the first nuclear bomb in the middle of last century, we were convinced that science had pretty much figured out how the Universe works and the natural laws by which our world operates.

We all know that light is the fastest thing in nature, travelling at 300,000 kilometres per second. In the blink of an eye, light can whiz around our planet 7.5 times, or make a return trip from Calgary to Edmonton 500 times. Such speeds don’t quite fit inside the human imagination since we don’t deal with them in everyday life. But if you decided to gift your boo a trip to the Moon, you could hop onto a photon (a light particle) and reach the Moon in about 1 second. You could even reach Mars faster than Elon Musk – in 3 minutes, to be exact.

A journey on the same photon to the end of the visible Universe would take a bit longer: about 90 billion years. Isn’t it mind-blowing that all that gargantuan space, filled with countless galaxies, including our Milky Way – exists and functions according to the natural laws described in our physics textbooks?

Let’s get back to the Milky Way. Its diameter is approximately 100,000 light years. When we look at the night sky, we see the glow of the stars which they’d emitted tens, hundreds, thousands and tens of thousands of years ago. Some of those stars have long died and don’t exist anymore, yet we get to admire them to this day. As shown by scientists, at the very centre of our Milky Way is a supermassive black hole, which with its monstrous gravity, like a funnel, consumes our entire galaxy. Our Sun in a stream of myriad other stars (around 400 billion), along with our planet Earth, is spinning within that same funnel, headed for the unknown.

By the way, the Sun with its planets is located in a highly comfortable oasis of the Milky Way, in a relatively calm space between the two tongues of the galactic spiral. Had it not been for such a favourable location, there would simply be no life on Earth. And in this comfortable position, we’re flying through the cosmos at 220 kilometres a second, circling the centre of our galaxy – the supermassive black hole – in 230 million years. A sports car can easily make 220 kilometres per hour – well, that’s cool but our Earth does that in 1 second. Freaky numbers to comprehend. A merry-go-round just for the adults – spinning with the Sun around a black hole at 220 kilometres per second.

Now let’s go to the “children’s” merry-go-round and spin around the Sun at 30 kilometres per second – this is the speed with which the Earth travels around the Sun through its orbit, making one full rotation in 365 days, 6 hours and 9 minutes. As it turns out, the Earth flies around the centre of the galaxy at 220 km/s, around the Sun at 30 km/s, and on top of these, even manages to rotate on its axis in 24 hours. And all these dizzying movements happen with the precision of a Swiss watch according to the rules of nature described in our textbooks as the laws of physics.

Next, let’s look at the microworld – what the whole world around us is made up of, and we ourselves too. One of the tiniest building blocks of this world – an atom – is so shockingly tiny that if we place an atom next to a Loonie (Canadian Dollar) and 200,000,000x magnify them, then the Loonie would be as big as Canada and the atom – as big as the Loonie.

And oddly enough, the inside of an atom is similar to our Solar System or our galaxy – at the centre of an atom is its heavy nucleus and it’s orbited by flying electrons. And if on the scale of galaxies, stars and planets, the primary acting force is gravity – then in the microworld the relevant acting forces are nuclear and electromagnetic.

The rapid growth of technology makes it evident that humanity has uncovered almost all of the secret laws of Mother Nature. Human beings are made up of the very same atoms that make up the rest of nature. Every tiny particle in the human body exists and functions according to the laws of the Universe. The human environment, which for millions of years has affected their formation and development, is also bound by the strict rules of the Universe. A human being is in the middle between the limitlessness of the larger Universe and the unfathomably tiny universe that even makes up the human being itself. And both of these worlds follow strict uniform laws.

So, if the whole of the Universe, which has created Man, and the entire microworld, of which Man consists – are interconnected and bound by strict laws, why is it that Man’s life should go by in chaos and not obey any laws?

I don’t mean sociological laws, or those of power and state, which differ for countries and cultures. I mean common laws for the whole of humanity, for all people. Like the laws of gravity or electricity. Whatever ideology a person believes, whatever religion they profess, whatever nationality they hold, and whatever gender they have – if they choose not to believe in the law of gravity and jump from an airplane with no parachute, they will still turn into organic fertilizer, whether they like it or not.

And if the whole world is integrated into a person with its own laws, and they are a part of that world, then logically a community of people cannot exist without rules.

When we find out that the annual turnover of drugs is $800 billion, and that someone has earned that money and put it in the bank at one point or another, it would seem that humanity lives without rules.

When we learn that over the past 20 years, humanity has spent $35 trillion on war, destruction, and murder and that someone has also earned that amount and put it in a bank at one point or another, it would seem that humanity lives in the absence of rules. But the beneficiaries of all the beneficiaries – are the leaders of structures that trade in the main commodity, to which all the people of the world are addicted – and that is money. And in accordance with the principle “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, the owners of this big money are addicted to it more than anyone – they’re ready to risk the lives of not only all mankind but also the planet itself. With power and propaganda, you can always lobby for any action that’s motivated by blind greed, such as unregulated extracting of natural resources, construction of harmful productions, poisoning of the soil, the air, rivers and of our oceans, the deliberate spread of contagions and the consequent sale of vaccines to cure them, wars … And here, it seems humanity lives without any rules at all.

But no, all of these seemingly unreasonable and destructive actions are actually fairly consistent with human nature. Man is egocentric by nature, exploiting the entire universe for himself as part of his innate tendency. In a philosophical sense, life and egoism are equivalent. Scientists have ironically named us Homo Sapiens. In nature, this egoism is called entropy.

Entropy is a measure of chaos. According to one of the fundamental laws of the Universe, which is called the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Entropy always increases, which means that chaos always grows. Since the Big Bang, for 14 billion years, even the Universe has been operating in accordance with this law – constantly expanding, spreading chaos, and capturing and filling new horizons.

Now let us consider the Sun. For almost 5 billion years, the Sun has been radiating its energy outward in the form of light and corpuscular particles, filling with them all the space that surrounds it. Why doesn’t the Sun, inside which billions of nuclear bombs detonate at one time – explode in different directions and expend all of its gargantuan energy into the void of outer space, seeing as the law of Entropy requires it? It is because there are other – equally powerful – laws that restrict the Sun from causing such chaos: the force of gravity and the magnetic field, which exist according to other, i.e. their own laws.

And what are these laws which can oppose the spread of chaos? Nature has these laws, and we can talk about them in more detail another time. But what’s important to understand here is that for a human being, who is an undeniable part of this Universe, and who possesses an innate egocentrism that pushes him to exploit the Universe itself – even for him there are restrictive laws – ones he can’t deny, or escape, try as he might.

But firstly, let’s ask these questions:

– If the whole Universe before the Big Bang (14 billion years ago) was a singular point, who brought it to this point?

– Who, 5 billion years ago, compressed the Sun into a small clump before setting fire to its billions of nuclear bombs like a fireplace?

After all, if someone initially gathered the Universe or the Sun into his fist, then he has contradicted one of the main laws of the Universe – the law of Entropy. And who was that, exactly?

In our “own” star, as in any system, there are forces of chaos that coexist with restraining forces. When this balance is disturbed, the system collapses and the star explodes. Astrophysicists call this phenomenon a “Supernova”.

So what exactly is this restraining force that reduces chaos in nature, and which was able to oppose the law of Entropy of the Universe and compress it at one point into the size of a tennis ball? Of course: either the totality of the laws of the Universe, or God. So what – or, who – is it that’s trying to tame the congenital egocentrism of Man, so that he doesn’t destroy himself and his planet? Answer: either the totality of the laws of the Universe, or God.

Whichever one it is, its restraining laws have been reported in the course of history in a form comprehensible to humans, by visionaries – basically, people who were super in touch with their intuition and who were called colloquially “prophets”. And the force that opposes the destructive egocentrism of a human being was named by it: “love”.

After all, if the power of love’s influence on humanity wanes, and the balance of egocentric and restraining vectors is violated in favour of the former, then the Earth, seated in its unique cosmic oasis, will face the fate of a Supernova…