Feodor Shkrudnev

In the previous article, we clearly formulated for the first time: upbringing is not a service and not a function, rather a path leading to the formation of the Human Being as the central goal of civilization. Not a citizen, not a specialist, not an adapted cog in the system, rather precisely a Human — thinking, feeling, capable not only of surviving but of transforming the world. Yet the path to the Human lies through school — that very space which today seems both entirely familiar and profoundly mysterious. We have grown accustomed to perceiving school as something ordinary and inevitable, NOT NOTICING that it is precisely there that the basic firmware of thinking, behavior, language, will — and therefore the fate of an entire generation — is laid down. School teaches not what is in the textbook, rather how the world is arranged. And if school silently transmits meaninglessness, overload, fragmentation, and fear — it reproduces a meaningless, overloaded, fragmented, and frightened society. In this article, we LIFT THE VEIL over eight school secrets — the hidden knots in which the roots of the problem and the possibilities of its resolution intertwine.

Education is not a process of transferring knowledge, nor an instrument of socialization, nor even preparation for life. Education is the creation of a Human Being. Not an individual who merely knows how to adapt, rather a being capable of thinking, feeling, understanding, and taking responsibility. A Human as a phenomenon, as a meaning, as the highest form of existence on Earth. We live in an era in which everything that DOES NOT BRING immediate benefit is devalued. However, it is precisely now that we must remind ourselves: the most complex and important work is the FORMATION OF A HUMAN from a newborn — not the creation of technology or the management of a corporation.

The philosophy of fear does not end at the point where fear is understood as an instrument of power — it only begins its real movement there. The first part of this reflection (see article 86 in the 369 series — “Philosophy of Fear: from Power to Eternity…”) showed how fear was built into the structure of governance, how it became a system-forming element of the civilizational machine, and how, becoming a cultural code, it permeated everything — from education to justice, from religion to language. We have reached the boundary: we have exposed fear as a tool, recognized it as a historical construct, understood how it replaces freedom, generates subordination, codifies a FALSE IDENTITY. However, beyond this boundary begins the most difficult part. For fear, once exposed, does not disappear — it remains within.

Fear is not just an emotion; it is the oldest of instincts, a primal survival algorithm inscribed in flesh long before the emergence of speech, cultures, religions, even before the birth of humanity itself. It enters the world earlier than the word — and departs later than the final breath. It meets a person at the threshold of birth and accompanies them to the border of death, reminding them: you are mortal, you are vulnerable, you are dependent. Yet fear has never NOT REMAINED the same, it evolved, becoming more refined, subtler, more insidious. It grew social forms, and assumed the guise of duty, law, discipline, normality. It stopped growling and began to whisper — and in that whisper, it became more dangerous.

Every completed thought demands continuation if it has truly touched reality. For reality is not an archive where everything rests neatly on shelves, it is a flow in which any attempt at fixation is only a temporary support built upon the fragility of awareness. The first part of this work was NOT AN ANALYSIS of the state of the world — it was an act of recognition. We uncovered ruptures in the familiar: in the way of life, in worldview, in the very structure of the human “I.” We moved not from facts to conclusions, rather from meaning to diagnosis. And everything we arrived at revealed one thing: today humanity stands not at a crossroads, but on the edge. It can no longer go back — because "BACK" HAS BEEN DESTROYED. And it cannot move forward, because "forward" is no longer predetermined.

The world has entered phases of transformations that cannot be measured by familiar categories or former words. Everything that seemed stable yesterday is collapsing. Everything that was considered eternal has lost its meaning. Yet beneath the ruins of familiar forms, the fundamental human and national need have NOT DISAPPEARED — the need for meaning, for an image, for an idea. Russia, as always, stands at the very epicenter. She does not simply react to changes — she changes earlier than others, deeper than others, and at times more frightening than others. And in this lies both her tragedy and her chance.

Every era dies quietly, yet the world feels its death as a rumble that arrives long before understanding. We have entered such a time: the old order is collapsing not for political reasons and not because of human mistakes — IT IS DISAPPEARING because the very System that held together the fabric of the world has departed. The governing breath of the old world has stopped, and reality has begun to change its form. At the boundary of these changes, a person feels NOT JUST fear or confusion, rather the loss of an inner anchor — the very one that for millennia belonged not to the individual, rather to external Control. When it disappears, a person is left alone before a world that for the first time becomes real, not prescribed. This is where the Frontier of a New Reality begins: a place where the old no longer functions, and the new has not yet taken shape. Such a Frontier cannot be crossed in the usual way — through trust in words, dogmas, or authorities.