Feodor Shkrudnev

Reality is not given to us as a fact. It is not located outside in order to be measured, nor is it enclosed within in order to be invented. It is the measure of the possible. And therefore, an illusion, once fixed by the Mind, becomes reality, while reality, having lost the boundaries of fixation, turns into illusion. That which is not perceived DOES NOT DISAPPEAR. It simply waits — like a seed in frozen soil waiting for spring. We stand before a threshold beyond which familiar foundations lose their power.

We live in a world where external differences constantly strive to become internal limitations. This is how society, upbringing, and culture are structured — however, this is not how the human being is structured. The previous article in this series was devoted to exposing one of the most persistent myths — the idea of inequality as a natural, biologically predetermined, and socially fixed difference. That inequality, in its essence, is more often not truth, it is deception, implanted into consciousness — especially into the consciousness of women — as a means of self-limitation, self-ignorance, and refusal of the path toward one’s own becoming. However, this deception DOES NOT END HERE. Where a difference was once imposed, there begins not merely a problem, but a road. A road along which everyone can choose: whether to move toward justifying one’s weakness — or toward becoming a Human Being. And this choice does not depend on gender, age, social status, or education. It depends on the DEGREE OF AWARENESS, on the readiness to overcome inner falsehood, cultural illusions, and one’s own laziness.

Sometimes you just want to talk — not to argue, not to prove anything, not to lecture, but to say out loud what has long been living inside you; this article is exactly that kind of conversation. What if everything you were taught about the difference between men and women is a lie — not an obvious one, rather a carefully embedded one, woven into upbringing, traditions, science, culture, and language, a lie from which something resembling truth was gradually molded? From early childhood, WE ARE GIVEN ready-made answers to questions we never even get the chance to ask: who is stronger, who is more important, who must, who has the right, who is obligated? We live in a world where role matters more than essence, where behavior matters more than understanding, where the substitution of meaning has become the foundation of everyday life, family, and the very way we look at a human being.

The world is crossing a threshold. Not according to the calendar, not by decree, rather according to a profound law of the changing of Eras, when the very air of reality changes, like a shift in the phase of matter. What is happening cannot be reversed, because the conditions that made it possible have already changed. A different climate is arriving – NOT METEOROLOGICAL, rather a civilizational, energy- informational one. And in this new climate, the old forms of life — whether states, ideologies, or systems of governance — lose their vital advantage, just as the dinosaurs lost theirs when the tropics were taken away from them. The transition from old to new does not begin with slogans or revolutions. It begins with an INVISIBLE CORRECTION of the surrounding reality, with a change in energy and frequency conditions, against the backdrop of which not only bodies, but also the human brain and consciousness, begin to restructure.

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.