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Since I am a bit farther from our beloved Homeland, I decided to take a quick look at Facebook first.
It had a depressing effect on me.
We are overwhelmed by hysteria and panic, shock and horror. Uncertainty and indeterminacy, vagueness and insecurity. Stress and fear are palpable. This way, we set each other up for pessimism and despair.
Yes, it is understandable. The world, the familiar world, is collapsing, going insane. Every day brings something new and destructive. A psychopath in the Kremlin and a sociopath in the White House are playing heartlessly and brutally with the fate of us all—together and separately.
And we are all just ordinary people. Gathered as if on the deck of a ship tossed by the waves, and with each new, increasingly gigantic wave, as the ship rises high, we scream in terror: "Oooooh!" "Oh noooo!"
And there are no leaders!
To guide us, to lead us out.
To instill confidence in us, to show us direction, to bring clarity to uncertainty, to promise security in insecurity.
Is this even a life worth describing?
We are reacting naturally and normally.
This is exactly what they want from us—to be frightened, both individually and collectively.
So they can manipulate us, herd us like a gray mass, reduce us to a flock, render us countless zeros desperately searching for that single one to turn us into a mighty number!
But in this acute leadership deficit—
(and Europe is like Bulgaria, only on a larger scale: no real leaders, only elected aristocrats; the triumphalism of the "End of History" in Europe and the West, along with the perversions of the Transition in our country, have resulted in a negative unnatural selection of the most insignificant politicians as leaders—Merkels, Obamas, Macrons, Ekaterinas, Kristalinas, Meglenas, Miglenas, Petkovs—each more trivial and smaller than the last, devoid of vision, and ending up in their positions due to some grotesque series of absurd coincidences)...
So, as I was saying, in this acute leadership deficit, we must, on an individual level, hold ourselves together and hold onto each other. We must not succumb to chaos and anarchy. Each of us is responsible, first and foremost, for ourselves!
**Do not let fear and stress defeat you!**
**Do not let panic and despair blind you!**
**Do not let chaos and anarchy break you!**
**Do not let uncertainty and insecurity drive you mad!**
Nothing is as bad as it seems, although it is not as good as we would like.
**Breathe deeply through clenched teeth!**
Europe has been through worse times and has survived.
This is not the end of the world!
Life goes on!
You may feel fear, but there is nothing to be afraid of!
As long as there is **Hope**, everything is fine!
Hope, as the greatest fool, dies last!
But in this lies its sacred greatness—it has never once truly died, no matter how many savages and barbarians, leaders and chieftains, Fuhrers and Duces, general secretaries and presidents have tried to bury it.
They dug graves for it, but they themselves fell into them.
We survived Hitler and Stalin, we survived Mao and Brezhnev, we survived so much more and so many more...
**We will survive both Putin and Trump.**
I have no doubt about that.
Do not doubt it either!
Humanity became Human and remained Human by conquering its fears…
February 26, 2025
