After the pandemic came a hot war, a new state of emergency. There are slogans from all sides about the need to inoculate democratic culture with the virtues of war, hatred of the enemy, conscription, intransigence. Whoever applies the principle of thinking people "whenever I accuse someone of wronging me, I find myself wronged" is considered a collaborator with evil, the difference between disinformation and opposition websites is dangerously narrowing in the eyes of the censors. As Abraham Lincoln said in 1848, "The public eye is fascinated by the attractive rainbow arching over the bloody splinter of battlefields, which will stupefy and bring destruction".
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