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December 21 is the quietest day of the year.

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December 21, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Christmas slows things down — just enough to think.

An ancient festival.
Temporary freedom.
Carefully scheduled equality.

Two thousand years later, the system still works.
Only better optimized.
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December 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Moscow, 1986. We knew nothing in the dormitory while the city prepared for May Day. The truth arrived later — on the cover of a foreign magazine.
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April 26, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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💼 Employed in Illusion
Work never ends — it just logs off for maintenance.
Read the new satire from Illusions Not Included,
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November 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Today marks the publication anniversary of Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams.
In 2025, dreams no longer come from within.

The Interpretation of Dreams 2.0 —
a short dystopian satire, available on Patreon.
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December 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🪞 Quote Without Illusions
The Press Office of Greatness…
These days, greatness often survives right up to the moment responsibility appears.
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The Press Office of Greatness…
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
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April 20, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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Calm used to be free. Now we pay for quiet rooms, private retreats and, at the premium end, even poor mobile reception.
Calm Has Become a Luxury Item — new on INOTI.
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Calm Has Become a Luxury Item
There was a time when silence was simply what remained when nobody was making noise. Now it has become a service category. We pay extra for quiet rooms, quiet…
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September 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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The Road…
In 1968, I was almost three. I remember an old Tatra, a road, and military vehicles.
The meaning came later.
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The Road…
August 20–21, 1968 — the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and a childhood memory whose meaning came later
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August 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Calm used to be free. Now we pay for quiet rooms, private retreats and, at the premium end, even poor mobile reception.
Calm Has Become a Luxury Item — new on INOTI.
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Calm Has Become a Luxury Item
There was a time when silence was simply what remained when nobody was making noise. Now it has become a service category. We pay extra for quiet rooms, quiet…
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September 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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A personal reflection on The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco — memory, time, and the books that wait for us.
New essay in Between the Lines – Book Picks, now available to all my Patreon members.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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On July 14, 1933, Germany became a one-party state through a law. Dictatorship does not always break down the door; sometimes it arrives as order, efficiency, and national unity.
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The Law Left No Room for Debate…
July 14, 1933 — the day political pluralism received its death certificate
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July 14, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Wrinkles are natural. Shame is a business model — and the renewal notice arrives every morning.
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The Mirror’s Business Plan…
“Wrinkles are natural.
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July 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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Culture has not died.
It is just trying to survive as a vertical video.
A short reflection on screens, shrinking attention, dancing cats — and the small bright rectangle replacing the human face.
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The Culture That Now Only Fits Vertically…
“Culture is still important today — especially if it can be absorbed in three seconds, consumed vertically, and demands nothing as old-fashioned as attention.”
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June 11, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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A Christmas Carol 2.0

This is not a story about redemption.
It’s about what happens when the present works too well to be questioned.

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December 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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🥂 I raise my glass to the memory of Monsieur Diderot — the man who proved that reason can be seductive and curiosity, revolutionary.
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October 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🪞 Quote Without Illusions
Sometimes the unreasonable request is simply this: that something good arrive looking good. Not later. Not after the damage. The link to the full piece is in the comments.
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The Blessing, If It Could Ever Arrive Without a Disguise…
“What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.”
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May 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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Quote Without Illusions
Attention as a rare luxury…
Real listening is rare now. A 50+ man at a rainy bus stop watches a couple actually talk—just presence, no performance.
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Attention as a rare luxury…
“I like to listen.
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March 27, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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Today we celebrate Cervantes’ birthday – the man who gave us Don Quixote and the eternal fight with windmills.

👉 Giants, Windmills, and Illusions
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September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Everything is green now.
Responsible. Carbon-neutral. Perfectly reported.
Emissions keep rising, but the charts look comforting.
Sustainability became a design feature.
ESG a modern magic word.

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December 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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The market does not ask whether the world is suffering.
It only asks whether the suffering has already been priced in.
War. Panic. Collapse.
Eventually, everything becomes a chart.
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Suffering, Once It Finally Became Marketable…
“The market does not ask whether the world is suffering.
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June 10, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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What if Lolita were no longer a scandal, but a format?
Lolita 2.0 looks at a world where realism masks calculation, intimacy becomes negotiation, and the public no longer judges — it scrolls.
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March 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Dogs still believe in us.
Cats have reviewed the evidence.
Today’s Quote Without Illusions is about cats, dogs, love, self-knowledge — and the staff who still call themselves owners.
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The Staff Who Still Imagine Themselves the Owners…
“Cats know perfectly well that human beings are merely staff.”
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June 13, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Remembering the birth of Czechoslovakia — a nation that once believed reason and dialogue could reshape history.
Available today to all Patreon members.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Jan Jesenius — a physician and philosopher who learned that speaking truth publicly has consequences.

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December 27, 2025 at 11:54 AM