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[Alexandr Korol]

are connected to this darkness, and this darkness is currently in control. And I feel as if I am the only one fighting against all of it. Alone. I start recalling and drawing analogies, remembering what I had feared most since childhood. I was always afraid of losing the fire inside me — I always wrote about this. I wrote about how I saw people falter, shut down, change — something happened to them. Someone could be kind and sincere, and then suddenly, overnight, they became a heartless, soulless devil, and I never understood why. Ten years ago, this phenomenon was barely noticeable, insignificant, yet even then, I was shouting about it through my books, warning, “What’s happening? Help, save us! Do you see this?” And no one saw it. No one understood. And what has happened now? Now, it has progressed so much that I have no readers left, no friends left — everyone has crossed over to the dark side. And it’s such a cunning illusion that all these people are convinced they are right, that they are doing everything correctly. They don’t see the truth at all; they see nothing, they hear nothing, and they can’t even read my books anymore. And I just realize that I feel like I’m in “I Am Legend” with Will Smith — as if I’m the only one left, surrounded by zombies, and the only one I can talk to is a dog. Okay, of course, I’m exaggerating. There’s still Big Alexander, Valentina, and the Mystic-Old- Man. There are also close friends and relatives who haven’t fallen under this influence, which is very important. But all the rest are gone. Even now, as I try to summarize my books in a condensed form, I’m actually — excuse me — I’m doing this for the lost, for the missing “zombie-people.” This is like a last cry from my soul, a final hope that maybe someone will wake up and come to their senses. Almost the entire world has been zombified. Well, not the entire world — mathematically speaking, it’s actually less than 50% of people under this influence. But it feels like the entire world. Why? Because the percentage that has been captured by this dark force is exactly the group that dominates social media — it’s people from all over the world who are deeply embedded in social networks. And this dark force is now controlling the world through social media and the internet. That’s how it works. But this isn’t the entire Earth. In reality, figuratively speaking, 60-70-80% of people are still bright, kind, and pure. Truly. They’re just invisible because they are the ones who reject social media. But those who are spoiled by social networks — the bloggers, their imitators, the trends, the brands — all of this, the propaganda of immorality, what recently