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[Alexandr Korol]

these human layers of knowledge. How can I explain this? They say a person is intelligent. But what does intelligent mean? Is an intelligent person someone who has ten degrees but can’t communicate with others and sits at home? Or is an intelligent person the one who can earn a lot of money and is very adaptable to society, easily interacting with everyone? Or is an intelligent person someone else? Do you see? So, there are different layers of understanding of “intelligent.” If a person, perhaps, is intelligent and opened a network of banks, but is constantly in conflict with people, and then one day gets hit on the head and the banker is gone, then maybe he wasn’t that intelligent, right? Or he was intelligent in his banking system, but when it comes to interacting with society, he wasn’t as smart. And still, one has to be wise in that domain, I would say. Wisdom is multi-layered, and intelligence, cleverness, and wisdom all overlap.

Returning to the topic of New York and material development, when I first appeared, I had this knowledge within me, but it felt like I lacked practice. I needed practice. It was as if social and material adaptation were necessary for me, because after all the power places in 2010 and all the miracles that occurred until 2011, they then came to an end. They were partial, but essentially, for almost 10 years, I wandered in the social-material world, as if these higher forces had thrown me into this world of people. Although I was in some magical, otherworldly realm, they tossed me out of the otherworldly world and threw me into the social-material one. For me, it felt like a past century, like an era gone by, like something old – that’s how I perceived it. Because the value system of people, all their relationships with each other... Imagine, a person can love someone because they gave them an iPhone. Or a person can hold a grudge for life, stop talking to someone because that person accidentally broke their iPhone. When you look at this interaction between people and society, you are horrified if you look at it from my perspective. And this had troubled me since childhood, which is why I kept a journal, because people had values that were completely different from mine. Completely different, too earthly, too superficial. And I understood from within that my “software” was different, but I understood that I still had to experience this for myself, to learn it in practice. I needed to buy something, break something, experience the moment when someone broke or lost or stole your possession.