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[Alexandr Korol]

thinking only of them – that’s the dark world. It has grown significantly through the internet and social media. The dark world is about the corruption and temptation of everyone, showing off everything and spreading oneself thin, putting everything on display, and intertwining lives in a showy manner. Everyone constantly wants to show off their child, their food, and so on – this is already the dark world. That’s how it is. And what else?
If we talk more about the material world, in its most proper form and its boundaries... In such a world, if a family is interested in textiles, they engage in that interest, interacting with people who share it. For example, they might meet with someone in Italy, discuss a factory, or consider producing their own fabrics. In their free time, they might read books, such as Russian classics. Everything is okay. This represents a proper material world.
But the wrong material world, the sinful one, is when you start meeting new people endlessly, and you travel to Italy just to show on social media that you have money or the ability to be in Italy. Instead of appreciating the person you met in Italy at the factory for making fabric, you immediately post about them online to boast. And you’re arrogant and showy everywhere – that’s the dark realm. When you show off or admire those restaurants. A respectable family would never post about going to a restaurant. Nowadays, people even hire someone to film their family as they go out to eat. It’s filthy. It’s over the top. It’s like in the film “Exodus: Kings and Gods”, when Moses said, “Why are you behaving like a king when you are not one?” while the man is dressed up and eating. That’s it. So, I’ll say that material people of the mind and in the material world are, first and foremost, very modest and very decent. One must not forget what decency means. You should dress like the children of the royal family used to: a shirt, a vest, some trousers, a nice hairstyle, glasses, and off you go. And a girl should also be dressed in some nice shoes and a dress. Just in a modern style, no need for long hair or fake nails. It should be some restrained classic. This restrained classic is the norm for a decent, proper material world. Well, you see, the material world is such a restrained classic one, but what you might confuse is not the dark world and the material world. You might actually confuse the world of instincts, the dark world, with the world of the heart. Let me explain why. Because right now, I’m sure some of you might be wondering, “How come I can’t wear a leather jacket and look like some vampire from a vampire movie?” And some of you might think, “So this means instincts if you’ve deviated from the classic material world.” But I’ll say, “I haven’t deviated towards instincts,