Alexandr Korol

then — and many others thought the same — that maybe, since this immorality is being encouraged, since everyone’s so shameless, like those people who make prank videos... Imagine your mother or father walking down the street, and some two-meter-tall guy starts scaring them, making faces at them, following them. And they, poor thing, are genuinely frightened, and it’s all filmed and posted online. I look at that and I don’t understand how that’s even allowed. How everything got twisted. And I’m like, “Oh no, no.” And back then, when the demon-devil was tempting me, I thought, maybe I was wrong to be so well- mannered. Maybe I really should just say I’m great too. Only, unlike them, at least I’m not empty inside. And then I think, no, I’ll wait a bit longer. And this patience — it was just so deeply built into me — that I thought, I’ll wait one more year, maybe even two. And every year I would reflect and decide: I’ll wait another year, but I’m not ready to stoop to their level. I really wanted to start making videos, showing my life, vulgarizing everything, putting it all on display like everyone else, playing the game, gaining followers, being the cool guy, making friends with everyone. But every time, every year, I would stop myself and say to myself: I’m still willing to believe for another year. Something inside me still remains — this nobility, this upbringing — it still feels necessary. Even though everyone seems to have forgotten it. As if no one has a conscience anymore. Only shamelessness, immorality, vanity, thrill-seeking — that’s all there is. And it kept growing. Now it’s terrifying. Now it’s all bile, aimed at defiling and turning everything upside down. And then the result. And it turns out that when I didn’t give up and, in the Spirit, began to write “Alternative History,” all those volumes, I suddenly came to realize that chaos is exactly what is happening in the world right now with people. That all this corruption is happening on purpose, that this is the Judgment Day. And that only people who are pure, with pure hearts, have not fallen under that influence, and they quietly live in their little worlds, needing no one, not putting their lives on display. And I clearly saw the future of that group of people — and the other. And I saw how all those people will end up in hell. Those who behave like that now. All those who think they’re getting away with everything have started acting this way, earning easy money while being no one and deceiving everyone. How did I start noticing it? I myself even came under that influence at times. So what is intelligence and nobility? And what is this corruption? Corruption is when you wear an oversized sweatshirt,