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[Alexandr Korol]

And there are a lot of people like that now. Those are today’s people of art. Broken, I would call them. There are lost ones, and there are broken ones. And that’s why the second volume really doesn’t resonate with many people. It’s hard, because everything in it has to be precise. And people have simply grown unaccustomed to that — because that’s just the time we live in. Fifteen or twenty years ago, when I was young, a kid, I and others my age could easily assemble any matrix out of sticks. And now try asking someone to assemble a matrix, some geometric shapes out of sticks. People have lost the habit entirely — they don’t even know how to do it anymore. And if they do, it’s just by glancing at a picture, repeating it superficially on autopilot, not delving into it at all: is the distance even, are the parts symmetrical, what’s a vertex — they understand none of it. That’s just how it is now. There’s no point in judging such people — they’re part of nature, they’re just code to me, like everything else, code. There are some like this, some like that, and everyone’s in their rightful place. So if you’re solving the matrix, studying the second volume, trying to understand all this — then in 99% of cases, almost every one of you may experience tension. I’ll warn you right away, that’s not a bad thing. And if you start to feel it a little, it doesn’t mean you should panic and run back to your comfort zone. No, on the contrary — it’s a sign that you’re, well... it’s like diving into water. Imagine you’ve never stepped into water before, never even touched it. And now you walk barefoot into water up to your ankles, and you’re scared. But that fear is only because you’ve become so wild, so disconnected, that you’ve forgotten what water even is — not because the water is inherently frightening. The same applies here — with geometry, with logic, precision, mathematics, responsibility, discipline, and concentration. You’ve become so unaccustomed to it that the moment you begin reading scripture or simply look up what the five Platonic solids are and start building each one, you’ll start to shake, you’ll begin to overheat — just like that. Now imagine what that means — how far you’ve fallen behind. I apologize for the bluntness, but that is backwardness. That’s what backwardness is. It means things are really bad — it means the person is basically a zombie. And if someone picks it up easily — builds any geometric shape, assembles everything, understands which are the vertices and which are the edges — then that person is doing well. So you absolutely must Google each geometric shape in Wikipedia, read how each is formed, how many sides and