Minchev, Musk and Michelangelo | Diary

One Lord sits at the corner of Venelin and Levski. No, it’s not the angle of the leather sofa in the Basil Holoard’s studio and the Lord is not Lord Henry. The angle of the sidewalk is. And it is Lord Minchev.

Promises of reductions are glowing behind him, and just above his head, an advertising of some grill, a healthy eating grill, such as the inscription « Oh, that oily! » It is cleverly scratched. One kind – the end of the fatty, the oily era is over.

When you see an unknown person drunk on the sidewalk, you are faced with choice. The choice should be the same when the person is known – you will either help or pass. But today, thanks to smart phones and simple people, there is already a third option – to go and shoot the fallen for likes, as if you were choosing an animal for comparison: a dog on the road, a monkey at the zoo, a bear of the shinger? The groove catroll?

Oh, that oily.

To work with a hassle of your own wish

If there is a more projected lot than being a yellow reporter, it is to be a self-styled yellow reporter. Because it means that it is not the circumstances that they threw you into the void, but you have chosen it yourself. You work for your own will. And what to do, you go around and write down, hoping to get something nasty – someone with a familiar face has fallen, and hopefully, God forbid he has been getting drunk and cannot walk. And if he can’t talk, you should ask him nonsense. So « Create Content », Demek You Enroll How to Kibic and Troll.

Passive contemplation has never been so imbued with vulgarity, as today – precisely because it is too complainant, it is too ambitious. Bonnie the Chryban in 2025 will not rush to lift Sivushka’s head, but will upload a livestrary how she reacts to her wyrl dying. From the mouth of the cow will drip foam, its hungry hips will toss strongly, and Bonn will keep track of what Engagement his post is. Still, he « created content ». Please Like, Share and Subscribe – it’s inevitable somehow. We can hurry up and say that it has become the norm, but it is actually worse. It has become instinct. And he is already displacing other, basic instincts.

It is good for everyone to become a media, but should it always be yellow?

And our politicians, who otherwise complain about the media, do not stop to measure each other with records. Audio recordings, videos, secret records, apparent records – constantly someone records and makes a career from talking about foreign conversations.

Dislike is not a reason to give up on humanity

Evgeni Minchev himself made a career that he was talking about foreign conversations, mastering the art of writing yourself more consistently somewhere than you really attended, turned a peripheral existence into the center of the event – always and everywhere. This requires craftsmanship, it is not easy to write mythology every day for yourself. I say it without irony, or so I think – because it is objectively true, I have always ironed it. We all made fun of the title, for example – not so much to buy it, but on the motivation for the purchase. Why would you do this, why is it important for you to call yourself a Lord?

But a wonderful thing – on this Sofia evening on the corner of « Venelin » and « Levski », the fallen on the sidewalk Evgeni became Lord really. For a little while, but it happened. At that brief moment he was a Lord because the inevitable did so. And all who sing the choir on social networks that « he likes Minchev! », Lord they also do. Humanity should not affect the dignity of man. It is a personal job, not public. The only thing that can hit your dignity is to lose it yourself.

True, the Lord ruined everything the next day, announcing that it was « staged » (which?), And the next one was compared to Jesus Christ. Heart did not give him what everyone saw – and he was the right in the situation, though he fell. There is a frivolous attitude to the truth enshrined in the public image of Evgeni Minchev, which cannot be interpreted unequivocally. Sometimes it is playing and the Lord plays the role of a trickster. Then it’s fun, you say to yourself – he is lying and smeared, not because he expects to believe him, but to make his life in interest more interesting. Let it.

But sometimes this attitude towards truth pursues very real benefits and material goals, even political goals … and already looks like cynicism. In my opinion, the Lord is aware of him from time to time and becomes sad, but he does not want to see. So, these are just some of my assumptions. The important thing is that the disagreement with Evgeni Minchev and the dislike of Evgeni Minchev are no reasons to be collectively abandoned by the most elemental humanity.

Empathy as « weakness » and « strong » against the « good »

What happened to empathy, where did she swear? Recently, it has suffered defeat after defeat. Will she catch her inevitable on a kyoshe to record her?

A little north of Venelin and Levski is the Rectorate. There, smart people would argue smart about the subtle differences and conceptual sliding between words such as « empathy », « sympathy », « empathy » and « compassion ».

No matter which word we choose, we will have to admit that the very idea of ​​being complained, to comply with someone is subjected to a fierce attack today. Suddenly a consensus came out that this job was for weaknesses. The strong does not comply – an old idea, but a fresh cover version.

The Trumpists and Putinists, to whom Lord Minchev is an adherent, share the same thesis especially noisy – especially to think of them as part of the team of the « strong », not to take someone to confuse them with the liberal weaknesses. The liberals, for their part, have shuddered completely and have turned empathy into sports – if we are very strained, we will become world empathy champions! Not that we will really help, no – but we will be in permanent condition of concern and so we will show that we are from the team of the « good ». The « strong » against the « good », this is the derby and everyone is obliged to shout for someone.

The hallmark of our civilization

But then you watch other news comes the richest person on the planet to tell you that empathy is the weakness of the West. And no one tells him that on the contrary, empathy is the building of the West and the hallmark of this civilization.

No one reminds him that there are hospitals in the world precisely because of Christian compassion raised to a public basis.

An immense power is embedded in this « weakness », in the ability to suffer for another. The whole meaning of Western civilization is behind a protective glass in the Basilica of St. Peter. Michelangelo’s « Piet » says everything about the topic without the excess of speech (however, here’s another word from the same family – Pieta). He says it through the game with proportions and scale – how little the body of Christ looks in the hands of the Virgin! And this is the body of a mature man.

Compassion is a sigh of

Often in other « pieces » he is kept by several people. It does not look hurt, because we see it not through our eyes, but through those of the Virgin Mary. Let’s look at her face too – she is a young girl here. It was as if at the age she was when she gave birth to the Savior. Michelangelo tells us that at this moment the most severe but pure sorrow, Jesus removed from the cross is her child again, and she is again his young mother and has the power to keep him.

But here you are pushing on another link and someone talks to you about the strong leaders and about Realpolitik. He gestures virtuously. He explains something about the geopolitical chessboard, nothing that Buckel does not understand our chess or geopolitics.

Then you press another link. At the corner of « Venelin » and « Levski » comes the inevitable. And it creates content.