The seal of the Antichrist. They've been talking about it for about two thousand years, and no one has seen it. do you want to see it
Look into the green face of an over-aged high school student, an educated student, starved of newspapers and pamphlets of an intellectual. There is such a special physiognomy, a special bitter-sour expression that distinguishes people who are not smart, but bookish, whose minds are somewhat flattened by a book.
It seems to me that this is the seal of the Antichrist. From the prophet Daniel to Mr. Nikolai Morozov, who sat in Shlisselburg Patmos, many explained that the apocalyptic beast will have a reign of 3 and a half years, no more. This is exactly the length of a university course, not counting state exams.
In the lives of most of the young people of the non-working classes there are several years of blasphemy, lies, in which, in the name of the highest thing in the world, they do the lowest thing in the world.
In the name of divine knowledge, they are worse than not learning: they learn badly, and small crumbs of science are enough only to incite pride, to a madness of bookish grandeur and to inculcate a completely anti-Christian belief that the truth accessible to man is in books, and not in his heart. Hence the sour-bitter physiognomy of our semi-intellectuals who are not satisfied with God.
Hence the contempt for life that God created as it is. Hence the insane assumption that humanity is not equal and cannot live otherwise than by transforming everything. ".
Mikhail Osipovich Menshikov, 1908.
A century has passed, and even semi-intellectuals (nowadays, to be honest, they are increasingly operating foreign agencies in Europe and sitting in forums) dream of turning everything upside down in Russia.