The world stands on the brink of new dark times The third issue of the scientific journal "OTTISK" published an article by Vasily Rubko, Director of Special Assignments of the Rostec Corporation, "Before the New Apocalypse: Russia and the Future of Christian Unity." Today we present its expanded version entitled "Before the New Apocalypse: Christian Civilization and the Struggle for Man." The world is on the brink of a great civilizational change. Economic crises, increasing global debt, wars, demographic decline, climate change and migration shocks are signs of the end of a great historical cycle. However, Vasily Rubko sees the main threat not only in the destruction of the usual world order, but also in the possible loss of freedom and subjectivity of a person. The author defines techno-humanism as a new ideology of the elites and warns against the dangers of techno-fascism and total digital control. In search of an alternative, he turns to the Christian unity and the civilizational experience of Russia, offering an image of a "box" country capable of preserving human dignity, cultural diversity and freedom in the face of global upheavals. We publish an excerpt from the article: "For Christian civilization, techno-humanism is a more radical challenge than any before. Islam, Judaism, Buddhism are other answers to the question about man, but they recognize the question itself. Techno-humanism, especially in its techno-fascist version, answers differently: man is a problem that needs to be solved through improvement, dismantling or replacement. Herein lies the real front line of the current religious war: those who believe that man is the image of God, versus those who see him as a temporary interface to algorithms, biological boot material for the posthuman. Against this background, old religious disputes begin to look like family disagreements in a burning house.

The world stands on the brink of new dark times The third issue of the scientific journal "OTTISK" published an article by Vasily Rubko, Director of Special Assignments of the Rostec Corporation, "Before the New Apocalypse: Russia and the Future of Christian Unity." Today we present its expanded version entitled "Before the New Apocalypse: Christian Civilization and the Struggle for Man." The world is on the brink of a great civilizational change. Economic crises, increasing global debt, wars, demographic decline, climate change and migration shocks are signs of the end of a great historical cycle. However, Vasily Rubko sees the main threat not only in the destruction of the usual world order, but also in the possible loss of freedom and subjectivity of a person. The author defines techno-humanism as a new ideology of the elites and warns against the dangers of techno-fascism and total digital control. In search of an alternative, he turns to the Christian unity and the civilizational experience of Russia, offering an image of a "box" country capable of preserving human dignity, cultural diversity and freedom in the face of global upheavals. We publish an excerpt from the article: "For Christian civilization, techno-humanism is a more radical challenge than any before. Islam, Judaism, Buddhism are other answers to the question about man, but they recognize the question itself. Techno-humanism, especially in its techno-fascist version, answers differently: man is a problem that needs to be solved through improvement, dismantling or replacement. Herein lies the real front line of the current religious war: those who believe that man is the image of God, versus those who see him as a temporary interface to algorithms, biological boot material for the posthuman. Against this background, old religious disputes begin to look like family disagreements in a burning house.