Now, Look Here! - Title, Contents, Foreword

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====>*_NOW, LOOK HERE!_*
===>*_(Publicistics -- Part 1)_*
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-->[ There is no idea about the cover, because in this book are gathered great variety of different journalistic materials, it is not a work of fiction, and such books are usually not illustrated. ]
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==>*_Copyright  Chris MYRSKI,  2001 – 2017_*
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===>*_CONTENTS (of the whole book/*)_*
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-->[ * Here the whole book is divided in 4 Books or parts and has 9 chapters or E-books, where the papers are 69. ]
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-->*_In the first Part_*:
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-->Foreword
-->°°°[ Introduction (2001) ]
-->I. For Journals
-->°°°[ These are more serious materials, yet the division is not strict. ]
-->°°°Essay on the common sense
-->°°°°°°[ This is mine first publicistic material in the spirit of perestroika which is left here with retrospective purpose. (1989) ]
-->°°°About the turn to the left
-->°°°°°°[ This paper explains popularly the idea of the swinging of pendulum applied in the sphere of political orientation of a given country. (1995 ?) ]
-->°°°How much has to win a company in order to have /_no_/ gain?
-->°°°°°°[ This paper proves the murderous impact of high inflation (in its time) over Bulgarian small companies. (1996) ]
-->°°°Our people again hoarded goods by higher prices
-->°°°°°°[ The paper contains judgements about the market on the example of Bulgaria from the end of last century. (1996) ]
-->°°°Too good is not good!
-->°°°°°°[ The paper looks at the drawbacks of our botched (as everything by us) introduction of Money Board in the very end of last century; many of them were settled with the time, but nevertheless it is still actual. (1997) ]
-->°°°Are we free, or on the contrary?
-->°°°°°°[ This material is dedicated to the enslavement of Bulgarian people /_with the coming of democracy_/, or more precisely: is it so, why, and is there a way out of the situation (1997) ]
-->°°°Political gratitude
-->°°°°°°[ This is sharp criticism of Bulgarian UDF, Union of Democratic Forces, as chief political cause for the botched transition to democracy. (1998) ]
-->°°°Neo-Malthusianism, or rational judgment
-->°°°°°°[ This paper throws new light on neo-Malthusianism, and looks more close on the question with overpopulation and how to fight with it. (1998) ]
-->°°°Myths about democracy
-->°°°°°°[ This paper lays bare a /_dozen_/ of widely used myths about democracy and, with this, is useful practically for everybody, but some things duplicate other materials of the author. (1998) ]
-->°°°About the ownership and its future
-->°°°°°°[ This paper take unprejudiced, although from left-wing positions, view on the question with property used for exploitation of labour of the others, as well also the necessary measures which have to be taken in order to reach in the future some /_reasonable_/ solution of this main economical problem of the society. (2001) ]
-->°°°Just /_in_/justice
-->°°°°°°[ This material discusses many drawbacks of the system of justice, together with two concrete scientifically motivated (according to the author) propositions: 1) about /_unification of assessment of damages and guilt_/, and 2) one entirely new idea for /_personal modification of punishments_/. The goal is to have objective, simplified and rightful justice. The material is intended first of all for the thoughtful masses, because the jurists alone will not want to cut the branch on which they are sitting. (2001) ]
-->°°°In ovo e veritas
-->°°°°°°[ The paper evolves one original idea about using of the … /_egg_/ as universal money unit! There are given concrete tables for Bulgaria for several years, as well also many comments about out economical paradoxes. The idea is quite original to make the material interesting for everybody. (2001 /2008) ]
-->°°°Oh, 'manci, 'manci –pation!
-->°°°°°°[ The paper discusses a variety of drawbacks of unnecessary movement for emancipation of the women, pointing by this at a big number of /_unwished_/ by the women consequences of this current foolishness of the half of humanity. (2002) ]
-->°°°What we want to tell the world?
-->°°°°°°[ This is quite critical paper, which takes in focus Bulgarian symbols, the spirit of the Bulgarian, and a heap of not rightly understood ideas from our newest history. It is written from the standpoint of a thoughtful person, and because the behaviour of the nations as whole is wide away from the reasonable, then this material may look to some readers as pretty daring and insolent, but many of the judgements exceed the national borders and are applicable also to other nations. (2003) ]
-->°°°In Bulgaria everything is quiet
-->°°°°°°[ This paper is of the /_new_/ ones and observes the political situation in Bulgaria in the end of 2012, which year was characterized with long-lasting lethargy. It is analyzed the stabilization in political life, the centrists parties, the left-wing ones, the leading then right-wing party, and what we have to do (but we don't do it) in order to better the things. (2012) ]
-->°°°Political parties in Bulgaria
-->°°°°°°[ This is my analysis of political parties in Bulgaria in the year 2012. ]
-->°°°About the degradation of morality
-->°°°°°°[ This paper discusses, yet from general or philosophical point of view, the quite painful for more older people question about the degradation of morality, is it so, really, why it has happened so, to what this leads, and what can be expected in the future. (2012) ]
-->°°°Is it possible moderate communism in Bulgaria?
-->°°°°°°[ Here is explained my viewpoint at the moderate communism, backed up by some rough calculations for Bulgaria. In the beginning is talked about what is this, then what kind of money are necessary for the purpose, and at the end is how this can be realized. (2012) ]
-->°°°Essay on the common sense -- II
-->°°°°°°[ This becomes my last publisictic material in this section, which makes complete revision of my first perestroika-stile material, only that this time it goes about the democratic society. The necessity of this material has ripened because the democracy, as a matter of fact, is based on the lack of common sense by the people (with what I do /_not_/ stand that it is badly based, yet it is good to remind also the true situation). (2015) ]
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-->II. For Newspapers
-->°°°[ These are as if more palatable for the common readers materials, which /_can_/ be met -- yet usually are not -- in newspapers. ]
-->°°°The truth about Bulgaria
-->°°°°°°[ This piece declares quite succinct the truth about Bulgaria, citing five arguments in support of the thesis. (1994) ]
-->°°°About the market and the Bulgarian
-->°°°°°°[ Here are explained popularly several important peculiarities of the free market, which, as it turns, are not quite clear to the Bulgarians (at least at the dawn of market economy, but nowadays, too). (1994 /1998) ]
-->°°°Five years of devastation
-->°°°°°°[ The material resumes the mournful result of first five years on the way to democracy in Bulgaria, related only with destroying of the old but without creating of whatever new. (1994) ]
-->°°°Do you want to lose your 13th pension?
-->°°°°°°[ This material illustrates some simple methods for /_dividing of monetary investments_/ in several banks with the purpose for receiving  of higher interests in conditions of high inflation; it is true that the prices are now pretty old and originate from Bulgaria, yet it is possible to get some orientation if one wishes, because the ideas remain just the same. (1995 ?) ]
-->°°°Time to draw conclusions
-->°°°°°°[ Here is treated the question of the importance of having a center in the political life in Bulgaria and about its lack by us, in 1996, as well also nowadays. (1996 ?) ]
-->°°°About the elections and the demos
-->°°°°°°[ This material is dedicated to the unreasonability of democratic choice, is it so, and how to cope with it. In other words, could there exist "reasonability in the unreasonability", and in what this is expressed? (1996) ]
-->°°°Requiem for one coalition
-->°°°°°°[ This is requiem for the notorious Bulgarian Union of Democratic Forces, UDF, which now more then a dozen of years exists only in order to remind the Bulgarians about our hasty, incompetent, and botched transition to democracy, thanks to which we are standing more than 20 years now in the tail, regarding the living standard, from all former socialist countries. It is pretty old, but if the things are observed from a reasonable standpoint, how I think that approach the matters as a rule, the things don't grow old. (1996 ?) ]
-->°°°Something more about democracy
-->°°°°°°[ Here it goes about the inefficiency of democracy, when it came to power, about the dictatorial moments in it, about movement to the right or the left, and other questions. These are still old things, but under similar circumstances they will again turn actual. (1996) ]
-->°°°What we have messed with the Currency Board
-->°°°°°°[ The object of discussion here is clear. The material is again old and many things have now settled themselves, but this does not mean that I was not right in whatever in those times, and generally. (1998) ]
-->°°°Convergence, what is this?
-->°°°°°°[ This material is dedicated to much acclaimed in its time theory about convergence of capitalism with the communism, which, in principle, turned to be right, yet with some peculiar moments, and my view, as usually, is new and untraditional (i.e. it does not fully correspond to either one of the former extremities). (1998) ]
-->°°°Why the communism has fallen down?
-->°°°°°°[ Here we approach the falling of socialism from an economic point of view, and more precisely in the sense of tying of the members of society in monetary aspect, via savings and loans. (1998) ]
-->°°°And where are we?
-->°°°°°°[ Here is given one comparison from the year 1998 about the economic and other situation in Bulgaria (according data from foreign journals, yet in my parsing), with other ex-communist countries, that is up to date even nowadays, when we are the poorest of all in the United Europe. (1998) ]
-->°°°Predictions for the year 1999
-->°°°°°°[ This paper is a pre-New Year prognosis of the economic and political situation in Bulgaria on the eve of the last century. Like the majority of my things it is actual in broad lines to this day. (1998) ]
-->°°°Can the Bulgarian pay 50 % taxes?
-->°°°°°°[ This material takes in focus the question with the percentage of taxes in Bulgaria, which, although as usually around the world, but is not at all liked by us; the money have now become older, but the situation is the same, especially in connection with our poverty. (1999) ]
-->°°°Reflections on the eve of the "holiday"
-->°°°°°°[ This material is dedicated to the "traditional" for us day of homosexuals (2nd of Feb) and discusses questions related with them. (1999) ]
-->°°°About democracy and melioration
-->°°°°°°[ This material looks at some of the drawbacks of democracy based on the parallel with the treatment of soil, where will it be /_meglio_/ ('meljo', or /_migliore_/) in Italian, i.e.better, depends on the very nation. (1999) ]
-->°°°About democratic phenomenon
-->°°°°°°[ This is continuation of the previous material about the democracy, about the related with it delusions, and how we are to look at it. (1999) ]
-->°°°A step forward and two back
-->°°°°°°[ This paper discusses the introduction of Money Board in Bulgaria in its time and it is aged with more than a dozen of years; nonetheless the things stated there are on the whole actual. (1999) ]
-->°°°Again sharp turn
-->°°°°°°[ The material dwells on the coming to power more than a dozen of years ago of King's party in Bulgaria, though it has long since left the stage. (2001 ) ]
-->°°°Oh God, what we eat!
-->°°°°°°[ Here, as one can well guess, it goes about the unnatural food and how to fight with this. This now is a new material. (2012) ]
-->°°°Why the cocks crow early morning?
-->°°°°°°[ This material proposes some philosophical, etymological, and of other kind, /_un_/professional observations over the birds. (2012 ) ]
-->°°°Does global warming exist?
-->°°°°°°[ When I pose in this way the question, then to all appearance I doubt in this. My view, which I will express in this material, is in this, that there is not so much global warming, as is /_global stirring_/ of the weather. We shall see is it so, in what this is expressed, and what can be done in order to eliminate it, if we want this. (2012) ]
-->°°°The fatal 2013 year in Bulgaria
-->°°°°°°[ This material discusses political and economic situation in Bulgaria in the beginning of fatal 13th year. (2013) ]
-->°°°Why we vote, when we ... don't vote?
-->°°°°°°[ This paper is about this, who took part in the elections in Bulgaria in 2013 godu, who whom from the politicians likes or hates, and, generally, about this how the things turned out there. (2013) ]
-->°°°About the fascism from common sense positions
-->°°°°°°[ This is untraditional look at the contemporary fascism in Bulgaria, and everywhere, from the viewpoint of the reason, as well also about this how to oppose it. (2013) ]
-->°°°About the Social Ministry in Bulgaria
-->°°°°°°[ Here is discussed the question about necessity and the main functions of eventual Social Ministry in Bulgaria (as the poorest country in European Community) and is shown that the expressed here ideas can be used in whatever country. (2013) ]
-->°°°How to improve democratic protests?
-->°°°°°°[ This material takes in focus the question with our inability to correctly conduct democratic protests, so that the population was able to protest, and this helped the governing; there are proposed, naturally, also ways for solving of this very important question, that are valid for all countries. (2014) ]
-->°°°Read Chris Myrski (in the sense of political reviews)
-->°°°°°°[ This paper is dedicated to the political situation in Bulgaria in 2014 and the conducted then elections. There are made interesting and original conclusions, and in the end are given some expert rules for prognosticating of the political situation in Bulgaria, yet not only. (2014) ]
-->°°°Thoughts about Ukraine
-->°°°°°°[ This material is dedicated to the long-lasting confrontation of Ukraine and Russia, why this is bad, and what the Ukrainians have first of all to do. The approach is not typical, these are thoughts, based on the understanding of the situation by the author, yet is used also his sufficient experience in similar in many, chiefly economic, aspects in Bulgaria. (2014) ]
-->°°°Miscellaneous in the year 2016
-->°°°°°°[ Well, here are various things, as it is said, here it goes about the banks' interest rates and the world economic crisis, about cares for the health, also about the bad capitalism and how it can be bettered, especially in poor countries like Bulgaria, this is a new proposition (about communal taxes), and in the end are pictured some funny moments related with bus tickets used as … money equivalent, this in comic terms. (2016) ]
-->°°°Hundred years later (To The Centenary Of October Revolution)
-->°°°°°°[ This is my next, and this time last (at least here) apologetic of communism in my traditional, what means entirely /_un_/traditional style of reasonable and unprejudiced observation. The plan of narration is generally the following: about the Russian Revolution, about Lenin, about Stalin, about the communism, about its future, and some comic moments in the end about the spirit of communism. (2017) ]
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-->III. Feuilletons
-->°°°[ Here are things written as feuilletons, although sometimes they are not really funny. ]
-->°°°About the sunflower seeds and the people
-->°°°°°°[ This feuilleton deals with the influence of Bulgarian transition to democracy on the consummation of sunflower seeds by the population. (1992 /1995) ]
-->°°°The extremal solution
-->°°°°°°[ In this feuilleton is applied mathematical approach for proving of maximal … stupidity of one concrete political decision in the past (about setting of limits for the price of some product in the conditions of free market). (1994 ?) ]
-->°°°For reforming of Bulgarian language
-->°°°°°°[ This joke is dedicated to the reforming of Bulgarian language in a similar with the English manner, yet is not translated due to the specifics of the text, here is only retold the idea. (1994 /1997) ]
-->°°°To contemporary Bulgarian language
-->°°°°°°[ This feuilleton is similar with the previous, but it treats the massive Americanization of Bulgarian language; here is given also only the idea. (1994 /1997) ]
-->°°°New laws -- old policy
-->°°°°°°[ This feuilleton discusses one variant for social protection of bank deposits, i.e. forced closing of some banks and financial firms during the ruling of communists in the beginning of our democracy. (1996) ]
-->°°°Heads up, Bulgarians!
-->°°°°°°[ This funny piece is dedicated to our next (in 1998) realization of incredible poverty of Bulgarian people, which had begun, obviously, with the coming of democracy in Bulgaria. ]
-->°°°Are you ready for the elections?
-->°°°°°°[ This feuilleton explains some algorithms of democratic (i.e. unreasonable) choice and is permanently actual also today. (1999) ]
-->°°°/_Nomen est numen_/! (to name is to define)
-->°°°°°°[ The feuilleton is dedicated to the exclusive significance of the /_name_/ for the success of prominent political figures; jokes aside, but this really is, and not of small, importance. (2000) ]
-->°°°How to fill the treasury
-->°°°°°°[ How the title shows the feuilleton is written in order to help the financial Ministers and observes various kinds of taxes. It is also always up to day. (2000) ]
-->°°°About the usefulness of cockroaches (scientific feuilleton)
-->°°°°°°[ This feuilleton is obviously dedicated to the cockroaches; the way of narration is quite popular and of use for everybody (2012) ]
-->°°°Better not to live to pension age!
-->°°°°°°[ This last feuilleton explains some curious moments with Bulgarian pensions and is based on personal experience of the author. (2016) ]
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-->IV. Others
-->°°°[ Here are other things which do not belong to any of the previous three sections. ]
-->°°°Actual political dictionary
-->°°°°°°[ What is said. (1993 ?) ]
-->°°°An open question
-->°°°°°°[ This is a standard test for representatives of variety of political forces intended to allow to our population to find themselves better in the views of those persons in complicated contemporary situation. (1994 ?) ]
-->°°°About the trees and the people (forest allegory)
-->°°°°°°[ This miniature is dedicated to the parallel between the reaction of a whole nation by the transition to democracy and the reaction of the wood on bending. (1994 ?) ]
-->°°°Dozen questions for deliberation
-->°°°°°°[ These are questions about the democracy, the capitalism, our transition, and other still important questions. (1996 ?) ]
-->°°°Could one cope with it?!
-->°°°°°°[ Here are discussed the absurd, yet real, social security payments in Bulgaria in that time. (2000) ]
-->°°°Idea about new calendar
-->°°°°°°[ What is said (and this may appear in other place). (2012) ]
-->°°°Reflections about the numbers (popular etymology and more)
-->°°°°°°[ This is a popular booklet (which may be published also on other place) about the names of all digits and more important numbers in /_different_/ languages, about their graphical images, and about various possible /_ideas_/ hidden behind their names. The questions are pretty complicated and lost in the gone centuries, it might be that they are somewhere partially explained, but the author has come to them /_alone_/. These are things interesting for everybody, they, in principle, are not very complicated, but as far as they require some mathematical knowledge and profound etymological researches, then they are practically known to nobody (well, some, say, 2-3 % guess about /_something_/, yet surely not about all moments). So that this is serious scientific paper, only popularly written. (2012) ]
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-->This book contains all my publicistic works, written in the period of Bulgarian transition to democracy, which has begun in 1989, and should have ended when our standard of life will reach the former level. Judging by our rates of development and the muddle in which we state this can continue for a whole generation or 25 – 30 years, but even for a decade was accumulated certain amount of things, so that I decided to gather them in one place. Based on the time in which I have written them, it is normal to expect that they will deal mainly with the democratic phenomenon, which is one interesting and stable social phenomenon (when it exists for more than 25 centuries), but, of course, it does not pose any panacea, that will directly solve our problems (more so because for the present it has led us to a bigger mess), and it surely has its innate and unavoidable (if I can use this economic term), or necessary, drawbacks.
-->In other words, one constructive, even if in some cases also utopian and idealized, critique must be useful for people, who like to ask themselves questions about the world and the society (although in our dynamic times such people are not much; but in which epoch they have been much?). And that it is really constructive can be concluded at least by the fact that the author is not related to whatever political or leading economic or other structure, so that he can be maximally unbiased. But he has, of necessity, mainly left-wing political convictions because they, at least for more than a century, happen to be a kind of criterion for healthy reasoning. This is so for the simple reason that our world is unjust and cruel to the isolated and weak individual, and it is a function of society to make it a bit more just and favorable, what is, namely, the quintessence of the "socio", or the right of the weak. This has been known from deep antiquity, but only in the society of universal prosperity (or post-industrial society, or of the well developed capitalism, or how else you name it) it became possible to convert the wishes to reality for the wide population. Or, if you like, just take it that the author is not of the strongest of the day, and when so then he sticks to the interests of the weak.
-->The sequence of the materials is as a rule chronological in the framework of the sections, but the very sections are something questionable, where under materials for journals is understood that these are longer and more serious works, but for the everyday press are needed a bit more "chewed up" things, where one should not ponder much about the matter. For this reason in the newspapers are used shorter columns, to be possible to take a quick look over them, what is preserved also here. The feuilletons is clear what they mean, though to some extent this is a laughter through tears, in most cases, but that is why the satire is invented -- to allow us to bear easily the burdens of everyday life. In the section "Others" are gathered such things which I have not succeeded to decide where else to put.
-->About a dozen things were published in some newspapers, although mainly in abbreviated (and mutilated, I would say) form, many things I have posted to editorial offices and they have remained without reply, but the majority of the materials were written primarily for the pleasure of it (well, and for filling of the time with something, because one "professionally" unemployed has in his disposition a big amount of this special "product"). Of course one should not expect to "discover America" here, but you will most probably find some /_different_/ from the official press (or propaganda) look, for the reason that the author is not between those people who keep an eye on the media, so that there is no danger for him to begin to say platitudes. Many of the things are not actual today (and other ones will become such with the time), but it, the journalistic work, is, in principle, tied to the moment of activity and is aging fast, what does not mean that the model of reasoning or the conclusions change (i.e., under similar circumstances we will again behave "silly but in our own way", how sounded one phrase from totalitarian times), and that is why they are left here, to give the readers better possibility to appreciate the author as independent (but really) creative worker.
-->Well, this is all, my dear future readers, and if you, occasionally, happen to like some things of the written, then just drink a glass of liqueur for "repose of the sole" of the author, for it is not likely that this book will see the light of day when he is still alive (if not for other reason than at least because publicistics is gathered for long years and published, eventually, after death). It is better to accept that my name is this, with which I sign under (because -- well, for what reason you do not like it?), and that the date below is put as a moment when I decided to gather all these things in one place, and in no way is beginning or ending date. Pleasant reading then.
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-->2001, Sofia, Bulgaria Chris Myrski 
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-->P.S. In 2017 at last I have closed this enormous book.
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