Contents

Introduction

This book may not be easy for everyone to understand, because not everyone wants to do it. It is not difficult in itself, I explain everything here in simple language, without any specific terminology, since I myself do not like to stumble over incomprehensible words during reading, which could easily be replaced by understandable ones for most people. Also with a sense, it is not abstruse, why should I be clever and wise here. I’m just explaining in this book the things that we, most of us, usually call crazy. We look at a certain person, see something they are doing that we either don’t understand or think is wrong and call them mad. But if you think about what we see, understand it, talk to a person, learn about his motives, then his actions, words, thoughts will find their own clear logic and show us a certain meaning that is contained in them. This is not always the case, sometimes madness is really inexplicable, but not everything that we think of as madness is so.

Now, not everyone who writes in this book will be able to understand, not because of their abilities and not because of the book itself, but because of the habit of not accepting what is considered unacceptable for such a person. This is the only thing that can prevent the reader from expanding their horizons and increasing their effectiveness, learning to live in harmony with much of what is in this world and interact more effectively with a large number of people. Prejudice, judging, criticizing, and not wanting to think can prevent the reader from getting the most out of this book. It may get in the way, but it doesn’t necessarily get in the way if the reader pays attention to this warning and tries to open up to this book instead of fighting it.

In this book, I will address the reader as «you», for greater intimacy with each person and, therefore, a better understanding of my words. We will communicate as good friends, trusting each other.

This book, reader, will make you wiser if you accept all that it says. I do not say, take my word for it, I do not ask for it, read your thoughts critically, as you should, but carefully, without fighting with my every word and statement. Accepting means at least listening, thinking, and then deciding how to take it. Just think about what you’ve read properly. If you can accept what is written, you will become wiser, and therefore calmer, more reasonable, more tolerant, you will learn to live in harmony with many things and treat everything with greater understanding. It is wisdom that most people do not have enough to get along with everything calmly, treat everything with understanding and feel happy, thanks to harmonious coexistence with everything that exists in this world, or in any case with many.

We often do not accept too much, we try to fight too much, thereby poisoning our life instead of knowing it and enjoying it. This is wrong, this is wrong, this should not be, this should be different. We don’t want to understand, we don’t want to think about anything that is difficult to understand and that we don’t like. And this creates problems in life, in particular, problems with people.

If you are used to living by well-known rules, thinking according to generally accepted patterns, and adhering to old traditions, the book may seem unpleasant to you. It will also show that things are not as you thought, that some madmen are not really mad, that some supposedly wrong actions are actually necessary. It partly challenges the usual ideas about life, about people and their actions. And we, as you probably know, don’t like to change our habits. It is easier for us to criticize the fact that these habits are encroached upon. But I hope you can handle it.

Sometimes there’s a lot more reason behind insanity than what we think is reasonable. The following parable shows this well:

Once a powerful sorcerer, wanting to destroy the kingdom, poured a magic potion into the spring from which all the inhabitants drank. Every time someone took a sip of this water, they went crazy.

In the morning, all the inhabitants, having tasted from this spring, went mad, except the king, who had his own well. The sorcerer could not reach this well, and the king and his family drank normal water. Seeing that the country was in chaos, the king tried to restore order and issued a series of decrees.

When the country found out about the royal decrees, everyone thought that their ruler had gone mad and was now giving the same crazy orders. With shouts, they went to the castle and began to demand that the king abdicate the throne.

The king recognized his powerlessness and wanted to lay down the crown. But the queen came up to him and said: «Let’s go to that spring and drink from it too. Then we will be like them.»

So they did. The king and queen drank water from the fountain of madness and immediately began to talk nonsense. At the same time, their subjects gave up their demands: if the king shows such wisdom, then why not let him continue to rule the country?

Calm reigned in the country, despite the fact that its inhabitants behaved very differently from their neighbors. And the king was able to rule until the end of his days.

After many, many years, the great-grandson of a sorcerer managed to create a magic potion that could poison all the water on earth. Once, he poured this potion into one of the streams and, after a while, all the water on the ground was poisoned. People cannot live without water, and soon there is not a single normal person left on earth. The whole world has gone mad. But no one knows about it.

But sometimes people are born on earth, on whom this potion for some reason does not work. These people are born and grow up perfectly normal, and even try to explain to others that people’s actions are crazy. But they are usually misunderstood and taken for lunatics.

Perhaps, reader, this book will help you see the rational in the insane, and the insane in the intelligent. Or maybe not. What happens, happens. I just want you to understand more, know more, and be more sensible about what sometimes happens in this world.

I just have to tell you what I’m going to tell you in this book. I do not know what will happen to me, to my life tomorrow, I do not know how long I will live at all, no one knows, so I may not have the chance to share these thoughts with you. I have to give them to you.» Like any human being, being a social being, he wants to pass on something valuable that he has to other people. I don’t know why, why I should do this, but I know I should, I feel it. Who knows, maybe this is how my madness manifests itself.

In any case, all the things that I have learned from studying seemingly insane people and insane phenomena, I believe, need to be understood. This understanding made my life easier. It’ll make you feel better, too. You won’t worry about what you shouldn’t worry about. Understanding leads to calmness and peace. Therefore, read, understand, accept what you read, think about it and enjoy life, no matter how crazy it may sometimes be.

Chapter 1. Sweet Lies

There is nothing sweeter than a lie in this world. It is a lie, if it is very beautifully presented to a person, that can inspire him and improve his mood, so that he will feel happy. And at the same time, it may not have any material values. This is proved by some ascetics who, having nothing, feel very well at the same time, judging by the fact that they do nothing to get something.

After all, the main thing for a person is that what he learns gives him pleasure and joy in his thoughts. In his virtual inner world, everything should look as he wants, so from the outside world, he takes exactly such information that complements his illusions. And only then does he think about the benefits of this information, about the possibility of its application in his life. In this sense, we are all addicts, and lying is the most powerful drug for us. We need it not only to feel good, but also to simply live. This proves our ego, which by its existence and its work tells and shows us that lying is the elixir of life. After all, the ego makes our image of ourselves so that we are happy with ourselves. Otherwise, we will lose interest in life. And so it constantly lies to us about ourselves.

Lies are not omnipotent, but they can work wonders. Perhaps if you say «halva» for a long time, then your mouth will not become sweeter. But if you say for a long time that black is white, and white is black, then a person will believe it, regardless of whether it is true or not. The only question is how long to talk about it, so that everyone will believe, and not just the most naive. But something else is interesting. If you immediately tell people something nice, beautiful, that they will like, then they will believe it the first time simply because they want to believe it. Let not all, but many. Lie or truth, a person can perceive both equally well, because he wants to live in a world that is convenient for him, and not in a biting reality.

Think of all the other miracles that lie can do. The same placebo effect can have an analgesic effect, and according to some data, which I did not check, it is possible to treat certain diseases in this way, simply by telling the person that some miracle pill [calcium or ascorbic acid] can cure their disease. After drinking it, he will improve his condition. He will do this by faith-by believing in a lie. Or hypnosis, through which people can be inspired with a lot of things, and almost everyone, depending on how to hypnotize them. In general, I will not go into these things, because the essence of this chapter is different. It is not so much the usefulness and necessity of lying that we need to be convinced of, but rather how insane those people who call for the truth are. Whereas they themselves may think that what is written here is mad.

The world does not need the truth, but a lie to exist. The entire human civilization is built on lies and hypocrisy. Everywhere we see outright lies, duplicity, substitution of concepts, double standards, we are drowning in total lies. This is our world, we created it for ourselves, and it is the way we need it. We live a lie, we breathe it, it is our salvation in many situations when it is absolutely impossible to tell the truth or what we believe to be the truth. For example, you can’t tell a strong and angry person who can wipe you out everything that you think of them if you think badly of them. It would be suicide. Therefore, it would be outright madness to want to live in a crystal-clear world where everyone tells each other only what they really are or what they think, without distorting their information in any way for the convenience of its perception by others.

We bathe in lies, as in luxury, and at the same time lie, saying that it is unpleasant for us. Isn’t that hypocritical? Distorted reality is our environment in which we can survive. In a world where the truth reigned, people would not be able to live. Therefore, lies should be supported and praised in every possible way, nourished and propagated, exalted and multiplied, fighting all truth-lovers as heretics. All those villains who dare to spread the truth in a society that this society does not need, who try to open people’s eyes to things that we do not need to know and that we do not want to know, should be brought to public trial as enemies of society. If you want to know the truth, know it! If you want to tell someone the truth, ask them if they want to know it! You can greatly harm specific people and society as a whole with your truth. You can use it to ruin the fairy-tale world we live in. Even such a harmless truth as the truth about what, say, an elite sausage is made of, which is sold in a store more expensive than meat, can discourage many people’s appetite, and deprive producers of part of their income. You’ll ruin the mood for some people, and you’ll ruin the business for others if you open people’s eyes to such things. In this case, you can be compared to a terrorist who is capable of causing serious harm to society.

Always and at all times, the most terrible crime was to spread the truth, which was inconvenient and objectionable not only to those in power, but also to ordinary people. The mob needs lies even more than its rulers. If this were not the case, people would not support leaders who promise them a lot of things, but do not fulfill any of them. And if you tell the crowd the truth about your political ambitions, not a single dog will vote for you, no one will recognize you as their leader. People will hate you. And not for your ambitions, but for what you said about them. So what is considered madness-a total lie or the truth? Who is really mad — the one who calls for the truth or the one who teaches to lie?

Here, reader, being beyond the edge of insanity, the very insanity that we are accustomed to consider as such, I can advise you a crazy thing-learn to lie. It’s one of those skills that you learned when you were still in the womb. But it needs to be developed. I will punish you for both telling the truth and lying badly. But they will adore you for your clever lies. Remember: people love lies, but only those that don’t look like lies. They love convincing, truthful lies. Does that sound weird? Well, what do you want, people are kind of schizophrenic in this sense. They can live with two conflicting attitudes in their heads, wanting both at the same time. And you, in order to please them and get along with them, must be able to adapt to this human oddity. Give people what they want — a true lie!

I’m just telling you something that most ordinary people would consider delusional. Well, this should not be surprising, because we already know that people think as they are comfortable thinking, and not as circumstances require. Therefore, you will either remain among them, or you will consider a different point of view, which I share with you, in this case, a lie. And this point of view says that lying is a beautiful, fabulous phenomenon. And most importantly, we need it for life. Don’t trust those who speak ill of lies. These people are either madmen or terrible hypocrites.

Whatever you say to people, they have to like it for them to like you. And if it’s a lie, well, then they need a lie. And this will often be exactly a lie. Because people need it. You don’t really need to think about it, so that you don’t really go crazy from the inconsistency of some thoughts with others, from not understanding how to behave. Look at the people that everyone likes. Well, most of them, at least. Or those who are important to you. They will show with their words, speeches, their beautiful, sweet, fabulous lies what others need. They say that the Earth is flat, so it means flat. It is reasonable to say the same. It is not necessary to think so, but it is desirable to speak. Just otherwise you will be a madman and not only in the eyes of the blind crowd, but also in the eyes of nature. Because your behavior will not be flexible, which means you will not be adapted. They don’t survive. They’re dying out. The bonfire is your place, if you’re too truthful. Further in this world will go those who live in lies, feed on lies and produce them in huge quantities.

Now, when we discuss the topic of lies, we are talking about life under the hood, that is, what to talk about, and often think about, is not accepted. How can you approach a person and say, "Lie to me about me, for example, about my appearance. Tell me how beautiful I am or how beautiful I am, what a stylish suit or fashionable dress I have.» Let people tell you how good, smart, beautiful you are, and so on. Ask them to do it. You need it.» So ask people for it. But you won’t do it, because it’s not acceptable to do it. It is customary to disguise a lie, to pass it off as the truth. And if you do, if you say what you really need, people will think that something is wrong with your head. So, in order not to seem crazy, you ask people to tell the truth about you, but you expect them to lie. You will expect from them a sweet lie that is pleasant to the ear, believing that it is true.

The world seems crazy only when all these things I write about are not explained to a person. Intuitively, of course, we all understand that we are playing some strange game in which things are not called by their proper names, so that everyone is comfortable. We understand that you can’t always say what you think, you can’t always present information in its true form, you need to somehow adapt it to people. But, on the other hand, in most cultures, the idea is drummed into a person’s head that you need to be honest, that the truth is good and right, but lying is bad. One thing doesn’t add up to the other. Reality does not coincide with what is in our head and on our tongue. So people are then perplexed when they see an obvious lie and say, first of all, to themselves, how is it, because this is not true, regardless of what is being said. And they are also punished for pointing out this lie and for telling the truth themselves. Does this happen? And quite often. And then these people claim that the world has gone mad. No, he didn’t. He’s always been like this. You are crazy, dear truth-lovers, because you believe that people need the truth.

On the surface in our life there is always only cosmetics, but no one wants to consider its load-bearing structures, except for such curious people as you, the reader. After all, if you are reading this chapter and this book, then you want to know something different about life, something new, and not just what everyone knows. Well, you see what comes of it. It turns out such thoughts that you want to argue with, which you want to object to or even criticize their author for them. This is what is new, which always gets into us with difficulty, through resistance. How so, we all know that lying is bad. We know that people, especially children, should be taught to be honest, they should not be liars, although for some reason they know how to lie when no one has taught them this. And here lies in this form are presented as something necessary, demanded not only by the liar, but also by those who perceive the lie, and even as something rewarded. It doesn’t look like anything is right.

Try to avoid using words like «true» and «false» altogether, and start thinking about information only in terms of its usefulness to you, regardless of what you do with it — perceive or give it away. Think about what information a person needs to be highly valued and loved? It is obvious, like a white day, that it should be convenient, pleasant, beautiful information that is easily perceived, right? It is also obvious that it should be useful. If you, thinking that the earth is flat, can still live normally, maintaining good relationships with the people you need, earning a living, solving other everyday tasks, then what is the bad thing that you think so, why does it bother you? Let it be flat, let it be square, triangular, but what difference does it make? As long as you live normally, as long as people see you as their own person, as long as you don’t have any problems. This is reasonable when you think about your own well-being, and not about the truth, which no one needs. But to give out information, because of which you can lose a lot and for which you can be punished, this is somehow abnormal. Such a person might well be thought of as a madman. So they think.

See how well liars disguise the road to hell with good intentions, what pleasant stories they tell, and how people are willing to believe them. Whenever people want to be used, they are told that everything is being done for them, they are drawn to a beautiful future in which they so want to be. This is the most common type of deception. In general, any deception in which something is done ostensibly for us is always directed against us. This approach is known to our people under the label «due to numerous requests from workers», and it is precisely with this wording that numerous abominations have been committed and are being committed against these same workers. But the interesting thing is that people like it. That’s the whole secret. Here’s what’s important to understand. According to their logic, it is better for them to be deceived than, for example, beaten, or better to see and hear sweet lies than bitter truths. So it turns out that some people pretend to care about others, and these others show that they see and feel this care and are grateful for it. Complete hypocrisy. And this hypocrisy is nothing more than adaptability — a necessary quality for survival, according to the theory of evolution. That is why lying is good, and truth is evil. We put this world on its head. Insanity is not the desire to live a lie, insanity is the desire to live in the truth and see the truth.

Blessed are those who lie, for they create a world in which we can live, rejoicing in what is not.

Chapter 2: Boundless Greed

Greed, like stupidity, has no measurable limits. It is limitless. The universe is more likely to end than greed. To a certain extent, greed is reasonable, well, a person wants more, why not. And then it becomes insane, when it begins to bring neither benefit, but harm. But if you look beyond this edge of insanity, you can see very interesting things.

One of them is the expansion of the boundaries of a person’s perception of this world, this life. Well, think about it, reader, how would you know that there is a limit to greed if you kept to the limit and stopped in time, not allowing this greed to harm you? A person simply will not experience special sensations, such as are inaccessible to most not very greedy people. They stop, do not go further, do not know, neither this world, nor their own capabilities, nor the limits of what is permissible, which can be learned through their greed. It’s like living only within the boundaries you know, without going over them. This is possible, of course, but not interesting. Life becomes more interesting when we begin to learn its secrets, including in such a difficult way. You need to go beyond the known to live a rich life. That’s what you need to be greedy for, and very greedy at that. And this is actually not easy. This requires courage, especially when a person is smart and understands that greed can destroy him. But he still had to follow her lead to see beyond the horizon of the known. If a person is not very smart, then in this case everything works out for him by itself, he simply cannot stop, his appetite comes to him while eating and greed itself carries him on its wings to the end that is possible. Therefore, having a head on your shoulders, without courage and determination, you will not take risks, going to the last in your desire to get more and more. And without this, it is impossible to get to know life better and to know the limits of your abilities.

Some people tell me that you don’t need to learn anything, you don’t need to strive for the maximum through insatiable greed, that what you have is enough, so as not to bring life to serious problems that can’t be solved later. But this, again, is their opinion and nothing more. Well, what makes a person think that this is not necessary? If life is designed in such a way that unlimited greed is possible in it, then it may be necessary for someone. You don’t want to explore this world through it, you don’t want to cross the line after which there is no way back, others want to. It’s like with the same drugs, alcohol, sexual perversions — someone wants to know the world through these things, look at life with such eyes, wants to build their destiny on these activities. Can a person afford it? Well, if no one stops him, then yes. And we know that people live like this. Therefore, what is needed in this life and what is not is a matter of choice. Yes, a person can do it unconsciously and this is also possible, and therefore permissible. So a person has the right to go through life along this path. And he has the right to use this right. Someone wants to die because of taking drugs ahead of time, someone wants to get drunk, and someone is looking for the end of their life path in their greed. And he will find it. Let him search. Such a life can be very interesting, even if it is short-lived.

Another interesting thing that depends on greed is human evolution. Or you can also say about the evolution of his consciousness, in which people must somehow learn to look at life differently, perceive it, having burned out from their greed. I think that greed should destroy us all in the form in which we now exist, so that we can move to a new level of existence. We must somehow transform ourselves, maybe partly in the form of technological beings, like cyborgs, or maybe in the form of artificial intelligence, which we will become a part of. In general, a person in the form in which he exists now, should cease to exist. We must get away from our primitive animal nature through its maximum manifestation. We must stay at the broken trough to start building everything anew, first of all ourselves.

Greed is a path to self-destruction, not only for the individual, but for all of humanity. The fact that greed destroys individual people-we know this, we have seen it more than once. But when this feeling destroys all of humanity, then, probably, we will move to a new level of existence, or awareness. Or rather, what’s left of us will be part of a new world, maybe a new form of life. The same weapons of mass destruction are also a manifestation of greed. This greed is expressed in aggression, because of which wars occur, the purpose of which is to enslave other people, seize resources, expand power. Right? What is it but greed? It is not enough for a person, and he wants more, and he strives for this in a simple way-through the manifestation of aggression. It’s so easy to use your power to get what you want. And when a person gets enough of playing with matches, when these matches burn him, then what remains of people, according to the logic of development and improvement, will have to be deprived of at least this feeling, and maybe other low feelings. Greed will become unnecessary, not only because of its destructive power, expressed in the lack of a sense of proportion, but also because it will be replaced by some other driving force, thanks to which people or that, or those who will replace them, will strive for something more and perfect in a more reasonable way.

Greed will one day lead to a massive war that will destroy all of humanity as it exists. Is it worth being afraid of? No, of course not. Why be afraid of the end, which, first, is inevitable, and secondly, will be the beginning of a new one? Nothing disappears in this world without a trace. We will not be the same as we know ourselves, we will be different or there will be something else or someone else who will be the heir to the history of our existence. Well, how do you like this version? Well, there must be some point in being insanely greedy.

Let’s say I don’t know what it’s like to be immensely greedy, so greedy that I don’t stop at anything to satisfy my greed. I also always want something bigger and better, I understand that it is not interesting to live if nothing changes for the better in your life for a long time and you do not gain more. But somehow in this matter, I always adhered to a sense of proportion. And he stopped just in time. Or maybe not on time? Maybe my fear of crossing the line prevents me from knowing, seeing, feeling something more, which can be in those cases when a person completely surrenders to this crazy feeling? Maybe we should go further to learn something special? And how are you doing with this, reader? Are you also afraid of being too greedy? I look at some greedy people, very greedy people, and I see their eyes burn. They seem to know more about life than I do. More precisely, they know something so special about it, they have seen something, felt something, thanks to their immense greed, that is not available to me. It turns out that my reasonableness in this matter, and in our book it is unreasonableness, slows me down and does not allow me to explore the world at a higher level. This is a very risky level. After all, where thin, and torn. But the feelings at this level are also special.

That is why people who have power and therefore have the opportunity to satisfy their immense appetites steal so shamelessly [not all, probably, but very many] and never get enough. They have the opportunity to discover new horizons of being and use it. They strive to go beyond all possible limits of what is permissible, they want to transcend all existing features that imply some kind of self-limitation. They want to see what is beyond moderate greed, when you are satiated to the limit and there is simply nowhere else to go. But I want even more to understand what it feels like when there are no borders at all that restrain your vice. After all, it’s not just a matter of a beautiful life, not in the luxury that is available to you, all this, you can say, is a joy for the stomach. It’s also about the state of consciousness when you live the way you can only live if you steal a lot, which means doing something that most other people don’t do, because they don’t have the opportunity to do it. But everything is available to you, you have superiority over others, thanks to your unrestrained desire for more and more. And you get an experience that you would never have had if you didn’t steal like this, if you didn’t choke on greed. You would never look at life the way you do when you steal so wildly. It’s just interesting when you don’t live the way you should. After all, we are used to moderation in everything, we are taught to live in this way, we are taught to control our passions so that we can get along with others with whom we must reckon. And greed, when it is boundless, helps us to live not as we should, but as we want. And this is a special feeling, similar to what a person feels from a very large power.

In any form, greed allows you to look at life from a special side, which also gives you special feelings. It takes a person on an unusual journey, into a world in which he behaves as if in a dream. This is a dream world in which a person is free from all prohibitions and restrictions. People who have suffered from greed and with whom I have had a chance to talk thoroughly about this topic have told me that when they experienced this feeling, when they were driven by it, they lived as if in a dream. They didn’t control themselves with their minds at this time, they just flew around in their delusions of permissiveness, doing what they wanted and not what they should.

You just row, row, row under yourself and it doesn’t matter to you why, for what, you do it, you just get involved in the process itself. Whatever you’re greedy about, you want to do more to experience something new that you’ve never experienced before. More money, more power, more chutzpah, more sex, more food, and anything else you can afford to take more in. You get impudent with greed, not for the sake of any particular result, but just to understand what else you are allowed in this life. Well, this is, as you know, drinking, that is, drinking, until you lose consciousness. People, according to them, do not control themselves at the last stage of intoxication, and then the objective laws of nature interfere with the process and stop it, the person simply switches off. Just like with any other greed. A person goes along with it until the objective laws of life stop him, showing him the limits of his immensity and arrogance.

Being immensely greedy, of course, you can suffer greatly, because greed often destroys a person. But who says that a fate ruined by greed is more unhappy than the fate of a person who has never seen or experienced anything special in his life, because he has always adhered to certain restrictions, either by himself or by force, out of fear of punishment? Who says that life without greed is better than with it? Moderation? A sense of proportion? Sufficiency? Yes, all this looks wise, reasonable, but at the same time it is too gray, too limited. What’s the point of living with restrictions? Just to live longer? And for what purpose? To die when you’ve already started to crumble, when all your teeth will fall out and it will be scary to look at yourself in the mirror? It is difficult to say what is right and what is wrong, but if a person is allowed to be infinitely greedy, even deadly greedy, insanely greedy, then he has the right to live such a life, has the right to suffer from such a vice, succumbing to it.

I don’t know what I have to lose by not letting my greed show in all its glory. I do not know what life will be like when you allow yourself to live without any brakes, I do not understand what it will feel like if I am greedy, very greedy, insanely greedy. I lose something here, but I also gain something. But how do I know that what I lose is worse or better for me than what I gain? It is necessary to compare. And how do you compare it here, you can’t live two lives at the same time. You have to believe that you made the right choice, choosing a life with limitations. But anyone who has allowed himself to look beyond the edge of his madness, allowing his greed to consume him, also has the right to believe that his choice was the best for him.

Chapter 3. Noble cowardice

Is being a coward good or bad? Think carefully, reader. A lot of people will tell you that being a coward is bad. And if you tell them that being a coward is great, convenient, and profitable, they’ll twirl their fingers at your temple. Let not all, but many. Well, it’s understandable, in our society, the most sane people have always been considered mad. And hypocrites should not be discounted, who are still cowards themselves, but want others to be brave in situations where it is dangerous to be brave. Why would I climb into the fire to save someone, climb better you, you’re brave, risk your life, including for the sake of my interests. And I’ll sit here quietly and then start telling some stories about my exploits when the real heroes are gone, because their courage will destroy them all. In fact, the real madness is to be brave. You and I, the reader, will look at both of these states from the side that is beyond insanity.

Let’s think about what is mad cowardice, not noble, it comes after insanity, namely insane? Talking to such people-insanely cowardly, I realized that we are talking about such cowardice, which does not make sense from the point of view of protecting a person from danger. Such a person is afraid of absolutely everything that is necessary and what is not necessary. He avoids any conflicts, is completely uninitiative, tries to keep a low profile, tries not to face any dangers at all, so he doesn’t get into anything. This is what he puts himself in danger, because by his passivity he provokes others to aggression in his address, and by his lack of initiative he deprives himself of the opportunity to do what he must in order to protect himself from future or even current threats. Such a person is not just content with little, if they do not give him more, they will give him, because he is afraid to take something, even afraid to ask, he also puts his life in danger. His instinct for self-preservation, which makes him cowardly, does not work properly, it is too active or even distorted, so it does not