“It’s hard to be a god”: what is the book of the Strugatsky brothers silent about?translated

Evil is indestructible. No person can reduce its number in the world. He can somewhat improve his own fate, but always at the expense of worsening the fate of others.

The Strugatsky brothers hit the most painful points of the century, but never give ready answers.

In the new issue “ABOUT WHAT” - the vulnerable points of the story “It’s Hard to Be a God”. Why is the project of forced happiness inevitably doomed? Can progress become a new religion? And what trap did many intellectuals of the twentieth century fall into? About this:

Petr Pashkov - candidate of theology, associate professor at PSTGU;  Olga Zaitseva is a philologist, head of the Thomas Academy project.

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“ABOUT WHAT” is a humanitarian podcast for NON-humanitarians. Here we open books that have been around for the last 3000 years, peer into Christian roots, meanings and learn to analyze competently. Connect to our bookshelf!

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