Chosen Chris Myrski - Non-Fiction Collection - I
CHOSEN CHRIS MYRSKI
(NON-FICTION COLLECTION)
Volume I. Communism Versus Democracy — only Contents with Abstracts
Copyright Chris MYRSKI, 2018
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[ This is a pretty big and motley book in order to give an idea about the *cover* and it is also non-fiction, so that I have no idea here. I may propose only some greyish colour to hint that this is serious reading. ]
[ Remark for this site: I publish here <only> the Contents with the Abstracts, so that you have to search later the concrete work, but there is nothing so bad in this because there is nothing new here, this is just a collection of old works ordered thematically. ]
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All volumes are:
I. Communism Versus Democracy — This
II. Market, Business, Economy
III. Social Matters And Healthy Life
IV. Sundry Other Things
CONTENTS (Of This Volume I)
00. Short Preface (to the whole collection)
[ Explains why the making of collection was necessary and what it contains (in all cases <nothing> new, but thematically selected). (2019) ]
01. The Communism As Religion (popular study) — only I. Similarities
[ This is my first big material with which I have begun my writer's activity. As far as it is relatively big, I publish here only the first part (I. Similarities of the communism with other religions — 15 cumulative proofs for this), with a small Introduction before it. Yet there is nothing lacking in this part, and I have written initially only it (probably about 1992-3), but later have increased it with other parts (and the fourth I also publish in this Collection, in book 4). (1998) ]
02. About the turn to the left — when nothing is added after the title the piece is from the quite big "Now, Look Here (Publicistics)" book
[ This paper explains popularly the idea of swinging of pendulum applied in the sphere of political orientation of a given country. (1995 ?) ]
03. Five years of devastation
[ The material sums up 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) ]
04. 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 ?) ]
05. 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) ]
06. Political gratitude
[ This is sharp criticism of Bulgarian UDF, Union of Democratic Forces, as chief political cause for the botched transition to democracy. (1998) ]
07. 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) ]
08. 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) ]
09. 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 ?) ]
10. 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) ]
11. 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) ]
12. 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) ]
13. 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) ]
14. Democratic Values — from "Social Essays"
[ This is an unorthodox article about the morality and the democracy explaining some basic, but nevertheless misunderstood, points about the democracy, in what way it is good and in what bad, why it has no morality, and how we can better it a little. This essay is of later time for the author, so that it contains in brief form other, more profound, works about the democracy. There is at the end one poetical appendix written initially in English. (2004) ]
15. About the democracy — from "Ten Cynical Essays (Popular Worldview)"
[ This is what is said, with following chapters: I. Great And Unreasonable, II. Zero solution, III. Conditional Advantages, IV. The Real Democracies, and V. Utopian Models. (2000) ]
16. In Bulgaria everything is quiet
[ This paper is of the <new> ones (after about 2010) 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) ]
17. 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) ]
18. 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) ]
19. The fatal 2013 year in Bulgaria
[ This material discusses political and economic situation in Bulgaria in the beginning of fatal 13th year. (2013) ]
20. Why we vote, when we ... don't vote?
[ This paper is about this, who took part in the elections in Bulgaria in 2013, who whom from the politicians likes or hates, and, generally, about this how the things turned out there. (2013) ]
21. 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) ]
22. 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) ]
23. 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) ]
24. 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) ]
25. Are you ready for the elections? — Feuilleton
[ This feuilleton explains some algorithms of democratic (i.e. unreasonable) choice and is permanently actual also today. (1999) ]
26. Manifesto of the DDD Movement (Deliberate Democratic Dictatorship) — without Addendum, from "Curious Manifestos (politistics)"
[ Contains one of a dozen utopian models, that are <better> than the contemporary democracy. (2000) ]
27. Hurray, Is It Possible (Government of the Reasonable Alternative)? — Supplement to "Curious Manifestos (politistics)"
[ Contains the 13-th and the most realistic from the invented models of democracy. (2007) ]
28. Essay on the common sense - II
[ This is my last publisictic material in the more serious first section of publicistic papers, which makes complete revision of my first perestroika-stile material (which is missed here as pretty naive dreaming from utopian communist times, yet are followed the old topics), 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) ]
29. Hundred years later (To The Centenary Of October Revolution)
[ This is my last (at least here, in the big book with publicistic) 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) ]
30. Actual political dictionary
[ What is said. (1993 ?) ]
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SHORT PREFACE (to the whole collection)
Let me explain briefly why I make this collection of non-fiction and what it contains. Well, I make it because it is so done, usually, because one writes and writes on different themes and in various books and it comes, if comes, time when he (OK, sometimes also she) wants to collect the things by themes, this is as if more proper, and an attitude more directed to the readers. So that after more than a quarter of a century literary work, and especially when I intent to try to sell something as books (or ebooks), I have decided to make four volumes with my materials, papers, parts of books, sometimes even abridged papers, on the following themes:
1. Communism Versus Democracy,
2. Market, Business, Economy,
3. Social Matters And Healthy Life,
4. Sundry Other Things.
These topics, naturally, are not strictly divided, nor ordered in the best manner, but now they exist and this is better than if they were not collected in this form. They are not strictly divided because the topics intersect, but not very much, in this way the materials are better located. The ordering of the things is as if chronological, yet not always, because of some local clustering in some sub-themes, what I find unavoidable. But, mark, that in all cases I publish here <nothing> new, this is simply a <collection>! And what will be in these parts I will not explain as redundant, the names are eloquent enough. Probably it is good to say what I have left aside, how much. Well, about 10 percents (in all cases not more than 20), because I have almost nothing that is not actual in the moment, or can not become such later, if the situation changes; I have left aside mainly things, Appendixes, which look more scientific, or too obvious and elementary.
Another reason, why I make this in the beginning of 2019, is that I have stopped with this boring (for me) practice of writhing in one language and then translating in some others, no, this will happen no more, because in 69 years one has to begin to value higher his time and do just the necessary. And, after all, when I have moved from my native Bulgarian language, to my very familiar Russian one, and then to the contemporary standard for a language, the English, intending also to translate something (the beginning 3 books) in German, I have come to the top, I have nowhere else to move. For a pair of years I write everything first in English and now this will be also the last language for most of the things; the possible exception is if I have to publish something in the easiest for me way (like I have not yet published my multilingual dictionary Explain, in Bulgarian, or probably to translate it in Russian), or if writing poetry in different languages, or, then, if I decide to begin to use also my real name (and this only in Bulgarian). Put in other words, here are non-fiction things that are translatable, or which I intend to translate; the poetry, obviously, is untranslatable for me (I don't mean to be like Shakespeare, or Pushkin, or Dante, etc.), for the enormous <Urrh> is impossible to think about translation, the <Letters> (to the posterity) is also difficult to translate and I have never had such intentions, the same about not yet published Explain dictionary, the SF-stories (which are not exactly SF things but rather outmoded social SF) are fiction, they have nothing to do with this collection, and whatever new book of non-fiction I will write (like my future “No problems poses problems”) I will write only in English.
So this is, guys and girls, if I were much read I would have adapted to the auditory, but if I am not, I adapt to my easiness and comfort. You try to do something better than this for the people, the word, the posterity, just for free, but I have done what I can. What means that I publish myself on many sites for free, and there I am relatively (for non-fiction) read, and I publish myself for some fee on some sites, and there I am <not> read (because the people somehow feel that I say <right> things, that are good and moral and necessary and allowed, and when so then they should <not> pay, they are used to pay for … silly or harmful or unmoral things, that's what the capitalism teaches us, alas). However it is, I don't think to become a prophet, I am rather an outmoded preacher, or, then, a thinker gone ahead of his time. Or also: those who are silly enough and need some teaching and instructing and explanations, they avoid giving an ear to me because they don't like to think (and this is <why> they are silly), and those who are clever enough to understand me, they avoid reading this because I say trivial common-sense things, nothing really profound, in order to be read as a must in some scientific area. The only salvation for me, or the way to glory, was to preach silly things that people can easily grasp, but I don't want to come so low, or to delude them with invented fables, but I don't want to lie, I am used to seek the truth, not the lie. And it is too late for me to remodel myself, you take me (how I am), or leave me (to perish by myself, like falling tree-leaves with the coming of winter, ha, ha).
Jan, 2019, Sofia, Barbaria, sorry, Bulgaria.
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