In the beginning there was a word, and then there will be a figure. Articles and essays

The book is a collection of articles and essays published by the author in 2018. These at first glance different materials are united by one thought: the world enters into a completely new phase of development. It can be called post -capitalism, new slave system, digital civilization. In order to comprehend the essence of the changes that are taking place and understand a possible future, the author offers to look at the history of the last two thousand years from a “bird’s height” and through the prism of an Orthodox worldview. With this view, history appears as a consistent change of several phases.
The first phase is the era of wordwide, when Europe lived in a word (with a capital letter), that is, in accordance with the word, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Scriptures. In the second phase of history, the era of ideocracy, the word is replaced by the word “common sense”, which quickly turns into a false word. Further, capitalism goes to the arena of history - the era of the struggle for the quantitative increase in wealth, or the number. In the upcoming era, the era of digital, a tool of subordination of man as a prince of this world as a control electronic signal. The author considers the path of spiritual confrontation of digital as a return to life by the word