In the modern society of the victorious consumerist society, an amazing ghost is walking: much more impressive than the ghost of communism that walked through Europe at the end of the 19th century... And this is not even the ghost of equality of men and women. The ghost of equality of men and women, so to speak, has long gone away. He has already successfully incarnated himself into reality - like Voldemort, or some kind of Sauron, who finally found a body - and with his incarnation he divided each of the two gender camps into two unequal parts: large and small. As this usually happens, the most intelligent representatives each sex formed a smaller camp, and in the larger camp they found themselves... Well, let's say, the most beautiful. The minority, both male and female, reacted to the idea of ​​mutual equality and equal rights in approximately the same way as a loving parent relates to the offer of a beloved child to play Easter cakes As they say, no matter what a child enjoys, as long as it doesn’t cry. And so the loving parent squats down with difficulty, bending his aging back, and every second fearing that sand will fall down, puts on his face delight and tenderness, and begins to nod in agreement and assent on all points of the scenario that his beloved child is developing in front of him.” Oh, what a wonderful pyramid you have!.. Oh, but this one is even better!.. What? Do you want me to build it too?.. Of course: give me a bucket, baby... Look, I can do it too... Do you like it?.. But you, of course, do it much better, baby... Oh, what Easter cakes !.. Oh, what great fellows we are!..” Well, and stuff like that. Did you play like that with children? That’s roughly the same way, I say, the minority acts in each of the two sex camps, so as not to stand out from the mainstream, and not be considered a stupid conservative who does not understand modern youth trends. A friend tells you how she undercuts men with the size of her salary, the fact that she has a silver minivan from a Chinese car dealership (because all the others were closed: sanctions, sir...), and her almost paid off mortgage for her own (her own!..) “kopeck piece” in the center city, - and you nod more intensely, make a tender face, rejoice for your friend, and for the equality she has achieved with men: “Oh, what Easter cakes!.. Oh, what great fellows we are!..” A friend complains to you about how materialistic women are they surround him on the streets and in the workplace, and one of them has been living at his house for some time now, urging you to subscribe to the “Men’s Movement” on social networks, and even proudly quotes Nietzsche: “If you go to a woman, take a whip!” , and you nod sympathetically, add some beer, and tell your friend about some mercantile woman. And if you don’t know one, then figure it out: you don’t care, but your friend will be pleased... “Do you like it?.. But you, of course, do much better, baby...” Well, the majority in both sex camps are it , of course, he sincerely believes in this whole thing, and considers the buildings and structures he built on the sand with the help of a plastic bucket to be Egyptian pyramids that will survive centuries... And the “war of the sexes” is growing stronger through their efforts: both on the Internet and beyond. And the second , I say, after equality, the ghost lost in the cognitive space of modern man is called “conformity.” This, so to speak, is another most important condition of the Easter cake game: enter into relationships only with those who “match” you. Here one blogger, an expert in building sand castles, was asked whether she would marry a fireman or not. And she says straight out: no, she wouldn’t come out, our income levels are different... A firefighter doesn’t correspond to her, therefore. But she, this blogger, at least has a clear and understandable criterion for “compliance”: money. A firefighter does not meet this criterion. But the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, due to the size of his income, quite possibly corresponds to it: despite the fact that he, strictly speaking, is also a firefighter. But that nice guy who built a huge shopping center in violation of all fire extinguishing standards, simply distributing money to firefighters and other representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations at the acceptance stage, corresponds even more... But, unlike her, many…»