“Thinking out loud” - perhaps this is how I would define the content of this book. I notice for myself: as the dependence of our lives on mass media communication formats (TV, the Internet) increases, we become more and more selective in communication. To avoid the temptation of mass intellectual stereotypes and templates, you speak less and less in the circle that is important to you and capable of understanding. Individualization of meanings as an escape from a stereotype is a feature of our time. And yet you cannot escape from life. There has been an accumulation of thoughts, reflections and “musings” about the meaning of life, country, war and peace, about what we experience every day and try to understand. So I thought: maybe these “thoughts out loud” will be necessary and important for someone more. Who's nearby? And who also strives to understand what is happening. I considered it necessary to include in the collection a number of old materials (articles, interviews, lectures), which, in my opinion, are now appropriate and still relevant.