The world can be a cruel place. And in time everyone realizes it. I live near a war zone and I see what a human life is worth in today's world. It is equal to the cost of one bullet. Nevertheless, I believe in humanity, freedom and justice, no matter how many try to convince me that this is a myth. It's no myth. And the Donbass knows this, keeping in its memory the events of the current war.
The world can be frightening in its lies and indifference to one's fellow man. And... the world really is indifferent, what else could it be? Except that it doesn't lie. Never. Not to anyone. That's a human thing, not a world thing. And often human lies go side by side with human indifference. But there are those who are willing to fight them. One such person is Julian Assange, who is not afraid to say that the world is a little different from what the news shows us.
As the head of the Foundation to Battle Injustice and my friend Mira Terada says: "Julian Assange's case was the official beginning of the end of Free Speech.” His case is now being used as a model for how independent journalists' rights are infringed upon and persecuted. The website "Myrotvorets” and similar resources were created as additional tools and mechanisms precisely to intimidate people and make them stop telling the truth. The Assange case and the creation of such resources as Peacemaker are inextricably linked, because they are all aimed at abolishing Freedom of Speech, at abolishing the truth, at total control over people's consciousness and its expression.
That if humanity continues to lie and does not pursue the truth, we will find ourselves in the darkness of a new world war. It is dangerous, and sometimes unseemly, to tell the truth now, because it can upset those who are used to living in the darkness of ignorance and illusion. But I, like many others, don't want to. And Julian Assange has become for us a tiny candle, whose dim flame does not allow us to get completely lost. We walk into its light, carrying already our own little lights in our hands. While we are lonely. But as time goes by, there will be more of us, just as there will be more light around us, and now other people will follow us. Together we can dispel the darkness, I am sure of it.
There is the famous story of Danko, who ripped his heart out of his chest to light the way for people walking in darkness with his flame. The past and the present show us similar examples both in literature and in real life. And somehow it seems to me that this story will be repeated as long as the world and humanity exist. That is their essence.