BOOK 2. THE BATH SCHOOL. N. LEVASHOV'S «SVETL BROOM» IN A. KHATYBOV'S «BATH SCHOOL» AND A LABOUR SPADE

Book 2. The Bath School. Chapter 6. About Reason, Consciousness and Matter, or "how to dig with the spade of Knowledge" 358 control the authors they respect. And for the success of this, the authors should be singled out and their authority in the masses should be maintained. An excellent assistant in this is human ambition. The author, warming them up, will strictly abide by his authorship, and readers, raising their ambitions, will justify their actions with these very authorial statements. In this situation everyone will catch – and the guardians of their copyright, and free thinkers, and "writers" of aphorisms / quotations – expressed in a certain context, thoughts will walk in isolation from them, the authors "accidentally"will be messed up and replaced by the "necessary" ones, people’s intelligentsia will pick up and scatter in the couloirs, in the end, SOMETHING – a prepared throw-in, a new idea, a well put-together, but shallow saying or something else. There is another side of the problem. What is the explanation for the necessity of strictly observing authorship and the punishability of plagiarism? The explanation is quite edible – do not steal someone else's, learn to think and adequately formulate your thoughts yourself. Such theft is dangerous only in the framework in which plagiarism and authorship are important and necessary for their own worth. If there are no such frameworks – there are no ambitions for which one can not do without an author's instruction, there are no thoughtless repetitions of someone's ideas or senseless dragging of texts. And one more thing, which for me is quite painful – when my (and not only mine, but also Nikolai’s) texts and their fragments are used not for knowledge (in any form), but for increasing one's own importance in the readers’ eyes allegedly with one’s deep understanding of the ongoing processes or interpretation of N. Levashov’s works. In fact, a valuable thought or idea do not need authorship at all. We use the "quotes of great people", referring to their authority and wisdom, as if showing in their direction, well, here, he thinks so, what we can say about ordinary mortals. In such a quote, it is the author's name that is its basis, creating the foundation for the statement itself. But the real value should be in the thought, the expressed idea – it becomes an incentive, an impetus to the work of one’s own Brain. You can write a lot about this and reflect on both sides, but I consider my position on this issue to be grounded. People of all ranks and specialties – from highly qualified university professors to servicemen for washing machines complain about the problem of information perception. I hear such complaints especially in the academic circles, i.e. from those who have to communicate daily with people (teach, give