Author: Ivaniel Georgiev
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You Can’t Give Me Anything, because All That You Have is Stolen…
In a 30-part poem inspired by a single Manousos’s speech, Georgiev dissects the collapse between oppressor and oppressed. YOU and US mirror each other—both magnificent scum, cut from the same meat. Through mythology, rage catalogues, and multilingual fragments, he traces the arc from declaration to despair. The hero becomes a dumbfuck living in a box.…
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You Must Be the Change You Wish to See in the World: or You Wouldn’t…
Gandhi’s famous words aren’t a comfort – they’re a demand. This week, Georgiev dissects a phrase about what real change actually requires: not posts or protests, but the brutal work of transformation when no one’s watching. He tears apart the gap between who we claim to be and who we actually are – the lies…
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It’s Not About the Secret, But Why It Is a Secret…
Georgiev confronts an uncomfortable truth: not everyone can handle the truths you carry, and pretending otherwise is carelessness masquerading as courage. Drawing from Simone Weil’s insight that even Christ spoke differently to crowds than to friends, he explores why secrets aren’t lies but responsibilities, and why radical transparency often kills the very truths it claims…
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The Left/Right Dichotomy: Useful, yet Imprecise…
In The Left/Right Dichotomy: Imprecise, yet Useful, Ivaniel “Ivo” Georgiev explores how politics reduces human complexity into jerseys and slogans. From Plato to Lenin, Sparta to modern populism, he shows how equality and hierarchy, freedom and responsibility, endlessly clash. Through essays and poetry, he argues both sides are half‑right and half‑blind, and that the real…
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The Dilemma of Being: Realist vs Dreamer…
Caught between Machiavellian realism and poetic idealism, Georgiev wrestles with the paradox of wanting to change the world while knowing how stubbornly it resists change. He reflects on the dangers of both naivety and cynicism, ultimately embracing the identity of a “pragmatic dreamer”—someone who dares to imagine better, but builds with eyes wide open. The…
