From the "Philosophical Parables" column:

Once upon a time, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin never let himself get distracted by nonsense, which is why he managed to accomplish everything. For example, he wrote the full-length books Who Is to Blame? and What Is to Be Done?, which people still read to this day.

However, he too, much like MP Milonov, was abducted by aliens—except that happened beforehand.

"Consciousness," said the fireball, "is the result of recurrent information transfer in non-homogeneous neural networks of living organisms. Go and share this with humanity."

But the fireball failed to account for one thing: Lenin never wasted his time on nonsense.

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