There's a blizzard in Riga today. Pedestrians are bundled up in down jackets, scarves, and hats, walking in single file.

And in this situation, people in hoods are especially infuriating. The fact is that it is impossible to overtake them! When they pull on their hood, they completely lose contact with the outside world! It's as if nothing exists either on the side or behind them and no one needs to get to work faster. 

I even thought that it would be nice to build rear-view mirrors into the hoods. But it is unlikely that this product will go on the market. The fact is that any novelty must cover some need. And the man in the hood is fine. He's doing fine, you see! It's uncomfortable for those who push from behind...

In general, I was following some hooded girl and could not get ahead of her, because she was writing some intricate trajectory through the snowstorm. He walked and cursed quietly. And suddenly an insight came to me.

I suddenly realized how easy it is to awaken hatred for one's neighbor in a person!

It has long been known that all people on Earth are extremely similar. There is even a version that all people are brothers (and only some are sisters). 

But a mere trifle is enough to make us hate each other. 

For example, some people brush their teeth in the morning before breakfast, and others after breakfast. Moreover, both of them firmly believe in their rightness. And you will never be able to convince your friend who brushes his teeth as soon as he wakes up. All your arguments about cleaning out food particles will shatter against his unshakable faith. 

Maybe his mother told him when he was a child that this was the right thing to do. Maybe he watched the program with Malysheva. Maybe he brushed his teeth once after breakfast and went down the drain all day...

Or someone likes to sleep in the morning, and someone sleepy in the evening. That is, all of humanity can be divided according to these habits approximately in half: the party of larks against the party of owls. I don't even know why a universal conflict has not yet flared up on this basis! After all, it would seem that the whole world has adapted to larks. As if the schedule of schools, factories and offices was invented for them. Completely ignoring the interests of owls, of which there are quite a few. 

I think the only saving thing is that owls are too lethargic in the morning to have a showdown.

One can find other infuriating differences between homo sapiens.

There are poor commoners who use androids, and arrogant majors with iPhones. 

There are those who are hot in the office, and those who are constantly blowing. 

There are meat-eaters who oppress and humiliate vegans in every possible way. 

There are car enthusiasts who never use turn signals. 

There are those who cough in the theater and chew loudly in the movies, after all!

The whole world is full of contradictions, mutual irritation and hidden confrontation!

You will say that all this is not serious. These are some trifles that do not matter and are easy to overcome. 

Well, maybe. 

What difference does it make what language the residents of the Donetsk region speak?

It is as if we are only waiting for someone to give us a suitable reason to righteously kick our neighbor...

I think that when humanity finally exterminates itself (and everything is going to this), the next civilization that will arise on this planet (or fly from space) will rack its brains for a long time how it happened.

Why did they incinerate each other? What was not divided?

And these researchers will never be able to understand the simple truth.

That it all started because of the conflict between those who wore hats and those who walked in hoods.