Ask the Author: Mr. Atlas of Prejudice Answers Your Questions
Yanko Tsvetkov takes few minutes of his precious time to talk to a fake news reporter
Q: Define post-truth!
A: Truth that has outlived its purpose.
Q: Interesting definition. Can you give an example?
A: Sure. Take the statement “Vaccines save lives.” Vaccination is a direct result of accumulated human knowledge that helped us build a healthy modern society of enlightened thinking individuals. Now that the arrow of time has reversed and we are heading back to the Dark Ages, it’s dead obvious we don’t need vaccines anymore. Therefore the statement, although true, ceases to be of any practical value.
Q: I’m getting lost in your lush irony. Can you be more succinct?
A: Okay. Second example: A spaceship remains a spaceship as long as there’s someone who can fly it. Once it falls in the hands of Neanderthals, it becomes a huge metallic tree.
Q: Anyway, at the end of 2015, in a condescending article about Donald Trump, you predicted he was going to lose bigly to Hillary Clinton. Do you feel like an ass now?
A: I do. But I’m gay, so I’m used to it anyway.
Q: How are you coping with Crooked Hillary’s loss?
A: Basically, I created a parallel Universe where she became president and now I live in it. I’m here just to pick up few things I left behind. It’s the ultimate filter bubble.
Q: Don’t you think that if people who oppose him decide to desperately run away from reality, Trump will be left without sufficient opposition and may easily trigger the destruction of life as we know it? He already made steps to ban abortion.
A: We all have to die someday.
Q: What do you think about the Women’s March on Washington?
A: I think the PR agency that chose that name fucked it all up.
Q: Elaborate!
A: It sounds like a white cover version of a black evergreen. If you want to make something that has historical value, you shouldn’t do cover versions, you should do your own songwriting.
Q: Like Elvis?
A: Nothing is like Elvis. He’s the king!
Q: Is feminism in crisis?
A: Maybe. But I would think of it as an opportunity. All those different waves of feminists now have a chance to stop bickering about how many times per month we should shave our vaginas and focus on the fact that we have a pussygrabber in the White House who will stop at nothing until he fondles every living clitoris on this planet. And then probably head to space in search of fresh alien pussy holding a banner that says “Resistance is futile!”
Q: You refer to yourself as female?
A: Spiritually, I have a vagina, yes. But it saddens me that you chose to focus exclusively on this aspect of my answer.
Q: Aren’t you afraid women will find your vaginal delusion offensive?
A: It’s not intended as an offense. It’s an homage.
Q: Do you think Marine Le Pen will be the next French president?
A: I think she thinks she will be. Have you looked at her recently, she’s glowing!
Q: She visited Trump Tower. Do you think she met with Donald Trump?
A: No, she went there to visit a gynecologist.
Q: Elaborate!
A: Do I really have to?
Q: Not really. How do you feel witnessing your ideal of an Endless Europe crumbling?
A: It’s like a break-up. You hold on to the good moments and try to remember that life goes on, even though you’re not exactly sure how.
Q: Are you fantasizing about being a politician who fixes everything on his own?
A: All the time. This is probably how Napoleon and Hitler felt. Something in them might have snapped one day and they said, “Fuck it, if this continent cannot fix itself, I’m going to conquer it and do the job myself.”
Q: Does that mean you’ll invade Russia if you get the chance?
A: I’ll try to stop at Warsaw.
Q: I wish you success.
A: Thank you!
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An international bestseller, the Atlas of Prejudice has been published in English, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Italian. Its various hardcover, paperback, and electronic editions have sold more than 100.000 copies worldwide!
