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Comparative analysis of the psychology professor’s populations in the USA and in Russia.

  1. The confidence about the future. The American professor of psychology (APP) has no such confidence, because he is seized by many fears, he is not sure, if he would become grants, subsidies and other financial means (nights without sleep and it's half past five on the clock), while the Russian professor of psychology (RPP) is confident about his future, because he knows that nobody will give him anything, that he'll become no grants, he is free from fears of not-becoming, he looks forward with confidence (he sleeps well, it's half eleven on the clock).

  2. The free choice of the means of surviving. Can the APP plant on his several acres of the lawn in front of the house, which he bought on 25 years installment plan, potato, cucumber, tomatoes, greens and use it for himself and his family as food? Naturally, no. Who will allow him that? What about the public opinion? What about the neighborhood? So – no. APP hasn’t allowed such freedom. RPP can do it quite freely and he can provide himself with food from his acres and eat it the whole winter and he can use his acres as much as possible so he makes out of his lawn a kitchen-garden. (In the APP's wardrobe there is no such thing as "telogreika", he has no idea about what it is. Literally: "telogreika" is a wadded jacket, where "telo" means 'body' and "grety" means 'to heat'. In the wardrobe of RPP the best places are occupied by professor's gown and by telogreika - the official uniform of prisoners).

  3. The results of the comparative analysis of the university’s and organizational freedoms. APP is obliged to attend university, laboratory, his work, because otherwise he can lose his job. He depends on his university, laboratory, his working place and his chef very much. RPP doesn't depend on the university favors, he can go for a work once a week, because he knows for certain that it won't leave him, that nobody will fire him and that he will nevertheless become his loan (which is something about $40-50 in roubles), maybe 3 months later, but still.
  4. The results of the comparative analysis of the spiritual freedoms of APP and RPP. APP is spiritually absolutely tighten. He is tighten with the fetters of the APA ethic code (APA is the American Psychological Association). RPP can be guided only with those moral principals, which every person carries in his soul, i.e. with that moral law, which was admired by the greatest German philosopher Emanuel Kant.
  5. That's enough. Humor is good when it is short.