Metacognitive Gratification

Connecting Ukraine's past and future selves

I am remembering the last time I ate a marshmellow, or it’s completely fictional, because I don’t eat marshmellows, or it’s in the future, because I’m imagining eating a marshmellow after Ukraine wins the war. .

It’s not a funny situation.

Ukraine’s leaders are on great terms with their future selves most of the time, but not so much with their past selves, whom we want to forget.

Which brings me to their official rhetoric, which lately has been over-the-top.

“They [Russian leaders] call themselves Christians … but they are for the devil, They are for him and with him,” the president said last week, according to Reuters.