“In the 90s a cartoon series, “Beavis and Butt-head,” directed by Mike Judge, was popular both in the USA and in Russia. Its heroes were two American mentally retarded teenagers, spewing obscenities at each other, expressing one absurd thought after another, unable to solve a single everyday situation, but… despite their complete debility and senselessness, somehow coping with life. Every time a series of idiotic actions brought them to the brink of total disaster, an equally absurd accident or failure in the logic of things saved them, giving them another chance — which, of course, they immediately missed. And then it all happened again, cyclically. Failure after failure, completely wrong decisions, breaking all possible logical connections, and at the end the two would watch a heavy metal video in which horned people with guitars actually devoured women or live goats right on stage.

What the world saw during the Trump-Biden debate was just a fresh episode of Beavis and Butt-head. Moreover, both, as if on purpose, were copied from these two cartoon characters: Trump is a recasting of Beavis, Biden is a recasting of Butt-head. Trump even has the exact same hairstyle as Beavis. And the content of the debate is completely in the spirit of that cartoon series.

Butt-head: “You’re an old moron, I’m only three years older than you. That means you’re older than me. You’re almost a hundred.”

Beavis: “No, you are almost a hundred, actually, over a hundred, you’re communicating with spirits, groping for invisible chairs… You failed at everything, but I did everything perfectly.”

Butt-head: “No, I did everything perfectly, and you failed at everything. Besides, you are a horny toad.”

Beavis: “I’m not a horny toad, I don’t even know who Stormy Daniels is, my lawyers will tear her to pieces.”

Butt-head: “You’ll ruin NATO.”

Beavis: “What’s NATO?”

Butt-head: “Why did you even attack the Capitol?”

Beavis: “What’s the Capitol? But it doesn’t matter, you’re about to die, and we’ll make America great again.”

Butt-head: “I already made America great again because I let a lot of different people in here, and you want to ruin everything. Look at how many migrants climbed over your stupid wall! They shine with all the colors of the rainbow. I spend hours just looking at them.”

Beavis: “And you were scared of the easter bunny. I’ll build my wall again and hurl all the migrants over it.”

Butt-head: “I won’t give it to you, I’ll send my friend, the superhero Zelensky, to battle you. He has special yoga pants that let him fly.”

Beavis: “He’s a crook, he comes here and robs us. I’ll burn him alive with my own superpowers.”

Butt-head: “I’m the one who’s going to burn you or freeze you into a block of ice for being a horny toad.”

Beavis: “I don’t even know who Stormy Daniels is.”

And so on in this vein, while all of America watches and bets on which of the dotards will collapse first, and which will stand there and spew his nonsense until the end.

Mike Judge’s cartoon series is a harsh ridicule of the teenage consciousness of America as a superpower that is not sufficiently historically mature to rule all of mankind. USA is a teenager gone crazy and armed with a loaded machine gun. The entire nation is a school shooter. If you are holding a machine gun, then, according to moron logic, you have to fire it. And it doesn’t matter whom you hit.

The cartoon characters are teenagers while the actors in the TV debate are very old people. But such is the specific symptom of American identity: America cannot grow up. It is a terminal “kidult,” forever stuck between childhood and adulthood. In psychiatry, there is a disorder called “hebephrenia,” a mental disorder of adolescence, when a boy or a girl cannot naturally develop and adapt to adult life, becoming trapped in adolescence. In post-war Japan, which copied down to the tiniest detail the customs of its American occupiers, the phenomenon of “hikikomori” spread like a tsunami: young people reject the idea of growing up, lock themselves in their rooms with computer games and live off their parents like parasites, incapable of finding a job or starting a family. In essence, this is a faithful reproduction of the American cultural pattern. Beavis and Butt-head can’t grow up. They are terminal hebephrenics with a blocked mechanism of maturation. From the same source comes the flood of TV series based on Marvel comic books, produced at an industrial scale. They are aimed at ten- to twelve-year-olds, but all of America watches them. From the same source come the presidential debates.

As a result of the debate, the great superpower of halfwits picked a winner: Trump. He comported himself with greater confidence, his hairstyle was more aggressive and more convincing than that of the sleepy Butt-head, whose batteries ran down by the end and he began to simply groan monotonously.

If such a society, such a culture, such candidates and such voters determine the fate of humanity, then we have to admit that we are finished. It is impossible to even think about treating or applying developmental techniques to a clinically ill teenager if he holds a nuclear suitcase in his hands.

We like to say that Russia is ruled directly by God, since its existence is otherwise inexplicable. America also has such a secret. How is it possible, with such defective people who have such mental problems, to become the most important world power? This means that America is also controlled by someone more powerful yet invisible. But it doesn’t seem like it could be God. More likely, it’s…