AVERTING CIVILIZATIONAL ARMAGEDDON In Search of a Way Out of the Geopolitical Deadlock: Worldview Liberty and Public-Law Worldview Neutrality in an Age of Global Existential Threats
Who protects freedom when power learns to reach the place where freedom begins?
Averting Civilizational Armageddon is a book about the next battlefield of history: the human worldview. Not territory, oil, markets, or data alone. The deeper prize is the inner picture through which a person understands truth, fear, loyalty, identity, good, evil, and the future.
Sergey A. Buryanov argues that today’s wars, ideological conflicts, and geopolitical deadlocks depend on more than armies and diplomacy. Before people fight, obey, hate, consume, or surrender, someone has usually taught them what to see, what to fear, and whom to trust.
Artificial intelligence, facial recognition, biometric identification, emotion recognition, neurotechnologies, and cognitive influence are moving closer to the human self than any old propaganda machine ever could. Power is no longer limited to controlling territory or behaviour. It is learning to shape attention, emotion, belief, identity, and worldview itself.
The core idea is simple: no state, corporation, platform, religion, ideology, or algorithm should own the inner world of a human being. Buryanov calls this principle public-law worldview neutrality.
Public power must not impose, privilege, suppress, or rank worldviews. Its duty is to protect the equal freedom of every person to form, preserve, revise, and express their own understanding of life.
This is why the book matters now.
Yuval Noah Harari warned that artificial intelligence may learn to hack human beings. Buryanov asks the legal question that follows: what protects the human mind when hacking people becomes a method of power?
Yanis Varoufakis describes techno-feudalism: a world where platforms command attention, data, access, and dependency. Buryanov moves from diagnosis to defense. He shows how law can protect the person from platform power, algorithmic manipulation, biometric control, neurotechnological pressure, and the capture of worldview choice.
The answer is practical. The book presents draft texts of three legal instruments:
The Draft Global Declaration on the Right to Liberty of Worldview Choice and the Principle of Worldview Neutrality of Subjects of Public International Law in Analog and Digital Environments.
The Draft Global Convention on the Right to Liberty of Worldview Choice and the Principle of Worldview Neutrality of Subjects of Public International Law in Analog and Digital Environments.
The Draft Model Law on the Right to Liberty of Worldview Choice and the Principle of Worldview Neutrality of Subjects of Public Law in Analog and Digital Environments.
Together, these instruments turn a moral hope into an institutional path: from theory, to recognition, to implementation in international and domestic law.
This book is the quintessence of more than thirty years of research into freedom of conscience, human rights, secularism, worldview neutrality, and the relationship between state, law, religion, ideology, technology, and the person.
It is written for readers who feel that the old language of politics is too small for the world now forming, and for everyone who believes that a humane, creative, free-thinking society depends on the legal conditions we build today.
Harari maps the danger.
Varoufakis names the system.
Buryanov offers a legal path forward.
The future of peace, dignity, creativity, and freedom depends on whether law can protect the last territory of human autonomy: the inner world.