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The history of the Vilnius metro, dating back more than a century and a half, clearly shows that the countries that are tempted to settle in this transport system face a big problem: their unfounded, strong, incessant fear and so on. say it, pathological. . The paradox is that this fear, a psychological problem, is usually much stronger and more painful than many of the technical and technological problems that arise in many cities around the world. Another paradox: that fear is even more painful than the economic problems that can arise for every subway builder. The strangest thing is that both technical and economic problems are solved sooner or later, and here the psychological accompanies (I suspect that it will accompany forever) all future subway builders, where they would be reluctant to take on this job.
Why?
After all, the subway is often understood to be a great, and often the only, solution that can prevent the world’s cities from suffocating from excess vehicles. It is no less obvious that this fear is unfounded: the activity of the subway has never raised and it is unlikely that it will pose a real danger to anyone, but …
… But psychiatrists relentlessly claim that people today suffer from a wide variety of phobias. Fortunately for us, many of them are not pathological: most of these fears are specific phobias, the most significant of which are social. Probably the most common form of its manifestation is not the morbid fear of something specific, but the most basic negative attitude towards less known phenomena, which is usually accompanied by the fear of encountering them. Such shocks are avoided by the latter, and if they become unavoidable, they are accepted with intense anxiety and suffering. It is unrealistic to expect at least some more rational human solutions in this case. Any psychologist will say that the main symptom of such a disease is not excessive efforts to avoid the feared.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that modern science knows more than 200 different phobias, but Lithuanians were also able to distinguish themselves here: they “created” a new type of phobia, which is not yet known to the world’s doctors: metrophobia. Under its influence, our compatriots, as it were, borrowed from the folklore of other nations a set of myths and legends that must somehow justify the legitimacy of such fears. From all possible outsiders, “strong” and “reliable” arguments emerged, which could support their opinion that modern means of transport (although for almost 160 years) are not necessary for the Lithuanian capital, because “everyone knows that … “
And it turns out that our metrophobic phenomenon does not persist in three, but in a single whale, called “Viszino”. Everyone knows without calculations, analysis and other modern scientific arguments that Vilnius is too small, that there will be no necessary passenger flows in the subway … That the tickets will be too expensive and nobody will want to ride the subway. And here no argument is needed, because everything is clear to us, the children of the collective farms and the grandchildren of the serfs, and without any calculation …
But if we think … For example, what do we know about that meter? If we are honest, we will not be able to say anything. Even those who went from point A to point B from time to time abroad on that subway train. Summa resumeum: in general impressions and our knowledge will begin and end.
Doctors are trying to treat patients with phobias. Is it possible to treat patients with metrophobia? Some are apparently possible, but if the disease is not overly neglected. Patients who are already desperate and do not want to know anything else will be considered desperate. And here, for those who can still read more than one page of text and can still critically appraise it, we offer the following recipe: read as many articles about metropolis as possible.
The world knows little about drugs that work 100 percent reliably. Nor will there be such drugs of metrophobia, but the more the citizens of the country get rid of those fears, the sooner they will begin to be guided by politics. Especially since the fear of not being re-elected will overcome metrophobia. And the implementation of a subway project could be an amazing announcement for any party activities.
Saulius Šilokas
