Без категории, без групи, без правила, без граници, свобода да бъдеш, да твориш. Това е съвременно изкуство. Това е отказ от тоталитарното майсторство, предназначено да угоди на партийния режим и линия. Това е издателският бизнес според моите разбирания. Все пак аз съм художник, писател!

Christmas 2021 - Bulgarian National Television

Prime-time Christmas morning, millions watching, Iliyan Kuzmanov releases his debut novel free digitally to all Bulgarians. Future works will follow identical distribution. Direct access bypasses a library system where millions disappear annually, where bureaucracy strangles innovation, where digitalization threatens those profiting from opacity. Books selected for promotion channel convenient narratives, amplifying voices that serve existing power structures while silencing others. Free digital distribution demonstrates alternative architecture - success abroad returning home without intermediaries, without committees deciding access, without funds vanishing between allocation and delivery. One gesture revealing two realities: how contribution could work versus how extraction currently operates. Individual action exposing institutional failure. Commercial success enabling what state budgets claim impossible - universal access to literature. While officials debate digitalization for decades, one author on one morning shows it requires only decision, not funding. Creative work reaching readers directly, profit returning as gift rather than tax, change happening through individual initiative rather than institutional reform. Angel Social Group principles visible in single act: earning elsewhere to give here, building alternatives rather than requesting permissions, demonstrating possibility rather than discussing problems.

Beyond business philosophy, Kuzmanov's literary works themselves embody these principles - each book advancing different dimension of individual sovereignty against institutional capture. Art becomes method for exploring what commerce alone cannot articulate. First arrives philosophical memoir transforming money into performance art, Buddhist koans into market dynamics. Second emerges as gothic novel where the Devil defends law against those claiming divine authority. Third delivers academic dissection of consciousness itself, revealing leadership as configurable architecture rather than inherited talent.

Kuzmanov's debut reinterprets the famous Zen koan as instruction in critical thinking - question every authority, every received wisdom, every comfortable assumption about how value operates. Money emerges as performance art where each transaction represents conscious creation, each allocation becomes artistic statement. Rather than rejecting material world, the book recognizes commerce as humanity's oldest creative practice. Medieval artist guilds understood this - craftsmen were merchants, merchants were artists, markets were galleries where creation and exchange united. Modern confusion separates art from commerce, imagining them opposed, but historical reality shows artists as essential market participants, creating value through skill, beauty, innovation. Within this framework appears political philosophy examining Thailand's monarchy preserving one-third of the nation as protected sanctuaries - developing concept of Rex Custos Gaea parallel to Britain's Rex Custos Legis. Where British monarchy guards rule of law, Thai monarchy guards nature itself through direct action rather than bureaucratic process. Commerce protecting environment through royal example rather than regulation. Individual initiative preserving what committees debate. Zen detachment doesn't mean rejecting capitalism but recognizing poisonous ideologies that frame commerce as evil rather than creative force. Liberation comes through understanding money as medium for composing reality - not accumulating wealth but using resources to build ventures, create beauty, preserve nature, enable human potential.

Ancient Mitanni's collapse births the narrative - from Mesopotamian origins through Persian emergence, slave markets to industrial revolution, fascist laboratories to death camps, sexual liberation to identity wars. Kuzmanov reimagines the Faustian bargain where the Devil becomes witness rather than tempter, observing humanity's eternal struggle between individual sovereignty and collective submission. Gothic darkness meets Cervantes' irony, Goethe's ambition encounters Bulgakov's satire, creating philosophical novel that treats totalitarianism as humanity's true devil. Devil's autobiography echoes Merchant of Venice - outsider perspective revealing society's hypocrisies, showing that real devils inhabit not Hell but populist movements and tyrannical structures. Shakespeare knew: evil wears respectable faces, quotes scripture, wraps itself in tradition. Law emerges not as abstract principle but as fragile barrier between civilization and the barbarism of tribalism, traditionalism poisoning contemporary democracy and liberalism. Individual choice confronts state machinery across millennia - same pattern whether ancient empire or modern autocracy. Sexual identity becomes another battlefield where personal freedom meets institutional control, where bodies become political territory, where desire itself threatens regimes requiring uniformity. Satan becomes Bulgakov's Prosecutor defending accused individuals, Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor inverted - protecting freedom rather than removing it. Devil as Rex Custos Legis, guardian where human guardians fail, defending law precisely because he stands outside it. Witnessing how tyranny operates identically across centuries - crushing individual expression, replacing law with decree, transforming citizens into subjects - he intervenes. Individuals persist in creating, loving, choosing despite systems designed to eliminate choice. Commerce, art, sexuality, law - all become expressions of fundamental tension between person and apparatus.

Kuzmanov's academic work dissects consciousness itself through forensic analysis of how leadership operates as configurable cognitive architecture rather than fixed talent. Drawing from fifteen historical laboratories—Roman legions to Wall Street trading floors, Persian poetry to Silicon Valley, mountain geographies shaping threat-detection to maritime cultures programming navigation—the investigation reveals strategic consciousness functioning through invariant patterns transcending era, culture, or technology. Three movements structure the analysis: Player (individual cognitive architecture), Board (environmental programming), and Game (strategic navigation), demonstrating how consciousness achieves sovereignty not by escaping algorithmic nature but by mastering it. Revolutionary insight emerges: the nervous system's 200,000:1 compression ratio doesn't limit but defines intelligence, forcing radical information elimination that generates rather than destroys strategic capability. Emotion operates as fastest decision filter, classifying threats ten times faster than analysis. Creativity manifests mathematically at the 5-7% resource threshold. Geography literally rewires cognitive baselines across generations. Jazz demonstrates exact navigation pattern strategic leaders require—simultaneous maintenance of incompatible frameworks. Poker player's probabilistic deception, chess master's exhaustive calculation, dice thrower's variance embrace—mastery comes from navigating between these modes rather than perfecting any single one. Critical for AI age: understanding how human elimination complements machine enumeration, why meta-cognitive awareness matters more than processing speed, how to orchestrate human-machine collaboration. Neither self-help manual nor abstract theory, this delivers operational intelligence for leaders navigating algorithmic environments.

Literature creates movements, not just readers. Through publishing, Angel Social Group attracted figures whose endorsement costs corporations millions - Iron Maiden's Steve Harris, Manchester United legends Patrice Evra, Ronny Johnsen, Jaap Stam, football icons Hristo Stoichkov, Michael Laudrup, Stefan Schwarz, Stuart Pearce, Bulgarian rock fathers Kiril Marichkov and Orlin Goranov, Olympic champion Petar Stoychev, Hollywood's Lance Kinsey. Not through payment but through narrative that resonates with those who understand individual achievement against institutional mediocrity. Books become organizing principle - ideas spreading through culture rather than marketing, conviction rather than contract. Athletes from Manchester to Milan, musicians from metal to rock, champions from swimming pools to football pitches - this constellation forms naturally around certain principles. Resources remain focused on operational excellence while ideas attract endorsement organically. Every pound preserved for ventures rather than vanity, every euro directed toward creation rather than promotion. Public institutions spend millions on campaigns achieving nothing; corporations hemorrhage budgets on celebrity appearances forgotten instantly. Leadership crisis visible everywhere - executives behaving like government bureaucrats, spending without accountability, chasing visibility rather than value. Angel Social Group demonstrates opposite architecture: intellectual gravity attracting talent, philosophical alignment replacing financial incentive, books creating conversations worth having. When legends gather around literature rather than luxury brands, when champions promote ideas rather than products, efficiency becomes evident. Movement building through meaning, not money.