A well known musician – well known not only because he was really good, but also due to the fact that one day he made a radical change in his music, namely he replaced a double bass with a soprano recorder, a plastic one, very cheap). He did so to learn music anew, to learn to play once again to be able to play in absolutely another way. Of course, this radical change of the instrument, and a bit less radical change of music (although he began to use the simplest pentatonic scales, he couldn't forget the sophisticated jazz harmonies) caused quite radical changes in his life: he changed behaviours, habits, food, cloths, points of view...... well, so he maintained that an adult needs only two pairs of shoes: rubber-felt boots for wintertime and rag shoes (kind of sneaker) for summertime. Not only he used to say so, but he did what he said, at least for some time. There were many reasons why he chose just these two kinds of shoes, nevertheless the most important was the climate of the country he was living in. And four clearly noticeable seasons were the most important feature of this climate. So, when it is cold we wear rubber-felt boots, and when it is warm we wear rag shoes. Felt boots and rag shoes are the representatives of two fundamental types of shoes: heavy and light. The notions heavy and light are quite conventional and encompass wide range of features that can have not much to do with heaviness and lightness. It can happen that winter shoes (for example snow boots) can weigh less than summer shoes (for example ..... ) The examples are not so important here – worth our attention are two notions which seem smarter than heavy and light, namely winter and summer. Yes, but they are not as universal as the former ones. There are countries, and they are not a few, where there are no winters and no summers. Or there are only winters and only summers. It's interesting, there are no countries where spring will smoothly change right into autumn, or where summer and winter would be but transitional seasons between spring and autumn, and it is absolutely hopeless to look for a country where there is only spring or only autumn. Of course there are many countries, where there are wet and dry seasons – what would heavy and light mean in that case: waterproof and ..... (airy?)? In spite of very clear distinction wet-dry, using two different types of shoes seems not justified, since simple rubber flip-flops would do really well even in heavy rain, of course warm, really warm rain. So, our radical, if he were living in a more radical climate, would be more radical himself, or more practical, and he would reduce his footwear to one type of shoes, more universal. Here it must be emphasized that radicalism of our radical concerned not the types of shoes, but also the number of pairs. He could easily be a radical-eccentric and collect rubber-felt and rag shoes and have hundreds of pairs to meet various demands of the most surprising social-and-weather situations, not to mention the artistic ones. But he emphasized strongly that he meant two pairs, only two. Limiting deliberately the shoe collection to two pairs only, is it more eccentric than consciously striving for uncountability? Yes, it is. Yet first of all such solution is practical, not eccentric. Because it is to get rid of the burden of making constantly a choice – tiring, exhausting, demanding plenty of energy. So, one can save the energy and use it for something more useful. It means for what? - those who are absolutely not tired and exhausted and for whom making such choice is the essence of their life will ask at once. While sparrows, cats, butterflies and millipedes will not ask, because they don't use shoe at all, and every time look elegant, always are ready for any social-weather situation, as if the conditions around them have been steady and changeless. Exactly like in Liberland. The climate of Liberland is known to be mild. It is known to be absolutely and perfectly mild and temperate. It is extremely temperate, provided that temperateness can be extreme, but maybe it can, why couldn't it? Temperateness has its characteristic parameters and values of these parameters must be in a certain bracket, otherwise things are no longer temperate. Of course, values close to the limits are always extreme, but this is not the point. Other things are much more interesting. And dangerous. Can push us easily aside, and we will focus on another topic. For example: can the centre be extreme? Thinking of something temperate or moderate we think of something in a centre of a certain area with smudged boundary and blurred outline (though a circle is the first association, no doubt), and the centre appears as a point..... Oh, don't let us be tempted by this abyss. This would be a real intemperance (or intemperateness). One of the crucial features of the climate is changeability. The temperate climate does not change much. The climate of Liberland does not change at all. So it is extremely little changeable. Maybe some changes are taking place, kind of fluctuations, but they are unnoticeable, have no impact on anything. And if the climate is extremely temperate, then it doesn't change at all, or the weather doesn't change at all. So, maybe there is no climate here? Is it possible? Oh, again we are being pushed aside. As if a strong wind has begun to blow.... Then it must be a climate here, if a wind is blowing. And how about our radical and his two pairs of shoes? If the climate is unchangeable, if the seasons do not change because there are no seasons (so maybe even the time doesn't flow.... oh, but this is another matter), then it has no sense to change shoes, to use heavy and light (winter and summer) shoes. One pair of temperate (moderate) shoes will suffice. Of absolutely and totally temperate (moderate). Of extremely temperate.... Does an extremely temperate footwear simply mean a lack of shoes? Bare feet seem the most temperate, and by the way they are absolutely extreme kind of shoes (unshoes? non-shoes? invisible shoes?) – they fit to nothing, while they should fit to everything, like a bare hand. Why in beyond-screen countries bare feet are considered not elegant and fitting to nothing, maybe only to poverty? Bare feet are always beautiful, even when gnarled and cracked like tree roots. Bare feet can give us extraordinary impressions, experiences, sensations.... For example when we step on smooth floor made of plain planks not necessarily of noble wood...... Noble-ignoble – what a nasty distinction it is! How come that one kind of wood is considered noble while another kind – ignoble? Immediately the beyond-screen peoples will hurry with explanations: colour, durability, hardness (or softness), knots, shape of rings, and many other features they will list. But why hard wood they consider more noble than the soft one, they will not explain, they will maintain it has always been like that. And the fact that a violin with really noble sound is made of really not noble wood will not convince them to ponder this issue once again (or maybe for the first time). Oh, we are being pushed aside again. Really? And if so, then so what? Well, we can ask if our radical didn't hide somewhere deep under the winter-summer, warm-(airy), heavy-light distinctions also that one: noble-ignoble or rather noble-loutish (sophisticated-primitive) which is supposed to be extreme opposition to the principle of practicality he liked so much and tried to observe so zealously. Really? Is it an opposition at all? Should practicality be considered ignoble (loutish), while impracticality – noble? A simple chair that one can sit comfortably on is in no respect less noble than a throne that one is afraid to sit on. Of course, simple chair means a sophisticated simplicity due to excellent proportions and functionality, not just a primitive stool made from a few rough planks, though even such a one could turn out to be a noble piece of furniture. So, if an idea of nobleness was hidden somewhere in the most obscure corners of the labyrinth of his mind, which shoes should be considered noble and which ignoble? Rubber-felt boots are commonly known as the quintessence of loutishness – shoes for manure simply can not be noble. It's hard not to agree, however in spite their extreme robustness and coarseness, they are very practical (though it would be too much to use the adjective extremely – the boot-top is too wide; yes, it is really possible to jump into the boots, but on the other hand other things, quite nasty, like cold snow, mud or dung, can also jump inside easily). Much more practical than many other shoes that would be considered the quintessence of nobleness (high heel shoes, for example) ..... Rag shoes cause more (less?) troubles due to the huge number of existing varieties, and we don't know which one of them our radical thought about – most probably about the most simple, cheapest sneakers, rather than delicate slippers sewn from the smoothest, secretly gleaming silk ...... Materials are strongly responsible for the coarseness (ignobleness) of rubber-felt boots. Rubber and felt. Both have never been regarded as noble, especially rubber, due to its unnatural origin. But felt? The process of felting is natural ....... And if we replace these rude materials with gentle ones? Felt with silk, rubber with rosewood? ..... Wood! Yes! WOODEN CLOGS! That's it! This is an absolutely universal footwear. Good for all seasons. And for no seasons. For all kinds and types of weather. As well as for the weather extremely temperate, constant and unchangeable. The shoes noble in their simplicity and due to the used material (usually alder wood). And additionally guaranteeing this very exceptional sensation caused by the contact of bare feet with smooth, polished, wooden floor. At the same time protecting from even more exceptional impressions being the results of the contact of bare feet with a stubble field, or a furious bee. Guaranteeing also bloody abrasions, blisters and bruises. Socks could protect feet against these wounds and cold (still it is not known weather the climate is temperately cold or warm). SOCKS! At last something else! All the time only shoes and shoes. Well, undoubtedly the question of shoes could be discussed endlessly (for example we still don't know what the extremely temperate footwear would look like), but the question of socks also can be discussed endlessly. So, it's high time to push the shoes aside. Time to put them off and let the feet relax. And to ponder another issue, probably even more extreme than footwear: do we walk in Liberland or not? if we don't walk, then what are the shoes for? and if we don't walk, then how do we move there and what do we need then?  >>> Would Liberland be the land of wings not of sandals?