FLASH
Shkruar nga Aleksandar Dikiç
Europe is Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau, it is also Mill and Newton, Shakespeare and Watt, also Mozart, Beethoven, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Goethe, Nietzsche, Leibniz, of course Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gogol, Mendeleev...
These are the years of disintegration. We have been caught in a flood of fatal events, and it is equally dangerous to get involved in them or not to understand that steps in the opposite direction are necessary. The historical course is no longer one-way and predictable, unexpected turns can be felt, which bring the masses into a state of tense anxiety. Extremists, populists and adventurers of various ideological backgrounds do better in this emotional vortex.
The acceleration of the historical rhythm narrows the state of collective consciousness, the widespread feeling of fatigue leads to the search for simple solutions or short-cuts offered by various intermediaries, ambitious villains, and sweet-talking scoundrels.
Rome fell when faith in its emancipatory potential ceased, when it faded as a beacon of civilization in the Mediterranean. Rome ruled millions not through its legions (they served as a confirmation of its power), but through an idea, a fiction, a projection of what it represented to its subjects. There is no doubt that the Romans were conquerors, but they left behind roads, buildings, and laws that have survived the millennia. This is why then, and now, all roads lead to Rome.
Today, all our roads lead to Europe! Europe was conquering, exploiting, discriminating, but Europe has been the locomotive, the vanguard and the conscience of humanity for almost half a millennium. Yes, this must be said today, today when Europe is in a political, moral and institutional crisis. The twentieth century was the epilogue of European supremacy over the rest of the world, a century in which others took up the torch to illuminate the dark corridors of the future. The century that lasts will decide who will dominate and define the next era. Europe will either be a small partner in that ticket division or it will be a small change in the final account. But, before you bury the fallen great, at least read the obituary out loud once more to remind yourself of his greatness.
All those who claim to assume global leadership are obliged to enrich the world's treasury with new cultural treasures that will withstand the harsh ravages of time. Europe is Descartes, Pascal, Rousseau, it is also Mill and Newton, Shakespeare and Watt, also Mozart, Beethoven, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Goethe, Nietzsche, Leibniz, of course Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gogol, Mendeleev...
Where is Rembrandt, Van Gogh, the new Picasso? Where is Lermontov, Alighieri, Michelangelo, Cervantes, Dali? This is the ladder you must climb if you are to overcome the continent you are currently underestimating. Not iPhones, TikToks, Teslas, black networks, space flights, artificial intelligence...
Technical revolutions changed the world, they built what was often crumbling. But masterpieces remain eternal. In New York, Tokyo and Beijing, the halls were all sold out, so that even for a few hours the notes of Bach, Haydn or Chopin could be heard.
No one questions the greatness of Islamic, Chinese, and Indian civilizations centuries before Europe entered the world stage. But if we are living in a turbulent interim phase, if this is a period of transition to an era of new global players who see Europe as a training ground or a museum, then those self-confident candidates must place themselves before the achievements on which they have built their current power and prestige.
In this general turmoil, Serbia is also spinning on its own axis. It has not yet chosen its path, although it repeats it, convincing itself more and more unconvincingly that it wants to return to Europe. What does it mean to return to Europe?
First, if you are returning to something, you have to admit to yourself that you are lost, that you have lost your way somewhere, that you have taken a wrong turn somewhere, that you have entered a dead end, on the wrong path. Have we admitted our mistake, have we learned the lessons, have we marked the guilty, have we punished them? Or have we decided to relativize our mistakes and blame the "declining West", reduce everything to a "deep state conspiracy" or assign ourselves the role of eternal victim?
Now they convince us that "imposed guilt" is becoming a political instrument to further humiliate and oppress the Serbian people. Yes, it is expected from those who promote the "never apologize" policy, from persistent poisoners, critics, from interpreters of fairy tales of the past that always produce a tragic future.
A double dizziness gripped Serbia and it became geopolitically disoriented, not by chance, not without a plan. It is time to stop, to stop stumbling after decades of crazy running in circles. One of the worst consequences of the nineties is our exclusion from European civilization. Even worse, our conflict with it. The bombing is only the bloodiest episode of that conflict. It was not just corpses and rubble left behind. The worst thing is that we have become victims of historical reassessment and experimental rats of sociopolitical engineering.
We are returning to Europe because we have based our modern statehood on European values. All European phenomena were refracted within Serbian society. Both liberalism and conservatism, as well as radicalism and enlightenment. all of these are parts of the Serbian political mosaic that Europe built through its unlimited influence. We are returning to the identity that was built by the best among us.
To use the language of conspiracy theorists. Yes, there is a "golden billion", more or less, approximately, or as the Serbs would call me a circus. From the Urals to the Atlantic, that "billion" is indeed golden compared to the other billions that need to be proven and demonstrated over time.
Europe must and will surely find its soul again. Serbs must not delay, this carousel on which we climbed and from which we have no intention of getting off must be stopped. All our roads lead to Europe./ Adapted from “Pamphlet” by “Danas”
Serbet do të kethehen ne popull fisnik e të jene vehtja vetem kur të thyejne qafen e të shkojne andej nga u dynden ne trojet e me të lashteve të Europes.
Shumë shkrujte fflm.....por Evropa që donin nuk ekziston...atë që mendonim dhe dëshironin ne Shqiptarët......Por ekziston ajo lavirja e djeshme që po na çfarros ne Shqiptarëve.....shëndet ..shëndet..