Teofil Pančić

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The dust of the mouse era

On the night in which I am writing these lines, the one from the first Thursday to Friday in March, I am left without the address from the title. Midnight has already struck, no one has been on the third or fourth floor of Mišarska 12-14 for a long time, only the night porter is dozing downstairs and wondering when the hairy madman will go to rest. And I'm still here because these lines can and must be created only there, in the last moment when the already badly wounded but still alive heart of my Mišarska is beating

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A Chinese copy of Shame

We are once again under the tyranny of people without qualities, but with insatiable ambitions and advanced subservience

Perfect strangers

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Three conscientious citizens

Serbia is in the phase of radical collapse since autumn at the latest, and hence this violent commotion within the social fabric: it is as if the instinct of self-preservation, which was kept under strong narcotics for a long time, has finally awakened.

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Loose screws

When you have the mechanisms of illegitimate power at your disposal, at some point you will cross the line and do terrible things just to prove - if only to yourself - that you are not ridiculous

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Crooked fusion

It would really be worthwhile to see what legal possibilities there are to finally "divorce" the name of the abused Meša Selimović from Twilight News and clean it from the context to which it by no means belonged, neither by life nor by work.

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Transport of live meat

There is no war and no embargo, but we have once again caught those who sucked our blood in the nineties, like some ineradicable lice. And then it's somehow logical that there aren't any buses, and that transportation is once again apparently free, to the extent that it exists at all

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Natural craftsmanship, artificial intelligence

Combative political rhetoric aside, no one is asking Serbia to "stop" but, on the contrary, to start. Serbia stopped a long time ago

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Not Assad, at least for now

Fantasizing about "shortcuts" that lead to a change of government is a direct consequence of the fact that in these twelve years almost every road, even the goat path, leading to the normal change of ruling personalities and parties has been closed.

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Dosmanlian blues

If there is an aspect of the "Saber" series that is almost radically subversive towards the ruling political narrative of today, then it is precisely the depiction of the media landscape of Serbia from the very beginning of the century.

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Why better choose worse (3)

In the meantime, a whole political-economic ruling class was created and consolidated, which monopolized or completely neutralized all the already weak state institutions and social (self-)regulatory mechanisms, intended for the systemic prevention of the emergence of a new autocracy.

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Why they are better for worse (2)

The state fell apart, the system fell apart; could at least one of them survive, even at the expense of the other? Or were they bound by the same barbed wire?

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Why they are better for worse (1)

A few days before the first election that he will win, Trump says: "I could kill a man in the middle of Fifth Avenue right now, and I would still win." "We" are appalled, but we are somewhat comforted by his naivety. He wins

The railway station in Novi Sad, us and them

What's wrong with their faces?

They were there on Friday, showing their amateurish grieving faces, as if someone really needed them. Only the Main one conspicuously failed, because that is his manner: he creates all the shitty situations of our lives, and then stands above them, as innocent and amazed, leaving for himself the position of the one who will judge, condemn, release, explain, comfort

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Pizz(ul)a Tonino

Any post-Yugoslav politician, if he does not belong to the "Serbian world" by birth, orientation and actions, can only receive public and official treatment in Vučić's Serbia with nausea and gnashing of teeth of a tolerated intruder, whom we let roam the corridors of the powerful palaces just because he is arrived here as an emissary of slightly more awkward political addresses

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Everything is getting better for Kolje

We have been patient with them for too long and for too long, which an angry and hung-over team knows how to use very well. You will see, it will be the same with Pejaković: if you have no shame, and this one is not shy at all, you have solved all your problems.

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Politics (from) budjak

Let's take a closer look at one sentence by V. Đukanović, I claim that a more important one has not been published in at least the last dozen years

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Falcon and turul birds

The only doubt is whether Vučić's intervention is a spontaneous response to the authentic dullness and primitivism of his "staff" - which, knowing the kind of rubbish he gathers, is quite possible, or whether it is a staged play in which the director assigned his miserable extras the roles of idiots on duty

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A session without a fayront

Ivica Dacic, for whom the day of the beginning of the Eighth Session is a red letter in the calendar, has spoken these days a few words and thoughts that should be carefully considered, not because they are correct but because they are correct

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Lithium, whiskey and moral panic

The reflex of moral panic is a typical technique used by an undemocratic, usually populist regime to distort the power of public opinion's reasoning. Here we see how the "other side" begins to behave in the same way

In memoriam: Bora Đorđević (Čačak 1952 – Ljubljana 2024)

Angels, demons and a cry from the homeland

What does the poet of the feathered feather, after all that he honored, but also with what he may have distressed either himself or others, mean to each of us who, among others, took his poems with us in our own unavoidable baggage of growing up? Everyone can answer that only for themselves, and in principle there are no incorrect or incorrect answers, if they are honest

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Spitting and singing

Whenever we invoke the former Yugoslavia, it's as if we cast off the spell of its vampirization. And why are we so afraid of it? Well, think about it: what murderer would like to meet his victim face to face?

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Severina and boundary conditions

Frivolous and careless, we mostly didn't look where they were taking us. And they drive without GPS, without a map, not knowing the way, let alone the destination, with their headlights off, on an icy road, with faulty brakes. Oh yes, and without a driving test. Most wouldn't pass a medical anyway

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Peace among the gods

From ancient Greek times to today, Olympus has been built up a lot, so it is no longer a single peak, but an entire mountain range. One of its peaks, which is also the highest, is political, the second is sports, the third is entertainment-entertainment, etc

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The mountain shook, Nis was born

Fighting on the street makes sense only if you are stronger, or at least equal, on the street. It doesn't have to be sheer physical strength. It can be determination, seriousness, civic and political awareness

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Hot rabbit for Tamara

Perverted regimes of this kind need a dinko gruhonjic every two or three months as fuel. He/she will say something, they will write to him/her the part of the text they need or they will interpret it in their own peculiarly sick way and then spread that wicked construction to all four corners of the world, and here is the effect called "shit hit the fan" "

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