Here is the president of all citizens and the whole Chacilenda (as Philip Schwarm would say) advertises daily with the usual things addressed to his fans, the primary reason, this time, was a shooting and a fire in an unsanitary nickel settlement under the high patronage of him personally on the route between the Presidency and the Assembly. Every new citizen steps forward Vučić (naturally) characterized by an increased concentration of nastiness, which we now had the opportunity to see man whom the policemen interrogate in front of the cameras, first in a lying position (on his stomach) and handcuffed, and then while sitting, probably, in a police van.
While, on the one hand, Vučić is making progress in the form of spreading nastiness, there is nothing remarkable about the content: it is a daily dose of opiates for die-hard supporters. Social Media-a, a welcome opportunity to divert attention from the dark clouds that hung over him and his lovely team (here Lončar Dr. Zlatibor stood out again). And that's all.
That's why we go a step deeper, to the reasons.
A revolutionary without a revolutionary language
Borba that the citizens of Serbia are waging against the regime, the fight is, to put it most succinctly, for values. The regime contaminated freedom, truth, honor, honesty, conversation, shame, decency, solidarity, compassion, air, water, the city, meaning... Let everyone continue according to their own sense of vulnerability.
But an irreplaceable lack revolutionary Vučić's regime is that it does not offer a new system of values. The destruction of old values, in fact, is at the root of every revolution: the French Revolution destroyed monarchist values and immediately offered new, republican ones. At the same time, she offered a new language. The October Revolution overthrew the tsarist regime and offered new, socialist values. She immediately installed a different language.
Vučić destroyed civic values, but failed to offer new ones. This can be seen most convincingly in language: the regime does not manage to get out of the linguistic system that it has destroyed, but it falls into what, in philosophy, is called a performative contradiction: by pronouncing a value judgment, the regime falls into its own mouth.
Since, therefore, he cannot say "I stand for the unfreedom of all but myself", he pronounces freedom, but in his freedom one hears unfreedom.
Because he cannot say "the lie is the legitimate instrument of my rule," he says he speaks the truth and nothing but the truth, but his truth hisses a lie.
Since he cannot say "loyalty to me and my person is more important than honor and the only value I hold," he will say that he is an honorable man, as is the whole of Xatsiland. What Njegoš said: "To whom the law lies in the mace, his traces stink of inhumanity."
Since he cannot say "what do I care about honesty while the money intended for the reconstruction of the Novi Sad railway station drips into my pockets and the pockets of those loyal to me", he swears by honesty, but his honesty is nothing but robbery against the citizens of his own country.
As he invites us to talk, he drowns us in the flood of his monologic somnambulism. Let everyone continue the sequence and check the said concepts according to the measure of their own anger.
Let everything perish, except me.
After all, here is what the president of all citizens and the whole of Ćaciland said in the city without water, Zrenjanin, just one day before shooting and playing with fire in Ćaciland (sentence by sentence):
"They don't mind dozens and hundreds of colleges and schools being blocked." (Who are you who "doesn't mind"? There isn't a sober citizen of Serbia who doesn't mind that the faculties and schools, choked with tjaci, don't function, only the regime doesn't take anything to make them work. Therefore, when he says that someone unnamed "doesn't mind" he says "it doesn't bother me; let education fail, let colleges fail, let our children remain illiterate, so what, I will continue to rule, because that's the only thing that matters").
"They don't mind that children don't go to school, just like in Gaza they don't go to school." (So who "doesn't mind"? And what do children in Serbia have to do with children in Gaza, except that little Palestinians are exposed to the genocide that Vučić supports, while little Serbs are exposed to his outbursts of hatred and anger?)
"One little park bothers them." (But, man, who minds the park? Truth be told, we all mind that the park, along with the street, is occupied by wanted characters, and who wouldn't mind a normal person?)
"It just bothers them. It bothers them because that park was the germ of the resistance, that park was a small place in the heart of Serbia from where the resistance started, resistance to the occupation, resistance to the destruction of Serbia." (Okay, the president of all citizens and the whole of Ćaciland is speaking metaphorically. When he says "park" he is, in fact, referring to the characters on the wanted list who occupied that park, on his orders, and received police protection so that they would not be harassed by the police... if you understand what I mean. However, when the first revolutionary among all revolutionaries says "resistance" he is, according to the proposed model, referring to the thugs who protect him and his regime from the resistance that the citizens offer to him and his regime. when he says "occupation" he most directly refers to himself and his unusual organization - because there is no other occupier of this country. When he says "demolition of Serbia" there is only him and his bulldozers, both real and metaphorical, because Belgrade on the water is also a form of demolition.)
"And that symbol of resistance still exists today, that symbol of Serbia's strength that they cannot bring down." (The symbol of resistance is, of course, the students who turned against his regime, but in his undeveloped vocabulary the beaters become a symbol, only that they become a symbol of his pernicious rule, not freedom.)
"And they wanted to demolish everything, but everything." (Um, who are they?)
Therefore, this unfortunate revolutionary failed to understand that revolutionary language is a necessary companion of every revolution, that it is through language that new values are articulated, so now, when he carried out his revolution, when he destroyed civilizational values, he found himself in unpicked linguistic grapes and fails to produce a single category in the old language that does not refer to himself. Because, unlike people, language does not lie.
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