There is nothing in the idea of the Faculty of Serbian Studies that state universities do not already cover. "Identity disciplines" are nothing but nightmares from Falangist heads
So, what the disoriented phalanx has been doing in the last year authorities, are desperate and rather weak-minded attempts to divert attention from civil unrest. No move, counting the gathering of thugs and police brutality, has any other goal than to somehow catch the regime's breath.
So much so that the idiotic proposal (adopted at the Government session) on the formation of the Faculty of Serbian Studies in Niš faithfully follows the same matrix: hit where you can and do whatever comes to your mind, just to get this dechurlia off our necks. Like snipers, like presidential pardons, like terrorists, this affair with Serbian studies is something like a hook: the more catfish are caught, the weaker the pressure on the other side.
The whole story, therefore, is content-irrelevant and would not deserve any review if it were not accompanied by a whole procession of lovely details.
Routine illiteracy
Elem. In the daily newspaper Politics from November 6 this year, we find the explanation for the establishment of the Faculty of Serbian Studies in Nis. It is not said who drafted the explanation, but the manuscript, decorated with routine illiteracy, refers to anyone from phalanx: "The establishment of a higher education institution of national importance in Nis symbolizes the return of state and social attention to identity disciplines, as well as an effort to preserve the cultural self-awareness and historical continuity of the Serbian people in the era of globalism." Nice.
And now a little analysis. "The establishment of a higher education institution of national importance in Niš symbolizes (the establishment of a higher education institution does not symbolize anything, it means something: in this case it means that the founder is completely disoriented and does not know what he is doing) the return of state and social attention (God will know what "return of attention" means, and even "state and social" attention; and where was that attention, in the meantime, misguided, so to speak, and why would it have to return now? if not, it could be, in an unwanted direction, towards normality for example) to identity disciplines (returning TO something is not good, here the dative without a preposition is needed, as in the expression "to return home", not "towards home"), as well as effort (founding, therefore, symbolizes effort... illiterate, sisters and brothers; how does it symbolize effort? what does it even mean? Nothing. An event can become a symbol, a person can become a symbol, like Stevan Filipović who became a symbol of the fight for freedom, or Aleksandar Vučić is a symbol of the struggle for lack of freedom, but no attempt) to preserve cultural self-awareness in the era of globalism (that era, with forgiveness, has passed, only Falangist lumens have not yet managed to notice it) (it would be nice to explain what that cultural self-awareness would be, otherwise the said phrase remains what it is: an empty phrase) and the historical continuity of the Serbian people (as if someone disputes that continuity)."
First, each higher education institution is of national importance. A higher education institution of national insignificance is an oxymoron (two opposing meanings that cannot go with each other: wooden iron, clever fool). Except, excuse me, the Faculty of Serbian Studies.
Because there is nothing in the idea of establishing such and such a Faculty that state universities do not already cover, just in a better way than he proposes board of trustees Çaciland. In fact, the said proposal is a huge step backwards in understanding the well-chosen national interest: "returning to identity disciplines" is, to put it more gently, stupidity. After all, what are "identity disciplines"? What are "identity disciplines" anyway?
The members of the phalanx, to be fair, don't know anything, and to that extent they don't even know what identity is. Let's say, she killed herself repeating that the Cyrillic alphabet is the identity mark of the Serbian people, and now, as innocent and beautiful as she is, they are raping her to the point of exhaustion. But the Cyrillic alphabet is a letter, and the letter cannot be a feature of identity, no matter how much Čacad repeats it, because it is simply an agreement, a convention, a coincidence: we agreed to mark the sound "š" like this: "š", and not, say, like this: "ϟ", which means that the new agreement can change that sign without any effect on (my, our) identity.
What is accidental cannot be part of identity. Foot size, for example. Hair color. Identity is made of necessity. From language for example. We cannot replace language without consequences for identity (just as we can replace letters without consequences). It turns out, however, that whenever we have some characters who kill themselves out of concern for their identity, behind that concern hides either banditry, or stupidity, and certainly illiteracy: the biggest Serbs, those who beat their chests out of busking, cannot learn the Serbian language. As can be seen from the attachment.
What, then, are "identity disciplines"? According to writing political these are, among others: "national security, culturology, national archeology and ethnology". Since we already have the Faculty of Security, and the Faculty where there are archeology and ethnology ("culturology" is an expression of Čacad's lack of education, because everything listed so far is part of culture), here would be studied... um... what would be studied here? "Identity disciplines" are nothing more than nightmares that emerged from Falangist heads, and thus just an incoherent attempt to divert our attention from the fact that they destroyed this country.
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