The first gruesome example of an informative reality show is the broadcast of the stroke suffered by Minister Darko Glišić in the morning program of "Pink" television. It is incredible that the reaction of the entire team in the studio was missing. I wonder, in fact, if it would be logical for someone to help him at an obvious sign of weakness and stop the program. If we attribute it to surprise, fear or simply ignorance, then there is no explanation for the subsequent cruel political exploitation of someone's health problem. On "Informer" and "Pink" the footage of the stroke was played countless times, reports were regularly given by Minister Lončar, Vučić and Vučević sent messages of support and rushed to visit the man in the shock room and in intensive care. We received news about the progress of the operation and pictures of the man from the hospital bed.
Glišić's reality show had actually just started then, because already on the same day the stroke was presented as an attack on the government, on Serbia and on the SNS. Instead of Glišić's stroke, for which I wish him recovery and recommend rest for health reasons, it turns out that the government and the mentioned minister survived the coup d'état. The health problem immediately became political. Of course, who would be able to prevent the broadcast of inappropriate content if the state leadership deals with it and presents it as a fight for Serbia. It is lucky, they say, that Glišić got sick on TV "Pink", so close to the VMA, because who knows what would have happened if he had to travel longer to the hospital. We should, of course, also give recognition to the doctors, because they actually saved this man's life, but, as usual, they are without names and recognition. So much for the profession.
Minister of Education Dejan Vuk Stanković had an incomparably more benign problem during a visit to the children's camp "Serbia is calling you in 2025." Children from the diaspora are accommodated there, who get to know their homeland, origin, language and culture during the summer. In the photo published by his Ministry, it looked as if the minister's jeans had been unbuttoned. It caused reactions on social networks, outrage and numerous comments. Not exactly a coup, but something like "shameless allusions of malicious people casting a shadow on a wonderful event". In short, the issue of an unbuttoned zipper became a state problem, so a denial followed, the first in the history of politics in Serbia in which the minister addressed the eternal topic of men - "is the store open?" He condemned the malicious insinuations and explained the matter in aesthetic, not to mention fashion terms, more precisely the cut of jeans on which buttons are visible. What the schneiders would say - that's how you wear it!
Just as it would be good for Glišić to rest his body a little after the brain and media, so the Minister of Education could also consult a stylist, so that in the future, every time he appears in public, journalists would not stare between his legs.
In the end, the most intense reality show this week takes place in Novi Sad, more precisely in Liman, where the city government tries to provoke citizens in different ways. Vučević enthusiastically called for the restoration of Serbianness in Liman by having some well-intentioned student activists repaint the facades of buildings in the colors of the Serbian tricolor, after the residents of that neighborhood returned them to their pre-tricolor condition. Hateful graffiti started, followed by citizens' murals, then tricolors... If you don't want your children to write graffiti, repaint your building, again and again, and to build a church in the park - on whose surface you, together with other neighbors, decided that you want the green space to remain - you are autonomists and enemies of Serbia. In fact, this persistent and bizarre attempt at provocation, always on the verge of an incident, shows that SNS is very aware that in Novi Sad it has absolutely no moral or political credit among the citizens, and is even more intensively resorting to recipes from the nineties, from the time of the "anti-bureaucratic yogurt revolution".
For those who don't remember: that analogy is radical back to basics from the era of Serbization of Zemun, when throughout Yugoslavia you had the need to mark with paint what was Serbian. Two years ago, at the "Labyrinth of the Nineties" exhibition, the famous graffiti created during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina was revived. First it said "This is Serbia!" and then someone wrote "This is mail, fool!" This is where we actually come into conflict between two levels, the irrational one, which the government constantly plays on, and the conscious, rational one, which is represented by our lives. It is extremely bizarre to repaint buildings in Liman, which is in Serbia and where members of different nations and nationalities live harmoniously, just like in Bački Petrovac or Novi Pazar, where SNS also wanted to provoke a conflict with the local community. By the way, that church on Liman is not disputed because of the confession, but because of the permission to build on the green area, and the messages that "flowers grow on Liman and the churches will be fathers or not" actually fuel another division - the one between partisans and Chetniks, because some are allegedly demolishing churches, while others are shaking flowers on the trees.
I am afraid that this shows that the government remains without meaningful political moves, so on the one hand it is trying to seize the title of patriotism, because Serbian flags have never looked more beautiful than during the student protests this year. It is important, therefore, not only what is written, but much more important who writes. On the other hand, measures are announced to improve the lives of citizens, loans for those who cannot get them or reduced margins for sellers and bankers who drink our blood through a straw. All this is a package of measures for survival with which the government enters the uncertain autumn of our discontent and the beginning of the new season of the Elite 9 reality show.
